Tejas Cyber Network - Startup Advisor Role - Do's and Dont's and AMA by Anshu Gupta
Project C - Advisory Do's and Don'ts (30 mins) followed by AMA (30 min)
Becoming an advisor at a cyber startup is an interesting opportunity but it comes with its own challenges. In this talk Anshu will talking about his experience working as an advisor for multiple cyber startups, some of which were very positive experiences and some were not. This talk is meant to make you aware of all the gotchas and things to watch for, when accepting an advisory role at a startup. We will also delve into how to get your first advisory role.
Anshu Gupta is a senior level security executive with Fortune 500 security consulting experience at Ernst & Young and KPMG where he worked at companies like Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, Cisco, McAfee, Adobe, Yahoo, GAP, Kaiser among others. Based on advice from his mentors, he then moved on to get startup experience at Coupa Software (now a public company), HelloSign (acquired by DropBox), where he was the first security hire and had to build the whole security program from scratch and hire the information security team as well. Anshu served as the Head of Security Engineering at Varo Bank wherein he helped them at the first neobank to get FDIC approval and national OCC charter. He also served as the VP, Security at Fast which was working on solving the consumer identity and checkout experience in the Ecommerce space. Anshu last served as the VP, Security and Privacy at SPAN.io which is an energy management company started by ex-Tesla engineering leadership. He is also an investor with SVCI (https://www.svci.io/) which is a group of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) that operates as an angel investor syndicate. Our mission is to fuel the next generation of cybersecurity innovation by identifying promising early-stage startups, investing in them, and using our unmatched industry expertise to help them thrive.
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