SYN Ventures Leadership

Jay Leek

Managing Partner & Founder

  • Managing Partner and Co-Founder, ClearSky Security
  • Former Blackstone CISO leading Blackstone’s innovation investments in security
  • Previously held senior security leadership positions at Equifax and Nokia

Meet Jay

Art Coviello

Managing Partner & IC Chairman for Flagship Funds

  • Former Executive Chairman & CEO at RSA
  • Board Member at Tenable (NASDAQ: TENB), Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF)

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Dan Burns

IC Chairman for Seed Funds

  • Co-founder and former CEO at Optiv
  • Co-founder and former CEO at Accuvant

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Ryan Permeh

Operating Partner

  • Co-Founder and former Chief Scientist at Cylance (Acquired by Blackberry)
  • Former Chief Scientist at McAfee
  • Former Distinguished Engineer at eEye Digital Security

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Adam Cecil

Chief Operating Officer & Operating Partner

  • Former CFO at CyberGRX (acquired by Marlin Equity Partners)
  • Former CFO at Protectwise (acquired by Verizon)
  • Former CFO and COO at AlchemyAI (acquired by IBM)
  • Former VP of Finance at Rally Software (NYSE: RALY)

Meet Adam

Dylan Posner

Senior Associate

  • Former Senior Analyst on AIG Asset Management’s Direct Alternative Investments team

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Marcio Lempert

Venture Partner

  • Former Managing Director Finjan/M86 Security (acquired by Trustwave)
  • Board Advisor at Solebit Labs (acquired by Mimecast), Polyrize (acquired by Varonis), and Preempt Security (acquired by CrowdStrike).

Meet Marcio

John Watters

Venture Partner

  • Former President and COO at Mandiant (acquired by Google Cloud)
  • Founder and former CEO at iSIGHT Partners (acquired by FireEye)
  • Former Charirman and CEO at iDEFENSE (acquired by Verisign)

Meet John

Alex Tosheff

Venture Partner

  • Board Director at Tenable (NASDAQ: TENB)
  • Former CSO at VMware
  • Former CISO at PayPal
  • Former CISO at BillMeLater
  • Former CTO at SAIC

Meet Alex

Tim McKnight

Venture Partner

  • Chief Information Security Officer at UnitedHealth Group
  • Former Chief Security Officer at SAP
  • Former Chief Information Security Officer at Thompson Reuters and General Electric
  • Former Executive Vice President of Fidelity Investments’ Information Security and Technology Risk

Meet Tim

Rob Potter

Venture Partner

  • Former EVP Strategic Operations at Mandiant (acquired by Google Cloud)
  • Former CRO at Verodin (acquired by FireEye)
  • Former VP, Americas at Symantec
  • Former VP of Sales at RSA

Meet Rob
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Robert Rodriguez

Venture Partner

  • Chairman & Founder of SINET
  • Former Special Agent with the United States Secret Service
  • Board member for multiple orgs

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Pradeep Aswani

Venture Partner

  • Board member: SecureDynamics and Mobilematics
  • Member: Cyberstarts, a founders-powered VC Fund
  • Founder / investor: Cloud Harmonics, Securematics, VPN Dynamics, HPN
  • Co-founder and former COO of OneSecure

Meet Pradeep