Joe Levy

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Mr. Joe Levy serves as Chief Executive Officer at Sophos. he served as President, Acting CEO, Chief Product Officer, and Chief Technological Officer at Sophos. He serves as a Board Member at Venafi. He serves as an Advisory Council Member at Forgepoint Capital. In this role as Chief Technology and Product Officer, he leads the company's technology and product strategy worldwide, driving product and services vision and innovation to enable Sophos to deliver better cybersecurity outcomes. He brings more than 25 years of leadership and development expertise, focusing on cybersecurity. Before Sophos, he was CTO for Blue Coat Systems following the company's May 2013 acquisition of security analytics pioneer Solera Networks, where he had served as CTO since 2008. Before Solera, he was CTO of SonicWALL where he led research and development teams with concentrations in the areas of next-generation firewalls, deep packet inspection, cryptography, and secure remote access. Earlier in his career, he spent six years as a practitioner with the value-added reseller and integrator OneNet, where he led product and service design, development, and delivery, including managed services. He has participated in various industry certification and design consortiums, he is active with the venture community, he serves on the board of Cyber Threat Alliance, and he holds several security, networking, database, analytics, virtualization and AI patents. He holds a BA from Queens College, NY.