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Our team

The people behindLiving Security.

Our leadership team is on a mission to transform human risk to protect every organization in the world, with security leaders from across industries advising us along the way.

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The Living Security team

Leadership

The team behindhuman risk management.

Founders and leaders who have built security programs, insider threat products, behavior analytics and the AI-native platform, and who helped define human risk management.

Ashley Rose, CEO and Co-founder

Ashley Rose

CEO and Co-founder

Ashley founded Living Security on a simple conviction: empowering people is the best path to lasting behavior change and breach prevention. She has led the company from in-person training to an AI-native platform and guided it to a Leader position in the Forrester Wave.

Member of the Forbes Technology Council. Named a 2024 Industry Expert by Cybersecurity Ventures. Featured in Forbes, TechRepublic, Dark Reading, Security Magazine and CyberWire.

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Drew Rose, Co-founder

Drew Rose

Co-founder

Drew co-founded Living Security with Ashley and shaped its human-centric approach. Before founding the company he built and ran security programs in the public and private sectors, and he brought behavioral science and game design to measuring and reducing enterprise risk.

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Matt Ward, VP of Engineering

Matt Ward

VP of Engineering

Matt leads engineering at Living Security. He led the company’s AI-native transformation: the move to the AI-native Human Risk Management platform, with Livvy at its center.

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Mark Collura, VP of Sales

Mark Collura

VP of Sales

Mark is one of the pioneers of human risk management. He has spent more than five years driving growth at Living Security and leading change in the human risk management market, and he builds the go-to-market team that brings it to enterprise security leaders.

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Chris Poirel, Director of Data Science, Engineering

Chris Poirel

Director of Data Science, Engineering

Chris has spent more than a decade turning user behavior data into a clear picture of human risk. He began at RedOwl and continued through its time as Forcepoint UEBA, leading the team that built its core analytics. Today he leads data science at Living Security, shaping the models behind the platform’s risk insights.

Named inventor on multiple security analytics patents. PhD in Computer Science, Virginia Tech.

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Crystal Turnbull, Director of Marketing

Crystal Turnbull

Director of Marketing

Crystal leads marketing at Living Security. She writes the company’s guidance on human risk, from phishing and insider threat to vulnerability management, and runs the programs that bring it to security teams.

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CISO Advisory Board

Advised by the peoplewho run security.

Security and risk leaders from financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and technology. They meet our executive and product teams in quarterly virtual summits and an annual planning session to guide where human risk management goes next.

Edna Conway

Founder and CEO, EMC Advisors. Former Chief Security and Risk Officer for Microsoft Azure and Cisco.

Annu Warikoo

Cybersecurity and technology risk executive across Fortune 500 financial institutions.

Joye Purser

Global Field CISO at Cohesity, with more than 25 years in cybersecurity, audit and government.

Larry Whiteside Jr.

Co-founder and President of Confide. Chief Advisory Officer of the CISO Society.

Matthew Rosenquist

CISO of Cybersecurity Insights and a widely followed cybersecurity strategist.

Amjed Saffarini

Cybersecurity executive, CEO and board advisor who has scaled security and education businesses.

Graham Westbrook

Vice President of Sales at SimSpace, with threat intelligence and agentic cyber defense experience.

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