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). at Kindo
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States 27 work roles 3 schools
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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).
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Ron W. is listed as 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). at Kindo, based in Santa Monica, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at menue.com, phone signal with area code 404, 541, 870, 724, 757, 303, 412, 888, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Ron W..

Ron W. previously worked as CEO & Founder at Kindo and Limited Partner at First Close Partners. Ron W. holds Business Administration Computer Information Systems, Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies from Saint Leo University.

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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.

Listed skills include Leadership, Leading Transformational Change, E Commerce, Information Security, and 43 others.

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Kindo
Kindo
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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Ceo & Founder

Current

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.

Aug 2022 - Present

Limited Partner

Current

First Close is an out-performing fund that backs venture funds owned and led by under-represented managers.

Mar 2021 - Present

Investor

Current

New York, New York, US

Feb 2021 - Present

Investor

Current

San Francisco, California, US

Feb 2021 - Present

Seed Investor

Current

Atlanta, GA, US

Jan 2021 - Present

Seed Investor

Current

Paris, Île-de-France, FR

Jan 2020 - Present

Seed Investor

Current

Miami, Florida, US

Jan 2016 - Present

Board Member

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.

Jan 2022 - Jun 2022

Chief Operating Officer

Playa Vista, California, US

Post B round raise I led the Sales, Marketing, and Operations teams.

Mar 2021 - Jun 2022

Vice President Security & Operations

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

Aug 2019 - Mar 2021

Chief Security Officer & Head Of It

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

Jun 2018 - Aug 2019

Advisor

Upchannel - Spire Token

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.

Jun 2017 - Sep 2018

Chief Security & Chief Privacy Officer & Head Of It

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.

Mar 2016 - Apr 2018

Vp Security And Infrastructure

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.

Jun 2011 - Nov 2016

Executive Committee Member & Advisor

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.

Jun 2010 - Aug 2012

Board Member

Bbmf Americas Corporation

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.

Mar 2010 - Jun 2011

Founder & General Manager

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

Sep 2008 - Apr 2011

General Manager North America Cdc Games Usa & Vp Systems Engineering For Cdc Software

Cdc Games

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.

Aug 2007 - Sep 2008

Director Systems Engineering & Quality Assurance

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

Nov 2005 - May 2007

Principal Engineer

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.

Sep 2004 - Feb 2006

Senior Manager Of Technology - Network Operations Center

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.

Apr 2003 - Sep 2004

Senior Manager It Infrastructure Operations

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

May 2001 - Apr 2003

Director Performance Testing And Quality Assurance

Idapta, Inc.

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.

Feb 2000 - Apr 2001

Senior System Engineer

Fujitsu - Greenbrier And Russel, Inc.

Contracted to Sun Microsystems to provide system engineering support to Fortune 500 clients and large government projects.

Jan 1999 - Feb 2000

Technical Instructor

Metters Industries

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.

Oct 1997 - Jan 1999

Founder

Internet Service Provider

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.

Nov 1994 - Jun 1997

Staff Sargent

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.

May 1991 - Dec 1996
3 education records

Ron W. education

Business Administration Computer Information Systems, Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies

Saint Leo University

Associate Of Arts, Liberal Arts

Saint Leo University

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Computer Programming

Community College Of The Air Force
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Ron W. works for Kindo.

What is Ron W.'s role at Kindo?

Ron W. is listed as 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). at Kindo.

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AeroLeads has found 13 phone signal(s) with area code 404, 541, 870, 724, 757, 303, 412, 888 for Ron W. at Kindo.

Where is Ron W. based?

Ron W. is based in Santa Monica, California, United States while working with Kindo.

What companies has Ron W. worked for?

Ron W. has worked for Kindo, First Close Partners, Andela, Flutterwave, and Coily.

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What schools did Ron W. attend?

Ron W. holds Business Administration Computer Information Systems, Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies from Saint Leo University.

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Ron W. is listed with skills including Leadership, Leading Transformational Change, E Commerce, Information Security, Strategic Partnerships, Linux, Data Center, and Infrastructure.

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