Dr. Fengmin Gong co-founded and served as Strategic Advisor at Cyphort. He also served as Advisor at 11.2 Capital. He brings over 25 years of security industry experiences, formerly serving as Chief Scientist and Head of next-gen security product development at Huawei-Symantec, Chief Security Content Officer at FireEye, co-founder & Chief Scientist at Palo Alto Networks, Chief Scientist & Director of Intrusion Detection Technologies at McAfee, and co-founder of IntruVert Networks (acquired by McAfee), and Director of Advanced Networking Research at MCNC. Dr. Gong holds 12 patents in networking security areas and has published over 40 papers. His academic background includes professorial appointment North Carolina State University and research roles at Washington University. Gong holds a D.Sc. and M.S. in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis and a B.Eng. and M.Eng. in Computer Science from Xi'an Jiaotong University.