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Led by people who’ve been on the front lines

SalienceCyber.ai was founded by operators with decades of combined experience inside enterprise security operations, threat intelligence, AI systems, and cybersecurity company building. We didn’t theorize a better approach. We built it because we knew exactly what was missing.

Will Gragido
CEO & Co-Founder

Founder, product leader, and recognized voice in threat research and intelligence. Author of three pivotal books on the subject — Cybercrime and Espionage, Blackhatonomics, and Threat Forecasting — and an international speaker who sets the prevention-first conviction behind the platform.

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John Suit
CTO & Co-Founder

Technical architect of the CognitionAI Engine and the prevention-as-code substrate. A serial security-technology founder and CTO with 50+ cybersecurity patents — previously CTO at Xceedium (acquired by CA Technologies) and co-founder/CTO of SilentRunner and Fortisphere.

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Julie Burgoyne
Chief Operating Officer

Runs the operating discipline behind the platform — engineering velocity, customer programs, and delivery. Previously Executive Vice President at NetWitness and a global technical-support leader at RSA Security.

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Chris Elisan
Distinguished Research Scientist

Veteran malware researcher and published author (Malware, Rootkits & Botnets). Anchors the CognitionAI threat model with primary-source research on adversarial AI and agentic exploitation — previously Principal Malware Scientist at RSA and a reverse engineer at Trend Micro’s TrendLabs.

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Pat Belcher
Director, Pre-Sales & Threat Intelligence

Bridges the technical reality of the platform with the operational reality of the buyer, across pre-sales and threat intelligence. Previously Senior Director of Threat Research at Invincea (acquired by Sophos).

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Engineering, Threat Research & GTM
Building Out

SalienceCyber.ai is hiring across engineering, threat research, and customer-facing roles.

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Company · Strategic Advisors

Counsel from people who’ve built, shaped, and backed the category

A small circle of advisors who have founded security companies, defined how the market reads them, and invested across the space — and who hold our strategy and platform to that standard.

Paul Ciriello
Co-Founder & Managing General Partner, Fairhaven Capital

A technology investor who has backed and helped build cybersecurity and enterprise-infrastructure companies for nearly two decades. Co-founder of Fairhaven Capital, with security-market exits and board seats at Digital Guardian, GoSecure, and DeepSee.ai. Brings the investor's discipline of separating a durable security company from a passing feature.

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Brian Reed
Cybersecurity Strategist · Former Gartner Analyst

A category and go-to-market strategist who helped shape how the market understands data security and insider risk. Former Gartner analyst and lead author of the Enterprise DLP Magic Quadrant, later Senior Director of Cybersecurity Strategy at Proofpoint, with earlier roles at Sourcefire, McAfee, and ISS.

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Dave Karp
Founder & CEO, UpSight Security

A 25-year endpoint-security veteran and U.S. Marine Corps veteran with a track record of building offerings ahead of the threat. Founder and CEO of UpSight Security, following leadership roles at Cylance, Comodo, ShieldX, Digital Guardian, and McAfee. Pressure-tests the platform's prevention-first thesis against the realities of modern ransomware.

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