Arthur Coviello Jr.

Arthur Coviello Jr. General Information

Biography

Mr. Arthur Coviello serves as Managing Partner at SYN Ventures. He serves as a Board Member at Tenable. He is an Angel Investor. He served as a Venture Partner at Rally Ventures. He served as Senior Advisor at ClearSky. He also serves as Managing Partner at SYN Ventures. He serves as a Board Member at Synchrony Financial & RegScale. He serves as Board Chairman at Phosphorus. He served as Investment Committee Chairman at SYN Ventures. He served as a Board Member at RSA Security. He served as a Board Member of ZeroNorth, Cylance, and Bugcrowd. He is a Board Member at Bugcrowd and previously served as a Board Member at SecZetta. He has more than 30 years of strategic, operating, and financial management experience in high-technology companies and is one of the most recognized figures within the cybersecurity industry. He joined RSA Security, Inc. in 1995 and became CEO of the Company in 2000. During his tenure, he was the driving force in the rapid growth of the company from $25 million in annual revenue to over $1 billion. Following the acquisition of RSA by EMC in 2006, He continued to lead the company as Executive Chairman and President until he retired from the full-time role in early 2015. He has played a leading role in several national cyber-security initiatives including as a founding board member of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance and has served as an advisor to key government agencies as well as public-private initiatives. He is also an organizer of the Digital Equilibrium Project, which works to bring differing views together in pursuit of a digital constitution to support a safer world for individuals, organizations, and nations. He was one of the founding investors in Rally Ventures in 2013 and is now a Venture Partner, also investing personal money in technology companies. He holds an MS (Master of Science) in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, a BS (Bachelor of Science) in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a BBA (Bachelor of Business Administration) in Accounting from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.