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Founder and CEO of Kindo (Usable Machines) the leading enterprise AI security platform. Over the previous 11 years recruited early into what would become three tech unicorns as their C-suite Security, Compliance, and IT leader. Pursuing new opportunities only after reaching 1,000+ employees and achieving multiple billions of dollars valuations. As first security and IT leadership hire, built leading cybersecurity teams with annual risk management budgets of over $20M that have defended infrastructure and applications from state actors, infamous hacking groups, and physical threats to company staff around the World while also the IT leader of teams of up to 200 people who implemented $100M+ annual budgets of global data center and cloud spend, supporting tens of millions of customers. Accountable for fast scaling secure internal IT and data center build-outs as startups scaled from from a handful to thousands of employees.
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Ceo & FounderKindo Aug 2022 - PresentLos Angeles, UsThe leading startup centrally managing, securing, and making AI compliant for enterprises. Open AI, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, etc. and any open source AI model is easily managed, secured, controlled, integrated, and deployed across your organization. -
Limited PartnerFirst Close Partners Mar 2021 - PresentFirst Close is an out-performing fund that backs venture funds owned and led by under-represented managers. -
InvestorAndela Feb 2021 - PresentNew York, New York, Us -
InvestorFlutterwave Feb 2021 - PresentSan Francisco , California, Us -
Seed InvestorCoily Jan 2021 - PresentAtlanta, Ga, Us -
Seed InvestorFeels App Jan 2020 - PresentParis, Île-De-France, Fr -
Seed InvestorVetcove Jan 2016 - PresentMiami, Florida, Us -
Board MemberSubspace Jan 2022 - Jun 2022Playa Vista, California, UsAs an executive I attended every Subspace Board meeting for 3 years and was then asked to replace a departing founder. -
Chief Operating OfficerSubspace Mar 2021 - Jun 2022Playa Vista, California, UsPost B round raise I led the Sales, Marketing, and Operations teams. -
Vice President Security & OperationsSubspace Aug 2019 - Mar 2021Playa Vista, California, UsLead Operations for fast growing global telecommunications startup. Joined as employee number 6 at Seed Round stage and built every team from engineering, security, finance, marketing, sales, and operations to a total peak company headcount of 129 and through the $56M B round financing. GDPR -
Chief Security Officer & Head Of ItBird Jun 2018 - Aug 2019Los Angeles, California, UsLed Security and IT team of fastest growing startup to date reporting to CTO and working closely with CEO to help enter and thrive in an a new market of sustainable personal transportation while introducing the world to on-demand electric scooter rentals. GDPR and SOX -
AdvisorUpchannel - Spire Token Jun 2017 - Sep 2018As UpChannel’s first outside investor, advisor and board member, I’ve helped the founders grow its impact. Focused on bringing all the benefits of blockchain to emerging markets via the Spire Protocol through Android supply chain management tools.
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Chief Security & Chief Privacy Officer & Head Of ItClover Health Mar 2016 - Apr 2018Nashville, Tennessee, UsChief Security Officer, Chief Privacy Officer, and Head of IT. Helped scale Clover’s next generation Medicare Advantage insurance approach from 200+ employees to almost 800 over two years. Owned all aspects of security, privacy compliance (HIPAA, etc.) and information technology systems. Reported to CTO (who was co-founder and Board member). HIPAA, SOC2, GLBA -
Vp Security And InfrastructureRiot Games Jun 2011 - Nov 2016Los Angeles, Ca, UsOne of 6 executives at the time. Led a global team of security, network, system, and database engineers who built, protected, and ran the infrastructure for Riot Games including League of Legends, the World’s largest online game with over 100M active players and billions of dollars in revenue. Helped lead Riot's growth from 220 to over 2,500 global employees as Riot was named the 2nd Best Place To Work by Fortune Magazine (and continues to make the list). Helped grow technology teams to support Riot's fast-paced expansion as we tackled our mission to be the most player focused game company in the World. SOX SOC2 COPPA -
Executive Committee Member & AdvisorVenturecrush Jun 2010 - Aug 2012New York, Ny, UsFirst Growth Venture Network is a leading New York City free mentoring program for technology startup founders from around the world. -
Board MemberBbmf Americas Corporation Mar 2010 - Jun 2011Expanding recently to the Americas with a focus on social network video games, BBMF is Japan's largest independent publisher of mobile phone delivered comics (manga) and games.
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Founder & General ManagerZeevex Sep 2008 - Apr 2011UsZeevex was an open digital currency platform for video game and online content providers. Zeevex gift cards were sold in over 60,000 retailers across the USA including 7-Eleven, Rite Aid, Walgreens, Blockbuster, Toys R Us, GameStop, f.y.e., & CVS. Zeevex was founded in 2008 was acquired by the $12B payments company InComm in March 2010. COPPA -
General Manager North America Cdc Games Usa & Vp Systems Engineering For Cdc SoftwareCdc Games Aug 2007 - Sep 2008CDC Games was one of China's top 3 online video game companies. This role included full P&L for CDC Games North America operation including go-to-market, operations, and product management. This team was an early free to play massive multi-player online (MMO) game operator for North America and launched Lunia which was voted a 2007 top 5 favorite free to play MMORPG game by the readers of MMOSite.com. This role reported to the CEO of CDC Corporation (NASDAQ CHINA) and required close work with South Korea and China located engineering teams. COPPA SOX GLBA
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Director Systems Engineering & Quality AssuranceAtlanticus Nov 2005 - May 2007Atlanta, Ga, UsCompuCredit (now Altanticus) a public $1.2 Billion dollar credit card and loan servicing company that was ranked the 2nd fastest growing company in 2005 by Fortune. Reported to CTO and directed U.S. based system, and quality assurance engineers along with India based Network Operations Center and China based Quality Assurance teams. SOX GLBA -
Principal EngineerEarthlink, Inc. Sep 2004 - Feb 2006Atlanta, Georgia, UsOne of thirteen members of EarthLink’s Senior Technical Staff - which included the CTO and reported to the EVP of Operations - this role served as the lead architect for several key Operations services including monitoring, data center management. -
Senior Manager Of Technology - Network Operations CenterEarthlink, Inc. Apr 2003 - Sep 2004Atlanta, Georgia, UsLed the overhaul of EarthLink's server, network, and application monitoring technologies. Managed the Network Operations Center (NOC) tools development 12-member team. One of six members of CTO led Enterprise Architecture council which was responsible for setting systems architecture standards and policy for EarthLink. -
Senior Manager It Infrastructure OperationsEarthlink, Inc. May 2001 - Apr 2003Atlanta, Georgia, UsSenior manager of the information services architecture team reporting to the CIO for the World’s second largest Internet service provider (at that time) with over $1.45 billion in annual revenue. SOX GLBA -
Director Performance Testing And Quality AssuranceIdapta, Inc. Feb 2000 - Apr 2001Director for B2B eCommerce trading application software company reporting to Senior Vice-President of Product Development. Customers included Fortune Global 500’s Dutch Shell, BP Amoco, Samsung, and Cargill.
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Senior System EngineerFujitsu - Greenbrier And Russel, Inc. Jan 1999 - Feb 2000Contracted to Sun Microsystems to provide system engineering support to Fortune 500 clients and large government projects.
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Technical InstructorMetters Industries Oct 1997 - Jan 1999Sun Microsystems certified Instructor teaching several courses including Solaris System Administration, Systems Engineering, and High Performance Computing to Federal Government, DoD, and Fortune 500 company students across the Mid-Atlantic and Southern USA.
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FounderInternet Service Provider Nov 1994 - Jun 1997Founder of one of first consumer Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the State of Virginia. Pioneered consumer and educational Internet access across the State of Virginia. Created one of the first campus wide high speed wireless Internet facilities for use by a public education system. Acquired by a public company in 1996.
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Staff SargentUnited States Air Force May 1991 - Dec 1996Randolph Afb, Tx, UsProgrammer building Joint Services operated Combat Threat Assessment and Planning System. C, PL*SQL, Oracle, and SunOS 4.x administration. Served in Operation Southern Watch in the Southeast Asia conflict area. Distinguished Graduate Airman Leadership School, US Air Force Airman of the Year nominee.
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Saint Leo UniversityLiberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies -
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Community College Of The Air ForceComputer Programming
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What company does Ron W. work for?
Ron W. works for Kindo
What is Ron W.'s role at the current company?
Ron W.'s current role is Founder & CEO, Chief Security Officer, CIO, CISO, Operations Executive herding startups into Unicorns. Formerly top Infrastructure and Security exec at Riot Games, Clover Health (CISO), and Bird Rides (CISO)..
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Ron W. attended Saint Leo University, Saint Leo University, Community College Of The Air Force.
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Ron W. has skills like Leadership, Leading Transformational Change, E Commerce, Information Security, Strategic Partnerships, Linux, Data Center, Infrastructure, Early Stage Startups, Itil, Security Operations, Start Ups.
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