Meet the team.

A veteran of Internet security, Amir co-founded Menlo Security to pioneer a new approach. He was vice president of cloud security at Juniper Networks, where he helped define company strategy for securing the virtualized data center, and public and private clouds. He joined Juniper via its acquisition of Altor Networks, where he was founder and CEO. Before that, he was an executive at pioneer Internet security Check Point Software. Amir holds an MBA from UCLA, an MSEE from Stanford University, and a BSEE from UC Berkeley.

Poormina co-founded Menlo Security, bringing years of product management experience to the table. Before Menlo, she was a product management executive at Juniper Networks, responsible for cloud security, security management, and security analytics. She joined Juniper via its acquisition of Altor Networks, where she was vice president of product management and business development. Prior to that, she was head of business development at Check Point in product management and engineering roles. Poormina holds an MSCS from Arizona State University.

David taps his wealth of experience to oversee everything related to finance, accounting, and legal at Menlo. During his tenure here, he’s raised over $200 million across three rounds of financing. Before joining the team, he was head of finance for Cisco Cloud Security via it’s $635 million acquisition of OpenDNS, where he served as senior director of finance. Prior to his time there, he was a senior finance manager at Box focusing on corporate finance, capital markets, investor relations, and treasury. David has a BSBA from Washington University and an MSc in Finance from the London School of Economics.

Steven has over 20 years of experience leading diverse marketing organizations in highly competitive technology markets in the US, EMEA, and Asia. As Menlo’s CMO, Steven builds and scales the marketing function to elevate our market presence, and orchestrates all go-to-market activations to drive revenue and expand our category positioning. His experience building brand awareness and using marketing technology and data analytics helps him drive sustainable revenue results, build teams, and lead organizations as they scale. He came to Menlo from Unravel Data and has held numerous leadership roles, including CMO at AppDynamics and VP of enterprise marketing at Juniper Networks.

Jeff brings over 15 years of customer success and renewals experience to Menlo, where he’s responsible for the overall satisfaction of our customers and their success with our service. Prior to joining us, he worked in Cisco’s customer experience leadership team, where he built and led the company’s first global rewards organization—responsible for over 100,000 customers and $4B in revenue.

Lennart is a cyber security veteran with extensive security technology and sales engineering experience. He also has a proven track record of building and leading high-performing global sales engineering teams. Lennart joined Menlo from FireEye, where he built the worldwide SE organization that lead to their IPO. Before that, he led the sales engineering transition from IronPort into the Cisco Security portfolio. Lennart emigrated to the US from the Netherlands and is a UC Berkeley graduate.

As VP of Engineering at Menlo, Tim guides the engineering team to enable the world to connect, communicate, and collaborate securely without compromise. Tim is a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley, working in the enterprise networking, wireless, unified communications, and security spaces. Prior to Menlo, he was VP of Engineering at Mitel/ShoreTel where he provided leadership to a global R&D team focused on delivering world-class, cloud-first communication and collaboration applications. Tim has also founded multiple Silicon Valley startups that resulted in acquisition by companies such as Cisco and ShoreTel. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Chico State University.

Results and goal-oriented leader with 25 years of business, engineering management and security experience. Establishing technical and leadership presence, while driving all facets of the product life cycle. Providing vision, creating strategy and developing customer centric solutions, while consistently delivering quality results at internet scale in demanding and dynamic environments. Proven ability to recruit, develop and retain high performing leaders and teams.

Nick joins Menlo with deep product management experience and by way of GradientOne, where he was CEO for over 5 years. Before that, he was VP of Marketing & Products at Silver Tail Systems, where he led all aspects of marketing and product management. Prior, he was at Cisco Systems as group product manger and then director—leading a team of 35 and $500 million annual run rate of security products. He holds an MBA in Finance from Harvard Business School and a BS in Control Systems Engineering from the United States Naval Academy.

As Menlo’s CISO, Devin is responsible for providing internal cybersecurity guidance and policy insights to both the company and our customers. He is also focused on reducing the company’s risk and security exposure. Devin has nearly 20 years of experience in cybersecurity. His previous experience includes security positions in several Fortune 100 organizations. During his time with both Mandiant and the U.S Federal Reserve, Devin had hands-on experience mitigating large, high-profile breaches and dealing with highly motivated global threat actors.

John brings 20 years of experience to Menlo with a track record of proven success growing revenue, building teams and business development. Most recently, John was CRO for Skytap, where he established partnerships with cloud providers, transforming Skytap's GTM efforts and driving growth. John was previously with NetApp as VP, cloud data service, sales, and business development. John launched and led sales for cloud data services, growing revenues from zero to $150M in just 3 years, making it NetApp’s fastest growing business. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Lehigh University.

Todd Wilson is Menlo’s vice president of global channels. Reporting to CRO John Wrobel, Todd’s charter is to build and lead Menlo’s global channel program. Most recently Todd was with AppOmni, where he led the company’s global channels and alliances efforts in the Software as a Service (SaaS) security market. Previously, Todd spent 4.5 years at NetSkope, leading their Go-To-Market efforts with service providers and global system integrators including Deloitte, Accenture, AT&T and Verizon. Todd’s nearly 20 years of security industry experience includes global channel management positions with AT&T and Forcepoint. Todd has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, Finance from Penn State University.

As Menlo’s CHRO, Kate is responsible for all aspects of HR including talent acquisition, engagement, health and wellness initiatives, and outreach to the community. Most recently, Kate was Chief People Officer at Aktana, where she was responsible for the company’s people strategy to enable business results. Prior to Aktana, she was CHRO for Driscoll’s, a company with more than $3.5 Billion in sales. Kate held several leadership roles at Whirlpool, including leading HR for the Global Product Development organization. Kate sits on the Cabrillo College Foundation board. She also was Board Chair of LeaderShape, a non-profit leadership development organization whose focus is to help young adults learn to live and lead with integrity.