The CEO Series

In this episode of The CEO Series, host William Salvi sits down with Hitesh Sheth, CEO of Vectra AI, to discuss the evolving landscape of AI-driven cybersecurity. Sheth explains how Vectra AI protects enterprises across five of the six major attack surfaces and why the network remains the most critical source of truth for security teams. He breaks down why attackers currently have the advantage, how agentic AI is creating new attac...

In this episode of The CEO Series, host William Salvi sits down with Alan Trefler, founder and CEO of Pegasystems, to discuss what it takes to build and lead a company for over four decades. Trefler explains how a frustrating experience consulting for New York banks sparked the vision behind Pega, and why bootstrapping the company from scratch gave him a perspective on business that still shapes how he leads today. He breaks down h...

As digital integrity faces an existential threat from AI-driven social engineering, traditional cybersecurity has reached a critical turning point. Attackers are no longer just sending simple phishing emails; they are deploying autonomous AI agents to conduct "vibe phishing". They do this by using deepfakes and fake personas to build rapport and manipulate victims in real-time across multiple channels. To survive this "dystopia" wh...

As cyberattacks evolve into autonomous, AI-driven threats, the industry has reached its "human limit". Traditional defense strategies—fragmented tools and manual workflows—can no longer keep pace with attackers who can now launch "all attack vectors, all at once". The only way to survive the next generation of threats is to move toward a "machine versus machine" defense.

In this episode of the CEO Series, William Salvi sits down wi...

In this episode of The CEO Series, host William Salvi sits down with Bhagwat Swaroop, President and CEO of Sonatype, to explore how the company is helping organizations build software securely in an era where 90% of code is assembled from open-source libraries rather than written from scratch.

Swaroop explains why that shift makes rigorous vulnerability checks essential and how Sonatype's tools give developers the guardrails they n...

In this episode of The CEO Series, host William Salvi sits down with Shane Buckley, CEO of Gigamon, to discuss one of the most impactful yet under-the-radar companies in cybersecurity. Buckley explains how Gigamon's technology sits inside the core of massive networks to detect suspicious patterns and decrypt encrypted traffic, where over 95% of modern threats now hide. He breaks down why lateral movement, not perimeter breaches, is...

In this episode of the CEO Series, William Salvi sits down with Andre Durand, the CEO of Ping Identity, to discuss the rapidly evolving landscape of digital identity. With over 20 years of experience, Ping Identity protects eight billion accounts for more than half of the Fortune 100, focusing on the core principle that organizations cannot secure what they cannot identify. Durand explains how identity has shifted from simple passw...

Kyle Matthews grew up in the most decorated football family in NFL history. Four first-round picks. A Hall of Famer. Decades of combined pro careers.

He went a different direction.

With a team of 25 and a gap in the market he couldn't ignore...