As CEO, Balaji Yelamanchili brings more than two decades of experience as an operating executive and investor in high-growth software companies. Previously he served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Symantec’s Enterprise Security Business Unit. Prior to Symantec, he oversaw business analytics and enterprise performance management products at Oracle as Senior Vice President. He has also held executive positions at EMC Corporation, Documentum Inc., and Rational Software, now part of IBM. Balaji holds an M.S. in Engineering from the Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Visionary Leadership
ThreatConnect® is helmed by visionary security professionals with decades of experience as analysts, cryptographers, software developers, and security operations leaders. We understand the challenges that organizations face in making sense of the increasing amount of threat data and taking action to mitigate risk.
Executive Leadership

Balaji Yelamanchili

Daniel Moser
Daniel Moser joins ThreatConnect with more than 20 years of finance and operational leadership in the technology space.

Andrew Pendergast
Andy is a community-respected analyst, innovator, and thought leader.

Jason Spies
Jason has been designing and building enterprise security solutions for more than 10 years.

Charles Gold
As a four-time CMO, Charles brings more than 25 years of in-the-trenches marketing, product management, and business development leadership experience in high-growth cybersecurity, cloud, and infrastructure software companies.

Burney Barker
Burney Barker is the Chief Customer Officer at ThreatConnect and leads our worldwide sales efforts.

David Hopland
David is the VP of Global Sales at ThreatConnect. He’s been with ThreatConnect since 2015 and leads a team that specializes in working with customers to understand what matters to them

Colette Gowda
Colette Gowda, VP of Finance and Accounting at ThreatConnect, is an experienced Accounting and Financial Controller with a demonstrated history of working in the software industry.

Lara Meadows
Lara Meadows is a VP of Sales Engineering for ThreatConnect, a risk, threat, and response solution provider.

Toby Bussa
Toby Bussa is VP of Product Marketing at ThreatConnect. He has over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity as a practitioner and leader.

Gerald Caponera
Jerry Caponera, General Manager, Cyber Risk Quantification Products at ThreatConnect, leads the effort to quantify cyber risk in financial terms.

Arpine Babloyan
Arpine Babloyan, VP of Global Demand Generation at ThreatConnect, has over two decades of experience in marketing, communications, and sales across multiple industries. Her career spans

Dan Cole
Dan Cole, VP of Product Management at ThreatConnect, has spent nearly two decades as a product manager working to create awesome software that gets to the core of solving the unique problems that users face day-to-day.

Danny Tineo
Danny is the VP of Engineering at ThreatConnect. He has been building and designing software systems for over 20 years in a variety of domains, including real-time trading systems, options modeling, scalable web applications, and finite state machines.

Jody Caldwell
Jody Caldwell is the VP of Customer Success for ThreatConnect.