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We founded TalonX to help address the cybersecurity talent shortage (there are 2.5 million unfilled security job openings) and help organizations scale their existing talent and technology.
TalonX leaders have built and led cybersecurity products and businesses at both venture-backed startups and established large companies; as well as built or led the cybersecurity practices at leading consulting firms.
Our Advisory Board
Mike Lloyd
Dr. Mike Lloyd has more than 25 years of experience in the modeling and control of fast-moving, complex systems. He has been granted 21 patents on security, network assessment, and dynamic network control. Before joining RedSeal, Mike Lloyd was Chief Technology Officer at RouteScience Technologies (acquired by Avaya), where he pioneered self-optimizing networks.
Mike served as principal architect at Cisco on the technology used to overlay MPLS VPN services across service provider backbones. He joined Cisco through the acquisition of Netsys Technologies, where he was the senior network modeling engineer.
Rich Isenberg
Rich brings experience from his 20+ year career as an executive leading teams focused on Cyber Security strategy and operations, Risk Management and Digital transformation.
Rich brings experience from SunTrust Bank, where he was CISO, from Capital One as VP of Information Security, and at Fiserv as VP of Security Engineering. He has also done extensive work advising C suites and boards on Cyber Risk Management.
Satish Gannu
Satish Gannu is currently at ABB as Chief Security Officer and Chief Technology Officer Digital, ABB., responsible for the security of all products, services, and cybersecurity services. Satish is also responsible for ABB Abilityâ„¢ Architecture and Analytics. Satish brings to this position a background in computer programming and more than 30 years of experience in security and analytics.
Prior to joining ABB, Satish was the Vice President of Technology at Vidder Inc., a security startup that provides unified access control across internal networks, clouds, and external users. Before that, Satish spent 21 years at Cisco, the world’s leader in networking and communications technologies. At Cisco, he led engineering organizations including Orchestration, SDN, NFV, and Cloud Virtualization, as well as Security and Media Experience in emerging technologies and businesses.
In addition, Satish holds three patents in computer networking and has 17 patents filed in the field of text, speech, video analytics.