CyCognito CEO and leadership

Works at LimeLight Web Technologies as stuff. Worked at VisionMap - Digicash - AcceloWeb. Lives in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Aisling, Chief Growth & Strategy Officer has over 30 years of experience in building early stage and mature businesses in tech and cybersecurity. Aisling's passionate leadership style, skills and experience allow her to drive strategically and execute tactically. Aisling's focus is always on creating a compelling journey for customers, partners, investors and employees together. Aisling MacRunnels comes to us from Synack, the leader in Crowdsourced Security Testing, where she was the Chief Business & Growth Officer. As a founding member of the Synack team, Aisling has helped create a new category of enterprise caliber security testing that can support the scale and pace of the digital transformation. As CMO of the Sun Micrososyem's software business Aisling was responsible for the strategy, product management, marketing and business development for the entire software portfolio.

Extensive experience delivering enterprise software across security, compliance, cloud and data related software segments. Strong ability to translate market data into product vision and roadmap. Proven leadership in managing cross functional product launches.

Strengths: product management; product marketing; market sizing, market requirements; messaging; evangelism; sales tools and collateral; GTM planning & execution; product launches; industry solutions; pricing; competitive analysis; sales enablement

Domains: Security/GRC, Data Management, BI, Virtualization, DevOps, Cloud, Application Delivery

Jeff Romano, Chief Customer Officer, is responsible for onboarding, training, professional services, technical support, and overall success management of CyCognito customers. Jeff has more than 25 years working in technology, including in cloud-based software for cybersecurity, data analytics, and telecommunications. Most recently, Jeff was Chief Customer Success Officer at Exabeam where he successfully reduced churn, improved customer satisfaction, and expanded service offerings. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President of Global Customer Services for 8x8, Inc., where managed services and renewals for their 50,000 cloud-based unified communications customers. Jeff has also held executive roles at Model N, Birst, Navis, and Oracle. Jeff holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Works at LimeLight Web Technologies as stuff. Worked at VisionMap - Digicash - AcceloWeb. Lives in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Works at LimeLight Web Technologies as stuff. Worked at VisionMap - Digicash - AcceloWeb. Lives in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Jason has been involved in building early-stage startups, evangelizing new product categories, and leading go-to-market planning for new technologies for over 20 years. He joined two of his four startups as one of the first dozen employees and as the first non-engineering, business executive. Both of these companies were acquired for hundreds of millions of dollars, returning 3-10x to investors – Neoteris acquired by Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), and LightCyber acquired by Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW). Jason also led the public offering marketing efforts (S-1 development, analyst meetings, et al) for networking startup, A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN). Jason spent the early part of his career leading product management at Cisco Systems, and contributed to the spectacular absolute growth and market share dominance of Cisco’s multi-billion dollar fixed configuration switching platforms during the 1990s. During all of these experiences, Jason led product management and marketing efforts that ultimately led to the development of multiple new product categories and recognition by Gartner, Inc. as a category “Leader.” In the middle of his career, Jason digressed from the startup executive operational path to pursue early-stage venture investing with Battery Ventures, a multi-billion dollar firm with offices globally. At Battery, he built and led the firm’s cleantech investment team. During this time, Jason invested in and served on the board of directors of 8 companies that resulted in 3 acquisitions and 2 others that are still thriving. The ultimate implosion of the cleantech startup sector was an incredibly harrowing but rewarding experience where Jason learned the ultimate entrepreneur’s lesson – that failure is a humbling and sometimes necessary pathway to finding success.