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Michael Sutton

Investor

General Partner & Co-Founder at Runtime Ventures Β· Founder at StoneMill Ventures Β· Principal at Blu Venture Investors

Arlington, Virginia, United States

About

Founder of StoneMill Ventures and former CISO at Zscaler, where he was a founding team member who spent a decade building its research team and security model. He previously helped build SPI Dynamics (acquired by HP) and iDEFENSE (acquired by VeriSign), and turned to full-time angel investing after Zscaler's 2018 IPO.

Invests in

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareHardware

Experience

  1. Runtime VenturesGeneral Partner & Co-Foundercurrent2023 β€” presentArlington, Virginia, United States
  2. GreyNoise IntelligenceBoard Membercurrent2019 β€” presentWashington D.C.
  3. TodylBoard Observercurrent2020 β€” present
  4. Blu VenturesPartner Emerituscurrent2018 β€” presentMclean, Virginia
  5. YL VenturesVenture Advisorcurrent2018 β€” present
  6. InQuest.netAdvisorcurrent2019 β€” presentWashington D.C. Metro Area
  7. Spera SecuritySeed Investorcurrent2022 β€” present
  8. Orca SecuritySeed Investorcurrent2019 β€” present
  9. Fleet Device ManagementSeed Investorcurrent2021 β€” present
  10. Gradient MSPBoard Member2021 β€” 2026
  11. StoneMill VenturesFounder & General Partner2018 β€” 2023Arlington, Virginia
  12. Attila SecurityBoard Member2018 β€” 2021Fulton, Maryland
  13. TrackOFFBoard Member2019
  14. ZscalerChief Information Security Officer (CISO)2015 β€” 2018
  15. ZscalerVP Security Research2008 β€” 2015
  16. Hewlett-PackardSecurity Evangelist2007 β€” 2008
  17. SPI DynamicsSecurity Evangelist2006 β€” 2007
  18. iDefense/VeriSignDirector2001 β€” 2006
  19. Ernst & YoungManager1998 β€” 2000

Education

  1. The George Washington UniversityMS IST, System Development2002 β€” 2004
  2. University of AlbertaBComm, Accounting1991 β€” 1996

Skills & more

Leadership13Management11Cybersecurity1Venture Capital1Seed Capital1InvestingCloud Security17SaaS24Cloud Computing99Application Security73Network Security68Web Application Security14
+12 moreInformation SecurityComputer SecuritySecurityPenetration TestingVulnerability AssessmentInformation Security ManagementVPNStart-upsCISSPVMwareCOBITIdentity Management

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