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BitSight is led by a successful team with experience in internet security, networking, and risk management at companies such as IBM Security Systems, Q1 Labs, Cisco, Sun, OKENA, Brix, RSA and Raptor Systems. BitSight was founded in 2011 by Nagarjuna Venna and Stephen Boyer.

EXECUTIVE TEAM

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Steve Harvey

CEO
Steve Harvey is a risk management and corporate governance veteran with more than 30 years of business and operational leadership. He has successfully built market-defining, data and analytics businesses, including most recently at Institutional Shareholder Services.
Steve Harvey is a risk management and corporate governance veteran with more than 30 years of business and operational leadership. He has successfully built market-defining, data and analytics businesses, including most recently at Institutional Shareholder Services.
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Stephen Boyer

Stephen Boyer

Co-founder & CTO

Prior to BitSight, Stephen was President and Cofounder of Saperix (acquired by Firemon), a company spun out of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory focused on vulnerability and network topology risk analysis. At MIT he led R&D programs solving large-scale national cybersecurity problems.

Prior to BitSight, Stephen was President and Cofounder of Saperix (acquired by Firemon), a company spun out of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory focused on vulnerability and network topology risk analysis. At MIT he led R&D programs solving large-scale national cybersecurity problems.

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Nagarjuna Venna

Nagarjuna Venna

Co-founder

Nagarjuna has held leadership positions in product management and engineering at EXFO, Brix and Lucent. He also co-founded Saperix, which was sold to Firemon in 2011.

Nagarjuna has held leadership positions in product management and engineering at EXFO, Brix and Lucent. He also co-founded Saperix, which was sold to Firemon in 2011.

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Jay Roxe BitSight CMO

Jay Roxe

CMO

Jay Roxe has built product and marketing teams at a variety of companies including athenahealth, Rapid7, and Microsoft. Most recently, his team at athenahealth was responsible for generating a 30% increase in the customer-perceived value of each release. At Rapid7, he led product management for the company's first cloud-based security product and helped to define the User Behavior Analytics space.

Roxe holds a BSE from Princeton University and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business where he was a Tuck Scholar.

Jay Roxe has built product and marketing teams at a variety of companies including athenahealth, Rapid7, and Microsoft. Most recently, his team at athenahealth was responsible for generating a 30% increase in the customer-perceived value of each release. At Rapid7, he led product management for the company's first cloud-based security product and helped to define the User Behavior Analytics space.

Roxe holds a BSE from Princeton University and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business where he was a Tuck Scholar.

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Tim Adams

Tim Adams

CFO

Prior to BitSight, Tim has served as the Chief Financial Officer of ObsEva, a biotech focused on women’s health with two of its three assets in late stage development since January 2017. Tim led ObsEva’s IPO in January 2017 plus additional public financings raising more than $225 million. Prior to ObsEva Tim served as the Chief Financial Officer of Demandware, Inc. which was sold to salesforce for over $3 billion. Before Demandware, Tim was the Chief Financial Officer of athenahealth, Inc.

Tim is currently a member of the board of directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Model N, a public revenue management solutions company and Prevail Therapeutics a public gene therapy company. Tim is also on the Board of Trustees for the Murray State University Foundation where he has a bachelor’s degree. Tim received his M.B.A. from Boston University.

Prior to BitSight, Tim has served as the Chief Financial Officer of ObsEva, a biotech focused on women’s health with two of its three assets in late stage development since January 2017. Tim led ObsEva’s IPO in January 2017 plus additional public financings raising more than $225 million. Prior to ObsEva Tim served as the Chief Financial Officer of Demandware, Inc. which was sold to salesforce for over $3 billion. Before Demandware, Tim was the Chief Financial Officer of athenahealth, Inc.

Tim is currently a member of the board of directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Model N, a public revenue management solutions company and Prevail Therapeutics a public gene therapy company. Tim is also on the Board of Trustees for the Murray State University Foundation where he has a bachelor’s degree. Tim received his M.B.A. from Boston University.

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Dave Fachetti

Dave Fachetti

Chief Strategy Officer

Dave has an extensive background as both a senior executive and venture capitalist. Dave has led Sales, Marketing, Finance and Business Development functions and has Board of Director level experience at over 20 companies including BitSight, Q1 Labs, Turbonomic, and OpenPages. In addition to his role at BitSight, Dave is a Managing Director at Globespan Capital Partners.

Dave has an extensive background as both a senior executive and venture capitalist. Dave has led Sales, Marketing, Finance and Business Development functions and has Board of Director level experience at over 20 companies including BitSight, Q1 Labs, Turbonomic, and OpenPages. In addition to his role at BitSight, Dave is a Managing Director at Globespan Capital Partners.

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Mary-Jo Porcello

Mary-Jo Porcello

VP of People & Talent

Mary-Jo is responsible for leading the strategic people initiatives within BitSight. Her focus is on the entire employee lifecycle with a strong commitment to identifying and developing great talent and building strong teams within a engaging company culture. Mary-Jo has more than 25 years of HR experience in high growth technology companies and has held leadership positions at Mendix, Arbor Networks, L1/Viisage and eRoom.

Mary-Jo is responsible for leading the strategic people initiatives within BitSight. Her focus is on the entire employee lifecycle with a strong commitment to identifying and developing great talent and building strong teams within a engaging company culture. Mary-Jo has more than 25 years of HR experience in high growth technology companies and has held leadership positions at Mendix, Arbor Networks, L1/Viisage and eRoom.

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Elizabeth Fischer

Elizabeth Fischer

General Counsel

Elizabeth serves as our General Counsel and is responsible for all legal matters. She joins us from Constant Contact, a leading provider of email marketing SaaS solutions. She was previously a member of the Tech Companies and M&A groups at Goodwin Procter. She has a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia.

Elizabeth serves as our General Counsel and is responsible for all legal matters. She joins us from Constant Contact, a leading provider of email marketing SaaS solutions. She was previously a member of the Tech Companies and M&A groups at Goodwin Procter. She has a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia.

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Vineet Seth

VP of Product Management

Vineet has built and led high growth products and businesses for over 20 years in areas of cybersecurity, analytics and SCM at market leading companies like SAP, RSA and i2. He heads product management and design at BitSight and is a graduate of IIT Delhi and Boston University.

Vineet has built and led high growth products and businesses for over 20 years in areas of cybersecurity, analytics and SCM at market leading companies like SAP, RSA and i2. He heads product management and design at BitSight and is a graduate of IIT Delhi and Boston University.

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Dave McCann

VP of Customer Success & Support

Dave brings over 10 years of experience helping customers implement and optimize value in various product solutions. Prior to joining BitSight, he built Customer Success teams at Constant Contact and Google.

Dave brings over 10 years of experience helping customers implement and optimize value in various product solutions. Prior to joining BitSight, he built Customer Success teams at Constant Contact and Google.

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Alex Laats

EVP & GM, Business Platform
Alex is Senior VP and GM of the Third Party Risk Management line of business at BitSight Technologies, the world's leading security ratings platform. As an entrepreneur and business leader, Alex has expertise in growing businesses from start-up to over $250M in annual sales. Alex’s businesses have generated billions of dollars in product sales, and they’ve been successfully acquired 4 times.
Alex is Senior VP and GM of the Third Party Risk Management line of business at BitSight Technologies, the world's leading security ratings platform. As an entrepreneur and business leader, Alex has expertise in growing businesses from start-up to over $250M in annual sales. Alex’s businesses have generated billions of dollars in product sales, and they’ve been successfully acquired 4 times.
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Mathew Cherian

VP & GM, Security Performance Management
Matt has 15 years of product and operational leadership positions in the technology sector ranging from start-ups to public sector organizations. Prior to BitSight, Matt was co-founder and Chief Product Officer for HealthifyMe, and part of the early team at UIDAI, the world’s largest biometrics initiative. He holds degrees in engineering, computer science and Technology & Policy from Johns Hopkins and MIT.
Matt has 15 years of product and operational leadership positions in the technology sector ranging from start-ups to public sector organizations. Prior to BitSight, Matt was co-founder and Chief Product Officer for HealthifyMe, and part of the early team at UIDAI, the world’s largest biometrics initiative. He holds degrees in engineering, computer science and Technology & Policy from Johns Hopkins and MIT.
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Francisco Fonseca

VP & GM of National Cybersecurity
Francisco is VP and GM of the National Cybersecurity line of business. As entrepreneur he co-founded Crashless and AnubisNetworks, that were acquired by Claranet and BitSight respectively. Prior to that he worked in Vodafone. Taught at Moderna and Nova Universities and holds a degree in Management and Computer Science from Minho University.
Francisco is VP and GM of the National Cybersecurity line of business. As entrepreneur he co-founded Crashless and AnubisNetworks, that were acquired by Claranet and BitSight respectively. Prior to that he worked in Vodafone. Taught at Moderna and Nova Universities and holds a degree in Management and Computer Science from Minho University.
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John Truelove

VP of Engineering

John leads the engineering, data and research teams at BitSight. He has fifteen years of experience in the information security industry and was instrumental in building the early versions of BitSight’s security ratings platform. Previously, John worked as a security researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He holds a BS from Johns Hopkins and MS from Carnegie Mellon.

John leads the engineering, data and research teams at BitSight. He has fifteen years of experience in the information security industry and was instrumental in building the early versions of BitSight’s security ratings platform. Previously, John worked as a security researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He holds a BS from Johns Hopkins and MS from Carnegie Mellon.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Bob Brennan

Chairman and Board Member

David Aronoff

General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners

Cary Davis

Managing Director, Warburg Pincus

Dave Fachetti

Chief Strategy Officer , BitSight

Venky Ganesan

Managing Director, Menlo Ventures

Steve Harvey

CEO, BitSight

Glenn Solomon

Managing Partner, GGV Capital

Stephen Boyer

Co-founder, CTO, BitSight

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