Ron W.

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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). @ Kindo
About Ron W.

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.

Ron W.'s Current Company Details
Kindo

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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).
Ron W. Work Experience Details
  • Kindo
    Ceo & Founder
    Kindo Aug 2022 - Present
    Los Angeles, Us
    The 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.
  • First Close Partners
    Limited Partner
    First Close Partners Mar 2021 - Present
    First Close is an out-performing fund that backs venture funds owned and led by under-represented managers.
  • Andela
    Investor
    Andela Feb 2021 - Present
    New York, New York, Us
  • Flutterwave
    Investor
    Flutterwave Feb 2021 - Present
    San Francisco , California, Us
  • Coily
    Seed Investor
    Coily Jan 2021 - Present
    Atlanta, Ga, Us
  • Feels App
    Seed Investor
    Feels App Jan 2020 - Present
    Paris, Île-De-France, Fr
  • Vetcove
    Seed Investor
    Vetcove Jan 2016 - Present
    Miami, Florida, Us
  • Subspace
    Board Member
    Subspace Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
    Playa Vista, California, Us
    As an executive I attended every Subspace Board meeting for 3 years and was then asked to replace a departing founder.
  • Subspace
    Chief Operating Officer
    Subspace Mar 2021 - Jun 2022
    Playa Vista, California, Us
    Post B round raise I led the Sales, Marketing, and Operations teams.
  • Subspace
    Vice President Security & Operations
    Subspace Aug 2019 - Mar 2021
    Playa Vista, California, Us
    Lead 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
  • Bird
    Chief Security Officer & Head Of It
    Bird Jun 2018 - Aug 2019
    Los Angeles, California, Us
    Led 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
  • Upchannel - Spire Token
    Advisor
    Upchannel - Spire Token Jun 2017 - Sep 2018
    As 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.
  • Clover Health
    Chief Security & Chief Privacy Officer & Head Of It
    Clover Health Mar 2016 - Apr 2018
    Nashville, Tennessee, Us
    Chief 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
  • Riot Games
    Vp Security And Infrastructure
    Riot Games Jun 2011 - Nov 2016
    Los Angeles, Ca, Us
    One 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
  • Venturecrush
    Executive Committee Member & Advisor
    Venturecrush Jun 2010 - Aug 2012
    New York, Ny, Us
    First Growth Venture Network is a leading New York City free mentoring program for technology startup founders from around the world.
  • Bbmf Americas Corporation
    Board Member
    Bbmf Americas Corporation Mar 2010 - Jun 2011
    Expanding 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.
  • Zeevex
    Founder & General Manager
    Zeevex Sep 2008 - Apr 2011
    Us
    Zeevex 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
  • Cdc Games
    General Manager North America Cdc Games Usa & Vp Systems Engineering For Cdc Software
    Cdc Games Aug 2007 - Sep 2008
    CDC 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
  • Atlanticus
    Director Systems Engineering & Quality Assurance
    Atlanticus Nov 2005 - May 2007
    Atlanta, Ga, Us
    CompuCredit (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
  • Earthlink, Inc.
    Principal Engineer
    Earthlink, Inc. Sep 2004 - Feb 2006
    Atlanta, Georgia, Us
    One 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.
  • Earthlink, Inc.
    Senior Manager Of Technology - Network Operations Center
    Earthlink, Inc. Apr 2003 - Sep 2004
    Atlanta, Georgia, Us
    Led 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.
  • Earthlink, Inc.
    Senior Manager It Infrastructure Operations
    Earthlink, Inc. May 2001 - Apr 2003
    Atlanta, Georgia, Us
    Senior 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
  • Idapta, Inc.
    Director Performance Testing And Quality Assurance
    Idapta, Inc. Feb 2000 - Apr 2001
    Director 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.
  • Fujitsu - Greenbrier And Russel, Inc.
    Senior System Engineer
    Fujitsu - Greenbrier And Russel, Inc. Jan 1999 - Feb 2000
    Contracted to Sun Microsystems to provide system engineering support to Fortune 500 clients and large government projects.
  • Metters Industries
    Technical Instructor
    Metters Industries Oct 1997 - Jan 1999
    Sun 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.
  • Internet Service Provider
    Founder
    Internet Service Provider Nov 1994 - Jun 1997
    Founder 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.
  • United States Air Force
    Staff Sargent
    United States Air Force May 1991 - Dec 1996
    Randolph Afb, Tx, Us
    Programmer 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.

Ron W. Skills

Leadership Leading Transformational Change E Commerce Information Security Strategic Partnerships Linux Data Center Infrastructure Early Stage Startups Itil Security Operations Start Ups Networking Physical Security Software As A Service Agile Methodologies Vendor Management Fundraising Strategy Artificial Intelligence Operations Management Embedded Systems Entrepreneurship Network Security Corporate Security Personal Security Ethereum Security Awareness Product Management Disaster Recovery Go To Market Strategy Community Management Blockchain Business Strategy Saas Management Project Management Software Development Security Unix Mobile Devices Venture Capital Virtual Currency Cloud Computing Integration It Management Culture Change

Ron W. Education Details

  • Saint Leo University
    Saint Leo University
    Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies
  • Saint Leo University
    Saint Leo University
    Liberal Arts
  • Community College Of The Air Force
    Community College Of The Air Force
    Computer Programming

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What company does Ron W. work for?

Ron W. works for Kindo

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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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