About Us

Sameer is Co-founder and CEO of ActZero, IntelliGO’s parent company. He previously worked as Co-founder and CEO of StackRox, as a cybersecurity executive at Google, and as COO at Impermium (acquired by Google). He remains a Board Member of numerous cybersecurity startups. He also served in the U.S. government in various roles including Senior Director for Cybersecurity on the National Security Council staff at the White House and Cybersecurity & Technology Lead for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Sameer graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Physics & Chemistry and from Stanford University with a Ph.D. in Applied Physics.

Chris Finan is an entrepreneur with a passion for creating world-changing companies, products and policies.

Chris has founded, advised and served in executive leadership positions in a variety of early-stage and growth-stage cybersecurity companies, including Shape Security (acquired by F5 Networks) and Impermium (acquired by Google).

He also co-founded Manifold Technology (acquired by Shape), a Silicon Valley-based fintech startup that delivered blockchain-based cryptographic transaction infrastructure to the Global 500.

Prior to his time in Silicon Valley, he was the Product Director for Plan X, a Department of Defense cyber warfare research and development program at DARPA.

Chris also previously served in the Obama administration as the Director for Cybersecurity Legislation and Policy on the National Security Council staff in the White House.

During his time on the NSC, Chris led the administration’s legislative reform efforts, played a key role in the data privacy debate, and spearheaded the Executive Order that directed the NIST cybersecurity risk framework.

Chris began his career in the U.S. Air Force as a pilot and intelligence officer, including a tour in Iraq where he led an intelligence unit and served as a liaison to the Iraqi government.

Chris is a nonresident scholar with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a senior fellow with Technology for Global Security. He has been a regular contributor on Bloomberg News and MSNBC, and his writing has been featured in the New York Times, Politico, Time and Wired. He lives in the San Francisco bay area with his wife and two daughters.

Lee Ann is the Chief Financial Officer of ActZero, IntelliGO’s parent company. She is passionate about ensuring the best financial practices for businesses, at every stage of their development. Lee Ann leads the technical accounting practice for Ravix Group as a managing partner and oversees outsource financial services for numerous clients in and around Silicon Valley. Previously, Lee Ann worked as a Senior Audit Manager for Deloitte & Touche and Arthur Andersen. She has over 20 years of experience in accounting, auditing and finance. She has worked with many public and private companies across a wide variety of industries, including technology, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals.

She graduated from Hendrix College in Arkansas with a B.A. in Economics and Business, and is a Certified Public Accountant (Arkansas, inactive). Lee Ann enjoys spending time with her four children, gardening, hiking and bird watching.

Ed is a co-founder of ActZero, and our Head of Product Strategy, responsible for the development roadmap of the IntelliGO Platform, and the Machine Learning that powers it. Ed’s former roles include Senior Program Manager for Enterprise Protection and Detection at Microsoft, and Senior Technical Program Manager for Consumer Data Protection at Amazon, where he worked on a content classification and data loss prevention service. Before that, Ed spent over 10 years at Akamai Technologies, working in various roles including Senior Service Architect for Platform and Security, Service Architect for Cloud Security Solutions, and Senior Program Manager. He graduated from Boston College with a B.A. in Philosophy and English.

John is a co-founder of ActZero, IntelliGO’s parent company, and the Director of Partnerships. Prior to his role here, John held operations and customer success roles at early stage cybersecurity startups in the Bay Area. Before moving out to Silicon Valley, John served as a Senior Analyst at AGC Partners in Boston, where he advised cybersecurity and enterprise software clients on strategic projects such as M&A and fundraising. Prior to banking, John was a Senior Associate within the Wealth & Asset Management Division at Ernst & Young.

John earned a B.S. in Management and an M.S. in Accounting from the Boston College Wallace E. Carroll School of Management. Outside of ActZero, John can be found exploring new cities, hiking trails, or catching an early nine with his wife, Franca.

Jennifer is our Head of Operations, and for good reason. She relentlessly pursues operational efficiency, enabling successful implementations and support interactions with our clients. Ten years in the IT Services space has given Jennifer a wealth of operational expertise that she brings to this role. She started her IT career with Phoenix IT Group (now Daisy Group UK), advancing through the company to the position of Service Manager. She then moved to Deutsche Bank where she managed projects across the globe.

Jennifer is passionate about transformational change and is always seeking optimization opportunities. She believes firmly that operational excellence can be achieved with the right people, tools and process. A certified PM herself, her career history has focused on enacting projects and initiatives that have helped companies bring these changes about. Before her career in IT, Jennifer was a teacher of classical piano. She studied music at University College Cork and remains a classical pianist outside of work today. She also enjoys strategic board and card games.

Adam is the Head of Sales Engineering, and creator of our IntelliGO Platform, which we use to deliver our MDR service to clients. He protects our clients en masse by training our threat hunters in the use of our proprietary tool. He also empowers them through our Virtual CISO offering, leveraging an incredible depth of knowledge of the industry. He has over 13 years of cybersecurity experience working with Audits, Architecture and building Security Operation Centers for enterprises of many sizes.

Before becoming a cybersecurity thought-leader, Adam was a developer and engineer working with premier brands such as Palo Alto Networks, Symantec, McAfee, IBM and Juniper. Adam is a Certified Ethical Hacker, with his B.A.Sc. in Computer Science. He also completed a Master’s in Data Loss Prevention from Symantec, and Web Application security training from IBM. Adam enjoys traveling and programming projects in his free time.

Effi is responsible for driving client satisfaction, revenue and go-to-market efforts for IntelliGO’s Sales and Channel organizations. The demand for MDR services amongst small and medium enterprise is rapidly expanding, making collaboration with, and support from, value-added resellers and integrators requisite for IntelliGO. Effi loves to hear from potential partners who are aligned with us at an organizational level.

Prior to IntelliGO, Effi spent 5 years managing IBM Canada’s security sales efforts into the utilities, retail, and telecom sectors. He led large, multi-faceted sales pursuits to help secure some of Canada’s leading organizations and brands. Before IBM, Effi led the enterprise sales efforts of MessageLabs, prior to its acquisition by Symantec. Effi started his career with Herjavec Group where he was a top performer in multiple roles, including leading sales teams. Effi received a B.Sc in Science from the University of Windsor and continued his science studies, with specialization in Biology, at the University of Toronto.

Jerry is our Head of Engineering, making our product vision a reality. He has had a career spanning many industries as an Engineering leader of multiple startups in online-dating, e-commerce, member management, education, and mortgage banking.

Alexis is the Head of Data Science at ActZero, IntelliGO’s parent company. She leads the team that develops machine learning models to detect cyberthreats. 

Prior to joining ActZero she led data science teams at Indeed.com and TiVo. 

Before becoming a data scientist, she worked as a research scientist analyzing genomic data at MIT.  She has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in bioinformatics and a B.Sc. in Earth Systems Science from Stanford. She also loves organic gardening and hiking.

Sean is our Distinguished Security Engineer. He is deeply passionate about creating high signal proactive threat protection systems and translating their insight into a human readable form.

Sean has 20+ years of computer security experience in new concept threat protection engine design. Sean’s threat protection background spans IPS, firewall, sandbox, behavioral and static AV, CASB, and IaaS. Sean also has extensive experience in ML-based threat protection, and targeted threat analysis.

Prior to joining ActZero.ai, Sean was the Principal Security Engineer at Netskope where he helped create the first threat protection system designed for the SaaS threat space.

Sean is an avid backpacker, runner and mountain biker.