Justin Somaini

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Mr. Justin Somaini serves as Venture Advisor at YL Ventures. He is an Angel Investor. He serves as Advisor at Cycode, DoControl, Sourceclear and Valence Security. He serves as Advisor at Forgepoint Capital. He served as Chief Security Officer at SAP. He also served as Vice President and Chief Trust Officer at Box. He served as a Board Member at Malwarebytes and NowSecure. With 30 years of cybersecurity leadership experience, he is committed to mentoring YL Ventures' portfolio founders from the earliest days of building their companies, through ideation, product feedback, market positioning, go-to-market strategies, sales enablement and business development, as well as taking on active board positions. He is a renowned leader in the global cybersecurity industry with a long record of transforming companies' security capabilities and driving security as a competitive differentiator. He is the former CISO of global giants including Unity, SAP, Box, Yahoo! and Symantec, and previously held security positions at Verisign, Charles Schwab and PwC. He was also the Founding Partner of Somaini LLC, a strategic security management consulting firm, and an advisor to dozens of security companies including Orca Security, Qualys, Palo Alto Networks, Sentinel Labs, SourceClear, and others. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from Drexel University in Philadelphia.