Black Hat Startup Spotlight Competition

Senior Analyst

Omdia

Ketaki Borade supports Omdia’s Infrastructure Security research practice. She is responsible for qualitative and quantitative analysis of key vendors in the service. She provides insights into technology, market trends, and competitive landscape.

Ketaki brings her eight years of experience in consulting and syndicate research to this role. Ketaki has researched the semiconductor market for three years with MarketsandMarkets. Prior to joining Omdia, she worked with Canalys for five years as a cybersecurity analyst. She was leading the North American security practice for endpoint security, network security, email and web security, and vulnerability management with channels insights. Ketaki has a bachelor's degree in electronics and telecommunications and a master’s degree in operations.

Deputy CISO

Vista Consulting Group

Trey Ford is a strategic advisor to enterprise leaders and corporate directors. Today Trey serves as Executive Director of Cyber Security in Vista Equity Partners’ Consulting Group. With twenty years focused on the offensive, defensive, and programmatic leadership aspects of security, he is well grounded in public cloud, abuse, application, network, and platform security.

Previously Trey was CISO of the Heroku platform at Salesforce, General Manager of Black Hat, held strategic advisory and global consulting roles, and still apologizes for time served as an auditor.

Senior Analyst

Omdia

Hollie Hennessy provides insight into the fascinating and fast-moving domain of IoT cybersecurity.

Hollie has a range of experience in research. She began her career in the legal sector, writing and researching for expert witness reports on the labor market. She then moved into product testing, with a consumer protection focus. In this role, she was responsible for managing comparative tests of various technology products, as well as regular testing and investigative work into the security of these products.

She has published articles in Which?, one of the UK's largest subscription magazines, produced by the country's largest consumer organization; and Computing magazine.

Founder and CEO

Azeria Labs

Maria Markstedter is the founder and CEO of Azeria Labs, offering services and training courses to large tech companies and law enforcement agencies. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Corporate Security and a Master’s degree in Enterprise Security, and served as the Chief Product Officer for the Arm virtualization startup Corellium. In 2018, Maria became a Forbes “30 under 30” list member for technology, has been featured in Vogue Business Magazine, and was named the Forbes Person of the Year in Cybersecurity 2020. She is recognized for her expertise in Arm reverse engineering and binary exploitation and worked on exploit mitigation research alongside Arm in Cambridge. She continues to educate security researchers and developers around the world on attacking and defending Arm binary applications and is the author of the book Arm Assembly Internals and Reverse Engineering (TBP 2022, Wiley). Maria is a member of both the Black Hat® EU and US Trainings and Briefings Review Board.

Founding Partner

Lytical Ventures

Lucas is a Partner at Lytical Ventures and member of its investment committee where he oversees day-to-day fund operations. This includes deal sourcing, technical diligence, and deal structuring. Lucas is also responsible for working with the companies in the investment portfolio (including any board responsibilities), as well as managing relationships with limited partners, the venture ecosystem and the back office.

Prior to joining Lytical Ventures, Lucas was a Principal at Evolution Equity and a Principal at Gotham Ventures. Lucas was also a Venture Partner at Antecedent Ventures. Lucas was a Sr. Manager of Secure Software Engineering at Adobe and a pen tester at @Stake. Lucas holds an MBA from Dartmouth and a BS in computer science from Purdue University. He is also a Kauffman Fellow.

Principal & Strategist, Polymathics LLC

Venture Partner, Nextgen Venture Partners

Robert Stratton is a security strategist, technologist, venture capitalist and business advisor. He has had a hand in bringing some of the earliest security products to market in several categories including VPNs and network intrusion detection and established one of the first dedicated security organizations within a tier-1 Internet service provider at UUNET.

He was a founding General Partner of the Mach37 Cyber Accelerator, and the first Director of Technology assessment at In-Q-Tel, a private venture capital firm investing for the benefit of the U.S. Intelligence Community.

Robert served as Chief Strategy & Security Officer at Witopia, and Director of Government Research at Symantec Research Labs. As a co-founder and Chief Technologist of Security Design International, he was doing multinational and critical infrastructure security architectures, penetration testing, digital forensics, and incident response before they were cool.

Robert is a Member of the IEEE, the ISSA, the IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Working Group P7014, developing a Standard for Ethical Considerations in Emulated Empathy in Autonomous and Intelligent Systems.

Principal Analyst

Omdia

Rik Turner is a principal analyst in Omdia's IT security and technology team, specializing in cybersecurity technology trends, IT security, compliance, and call recording. Rik provides analysis and insights on market evolution and helps end users determine what type of technology and which vendor they should pursue.

Rik has also worked in Omdia's financial services technology team, with a specialization in capital markets technology. Prior to joining Informa (now Omdia), he worked as an IT journalist, specializing in networking and security. He was also a foreign correspondent in Brazil, where he worked, among others, for the Financial Times and The Economist.