About Us

Pieter Danhieux is the Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and Co-Founder of Secure Code Warrior.

In 2020, Pieter was recognised as a finalist in the Diversity Champion category for the SC Awards Europe 2020, and was awarded Editor's Choice for Chief Executive Officer of the Year by Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry’s leading electronic information security magazine. In 2016, he was No. 80 on the list of Coolest Tech people in Australia (Business Insider), awarded Cyber Security Professional of the Year (AISA - Australian Information Security Association) and is member of the Forbes Technology Council.

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Pieter is also a Principal instructor for the SANS Institute teaching military, government and private organisations offensive techniques on how to target and assess organisations, systems and individuals for security weaknesses. He also serves as an advisory board member of NVISO, a cyber security consulting company in Europe. Before starting his own company, Pieter worked at Ernst & Young and BAE Systems. He is also one of the Co-Founders of BruCON, one of the most awesome hacking conferences on this planet.

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He started his information security career early in life and obtained the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification as one of the youngest persons ever in Belgium. On his way, he collected a whole range of cyber security certificates (CISA, GCFA, GCIH, GPEN, GWAP) and is currently one of the select few people worldwide to hold the top certification GIAC Security Expert (GSE).

Matias is a researcher and developer with more than 15 years of hands-on software security experience. He has developed solutions for companies such as HP Fortify and his own company Sensei Security. Over his career, Matias has led multiple application security research projects which have led to commercial products and boasts over 10 patents under his belt. When he is away from his desk, Matias has served as an instructor for advanced application security training courses and regularly speaks at global conferences including RSA Conference, Black Hat, DefCon, BSIMM, OWASP AppSec and BruCon.

Matias holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Ghent University, where he studied application security through program obfuscation to hide the inner workings of an application.

Fatemah Beydoun is a founding team member of Secure Code Warrior, having been an integral part of the company since 2014. Fatemah began her time at Secure Code Warrior as Chief Awesome and Regional Director of APAC between 2014 and 2018. Now as Senior Vice President of Customer Success and Operations, Fatemah is responsible for turning Secure Code Warrior’s customers into its biggest advocates, improving Customer Success maturity, and leading the Customer Success teams globally.

Prior to Secure Code Warrior, Fatemah held security analyst, operations management, and national director roles at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence and the Australian Information Security Association (AISA), a not-for profit organisation which aims to improve Cyber Security in Australia at a Government, Industry and Community level. In 2021, she was announced by The Software Report as one of the Top 25 Women Leaders in Cybersecurity. Fatemah holds a Bachelor of Science in Computing and Information Systems from Macquarie University.

Anneke Loubser is our Vice President of People and Culture, and really does put (our) humans at the heart of secure coding.

Anneke is a global HR leader with experience in HR business partnering, executive & management coaching, culture/change & project management and conflict resolution in roles at Microsoft, Aviva Investors, and Accenture. She is a certified coach, training facilitator and CEDR Accredited Mediator, as well as a Board trustee with the Guild of Analytical Psychologists.

Anneke is also a part time artist who loves doing skits for her dog - he is sometimes mildly entertained by them.

Fabio Gavilondo is our Vice President of Engineering, and is a technologist and people leader with over 25 years of expertise in the delivery of mission-critical software projects.

Passionate about driving excellence and innovation, Fabio has extensive experience in applying Agile/DevOps principles to deliver high quality products. Fabio enjoys paying attention to software engineering fundamentals and building effective delivery teams to get things done faster and with better results.

Before joining Secure Code Warrior, Fabio was a consultant at ThoughtWorks and held senior technology leadership roles at leading retail, finance and media companies in Europe and Australia.

Fabio holds a Bachelor Honours Degree in Computer Science and Economics from the Business & Technology College in Berlin, Germany.

John Wilson is our Senior Vice President of Global Sales, bringing more than 25 years of experience driving innovation and growth while building market leading organizations.

John has built a strong track record of delivering growth and innovation for leading Cloud technology and security companies such as BlackBerry, Lookout, Symantec, Blue Coat, Elastica, Qualys and Verizon. He combines extensive knowledge of global markets including North America, Europe, and Asia with strong technical knowledge and a passion for enabling customer success in the rapidly changing IT marketplace. John has extensive background and expertise in information security and compliance, networking, network systems management, and managed services.

He received his BS in Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an MBA in International Business from Fordham University. He is also a Ranger, Paratrooper and a Gulf War veteran.

Based in San Francisco, Junie joins as our Chief Marketing Officer, following a stint as VP of Marketing at Sprout Social and over six years in marketing leadership positions at Atlassian, most recently as VP of Marketing for Enterprise and Migrations. She brings extensive knowledge in driving product-led growth into the developer ecosystem and deep expertise in scaling hyper-growth businesses from 50 employees to billion-dollar organisations with 5,000+ staff. Junie is a member of Chief— a private network focused on connecting and supporting women executive leaders — and has an MBA from Cornell University.

Steve Loxton serves as our chief financial steward, bringing with him an impressive track record of developing high-performing teams and partnering with the executive leadership team to deliver on business strategies and drive exceptional growth in global businesses.

Steve joins us from Megaport, a leading ASX-listed technology business, where as CFO he was instrumental in raising $250M to help the business rapidly scale its operations to 23 countries globally, and managing the exceptional growth in customers, services, and recurring revenues.

Prior to this Steve had leadership roles in finance and investment across a range of industries including telecommunications, infrastructure and energy, including with CPP Investments, Transfield Services Infrastructure Fund, Goldman Sachs, ABN AMRO and Macquarie.

Steve is a Chartered Accountant and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He holds a Master of Economics from Macquarie University and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Queensland.

Vikram Ghosh is our Senior Vice President for Strategic Alliances.  Prior to Secure Code Warrior, Vikram was the Vice President of Business Development at Chef Software, which sold to Progress in Oct 2020. At Chef Software Vikram’s team was responsible for all of Chef’s Partnership efforts.

Vikram has extensive experience in 'biz dev', partnerships, Product Management, Sales & Pre-sales at Microsoft, Citrix, McAfee and HP/Compaq.  At Microsoft, Vikram held several Product Management and Product Marketing leadership roles within Azure, SQL Server and Windows Server Groups. At Citrix Vikram was the Managing Director for their Service Provider Business. Responsible for end-to-end P&L, covering Business, Product and go to market strategy.  

Vikram and his wife Sraboni, a Montessori teacher, live in the Seattle area and enjoy travelling the world and experiencing different cuisines.

Pieter Danhieux is the Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and Co-Founder of Secure Code Warrior.

In 2020, Pieter was recognised as a finalist in the Diversity Champion category for the SC Awards Europe 2020, and was awarded Editor's Choice for Chief Executive Officer of the Year by Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry’s leading electronic information security magazine. In 2016, he was No. 80 on the list of Coolest Tech people in Australia (Business Insider), awarded Cyber Security Professional of the Year (AISA - Australian Information Security Association) and is member of the Forbes Technology Council.

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Pieter is also a Principal instructor for the SANS Institute teaching military, government and private organisations offensive techniques on how to target and assess organisations, systems and individuals for security weaknesses. He also serves as an advisory board member of NVISO, a cyber security consulting company in Europe. Before starting his own company, Pieter worked at Ernst & Young and BAE Systems. He is also one of the Co-Founders of BruCON, one of the most awesome hacking conferences on this planet.

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He started his information security career early in life and obtained the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification as one of the youngest persons ever in Belgium. On his way, he collected a whole range of cyber security certificates (CISA, GCFA, GCIH, GPEN, GWAP) and is currently one of the select few people worldwide to hold the top certification GIAC Security Expert (GSE).

Matias is a researcher and developer with more than 15 years of hands-on software security experience. He has developed solutions for companies such as HP Fortify and his own company Sensei Security. Over his career, Matias has led multiple application security research projects which have led to commercial products and boasts over 10 patents under his belt. When he is away from his desk, Matias has served as an instructor for advanced application security training courses and regularly speaks at global conferences including RSA Conference, Black Hat, DefCon, BSIMM, OWASP AppSec and BruCon.

Matias holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Ghent University, where he studied application security through program obfuscation to hide the inner workings of an application.

Eddie Sheehy is a tech entrepreneur, investor and director with a significant interest in security technology companies.

From 2006 - 2017 Eddie oversaw the commercialisation and global expansion of Nuix, from almost no customers or revenue and 2 developers to a profitable $100M+ business with 2000+ customers across the world. He guided the software’s growing functionality from digital forensics to legal discovery, investigation, cybersecurity, information governance and intelligence. Prior to Nuix Eddie held strategy, sales and CEO positions in London and Australia. Eddie holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Masters of Finance from University College Cork.

Jim is the Managing Partner at Cynergy Partners in Menlo Park, California and has over 30 years of Silicon Valley experience, including 15 years as CEO of cyber security and data management companies. He has a proven track record of translating cyber security and related technology, policy, and market dynamics into competitive advantage.

Currently, Jim is a board director at several leading cyber security companies. Prior, he’s also served as a board director and investor at several other leading security firms in North America and Europe.

From 2012-2018, he was at The Chertoff Group where he was a Principal, member of the Operating Committee, and was responsible for the strategy practice and technology vertical at the firm.

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David Campbell is a managing director in the Merchant Banking Division (MBD) of Goldman Sachs, focused on growth-stage technology companies. Prior to joining MBD, he held various roles within the Technology Division, including manager of systems infrastructure in Asia, manager of global storage, and manager of global infrastructure architecture and strategy. David joined Goldman Sachs in 1994 and was named technology fellow in 2002 and managing director in 2013.

Prior to joining the firm, David worked on super computer research and development in Japan, and operating system and real time system development in Australia.

David serves on the boards of AvePoint Inc., MetricStream Inc., Nasuni Corporation, ScienceLogic Inc., and Secure Code Warrior.

David earned a BSc in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Japanese, both from The University of Queensland, Australia.

Mourad is a Managing Director at Paladin Capital Group. He is an investment lead for the firm’s Cyber Fund, which focuses on investing in early stage companies in the US and Europe with solutions for cyber security and digital resilience. Mourad is currently actively involved in several of Paladin’s investments including Expel, RiskSense, Secure Code Warrior, Ursa, RiskLens, and previously worked with Unitrends (acquired by Insight Venture Partners).

Prior to joining Paladin in 2009, Mourad was VP of Finance and a corporate officer at a Nasdaq-listed leading industrial infrastructure company, where he led the build-out of the company’s financial planning and risk management functions during a period of rapid growth in operations and nearly tenfold increase in revenue to over $700 million. He also played a key role in structuring and negotiating over $500 million of equity and debt financing working with major institutional investors and a global lender syndicate. Prior to this, Mourad was a senior consultant at a boutique advisory firm focused on M&A, turnaround, and restructuring assignments for middle market clients. Mourad holds an MBA and BS in Finance from Fresno State University.

James Cameron is a Partner at Airtree Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in world-class Australian entrepreneurs building exceptional companies of tomorrow. James is focused on growth/scale up stage companies, with personal inclinations towards enterprise software/SaaS, security, infrastructure/core tech and fintech (but with a very open mind!).

A Canberra boy at heart, James returned to Australia after 15 years living in the Valley and London, joining Airtree from a US fund called Accel, and before that was running a venture backed fintech startup called Bipsync in Palo Alto. AS well as Secure Code Warrior, James also works with DroneDeploy, Athena, dGraph, Prospa, 90 Seconds, A Cloud Guru, Whispli, Huddle, Paxata, and Inventia.

Sean Cunningham is Managing Director of ForgePoint Capital.

Sean is renowned as a top tier cybersecurity investor for over 18 years and has invested in 22 security startups during his career and led 16 to exit. He is well respected by entrepreneurs, co-investors, board members and go-to market partners and was cited as cited as one of the top cybersecurity investors by market analyst firm CB Insights. He is listed in their “Board of Directors: Who’s Who’s in Cybersecurity”. Prior to ForgePoint, Sean was focused on Cybersecurity investments with Intel Capital. Sean earned an MBA from Gonzaga University and is a huge Zag basketball fan.

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Tom Clute is a Senior Vice President at Paladin Capital Group and a member of Paladin’s investment team, which is focused on driving new opportunities for the firm’s Cyber Fund. His primary responsibilities include identifying, assessing and executing on compelling investment targets. Tom serves as a board member at Cloud Conformity and as a board observer or works closely with several of Paladin’s investments including Digital Shadows, Expel, Risklens and Risksense. He was an active contributor with prior investments PhishMe (acquired by BlackRock) and Perspecsys (acquired by Blue Coat Systems). He joined the firm in 2010 as an Analyst.

Prior to joining Paladin as an Analyst, Tom earned his Masters in Management from The Fuqua School of Business (Duke University) and his bachelor’s degree from Duke University.

Gary McGraw is co-founder of the Berryville Institute of Machine Learning.

He is a globally recognized authority on software security and the author of eight best selling books on this topic. His titles include Software Security, Exploiting Software, Building Secure Software, Java Security, Exploiting Online Games, and 6 other books; and he is editor of the Addison-Wesley Software Security series. Dr. McGraw has also written over 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications.Gary serves on the Advisory Boards of Maxmyinterest, NTrepid, Ravenwhite, and Secure Code Warrior. He has also served as a Board member of Cigital and Codiscope (acquired by Synopsys) and as Advisor to Black Duck (acquired by Synopsys), Dasient (acquired by Twitter), Fortify Software (acquired by HP), and Invotas (acquired by FireEye).

Gary produced the monthly Silver Bullet Security Podcast for IEEE Security & Privacy magazine for thirteen years. His dual PhD is in Cognitive Science and Computer Science from Indiana University where he serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering.

Aaron Bedra is always exploring new and interesting ways to break and defend software. He is a Senior Software Engineer at DRW, where he works at the intersection of software, security, and business.

Aaron has served as a Chief Scientist, Chief Security Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and Principal Engineer/Architect. He has worked professionally on programming languages, most notably Clojure and ClojureScript. Aaron is the creator of Repsheet, an open source threat intelligence toolkit. He is the co-author of Programming Clojure, 2nd and 3rd Edition and a contributor to Functional Programming: A PragPub Anthology.

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Brian Chess, Ph.D., was founder and Chief Scientist at Fortify Software. Brian holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering from the University of California, where he studied computer security and methods for identifying vulnerabilities in source code. He has been granted more than a dozen patents related to integrated circuit design, web-based applications, and computer security.

Chenxi Wang, Ph.D., is founder and managing general partner of Rain Capital Fund, LP, a cybersecurity-focused venture fund.

Dr. Wang also serves on the board of directors for MDU Resources Group (NYSE: MDU). Previously, Wang was the Chief Strategy Officer at Twistlock. Wang was the 2016 and 2017 program Co-Chair for Security and Privacy at the Grace Hopper Conference and named by SC Magazine as a 2016 Women of Influence. Wang built an illustrious career at Forrester Research, Intel Security and CipherCloud. Dr. Wang started her career as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. She is a sought-after public speaker and a trusted advisor for IT executives. Wang holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Virginia.