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Team8 | Venture-Creation and Venture-Capital Fund | Icebreaker

Team8 | Venture-Creation and Venture-Capital Fund

Team8 | Venture-Creation and Venture-Capital Fund

Team8 builds and invests in companies, improving the odds of entrepreneurial success by investing way more than capital.

24 members

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team8.vc

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Daniel Goldenberg

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Information technology executive with a passion for action and impact. Proven ability to align driving forces across stakeholders while staying true to company missions and core values. Leverages technical skills with management expertise to deliver high quality, scalable solutions that truly satisfy the organization's needs. Drives company growth through excellence in employee loyalty, engineering and technology, and effective technical processes. Highly effective team developer who focuses on employee career advancement and razor-sharp attention to client-focused delivery. Balances the big picture with attention to detail, asking the right questions, and aligning teams to achieve a common goal. Accessible, motivated, determined, and articulate with a vested interest in people development and organizational success. Additional areas of expertise: Cloud Architecture Hiring & Retention Data Governance Strategic Planning Coaching & Mentoring Policy Development Risk Management Objection Handling Regulatory Compliance

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Security Engineer @ Cyngular Security | Enhancing Cloud Security Teams

Joseph Borodach

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Hi! I'm Joseph - I love cutting edge tech, particularly when it's being used to solve real world problems!

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CISO | Advisory Board | VC Investor

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GM Business @ Decart | GTM & Tech Leadership | ex-Amazon

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CISO at iVerify | Advisor at NightDragon | Ex-Apple

Tyson Kopczynski

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From pioneering the cloud as a systems engineer to serving as a two-time CISO and recognized industry thought leader, my career is marked by pushing the limits of cybersecurity and business enablement. I have built and led robust security programs and driven technological innovation, consistently achieving business results in top-tier organizations. 🏃‍♂️𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗜𝗦𝗢 • 2010 - 2013 [Security Leader]: Established a Global Identity and Access Management organization at Applied Materials (Fortune 500), during the rise of the APTs. • 2013 - 2014 [vCISO]: Cofounded Slalom Consulting's ($500M in revenue) first Cybersecurity practice and served as a vCISO, advocating for cloud adoption. • 2014 - 2023 [SVP, CISO]: Built a Global Security program at Oportun ($1B+ in revenue). Led cloud-native transformation efforts, supported IPO, and managed a $100M+ technology budget. • 2023 - 2024 [CISO]: Rebooted Aledade's ($3B+ valuation) Cybersecurity program, aligning security architecture and roadmap to business goals, and established Platform Engineering capability. • 2024 [CISO in Residence]: Co-founded the Professional Association of CISOs (PAC). 🏭𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲 I have experience working with, leading within, and advising a wide range of organizations and industries: • Organization Sizes: From scrappy startups and mid-market enterprises to Fortune 500 companies. • Industry Experience: Diverse experience spanning SaaS, Semiconductor, FinTech, HealthTech, and more. • Consultant and Advisor: Engaged with and helped shape security practices across various industries. 🫴𝗨𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 Throughout my career, I have consistently sought to give back and uplift the cybersecurity industry: • Early 2000s: One of the first SANs mentors. • Author & Contributor: Wrote or contributed to books like the PowerShell Unleashed series and Back to Basics. • Academic Collaboration: Worked with California universities (San Jose State and UC Merced) to improve undergraduate cybersecurity programs. • Awards: Received the Champion in Security Award for Respect (2023) and served as a judge for Champions in Security awards (2024) and CISO Village Awards (2022, 2023, 2024). • Advocacy: Increasing advocacy for CISOs and cybersecurity professionals, co-founding the Professional Association of CISOs (PAC). 📧𝗟𝗲𝘁'𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗻 • Advisory / vCISO engagements • CISO roles • Speaking engagements and thought leadership

Laurent Le Gourrierec

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Global Strategic Alliances & Partnerships | Cloud & AI | Startup & Corporate Advisory

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Former CIA Officer Teaching Others CISO Tradecraft

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Accomplished and highly connected tech, strategy, and innovation leader with a background across public and private sectors from startups to global enterprises, bridging cyber security and business leadership. - Industry leadership: Established and chaired industry groups and organizations such as the World Economic Forum’s RISCC, the ACoD cyber security conference, The Cyber Threat Intelligence Alliance, and the Israeli CERT. - Entrepreneurship: Founded and brought Cymmetria, a cyber deception company, from raising $12 million, to growth phase with $2.4 million TCV, to acquisition. - Intrapreneurship: Built and managed PwC’s Cyber Security Center of Excellence and led building PwC’s threat intelligence methodology and global offering, with hundreds of Advisory customers adopting it world-wide since. - Incident response: Formed the original threat intelligence information sharing group, TH-Research in 1997, and first threat intelligence conference, ISOI in 2006. Managed Internet-wide incident response, coordinating law enforcement, governments, and the private sector, such as for BlackWorm. Co-wrote the post-mortem analysis for “the first Internet war”, in Estonia in 2007. - Technical research: Exposed for the first time nation-state level targeted attacks (APTs), such as Rocket Kitten (Iran) and Patchwork (India). Co-wrote original book on botnets. Constructed enterprise frameworks such as the Disinformation Killchain (CNIK). Released the original research into DDoS Amplification Attacks. Gadi has written two books on cyber security, is a frequest contributor to industry publications, and speaker at industry events, from Blackhat (2008, 2015) to Davos (2019). In his free time, Gadi teaches Swing dance, and dabbles in writing science fiction and fantasy.