Dropzone AI’s Mission
Building Your AI Army
Hackers are scaling with AI. Defenders aren’t.
That’s why Dropzone AI is on a mission to weaponize LLMs for cyber defenders, leveling the playing field with adversaries. We give security teams an army of AI agents that handle routine tasks and free humans to focus on proactive, strategic work.
Dropzone AI’s Vision
Human Strategy. Machine Scale.
Dropzone AI founder and CEO Edward Wu spent eight years building the detection engine at ExtraHop, a leading NDR vendor. But he realized that detections alone were not going to solve the asymmetry problem in cybersecurity. Defenders did not have enough resources to triage all the alerts. The limits of the human analyst had become the limits of defense.
In the future we’re building, cyber defense combines human strategy with machine scale. Human defenders oversee autonomous agents that continuously learn and adapt. With Dropzone AI, cybersecurity scales beyond human limits.
Meet the team
We are deep technologists at the intersection of AI, security, and product development.
Edward Wu
Founder + CEO
Hobbies: Autocross, Skiing, Starcraft
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Amit Patel
CRO
Hobbies: Golf, Travel, Chicago Sports Teams
Anne Gotay
VP of Growth
Hobbies: All things Peloton, family, hiking, gardening, baking
Brett Candon
VP of International Sales
Hobbies: Ice Hockey
Bri Hatch
Head of Infrastructure and Security
Hobbies: Doggos, Kiddos, Board Games, SINfully bad math puns
Kaila Western
Head of Customer Success
Hobbies: Hiking with my pup, ultimate frisbee, cooking, and reading
Jenny Fu
Head of Finance and Operations
Hobbies: traveling, yoga, DIY home improvement, reading
Chris Nisbeth
Head of Information Security
Hobbies: Mountain skiing, hiking, and building structures
Shashi Nair
Head of Channel
Hobbies: Read, travel, eat, root for my sports teams, C-dramas & K-Dramas, DIY projects
Alex Burner
R&D
Hobbies: Skiing, Mountain biking, Playing with geometry, Armchair cosmology
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Eric Hammerle
R&D
Hobbies: Skiing, Reading, Parenting, Husbanding
Changhwan Oh
R&D
Hobbies: Snowboarding, Surfing, Freediving, Sudoku
Robert Foley
R&D
Hobbies: Canoe trips, Skiing, Dota 2, Poker
Michael Buono
R&D
Hobbies: Making music, playing golf, NBA basketball, and chess (nerd alert!)
Colin Phillips
R&D
Hobbies: Biking, baking, camping trips, and gaming with friends
Andrew Jerry
R&D
Hobbies: Disc golf, pottery, baking sweet treats, and following Formula 1
Alison Hammerand
Sales
Hobbies: Baking, yoga, and dance parties
Tyson Supasatit
Marketing
Hobbies: Treehouse Building, Chess, Rain
Rahul Popat
R&D
Hobbies: Skiing, Cooking, Reading, and Following the NFL
Guy Raz
Sales
Hobbies: Playing soccer, Cooking, Family, Finding inconsistencies in Movies and TV Shows
Steve Mortell
Sales
Hobbies: Golf, Cooking, Steven King Novels, and Urban Off-Roading
Patricia Temples
R&D
Hobbies: Cats, Audiobooks, Sewing Clothes, Practicing French
Tyler Hoyt
R&D
Hobbies: working on my car, sim racing, bossing computers around
Chantel Pszenny
Marketing
Hobbies: Family, Travel, BODi, Art & Design, Mariah Carey
Chris Abella
Sales
Hobbies: family, fitness, fantasy lit, caffeine
John Silva
R&D
Hobbies: Hiking trails, language learning (español), weightlifting, and gaming
Josh Sanders
Sales
Hobbies: Family, Traveling, Gaming, and playing Billiards
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Ryan Cate
Sales
Hobbies: Family, BBQ enthusiast, Golf and Buffalo Bills fan
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Leon Miro
R&D
Hobbies: 3D Printing, Cooking, Golf, DnD, Mechanical Keyboards, Snowboarding
Tony Huinker
Sales
Hobbies - Bikes (road, gravel, mountain), Movies
Joe Choi
R&D
Hobbies: Lifting weights, cooking new dishes and watching sports
Michael Buchanan
Customer Success
Travel, Biking, Sitting down with a good book
Kim Fischer
Marketing
Hobbies: Traveling, Cooking, Boating, Crochet, Vibe Coding
Christopher Bailey
R&D
Hobbies: Hiking, cycling, woodworking
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Thaddeus McCollough
Sales
Hobbies: Traveling, exercising, reading, cooking, spending time with family
Matt Hulse
R&D
Hobbies: Family, Guitar, Reading
Harlan Elam
R&D
Hobbies: Reading sci-fi, fantasy, & LitRPG, Video/tabletop games and Street ball with my kids, playing guitar and starting screenplays
Dan Bridges
International Sales
Hobbies: Family, pug walks, golf, help run a football club, mowing lawns, fast cars
Natalie Serebryakova
R&D
Hobbies: Cycling, Running, Sup, Hiking with my two aussiedoodles
Chase Christensen
Sales
Hobbies: Backpacking, Coffee, Barbecue, Raising kids
Shaleena Reyersbach
G&A
Hobbies: Reading, Cross-Stitch, Swing Dancing
Investors
Meet our investors
Oliver Friedrichs
Founder and CEO of Pangea Security, Founder and former CEO of Phantom Cyber
Jon Oberheide
Co-founder and former CTO of Duo Security
Jesse Rothstein
Co-founder and CTO of ExtraHop Networks
Garrett Held
Chief Information Security Officer at Carta
Joshua Scott
Head of Security at Postman
Anshu Gupta
Ex CISO at Fast
