Thraxos Launches to Bring Together Top Tech CEOs and Founders in the Mid-Atlantic Region
Washington, DC, September 16, 2019 -- Thraxos, an invitation-only professional networking organization that brings together CEOs and founders of the most promising growth companies in the Mid-Atlantic, launched today. The inaugural cohort focuses on companies in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and data analytics.
“Thraxos brings together bold and innovative technology leaders who have survived the startup phase and are now making a name for themselves as they enjoy rapid growth. Of course, with rapid growth comes a whole new set of business challenges,” says Thraxos founder Melissa Goldate. “Thraxos’s mission is to provide strategic guidance to leaders whose companies are experiencing the at-times awkward adolescence phase, strengthen their support system of mentors and peers and, quite frankly, to have a good time.”
Over the course of four intimate dinners spanning ten months, Thraxos will connect participating executives with subject matter experts and business leaders who have repeatedly and successfully navigated the growth challenges that sometimes occur during this critical “sink or swim” juncture.
Goldate, a cyber risk management and legal professional who has spent nearly a decade working with CXOs and General Counsel at companies of all sizes, founded Thraxos because she saw a need for a more intimate and highly customized forum that is exclusively tailored to growth-stage technology companies. With a new cohort coming in each year, Thraxos is also about building a community that promises to stay interesting and fresh.
Thraxos’s founding board of advisors includes:
Tony Cole – Chief Technology Officer at Attivo Networks
Bill Crowell – Partner at Alsop Louie Partners
Scott Gerber – Founder & Partner at Vrge
Rick Howard – Chief Security Officer at Palo Alto Networks
Jim Hunt – Managing Partner at Lavrock Ventures
Ben Rodgers – Senior Director at BNY Mellon
Costa Saab - Managing Director at Valor Equity
Urvashi Sen – Global Head of Regulatory Risk at HCL Technologies
Martha VanDriel - Director fo IT Risk Management Policy at Merck
Priti Ved - Senior Risk, Threat, & Vulnerability Executive at Bloomberg
Bill Weber – former President and CEO at KeyW
Sounil Yu - Author and Inventor at Cyber Defense Matrix
Thraxos Cohort
Thraxos’s inaugural cohort will include up to 13 CEOs and founders of top growth companies from the Mid-Atlantic region in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and data analytics.
Thraxos will be accepting applications through December 20, 2019. The first program will begin in early 2020. For more information, visit thraxos.com.
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