I can’t begin to express my enthusiasm for the news today! I first met my good friend and business partner, Kevin Mandia , in 2010. We had just sold Fortify Software to HP and my partner, Ted Schlein as part of Kleiner Perkins, had led a round of funding in Mandiant and had introduced Kevin to me. I think I speak on behalf of anyone who has ever met Kevin, that my first impressions were a down to earth, humble and high integrity guy who was incredibly smart and truly mission oriented and passionate about his vision of helping organizations at their most vulnerable time, when they were breached. His empathy, hard work and expertise were the foundation of what went on to become the world’s preeminent incident and breach response company. After achieving great scale, Kevin masterfully guided Mandiant (part of Google Cloud) through two successful acquisitions, first by FireEye and then after a spin out, by Google Cloud. When we first formed Ballistic Ventures we knew Kevin was the first person we would call to join us as a founding partner. He has been with us since the founding of Ballistic and we are so proud to announce his transition from a Founding Strategic Partner to a Founding General Partner as we activate Fund II. His experience in building one of the most iconic cyber companies from zero to hundreds of millions in revenue and thousands of employees will be incredibly useful for any founder who aspires to do the same. I could not be more excited to share this chapter of my career with my good friend, Kevin Mandia! Ted Schlein Jake Seid Kevin Mandia Roger Thornton Michelle L. Kincaid Agnes So David Hahn Nicole Perlroth Ballistic Ventures
Congrats, Mak and Kevin!! Welcome to the dream team!
Congratulations Barmak Meftah and Ballistic Ventures for landing Kevin Mandia! I look forward to watching the companies you back and enable with your new fund.
This is great news Mak.. The synergy between Kevin and Ballistic would be next level... Congrats team..
When two worlds collide! I’m so honored to have worked for these two amazing humans and leaders!
Congrats Barmak Meftah--outstanding news!
Congratulations Barmak Meftah Kevin Mandia and Ballistic Ventures team. 🚀🚀
Congrats team! Good things ahead!
We need cybersecurity leadership now more than ever to proactively lay out solutions as we continue to see fallouts in terms of data breaches - to prevent these from crippling global economy and social well being with emerging technology such as AI and quantum. I would be happy to volunteer thought leadership and brainstorm on holistic solutions and certainly learn from stalwarts such as Barmak Meftah Kevin Mandia.