Co-Founder, Blackberry Cylance
WHY: Co-founded Irvine-based internet security company Cylance in 2012. Now BlackBerry Cylance after purchase by Canadian company for $1.4B.
RECENT: Stepped down in September. Plans undisclosed for now. On the Business Journal’s 2019 OC 50.
QUOTABLE: Avoided near-tragedy aboard a 747 flight on which a door suddenly burst open mid-flight 30 years ago, killing other passengers: “I knew I had to find a purpose that was bigger and beyond me of preventing catastrophe. In my place, it was cyber … AI, and machine learning.”
