Advisory now tops 85+ CISOs from Fortune 100 and high-growth tech firms
YL Ventures, the prominent seed-stage global venture capital firm investing in Israeli cybersecurity startups, announced significant expansion of its industry-leading Venture Advisory Board. Its membership now exceeds 85 global CISOs and cybersecurity executives from Fortune 100 and high-growth companies. New Venture Advisors include Edna Conway, VP & GM, Global Security, Risk & Compliance, Azure at Microsoft; Ricardo Lafosse, CISO at The Kraft Heinz Company; Stan Lowe, Global CISO at Zscaler; Patricia Titus, Chief Privacy & Information Security Officer at Markel Corporation, Elwin Wong, Group VP & CISO at Ross Stores and other executives hailing from HPE, Optiv, GSK, HashiCorp, Atlassian, Burberry, Campbell Soup Company, the NHL, Nielsen and more.
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Determined to diversify its talent pool of experts, YL Ventures is especially committed to increasing its representation of women. While a lack of gender diversity plagues STEM fields in general, it is especially pronounced wherever computer science and security are concerned and has only been compounded by the industry’s long-standing human capital shortage. In addition to those mentioned above, the firm has added to its advisory ranks women who are leading the charge for cybersecurity innovation. Foremost among them are Roota Almeida, CISO at Delta Dental of New Jersey and Connecticut; Stacey Halota, VP, Information Security & Privacy at Graham Holdings; Dawn-Marie Hutchinson, Security Transformation Executive at GSK; Shannon Lietz, Leader & Director, DevSecOps at Intuit; Tammy Moskites, CEO & Founder of CyAlliance (former Managing Director at Accenture); Sherry Ryan, VP, CISO at Juniper Networks; and others.
The Venture Advisory Board, launched in 2018, reflects YL Ventures’ unique focus on bridging the gap between Israeli innovation and U.S. end markets. It provides Israeli cybersecurity entrepreneurs with the tools for success in a competitive global market and helps shape cybersecurity technology that tackles market-critical needs. In return, CISOs gain an early look into the latest advancements in cybersecurity innovation. These meaningful relationships often develop into sales and long-lasting partnerships. In the case of Sounil Yu, former Chief Security Scientist at Bank of America, it resulted in him joining YL Ventures as its full-time CISO-in-Residence, providing the firm’s portfolio companies with hands-on support and an in-house lens into their customers’ needs.
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