Arthur W. Coviello Jr

Art Coviello is an active investor and advisor in the security industry, guiding a number of security startups as a private investor and in his roles as a Venture Partner at Rally Ventures (an early stage investor in business technologies), as an adviser to ClearSky Security Fund, and as a Senior Advisor to Blackstone’s Tactical Opportunities Group.

Art Coviello served as Executive Chairman of RSA and Executive Vice President of EMC. Mr. Coviello has been a central figure within the information security industry for more than 25 years. His vision and strategic and financial management as long-time head of RSA helped drive the company’s growth to revenues of over $1 billion in 2014 when he retired. Under his leadership, he built the most respected, vendor agnostic event in cybersecurity, RSA Conference. His expertise and influence have made him a recognized leader in the industry. He is frequently a featured presenter at conferences and forums around the world, and he has played key roles in several national cyber-security initiatives.

Mr. Coviello serves on the Board of Directors at Synchrony Financial, Bugcrowd, Tenable, Capsule8, ZeroNorth, and SecZetta.

Prior to RSA, Mr. Coviello had extensive executive management experience in several technology companies. He started his career as a certified public accountant at Deloitte, Haskins & Sells (Deloitte.)

Mr. Coviello graduated magna cum laude from the University of Massachusetts in 1975 with a BBA, concentration in accounting.