Contrast Security CEO and leadership

Alan hails from Minnesota and received a BS in Computer Engineering, graduating with honors and distinction from Iowa State University. Prior to joining Contrast in 2016, Alan served as the Chief Executive Officer at 41st Parameter Inc. (a Kleiner-Perkins backed company) up to its successful acquisition by Experian. Alan has also served as the Chief Executive Officer of CoWare, Inc. (a Greylock backed company) until its acquisition by Synopsys. He has more than 25 years of technology management experience in the cybersecurity, e-commerce, and computer industries. Mr. Naumann previously served as an executive at Calico Commerce, Cadence Design Systems, and Hewlett-Packard. He currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board for Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurial Studies at Wake Forest University.

Jeff offers more than 20 years of security leadership experience as Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Contrast. Previously, Jeff was Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aspect Security, a successful and innovative application security consulting company acquired by Ernst & Young. Jeff is also a founder and major contributor to OWASP, where he served as Global Chairman for eight years and created the OWASP Top 10, OWASP Enterprise Security API, OWASP Application Security Verification Standard, XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet, and many other widely adopted free and open projects. Jeff has a BA from the University of Virginia, an MA from George Mason, and a JD from Georgetown.

Arshan is an accomplished security researcher with over 10 years of experience advising large organizations on application security. Prior to Contrast Security, Arshan spent eight years at Aspect Security in a research role where he used static and dynamic technology to perform security assurance work, including code reviews, architecture reviews, and penetration testing. From his experience at Aspect Security, Arshan quickly discovered that securing applications was a massive undertaking - one that required innovative, deeply accurate technology and continuous testing. His response was to co-found Contrast Security. Only the kind of technology that Contrast offers can help organizations escape the rat race that was legacy application security programs. In his role as Chief Scientist at Contrast Security, Arshan draws on experience to guide the product line, drive new products and features and spreads the gospel about binary instrumentation.

Arshan has released popular application security tools, including AntiSamy, ESAPI, JavaSnoop. He graduated with an MS in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.

Steve is currently the Chief Product Officer at Contrast Security. Today his team is responsible for Engineering, Product Management and Product Design for all products.

Steve has over 25 years of experience developing and marketing products at multi-billion-dollar technology companies such as Citrix, Oracle and Sun Microsystems. Prior to Contrast, Steve was the Vice President of Product Management for Citrix Cloud where he led the transformation of Citrix products from traditional on-prem to SaaS. At Oracle, he led core engineering for a billion-dollar product line of systems management software. During his time at Sun Microsystems, Steve was an early member of the team that developed the Java computer programming system, the most widely used set of software development tools in history.

Steve is the author of “Java Platform Performance: Strategies and Tactics” and “The Father/Daughter Guide to Cryptocurrency Mining.” He is a popular speaker on future of work and artificial intelligence topics and has recently presented at The Churchill Club, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, DLA Piper Global Technology Summit, IDG Agenda, SAP TechEd and WSJ Tech D.Live. He holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of San Diego and a second-degree black belt from the American Taekwondo Association.

Jeff offers more than 20 years of security leadership experience as Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Contrast. Previously, Jeff was Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aspect Security, a successful and innovative application security consulting company acquired by Ernst & Young. Jeff is also a founder and major contributor to OWASP, where he served as Global Chairman for eight years and created the OWASP Top 10, OWASP Enterprise Security API, OWASP Application Security Verification Standard, XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet, and many other widely adopted free and open projects. Jeff has a BA from the University of Virginia, an MA from George Mason, and a JD from Georgetown.

Arshan is an accomplished security researcher with over 10 years of experience advising large organizations on application security. Prior to Contrast Security, Arshan spent eight years at Aspect Security in a research role where he used static and dynamic technology to perform security assurance work, including code reviews, architecture reviews, and penetration testing. From his experience at Aspect Security, Arshan quickly discovered that securing applications was a massive undertaking - one that required innovative, deeply accurate technology and continuous testing. His response was to co-found Contrast Security. Only the kind of technology that Contrast offers can help organizations escape the rat race that was legacy application security programs. In his role as Chief Scientist at Contrast Security, Arshan draws on experience to guide the product line, drive new products and features and spreads the gospel about binary instrumentation.

Arshan has released popular application security tools, including AntiSamy, ESAPI, JavaSnoop. He graduated with an MS in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.

Alan hails from Minnesota and received a BS in Computer Engineering, graduating with honors and distinction from Iowa State University. Prior to joining Contrast in 2016, Alan served as the Chief Executive Officer at 41st Parameter Inc. (a Kleiner-Perkins backed company) up to its successful acquisition by Experian. Alan has also served as the Chief Executive Officer of CoWare, Inc. (a Greylock backed company) until its acquisition by Synopsys. He has more than 25 years of technology management experience in the cybersecurity, e-commerce, and computer industries. Mr. Naumann previously served as an executive at Calico Commerce, Cadence Design Systems, and Hewlett-Packard. He currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board for Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurial Studies at Wake Forest University.

Jeff offers more than 20 years of security leadership experience as Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Contrast. Previously, Jeff was Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aspect Security, a successful and innovative application security consulting company acquired by Ernst & Young. Jeff is also a founder and major contributor to OWASP, where he served as Global Chairman for eight years and created the OWASP Top 10, OWASP Enterprise Security API, OWASP Application Security Verification Standard, XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet, and many other widely adopted free and open projects. Jeff has a BA from the University of Virginia, an MA from George Mason, and a JD from Georgetown.