Our Team

Kelly White is the co-founder and CEO of RiskRecon, a company that enables dramatically better third-party security risk management outcomes. Prior to founding RiskRecon, Kelly held various enterprise security roles, including CISO and Director of Information Security for financial services companies. Kelly was also practice manager and senior security consultant for CyberTrust and Ernst & Young.

Eric has accrued almost 20 years of experience in building global sales and service delivery organizations at high-growth software, SaaS, and info security companies. Eric ran global sales and services at Trusteer (acquired by IBM), a global leader in anti-malware and fraud prevention solutions for the financial services industry. Prior to that, he held various roles at Imprivata, which provides secure workflow and identity management solutions to the healthcare industry. Eric is an active participant, past speaker, and Board Observer at FS-ISAC. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in Business Administration from MIT Sloan.

Michael has over 20 years of experience in IT Audit, Information Security, and Fraud Prevention, including more than 8 years in dealing with big security data. Prior to joining RiskRecon, Michael served as Senior Vice President for Data Science and Analytics for Zions Bancorporation, and in that role, he was responsible for driving the strategy of the company’s security data warehouse and overseeing the security analytics and fraud prevention departments. Michael’s 20-year tenure at Zions Bancorporation included multiple executive leadership positions. During that time, he directed a team that designed a Risk Assessment App tracking over 600 corporate applications. Michael is a frequent presenter at security and fraud conferences and holds a master’s degree in Business Administration.

Thomas Bain is Senior Vice President of Marketing for RiskRecon. He leads all Global Marketing initiatives for the company, including strategic go-to-market, analyst, market research, communications, digital marketing, demand generation, and partner marketing. 

Previous to RiskRecon, Bain was Vice President, Marketing with Morphisec, an Israel-based endpoint security company. He has held leading roles including Chief Marketing Officer with Centripetal Networks, and Vice President, Global Marketing CounterTack (now GoSecure). He's held Marketing positions withSecurity Innovation, Q1 Labs (an IBM company) and Application Security, Inc. (a Trustwave company).

Bain is a frequent presenter at conferences and has been published in Channelnomics, VentureFizz, Security Week, Health Data Management and Digital Forensics. He earned an MS degree in International Relations and Public Affairs from UMASS and holds a BA in Communications from Rhode Island College. He sits on the advisory board for multiple emerging technology organizations.

Peter Kobs brings more than 20 years of B2B sales experience to his role at RiskRecon. Before joining RiskRecon, Kobs served as the CRO for FireMon from 2016 - 2018, was the Vice President of Global Accounts at CommVault since April 2015, and prior to that held the title Vice President of America Sales at the same company.

Throughout his career, Mr. Kobs has led high-performance sales organizations at B2B enterprise companies including McAfee, Pedestal Software, KVS, Informatica, Allaire and Platinum Technology. Mr. Kobs holds a B.A in political science from Loyola University Chicago.

Jesse began his career at Zions Bancorporation, where he worked as a Software Developer for seven years before being promoted to a Senior Information Security Engineer position. He was in that role for four years until he became Principal Developer, Data Science & Analytics, a position he held for more than three years. Jesse received a bachelor of science degree in Computer Information Systems from Florida Institute of Technology.

Samantha Murphy is Vice President of Global Client Success for RiskRecon.  Samantha brings 20+ years of experience in cybersecurity, building and running world-class client success teams and programs to support global clients. She is passionate about helping clients maximize the value they see from the investment they’ve made with RiskRecon. Before joining RiskRecon, Samantha has led client success teams at companies such as McAfee, Trend Micro, CMO Software and Digital Shadows.

As a Cybersecurity expert, Neal has been focused on protecting digital assets of large financial companies over the last 15+ years.  Neal has acted in CISO and Director level roles to implement effective security programs and governance at these institutions. Neal has also spent time in engineering and architecture roles that have contributed to a strong understanding of "what works" at all levels of a security organization. Neal is currently focused on delivering objective security assessments that empower organizations to build effective risk management of critical 3rd party relationships.

Chris has over 20 years of experience in operations management, information technology, and business development working across a broad range of industries. Prior to joining RiskRecon, Chris served as the Vice President of Operations and Client Management for Career Step (now Carrus), and in that role, he was responsible for providing overall leadership, strategic direction and allocation of resources of the Operations, Account Management and Customer Service B2B and B2C teams. Prior to Career Step, Chris was the President of Facility Management Engineering in St. George, Utah providing technology and consulting solutions in the facility management market. Chris joined RiskRecon in 2019 and brings his expertise to oversee the company’s Operations department and support the company's clients, products, customer base, and employees. Chris holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer and Information Technology with an emphasis in Computer Science.

Deepak JeevanKumar is Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital, where he leads investments in cybersecurity. Deepak’s responsibilities include sourcing, leading and managing investments across a wide-spectrum of security technologies and solutions.

Prior to joining Dell Technologies, Deepak spent nearly 7 years at General Catalyst where he helped build the firm‘s west-coast presence and was closely involved in Push Computing (acquired by MobileIron), Altiscale (acquired by SAP), Illumio, Menlo Security, Anomali (FKA ThreatStream), Minio and RiskRecon investments.

Deepak is a supercomputer designer turned venture capitalist, with 15 years of technology and investment experience. He gained his engineering expertise at Sun Microsystems where he started as a sales engineer and ended-up as a lead supercomputing architect. He was also an intern at the Yale Investments Office.

He holds a B. Eng. from the National University of Singapore, an S.M. from the Singapore-MIT Alliance and an MBA from Yale School of Management. Deepak is based in Palo Alto, California.

In addition to RiskRecon, Deepak represents Dell Technologies Capital on the board of directors of the following companies: JASK, Redlock, RiskLens as well as RiskRecon.

Gaurav is a Partner at F-Prime Capital where he focuses on enterprise technology investing.  He currently sits on the boards of Neo Technology and AppsFlyer. Most recently, Gaurav was a Principal at F-Prime’s sister fund, Eight Roads Ventures Europe, based in London, where he invested in European software and online services businesses.  Previously, Gaurav was at EMC where he drove new growth initiatives and product portfolio management for EMC’s largest business unit, Symmetrix. Gaurav was a computer scientist by training and spent the early parts of his career advising software companies at Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank.

Gaurav attended MIT for his bachelors and masters degrees in computer science, as well as his MBA.

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“RiskRecon helps CISOs, boards of directors and security analysts to continuously evaluate the cyber-risk of the ever-changing IT environments of relevant third parties and provide actionable recommendations to safeguard those extended borders.” ~ Gaurav Tuli

Nate Niparko joined Accel in 2011 and focuses on enterprise software and infrastructure technology companies. In addition to RiskRecon, he represents Accel on the boards of Algolia and G2Crowd, and is also actively involved in Accel's investments in CrowdStrike, Tenable, PagerDuty, HootSuite, and Plex Systems. Nate has also spent time as a technical product manager at Amazon Web Services and as a product manager at Invoice2Go. Nate is from Baltimore, Maryland and graduated from Dartmouth, Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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“As we talk to our CISOs, we see a growing need for third-party risk management as enterprises have become more intertwined with third-party service providers. Kelly and Eric are experts in this domain and have architected RiskRecon’s products around actionable risk recommendations to make customers more secure. We believe RiskRecon is best-positioned to solve the problems in this category.” ~ Nathan Niparko

Steve focuses on companies aspiring to deliver significant advances to developers and to computing infrastructure. Prior to General Catalyst, he was CTO and senior vice president of R&D at VMware, where he built a world-class engineering team with 3,000 people, delivered numerous industry-changing products, and achieved over $4 billion in annual revenue. He also played a role in more than 20 acquisitions.

Prior to VMware, he was heavily focused on the lowest levels of the hardware/software interface. Examples include co-leading the development of an x86-compatible CPU using “Code Morphing” at Transmeta Corporation and helping architect the MIPS R10000 processor at SGI.

Steve graduated with a Ph.D. and a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University and a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

In addition to RiskRecon, Steve is an active board member at Anomali, Curai, Illumio, Menlo Security, Preempt Security, Contrast Security, and SignalFx.

Mickey is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and private investor. In 2002 Mickey co-founded Imperva (IMPV) the leader in Web and database security. In 2007 Mickey founded Trusteer, a fraud prevention company which was acquired by IBM in 2013. Mickey has successfully invested in various cybersecurity startups including Skyfence (Acquired by Imperva), Aorato (acquired by Microsoft), Hyperwise (Acquired by Check Point), and Lacoon Security (Acquired by Check Point).

Rakesh is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and private investor. In 2007, Rakesh founded Trusteer which was acquired by IBM in 2013. Previously, Rakesh was the founder of OneSecure (acquired by NetScreen Technologies) and then served as Vice President of North American Sales at NetScreen (now part of Juniper Networks). Rakesh has successfully invested in various cybersecurity startups including Palo Alto Networks (PANW), Securent (Acquired by Cisco), Mi5 Networks (Acquired by Symantec) and Watchdox (Acquired by Blackberry), Worklight (acquired by IBM) and many others.

Prior to joining the General Catalyst investment team, Paul served as non-executive Chairman of two of the firm’s portfolio companies, Datto (acquired by Vista Equity Partners) and L2 (acquired by Gartner). He also served as Lead Director of VMware (NYSE: VMW), and as a director of two private companies, Catalina Labs and Moderna Therapeutics. Previously, he served as a director of iRobot (NASDAQ: IRBT), and as a board member of Digitas, Dow Jones & Company, EMC and Maven Networks before they were acquired. Earlier in his career, after more than a decade in television news with CBS in New York City, Paul joined Time Warner and became an intrapreneur, co-founding three businesses. The first was NY1, a 24-hour cable news network, and later Roadrunner, the world’s first consumer broadband service, and Pathfinder, one of the first web properties that pioneered internet advertising. These experiences led to Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) where he served as CEO, after being COO and president, and is still a board member.