Some of the top cybersecurity entrepreneurs include George Kurtz (CrowdStrike), Jay Chaudhry (Zscaler), Shlomo Kramer (Check Point, Imperva, Cato Networks), Ken Xie (Fortinet), and Eugene Kaspersky (Kaspersky Lab).
These individuals have not only founded successful companies but have also significantly shaped the industry through their innovation, leadership, and expertise.
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Anup Ghosh is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at ThreatMate. Prior to Threatmate, Ghosh was CEO of Fidelis Cybersecurity. An established cybersecurity leader, Ghosh brings extensive senior leadership experience, successfully managing and expanding markets for start-ups and mature cybersecurity companies. Mr. Ghosh’s expertise has been featured on Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, Associated Press, CNN, Fox News, Federal Times, Market Watch, and USA Today. Ghosh’s charter is to establish Fidelis as the go-to partner for high fidelity adversarial detection and response solutions in the Global 2000 and Government segments.
Ghosh was also managing director and global platforms lead at Accenture Security, where he led strategic technology investments that scaled Accenture Security’s rapid growth in the managed security services business. Previously Ghosh founded and ran Invincea, Inc., a Virginia-based machine learning cybersecurity company, through its acquisition by Sophos in March 2017.
Prior to founding Invincea, he was Chief Scientist for the GMU Center for Secure Information Systems and a Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) where he created and managed an extensive portfolio of cybersecurity programs for the US Government DOD and Intelligence Community.
OnAir Post: Anup Ghosh
AI systems expert with a proven track record of building enterprise-grade intelligent solutions that drive business outcomes. Trusted by organizations like DARPA and Samsung to solve complex problems and deliver real-world impact.
Passionate about next-gen AI—especially systems that demand multi-modal reasoning, precise inference, and knowledge-based thinking.
OnAir Post: Arman Anwar
Son of an undocumented immigrant. Business Dad.
Source: Personal Website
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzanid6cLX0&t=1s
I wish I could’ve done this in person, but I’m so grateful my alma mater even asked me to speak at graduation. Wahoowa!
OnAir Post: Alex Ohanian
Peter H. Diamandis (/ˌdiːəˈmændɪs/ DEE-ə-MAN-diss; born May 20, 1961) is an American engineer, physician,and entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder and chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, and the cofounder and executive chairman of Singularity University.
He is also cofounder and former CEO of the Zero Gravity Corporation, cofounder and vice chairman of Space Adventures Ltd., founder and chairman of the Rocket Racing League, cofounder of the International Space University, cofounder of Planetary Resources, cofounder of Celularity, founder of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, and vice chairman and cofounder of Human Longevity, Inc.
Source: Wikipedia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHA4-nEBer8
In this episode, recorded at the 2025 Abundance360 summit, Brett Adcock, founder of Figure, shares how his robots are already working in BMW factories, why robotics is about to have its “iPhone moment,” and how AI is making general-purpose robots shockingly capable and affordable.
Recorded on March 11th, 2025 Views are my own thoughts, not Financial, Medical, or Legal Advice.
Brett Adcock is an American technology entrepreneur and the founder of Figure, an AI robotics company developing general-purpose humanoid robots designed to perform human-like tasks in both industrial and home settings. In 2023, he also founded Cover, an AI security company focused on building weapon detection systems for schools.
Previously, Brett founded Archer Aviation, an urban air mobility company that went public at a valuation of $2.7 billion, and Vettery, a machine learning-based talent marketplace acquired for $110 million.
OnAir Post: Peter H. Diamandis
Gary Marcus is a leading voice in artificial intelligence. He is a scientist, best-selling author, and serial entrepreneur (Founder of Robust.AI and Geometric.AI, acquired by Uber). He is well-known for his challenges to contemporary AI, anticipating many of the current limitations decades in advance, and for his research in human language development and cognitive neuroscience.
An Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at NYU, he is the author of five books, including, The Algebraic Mind, Kluge, The Birth of the Mind, and the New York Times Bestseller Guitar Zero. He has often contributed to The New Yorker, Wired, and The New York Times. His most recent book, Rebooting AI, with Ernest Davis, is one of Forbes’s 7 Must Read Books in AI.
Source: Website
OnAir Post: Gary Marcus
