Company

Leadership & Advisors

Built by enterprise software, cybersecurity, legal, privacy, governance, and AI practitioners — with advisors who have operated through the kinds of scrutiny the platform is designed to address.

Leadership

The company combines enterprise product, go-to-market, legal, cybersecurity, and AI engineering experience around one question: how should leadership create the evidence of reasonable judgment before scrutiny begins?

John Johnson — Founder & CEO

Creator of Defensibility.ai and Defensible Governance™. 35 years in enterprise software, 25 years in startup GTM and sales, and 22 years in cybersecurity, with experience across multiple cyber/risk startups and exits.

Maverick James — Co-Founder & Product Counsel

Privacy, security, and AI governance attorney. Validates legal logic, governance workflows, and defensibility requirements. CIPP/US, CIPM, Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP).

Prem K. — CTO

Enterprise security and AI/ML application-development leader focused on product architecture and enterprise readiness.

Strategic advisors

Advisors bring direct operating, regulatory, security, privacy, and enterprise-product perspective to the category and platform.

Rich Mason

President & Chief Security Officer, Critical Infrastructure, LLC. Former Global CSO/CISO of Honeywell.

Contributes the perspective of a Fortune 100 security executive and helped shape the prosecutorial / duty-of-care framing.

Tim Brown

General Partner and CISO in Residence, Team8. Former VP Security and CISO at SolarWinds.

Brings firsthand perspective on executive security scrutiny and the importance of contemporaneous decision evidence.

Wassil Kacha

CISO / Head of Enterprise Technology, Laser Digital. Former Global Head of Data Protection, Citi.

Brings enterprise data-protection, remediation, and post-incident governance perspective.

John Kennedy

Cybersecurity engineering and management leader; Distinguished Security Architect and former Citrix product-security leader.

Brings deep enterprise security engineering, architecture, and customer-facing experience.

Jeewon Kim Serrato

Faculty Lead, UC Berkeley Law Chief Privacy Officer Program.

Former partner and consumer-protection practice leader and former CPO at Fannie Mae; brings regulatory, privacy, and academic perspective.

Why this matters at our stage.

Before a new category has a long customer-logo wall, authority has to come from the rigor of the problem definition, the product itself, the evidence behind the thesis, and credible people willing to put their names behind it.