More About Dave
Dave Rand
Dave Rand is a Silicon Valley technologist, serial entrepreneur, CEO and CTO with a 30-year track record of successful products and patents spanning networking, privacy, and cybersecurity. Dave’s unique insights into both core technical challenges and user needs shaped his vision to restore the basic foundations for privacy and security of end users in the digital world. He has served on the boards of several companies, public and private, and helped raise more than $4 billion over his career — and remains one of the foremost cybersecurity leaders in the United States.
Angel Investor and White Hat Hacker
Since retiring from Trend Micro, Dave has devoted his energies to angel investing and to the cybersecurity community as a ‘White Hat’ hacker, consultant, and strategist. He has regularly participated in teams that placed in the Top 5 at DefCon and maintains one of the largest databases and tool sets in the world for analysis of IP attacks.
Trend Micro
Joining through Trend’s acquisition of Kelkea, Dave held roles including Chief Technologist, CTO of Internet Content Security, and Technical Fellow. He invented several new products and services, including database technologies behind the largest spam database in the world, tracking more than a billion IP addresses. Dave retired from Trend in 2017.
Kelkea
As Co-Founder & CEO of Kelkea, Inc., Dave built on his earlier anti-spam innovations from the Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS). Kelkea was acquired by Trend Micro in 2005.
Sanlight
Dave co-founded Sanlight in 2000 with Sherman Tuan and Mark Kaleem. Its core technology was a ‘time-travel’ file system for freezing the state of a disk volume — used for backups and advanced applications like forensic accounting. Dave became CEO in 2002 and drove its acquisition by Quantum in 2003.
Metromedia Fiber
Following the acquisition of AboveNet Communications, Dave served as CTO for Metromedia Fiber, helping grow the Internet side of the business and driving a $2 billion bond raise to expand its infrastructure and footprint.
AboveNet Communications
Dave was Co-Founder and CTO of AboveNet Communications, Inc., one of the last ‘Tier 1’ networks created, introducing a new model for Internet services — selling bandwidth. He supported AboveNet’s secondary offering ($240M) and spearheaded the acquisition of the Palo Alto Internet Exchange (PAIX) from Digital / Compaq in 1999. That fall, Dave led the sale of AboveNet to Metromedia Fiber for $1.7 billion.
MAPS
Dave co-founded the Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS) with Paul Vixie — the first anti-spam service, introducing the concept of email reputation. The now-standard DNSBL technology was created by MAPS.
National Semiconductor, Novell & Cisco
Dave started his career immersed in chip design and the networking layer that laid the foundation for the Internet we know today — at National Semiconductor, Chips and Technologies, Novell, and Cisco, along with several startups.
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