Michael W. Wellman

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CEO and Founder at Virgil Security, Inc. @ Virgil Security, Inc.
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Herndon, Virginia, United States, United States
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About Michael W. Wellman

I've been at the vanguard of standards-based networking and security for forty years. With Virgil Security, we're making every developer able to build secure products without their having to spend forty years learning how.Some previous product highlights include early commercial Internet software (including AOL’s first Macintosh web client and Apple's eWorld web client), early 802.11-based products (including Apple's market-defining Airport, the industry's first outdoor 802.11a products, and the industry's first public space products), innovative new approaches to mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) (incorporating directional antennas and/or frequency agile cognitive radios (Dynamic Spectrum Access)), distributed sensor networks, free space optics, and fiber-to-the-premises.I've shipped products carrying the label of Agere, AOL, Apple, Ascend, Avaya, Boingo Wireless, Compaq, Dell, HP, IBM, Lucent, Microsoft, Proxim, PSINet, Sony, Sprint, Toshiba, and others.In addition to being a founder of Virgil Security, Inc., I am/was an advisor/investor with HyperQube (acquired), Lootify.io, RunSafe Security, Shevirah, ThreatCare (acquired), and Werbie.co; an investor in Billpocket, NS8, Picap, Syncurity (acquired), and ThreatSwitch (acquired); an advisor to 202 Partners and Atomicorp; a syndicate lead for Bloomberg Beta's Open Angels; a venture partner at NextGen Venture Partners; and a mentor at the Mach37 cybersecurity accelerator, the SparkLabs Cyber+Blockchain accelerator, and the RelevantHealth.md health tech accelerator.Specialties: Specialization is for insects. - Robert A. Heinlein

Michael W. Wellman's Current Company Details
Virgil Security, Inc.

Virgil Security, Inc.

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CEO and Founder at Virgil Security, Inc.
Michael W. Wellman Work Experience Details
  • Virgil Security, Inc.
    Ceo And Founder
    Virgil Security, Inc. May 2014 - Present
    Manassas, Va, Us
    Virgil Security, Inc., makes every software developer into an applied cryptologist. Virgil provides password-free authentication, encryption, distributed immutable data storage via Blockchain, and verification of data, devices, and identities that is quickly and easily integrated into developer products – often in just hours – with no prior cryptographic knowledge or training required. Virgil provides this via a cloud-based service in combination with open sourced libraries that are available for desktop, embedded (IoT), mobile, and cloud / web applications with support for a wide variety of modern programming languages.#SecureTheFuture #NoMorePasswords #EncryptEverything#SecuredByVirgil
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  • Bloomberg Beta
    Open Angels Syndicate Lead
    Bloomberg Beta Jun 2018 - Present
    San Francisco, New York City, Us
    Bloomberg Beta created the Open Angels program to deepen relationships with a handful of angel investors they trust. They back each deal I syndicate at a fixed ratio with my personal investment. Bloomberg Beta's intent is to support people they trust as investors and extend their fund to support many more companies.You can learn more about my Angel.co syndicate at https://angel.co/s/michael-w-wellman/QzhHdThus far, I've syndicated on behalf of ThreatSwitch (August 2018) and HyperQube Technologies (December 2019).
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  • Runsafe Security Inc.
    Technical Board Of Advisors / Investor
    Runsafe Security Inc. Sep 2017 - Present
    Mclean, Virginia, Us
    RunSafe Security is a cybersecurity startup pioneering patented software hardening technology that disrupts attackers and protects vulnerable embedded systems and devices. RunSafe customers span the automotive, critical infrastructure, IIoT, medical, and national security industries• Founded by a team of mobile security experts from Kaprica Security (acquired by Samsung Electronics)• Roots in DARPA cyber hardening program for military vehicles, drones, and medical devicesLearn more at http://RunSafeSecurity.com.Runsafe Security is a graduate of the Fall 2017 cohort of the MACH37™ <​http://Mach37.com> cyberaccelerator program.
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  • Nextgen Venture Partners
    Venture Partner
    Nextgen Venture Partners Dec 2015 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    NextGen is the first network-driven venture firm. We back exceptional entrepreneurs through the collective power of the nation's top founders, funders, and innovation executives. Our network accelerates the success of our portfolio by investing in companies that match the expertise, resources, and connections of our Venture Partners.
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  • Pope County Library System Foundation Inc
    Board Member
    Pope County Library System Foundation Inc Feb 2020 - Present
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  • Mwellman.Net
    Consultant
    Mwellman.Net Aug 1983 - Present
  • Sparklabs Cyber+Blockchain
    Mentor
    Sparklabs Cyber+Blockchain Aug 2018 - Present
    SparkLabs Group (http://www.sparklabsgroup.com), a network of accelerators and venture capital funds, has launched SparkLabs Cyber+Blockchain, a new global accelerator program focused on cybersecurity and blockchain related startups in Washington, D.C.The SparkLabs’ accelerator network includes SparkLabs Cyber+Blockchain (Washington, D.C.), SparkLabs China (Beijing and launching Shanghai, Chengdu, and Shenzhen), SparkLabs Cultiv8 (AgTech, FoodTech, & Sustainability in Orange, Australia), SparkLabs Energy (Muscat, Oman), SparkLabs IoT & Smart City (Songdo, South Korea), SparkLabs Korea (Seoul, South Korea), SparkLabs Taipei, and Ping An Cloud Accelerator, Powered by SparkLabs (Shenzhen, Hong Kong).SparkLabs Group (http://www.sparklabsgroup.com) includes the SparkLabs accelerator network; SparkLabs Global Ventures (http://www.sparklabsglobal.com), a global seed stage fund; SparkLabs Ventures, an early-stage fund (Series A & B) in South Korea; and SparkChain Capital (http://www.sparkchaincapital.com), an early stage blockchain-focused fund.
  • 202 Partners
    Advisor
    202 Partners Aug 2017 - Present
    North Bethesda, Md, Us
    202 is a boutique enterprise software sales advisory focusing on the commercialization of emerging technology. 202 was founded in late 2014 by industry veterans Peter Laitin and Simon Hartley, bringing together decades of expertise and successful experience in cybersecurity, mobility, and IoT sales hunting, marketing, and product management for both startups and mature IT vendors. 202 specializes in emerging technology, early and highly regulated markets such as government, healthcare, finance, and automotive.Customers include Kaprica Security (acquired by Samsung), RunSafe Security, Spectrum Comm and others. 202 is headquartered just outside Washington, DC, in North Bethesda, MD.
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  • Shevirah, Inc
    Advisor / Investor
    Shevirah, Inc Apr 2015 - Present
    Ashburn, Va, Us
    Security researcher and author Georgia Weidman founded Shevirah in 2015 to commercialize software for penetration test teams to assess mobile security solutions leading to more secure enterprise endpoints: smartphones, tablets, wearables, and the Internet of Things.As hackers shift methods from traditional remote network attacks to social engineering and new endpoint attacks a gap in enterprise testing has emerged. Shevirah closes that gap with software for internal test teams and services for businesses without their own standing team.Dennis Blair, former Director of National Intelligence, described Shevirah's tools as "truly cutting edge". The CIO and CTO of the department of defense said that there was nothing like Shevirah's tools in their arsenal.Learn more at http://Shevirah.com.Shevirah is a graduate of the Spring 2015 cohort of the MACH37™ <​http://Mach37.com> cyberaccelerator program.
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  • Mach37 Cyber Accelerator
    Stars Mentor
    Mach37 Cyber Accelerator Sep 2014 - Present
    Tysons Corner, Us
    MACH37™ is a cybersecurity accelerator focused on creating companies that will deliver the next generation of information security solutions. MACH37 was conceived and developed by the Center for Innovative Technology and is supported by a community of hundreds of information security leaders who contribute to company development.
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  • Amp10, Inc.
    Advisor / Investor
    Amp10, Inc. 2013 - Present
  • Hyperqube Technologies
    Advisor / Investor
    Hyperqube Technologies Sep 2017 - Mar 2023
    HyperQube Technologies (nee CyberAcademy.us) provides an automated solution for building, deploying, and networking virtual machine environments. HyperQube reduces the labor associated with managing VMWare by 90%, eliminates the need for expensive hardware to build network environments, enables the building of test environments in minutes, not weeks or months, and serves as a bridge to physical infrastructure to integrate devices that can’t be virtualized.Learn more at http://HyperQube.io.HyperQube Technologies is a graduate of the Fall 2017 cohort of the MACH37™ <​http://Mach37.com> cyberaccelerator program.HyperQube was acquired by ThreatLocker in March 2023.
  • Ns8 Inc
    Advisor / Investor
    Ns8 Inc Jan 2017 - Sep 2020
    Las Vegas, Nevada, Us
    Your internet infrastructure is continually under attack and you may not even know it.NS8 protects companies conducting business online from fraud and abuse and helps them create a secure and trusted environment for their customersNS8's products detect attacks and also prevent them to keep your services available and secure. The NS8 platform offers visibility via fraud analytics and monitoring and action in the form of Bot Protection, Financial Protection, and Traffic ManagementNS8 is a graduate of the Fall 2016 cohort of the MACH37™ <​http://Mach37.com> cyberaccelerator program.
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  • Syncurity
    Investor
    Syncurity Feb 2015 - Apr 2020
    Syncurity was an early entrant in the Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) market. Syncurity bridged the gap between people, skills, process and technology. Syncurity's IR-Flow helped organizations save time and get more done by facilitating faster alert triage and focusing security team's attention on the alerts and events that matter. Syncurity was a graduate of the Fall 2014 cohort of the MACH37™ cyberaccelerator program.Syncurity was acquired by Swimlane in April 2020.https://swimlane.com/news/swimlane-acquires-syncurity/
  • Threatcare
    Advisor / Investor
    Threatcare Sep 2014 - Oct 2019
    Threatcare (formerly vThreat) was the information security industry's first on-demand non-malicious cloud-based service to evaluate information security personnel, procedures, and products. Threatcare's software and services drastically improved an organization's information security, incident response, and digital forensics readiness.Threatcare was a graduate of the Fall 2014 cohort of the MACH37™ cyberaccelerator program.As an Advisor, I introduced Threatcare to their original CEO and their fractional CFO. I was thrilled to be Threatcare's first Investor (after Mach37). And I spearheaded Threatcare's seed fundraising efforts.Threatcare was acquired by ReliaQuest in October 2019.
  • Werbie, Llc
    Advisor
    Werbie, Llc Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
    Werbie, LLC is developing the GlucoseMama Diabetes Assistance System, an FDA-approved mobile health software device as a form of Mobile Prescription Therapy prescribed by doctors to help healthcare systems and insurers cut the costs and complications of gestational diabetes and pre-existing diabetes in pregnancy. GlucoseMama is currently in clinical trials with the University of Maryland School of Medicine.Werbie is a graduate of the inaugural cohort of Relevant Health, a Maryland-based health tech startup accelerator. Relevant Health is a partnership between BioHealth Innovation, Inc., ProductSavvy Consulting, and Montgomery County Economic Development.
  • Neutral Net Inc.
    Vice President Engineering
    Neutral Net Inc. Mar 2007 - Jan 2009
    Neutral Net's goal was to provide every home, business and civic institution in the United States with a high-speed, world-class communications infrastructure while simultaneously providing the electrical industry with a fiber-optic-based Smart Grid for the country's power distribution network. This would have saved the country hundreds of billions of dollars each and every year, demolished the digital divide, and empowered a new era in American innovation.I was responsible for the overall conceptualization, definition, design, and technology/partner/vendor selection of the core network, edge network, end-user services, and Smart Grid services. End-user services included Internet, IPTV, Voice over IP, home security, femtocells, cellular backhaul, etc. Smart Grid services included Automated Meter Reading, Advanced Outage Notification, Demand Response, Power Quality Monitoring, Remote Connect/Disconnect, etc.
  • Shared Spectrum
    Director Of Platform And Software Engineering
    Shared Spectrum Jul 2004 - Feb 2006
    Vienna, Va, Us
    • Technical Manager for the DARPA XG Phase III Program.• Technical Volume Lead Author for the DARPA XG Phase III Proposal• Software Engineering Manager for the DARPA XG Phase II ProgramXG was a revolutionary approach to wireless networking which demonstrated the feasibility of Dynamic Spectrum Access (essentially the basis of Google's and Microsoft's White Space Coalition). By automatically sensing locally and temporally unused spectrum, XG created a robust mobile ad hoc network (MANET) capable of functioning worldwide without prior location-specific configuration.XG employed a combination of commercial-off-the-shelf 802.11 (Wi-Fi), 802.16 (WiMAX), or software defined radios; spectrum-sensing cognitive radios; a machine-actionable policy language controlling dynamic spectrum access, network configuration, and network management; next generation MANET algorithms; and innovative information dissemination approaches.XG technologies were fast tracked for near-term operational deployment and are purportedly now used in nearly every major current US military radio system.
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  • San Diego Research Center, Inc.
    Principal Investigator
    San Diego Research Center, Inc. Jan 2004 - Jul 2004
    Principal Investigator – DARPA Phase II Program SB022-024 “Design of Mobile, Wireless (Ad Hoc) Networks Using Smart Antennas”.Led a small team that designed and did initial development of a novel Media Access Control (MAC) optimized for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) whose nodes only used highly directional antennas. This MAC enabled neighbor discovery and network formation with no omnidirectional antennas, a problem that had not previously been solved.During design phase, evaluated the ns-2 ("the Network Simulator"), OPNET, pdns (Parallel/Distributed NS), and QualNet simulation environments. This led to a Phase I contract "A04-027: Modeling and Simulation of Spectral and Spatial Efficiency, Communications Bandwidth and Range Optimization and Security Performance in a Directional Networked Communications Environment".Implementation was done primarily in C and C++ with some additional work in TCL. Simulation efforts were hosted on Linux, MacOS X, and Windows.San Diego Research Center was acquired by Argon ST for $41 million.Argon ST was acquired by Boeing for approximately $775 million.
  • Proxim
    Engineering Manager / Office Of The Cto
    Proxim Aug 2002 - Jul 2003
    San Jose, California, Us
    Served as Proxim’s "co-CTO" responsible for IEEE standards-based networking including 802.11 (Wi-Fi) and 802.16 (WiMAX) as well as emerging IETF standards-based TCP/IP networking issues including IPv6, MANETs, SNMPv3, etc.Led specification, design, implementation, integration, and testing of a variety of 802.11-based networking products including 5 client software deliverables (supporting Linux, Macintosh, and Windows) and 8 embedded products covering Enterprise, Point-to-Point (PtP) and Point-to-Multipoint (PtMP), Public Space, Secure Enterprise, and Small Office Home Office (SOHO) market spaces.Delivered multiple 802.11 products under the labels of Apple, Avaya, Boingo Wireless, Compaq, Dell, HP, IBM, Lucent, Microsoft, Sony, Sprint, Toshiba, and others. Partially responsible for Apple’s market-defining first generation Airport and led development of the industry’s first 802.11a-based PtP/PtMP Outdoor product.Coordinated development efforts across three continents.Proxim Corporation was acquired by Terabeam Wireless (formerly YDI Wireless, Inc.) for $28 million.Awards: Best of Comdex in the Enterprise Hardware (2002) Network Computing Editor's Choice Award (2002) Best of Show Award in the Enterprise WLAN Equipment Category at 802.11 Planet (2003)
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  • Agere Systems, Inc.
    Engineering Manager
    Agere Systems, Inc. Jan 2001 - Aug 2002
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    See Proxim entry for description of my responsibilities at Agere.The Systems portion of the Wireless Communications and Networking Division of Agere Systems, Inc., was acquired by Proxim for $65 million.Agere Systems, Inc., was acquired by LSI Logic Corporation for $4 billion. Later, LSI Logic was acquired by Avago Technologies (now Broadcom) for $6.6 billion.
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  • Lucent Technologies
    Senior Software Engineer
    Lucent Technologies Jun 1999 - Jan 2001
    Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi
    See Proxim entry for description of my responsibilities at Lucent.The Wireless Communications and Networking Division, along with quite a few other pieces, was "spun out" into Agere Systems.Later, Lucent was acquired by Alcatel for $13.4 billion. And Alcatel-Lucent was acquired by Nokia for $16.6 billion.
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  • Ascend Communications
    Senior Software Engineer
    Ascend Communications Mar 1997 - Jun 1999
    Ascend Communications, Inc. was acquired by Lucent Technologies, Inc., for $20.3 billion.
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  • Psinet
    Senior Software Engineer
    Psinet Jun 1995 - Mar 1997
    Ch
    See InterCon entry for description of my responsibilities at PSINet.The former InterCon engineering team was acquired by Ascend Communications for ~$20.5 million.
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  • Intercon Systems Corporation
    Senior Software Engineer
    Intercon Systems Corporation Jun 1991 - Jun 1995
    Łódź, Pl
    Led software teams responsible for specification, design, implementation, and testing of IETF standards-based TCP/IP client software for Macintosh and Windows platforms. Shipped over a dozen commercially successful products including AOL’s first web client for the Macintosh and Apple's eWorld web client.InterCon was acquired by PSINet for ~$30 million.
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  • Advanced Micro Devices
    Network Engineer
    Advanced Micro Devices Mar 1990 - Jun 1991
    Santa Clara, California, Us
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  • South Coast Computing Services
    Unix/Networking Consultant
    South Coast Computing Services Feb 1988 - Jun 1991
    South Coast Computing Services was acquired by InfoHighway Communications.
  • Baylor College Of Medicine
    Unix/Networking Developer
    Baylor College Of Medicine Feb 1988 - Dec 1989
    Houston, Texas, Us
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Michael W. Wellman Skills

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Michael W. Wellman Education Details

  • Rice University
    Rice University
    Electrical And Computer Engineering
  • Rice University
    Rice University
    Mathematical Sciences (Computational And Applied Mathematics)
  • Rice University
    Rice University
    Computer Science
  • National Technological University
    National Technological University
    Electrical Engineering
  • University Of Houston
    University Of Houston
    Computer Science
  • North Arkansas College
    North Arkansas College
    History
  • Arkansas Governor'S School
    Arkansas Governor'S School
    Instrumental Music - Viola

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