Phil Venables
InvestorVenture Partner at Ballistic Ventures · Board director at Interos
New York, New York, United States
About
Phil Venables focuses on early-stage cyber and cyber-adjacent investments at Ballistic Ventures. He was the first CISO of Google Cloud, a longtime partner at Goldman Sachs (including 17 years as its first CISO), and currently advises Google, Warburg Pincus, and several boards including HackerOne, Veza, and Plaid.
Board director at Interos
Intro paths
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Interos's investors · 13
AllegisCyber CapitalPalo Alto · $3M – $5M checksAlley Robotics VenturesCohasset · $500K – $2M checksAlleyCorpNew York · $1M – $5M checksBallistic VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $5M checks · since 2024Blue Owl CapitalNew York · since 2026Declaration PartnersNew YorkForgePoint CapitalSan Mateo · $5M – $50M checksHakluyt CapitalLondonNightDragonSan FranciscoOwl CapitalStructural CapitalMenlo Park · $10M – $50M checks · since 2026VenrockPalo Alto · $500K – $10M checks · since 2020Venrock AssociatesPalo Alto · since 2024
Co-founders at Interos
JB
Jennifer BisceglieDirector
Experience
- Ballistic VenturesPartnercurrent2025 — presentNew York, United States
- Warburg Pincus LLCSenior Advisorcurrent2025 — presentNew York, United States
- InfobloxBoard Membercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- Above SecurityBoard Membercurrent2026 — present
- ArmorCode Inc.Board Membercurrent2026 — present
- BreachRxBoard Membercurrent2026 — present
- HackerOneBoard Membercurrent2021 — present
- RogoChairman of Security Advisory Boardcurrent2025 — present
- PlaidBoard Advisorcurrent2025 — presentNew York, New York, United States
- NativeBoard Advisorcurrent2025 — presentNew York, United States
- Root EvidenceBoard Advisorcurrent2025 — present
- MITREBoard Member - Science and Technology Advisory Committeecurrent2025 — presentWashington DC-Baltimore Area
- VezaBoard Member (Exit, sold to Service Now)2023 — 2026California, United States
- Interos IncBoard Member2019 — 2026
- GoogleVP - Google / Chief Information Security Officer - Google Cloud2020 — 2026
- The White HousePresident's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)2021 — 2025
- Goldman SachsOperating Partner - Private Equity2019 — 2020New York, New York, United States
- Goldman SachsBoard Director - Goldman Sachs Bank2018 — 2020New York
- Goldman SachsSenior Advisor (Risk and Cybersecurity)2018 — 2020New York
- Goldman SachsPartner & Chief Operational Risk Officer2017 — 2018New York City
- Goldman SachsPartner & Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)2000 — 2017Greater New York City Area
- Deutsche BankChief Information Security Officer1997 — 2000
- Standard Chartered BankGlobal Head of Technology Risk Management (CISO)1995 — 1997
- Barclays BankInformation Security Manager (BISO)1992 — 1995
- Miscellaneous Petrochemical, Defense and Finance CompaniesSoftware Engineer1985 — 1992
Skills & more
Information Security99Technical Leadership64Risk Management99Crisis Management91Business Continuity Planning99Enterprise Risk Management99Cryptography78Hedge Funds38Operational Risk Management16Information Security Management99Penetration Testing13Data Center33
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Data SecurityIT AuditIT StrategyEnterprise ArchitectureInfrastructureSecurity ManagementManagementElectronic TradingRisk AssessmentTrading SystemsCISAGovernance- Chartered Scientist — The OR Society
- Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Information Security — Chartered Institute of Information Security
- Fellow of the British Computer Society — BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
- Chartered Engineer — BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
- Certified Information Security Manager — ISACA
From Phil's professional profile.
Investments
Board seats
Per SEC Form D filings.
Colleagues at Ballistic Ventures
Adrian Mallinger
Operations & Administration at Ballistic Ventures
Agnes So
Chief Financial Officer at Ballistic Ventures
Andy Johnson
Investor at Ballistic Ventures
Barmak Meftah
General Partner at Ballistic Ventures
Bonnie Komar
Controller at Ballistic Ventures
Caroline Salas
Investor at Ballistic Ventures
Chris Inglis
Investor at Ballistic Ventures
David Hahn
CISO Operating Partner at Ballistic Ventures
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Phil Venables?
- Phil Venables focuses on early-stage cyber and cyber-adjacent investments at Ballistic Ventures. He was the first CISO of Google Cloud, a longtime partner at Goldman Sachs (including 17 years as its first CISO), and currently advises Google, Warburg Pincus, and several boards including HackerOne, Veza, and Plaid.
- Where does Phil Venables work?
- Phil Venables is Venture Partner at Ballistic Ventures and Board director at Interos.
- What boards does Phil Venables sit on?
- Phil Venables holds tracked board seats at Interos.
- Where did Phil Venables go to school?
- Phil Venables studied at University of Oxford (M.Sc, Computation); University of York (B.Sc (Hons) First Class, Computer Science).
Same school
Also attended University of Oxford990
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Also attended University of York50
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