The Awake Story

Rahul has a proven track record of establishing and building disruptive technologies. Prior to Awake, Rahul was the Global CTO at Cylance, a pioneer of AI-based security. He drove the vision and strategy that led to a major disruption of the endpoint security market. Before that, Rahul was EVP of products at Bromium, a leading endpoint virtualization-based security start-up. He was also a key leader at McAfee driving the advancement of the Network Intrusion Prevention technology. Rahul is a frequent keynote speaker, author of numerous security publications, and was named one of Silicon Valley’s 40 under 40. Rahul sits on multiple advisory boards including Cylance.

Keith has worked at the leading edge of networking and security for more than 25 years. Prior to co-founding Awake, he was director of engineering at VMware after its acquisition of Nicira Networks, where he helped design and build the first SDN-based network virtualization systems. Before that, he was co-founder of IntruVert Networks (acquired by McAfee), where he designed and implemented one of the first high-performance Network Intrusion Prevention Systems. Keith earned degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering from the University of Michigan.

Rudolph leads Awake’s marketing team and is responsible for all aspects of positioning, messaging, demand generation, communications, and related activities. Prior to Awake, Rudolph ran the globally-distributed product marketing team at FireEye. Previously, he helped lead the company’s Incident Response practice at FireEye Labs, where he worked with customers to help them respond to breaches. Before FireEye, Rudolph led security consulting teams at Foundstone and McAfee. He earned a degree in computer engineering from Goa University and a master’s from Carnegie Mellon University.

Randy is Awake’s VP of sales, where he focuses on go-to-market strategy, sales operations, business development, and alliances/partnerships. He has more than a decade of experience bringing new and innovative technologies to market and scaling them into industry standard solutions that solve the top concerns of enterprises around the world. Most recently Randy served as the SVP of sales at Darktrace, having started as the company’s first U.S. employee, directly shaping its North American strategy. Randy also sits on the BoD for Tobi USA and is a sales and marketing advisor to several start-ups. He has a bachelor’s in mathematics from St. Mary’s College of California where he graduated with honors.

Dash brings core academic research capabilities and a wealth of experience building advanced security architecture to his role as Chief Data Scientist at Awake. Before co-founding Awake, he led the engineering team at CipherCloud and was a distinguished technologist in Hewlett-Packard’s enterprise security division. At HP, he was an early member of the ArcSight engineering team, where he built market-leading technologies in event correlation, event management, and real-time analytics. Dash earned a degree in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.

Gary has nearly two decades of experience in threat analysis and has led investigations and containment efforts in a number of notable cases. With this experience – and a track record of researching and teaching state-of-the art detection and response methodologies – Gary is focused on helping Awake improve security craft as the company’s Chief Research Officer. Prior to Awake, Gary was one of the first employees at Cylance. He was also a co-founder of Proventsure, which was acquired by NetWitness and ultimately by RSA. He served in the United States Marines 2nd Force Reconnaissance Company.

Rajdeep leads product management and strategy for Awake Security. He brings extensive experience in data protection, cyber security, networking, and data analytics. Prior to Awake, Rajdeep was VP product management at SS8 Networks where he was responsible for building SS8’s communication analytics products. Before SS8, Rajdeep was the global solutions architect for the cloud and content business unit at McAfee. There he was responsible for product strategy and sales execution for the data loss prevention (DLP) product line and played an integral role in introducing and expanding the DLP Business across APAC. Rajdeep joined McAfee through the acquisition of Reconnex Inc, where he developed technologies pertaining to deep content inspection, network forensics, and data analytics. Rajdeep holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University.

Jeffrey is a seasoned engineering leader who has played an integral role in some of the networking industry’s most significant innovations and products. Jeffrey has held a variety of engineering leadership positions in the areas of networking software, data center compute infrastructure, network/visibility SDN fabrics, and predictive analytics. With a 15-year career at Cisco Systems, he was Vice President of Engineering in the Data Center Group with responsibilities ranging from Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) software to hypervisor switching and I/O technologies such as the Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) and the Nexus 1000v virtual switch software. Jeffrey was previously an engineering leader at Nuova Systems, a data center compute and networking startup acquired by Cisco that became the centerpiece of Cisco’s data center product portfolio.

Jeffrey spent 5+ years at Big Switch Networks, a pioneering startup in Software-defined and Cloud-first data center networking. He served as Vice President of Engineering responsible for overall engineering R&D and built two of the industry’s most reliable and innovative data center products: Big Cloud Fabric and Big Monitoring Fabric. The products and innovations have established Big Switch as a visionary vendor in Gartner Magic Quadrant with phenomenal revenue growth.

Most recently, Jeffrey was Vice President of Engineering at Veriflow Systems. He was responsible for overall engineering and product development, delivering the most advanced Intent-based networking and predictive analytics software products in the industry. Veriflow Systems was acquired by VMware.