SVCI - Silicon Valley CISO Investments
Chad Kalmes is a seasoned information security and technology executive, currently serving as the Chief Information Security Officer at Udemy since June 2024 and an investor at SVCI - Silicon Valley CISO Investments since March 2023. An active member of the Information Security Leadership Foundation since November 2019, Chad previously held roles as EVP and CISO at Socure, Vice President of Technology & Risk at PagerDuty, and Senior Director of Technology & Applications at Twilio Inc. Notable achievements include leading successful IPOs at PagerDuty and Twilio, establishing critical governance structures in risk management, and driving innovations in data science and security. Chad's career spans various leadership roles across organizations including Optimizely, MobiTV, and Protiviti, with a foundational education in Management Information Systems from the University of Notre Dame and ongoing studies at San Francisco State University.
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SVCI - Silicon Valley CISO Investments
Silicon Valley CISO Investments (“SVCI”) is a group of Chief Information Security Officers (“CISO”) that operate as an angel investor syndicate. Founded in 2019, SVCI is already successfully pursuing its mission of fuelling the next generation of cybersecurity innovation. The group identifies promising startups, invests in them and leverages itsmembers’ unmatched industry expertise to help the companies thrive.