Visionary Leadership

Chris Lehman has spent over two decades in the cybersecurity, software, and computer hardware industries, where he held executive roles at several leading organizations. Before joining ThreatConnect, Lehman was Chief Executive Officer at SafeGuard Cyber, a leader in Digital Communications Security where he helped drive record growth in New Customer ARR and dramatic improvement in Gross and Net Revenue Retention. Prior to that Lehman was Chief Revenue Officer of ExtraHop where he was responsible for all Go to Market functions and grew ARR over 700% culminating in the successful sale of the business to Bain Capital and Crosspoint Ventures. He also served as Vice President, Americas Sales, and Channel at FireEye, and is a former Vice President of Sales at Dell EMC, Salesforce and others.

Daniel Moser joins ThreatConnect with more than 20 years of finance and operational leadership in the technology space. Dan is responsible for managing the company’s finances, including financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and financial reporting. Dan had held CFO positions at ExecVision and Surefire Local, and in 2017, was awarded a top 40 trending CFO in the Washington DC area. Dan lives in Vienna with his wife, April, and three kids, Audrey (10), Emily (9), and Ben (7). Dan grew up in the DC area and is loyal to all the local sports teams (even the Commanders unfortunately), and when not bussing kids to activities or coaching, he still plays basketball a few times a week for exercise.

As a four-time CMO, Charles brings more than 25 years of in-the-trenches marketing, product management, and business development leadership experience in high-growth cybersecurity, cloud, and infrastructure software companies. Charles has been instrumental in developing and executing growth strategies at category leaders like Virtru, Sonatype, FireMon, Progress Software, Red Hat, and others.

Andy is a community-respected analyst, innovator, and thought leader. He has more than 15 years of experience working in the Intelligence and Computer Network Defense Communities from within the U.S. DoD and Fortune 500 companies. He brings his passion for intelligence-led defense to his role as co-founder and VP of Product for ThreatConnect. Andy is a co-author of “The Diamond Model for Intrusion Analysis” – the most comprehensive method upon which cyber intelligence is built. Andy is a veteran of the U.S. Army, holds a Diploma in Chinese Mandarin, and a Bachelor of Science from Excelsior University. He lives in Columbia, MD where he regularly climbs rocks and enjoys getting Thai Dynamite Chicken with his wife and four children.

Jason has been designing and building enterprise security solutions for more than 10 years. Before joining ThreatConnect, Jason was a Sr. Solutions Architect at Layer 7 Technologies, where he helped numerous government and private sector customers architect and build secure web applications and APIs. Prior to Layer 7, Jason worked at Lockheed Martin as a Sr. Systems Engineer. He has multiple high-profile projects under his belt in both private and cloud deployments. Jason holds an MS in Systems Engineering and Engineering Management from George Washington University, and he has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University.

Joseph Rivela is the SVP of Customer Sucess and co-founder of Polarity.io. He is responsible for the strategic directions of capabilities and services globally. He is also responsible for all customer success operations. Based in the Northeast, he has directed countless enterprise-wide incident response and hunt operations, implemented offensive security programs and effectuated overarching cyber security frameworks across industry verticals. Joseph earned his B.S. in Economic Crime Investigation with a concentration in Computer Security from Utica College of Syracuse University. He is a member of the NY Metro ISSA Board of Directors and while working for the New York State Office of the Attorney General, earned his forensics certification from Marshall University. Joseph enjoys boating, winter skiing with his family and recently he's taken a liking to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Jerry Caponera, General Manager, Cyber Risk Quantification Products at ThreatConnect, leads the effort to quantify cyber risk in financial terms. He’s been working on cyber risk quantification efforts for a number of years and has a broad background in cyber, having worked for incident response, malware analysis, and services companies. He has spoken at a number of conferences worldwide, including ISS World MEA, InfoSecurity Russia, and TM World Forum. He holds an MBA from the University of Massachusetts, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Buffalo.

David is the VP of Global Sales at ThreatConnect. He’s been with ThreatConnect since 2015 and leads a team that specializes in working with customers to understand what matters to them, and then working to implement those solutions. David holds a B.S. in marketing management from Virginia Tech, with a double minor in psychology and international business. Cybersecurity is his passion but love of food is what fuels him.

Lara Meadows is a VP of Sales Engineering for ThreatConnect. She has worked in the cybersecurity industry for 20 years, starting in network security and expanding more broadly into Security Operations. She began as a security systems engineer for McAfee and has worked with great companies like Cisco, Symantec, and ArcSight (Hewlett Packard/Micro Focus) to build and deploy custom cybersecurity solutions for Fortune 500 companies and Federal agencies. As an engineering leader, she has built cyber security teams that support worldwide security operations. She has helped grow several start-up technologies to mature Gartner-leading security solutions while working with many worldwide commercial and Federal agencies and within the US Government. She is CISSP, CISM and GIAC certified.

Arpine Babloyan, VP of Global Demand Generation at ThreatConnect, has over two decades of experience in marketing, communications, and sales across multiple industries. Her career spans companies such as Fuze, TripAdvisor, Resilient Systems, and Avid, and she is most passionate about building demand generation and operations strategies for B2B enterprise SaaS organizations. When not busy doing marketing things, you can find her immersed in a good book, experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen, or involved in an intense board or video gaming session.

Dan Cole, VP of Product Marketing at ThreatConnect, spent two decades as a product manager developing a deep understanding of the needs of the user and the market. This expertise helps him evangelize the value of threat intelligence and ThreatConnect to cybersecurity teams across the globe, ensuring that our software resonates deeply with our users and that they're able to get the most out of our products. Outside of work, Dan is a Star Wars enthusiast, a wildlife (fox!) photographer, and an indulgent foodie.

Danny is the VP of Engineering at ThreatConnect. He has been building and designing software systems for over 20 years in a variety of domains, including real-time trading systems, options modeling, scalable web applications, and finite state machines. Danny has worked in Banking, Finance, Healthcare, and the Security space to bring his diverse background to solve technical challenges in Cyber Security.

He is responsible for the strategic direction of Platform Engineering, including architecture and operational efficiency for the ThreatConnect Platform development teams. Danny has a bachelor’s degree from Fordham University. He lives in Wesley Chapel, North Carolina, with his wife and five kids.

Paul Battista is CEO and co-founder of Polarity.io. Prior to Polarity, Paul was an intelligence officer for the United States Government and participated in all elements of the intelligence cycle from planning operations through dissemination to senior policy makers in the White House. Before his government service, Paul was a senior engineer for Aetna Inc., a penetration tester, and incident responder for multiple fortune 100 customers. Paul earned his B.S. in Economic Crime Investigation with a concentration in Computer Security from Utica College of Syracuse University.

Ed Dorsey is the CTO and co-founder of Polarity.io. His background in software engineering includes financial services, medical imaging, and big data processing and analysis. Prior to founding Polarity, he was an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Government, focusing on foreign cyber threats to U.S. infrastructure. As part of his work there he built some of the earliest distributed computing platforms and algorithms for large data set analysis. Ed holds a B.S. in Computer Science and M.S. in Security Informatics from Johns Hopkins University.