KEVIN MANDIA

In 2004, Mr. Mandia founded Mandiant Corporation, which became known as a world leader in responding to prominent  cyber security breaches. In 2013 Mandiant was acquired by FireEye, where Mandiant went on to become the core of FireEye’s highly successful cyber security business. From 2016 until the  company’s acquisition by Google in September 2022, Mr. Mandia served as CEO and a member of the Board of Directors of FireEye and later, Mandiant, Inc., following its corporate name change.

Mr. Mandia began his cyber security career in the United States Air Force as a Computer Security Officer, and later as a Special Agent in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. He is a Founder and General Partner at Ballistic Ventures, and serves as a member  of the President’s National Security Telecommunications  Advisory Committee (NSTAC). He has taught Graduate classes at both The George Washington University as well as Carnegie Mellon University on cybersecurity and computer forensics, and has  authored three books on the topic of responding to cybersecurity breaches.