Peter Smith is the Vice President of Secure Workload Communications at Zscaler. Peter, a serial entrepreneur, was previously the Founder and CEO of Edgewise, a pioneer in zero trust segmentation for cloud and data centers, now acquired by Zscaler. Peter regularly advises leading customers on transforming their infrastructure and security architecture. Peter holds several zero trust-related patents and is a frequent speaker on zero trust strategy and implementation.
Harry Sverdlove is Chief Technologist of Workload Segmentation at Zscaler. Harry was previously the Founder and CTO of Edgewise, a pioneer in zero trust segmentation for cloud and data centers. Earlier, Harry was the CTO of Carbon Black, where he was the key driving force behind their industry-leading endpoint security platform. Earlier in his career, Harry was principal research scientist for McAfee, Inc., where he supervised the architecture of crawlers, spam detectors and link analyzers. Prior to that, Harry was director of engineering at Compuware Corporation (formerly NuMega), and principal architect for Rational Software, where he designed the core automation engine for Rational Robot.
Nagraj Seshadri is the Senior Director of Marketing at Zscaler. Formerly, Nagraj was VP of Marketing at Edgewise which he launched from stealth, positioned the startup as a zero trust pioneer and drove customer adoption. Edgewise was acquired by Zscaler. Previously, Nagraj held marketing leadership roles at multiple startups driving them to success including Recorded Future (acquired by Insight Partners), Utimaco (acquired by Sophos), Dynatrace (acquired by Compuware) and ThreatGRID (acquired by Cisco).
John O’Neil is the Data Scientist at Edgewise Networks. He writes and designs software for data analysis and analytics, search engines, natural language processing and machine learning. He has a PhD in linguistics from Harvard University, and is the author of more than twenty papers in Computer Science, Linguistics, and associated fields, and has given talks at numerous professional and academic conferences.
The Gartner Cool Vendor Logo is a trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc., and/or its affiliates, and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
