Cyral Names Michael Callahan to Company Board of Directors
February 20 2020 - 7:00AM
Cyral, the first cloud service that enables security policies at
the data layer, today announced the appointment of Michael Callahan
to the company’s board of directors as an independent director.
Callahan, an experienced enterprise infrastructure executive,
has worked with Cyral co-founders Manav Mital, CEO, and Srinivas
Vadlamani, CTO, in various advisory capacities for nearly a decade
helping them at different startups. In 2014, Callahan was the
founding CEO of Awake Security, an advanced network traffic
analysis company that was an early pioneer of AI in security.
“Michael's experience, especially at Awake and Datadog, makes
him exceptionally well suited to understand the security problems
that companies invested in cloud-native architecture grapple with,
and the kinds of solutions that they seek," said Mital. "From my
long personal experience of leaning on him as an advisor, I know
that he is an exemplar of the values, traits, and abilities on
which we want to build Cyral."
Callahan advises early-stage enterprise software companies, with
a focus on security and cloud infrastructure, including Datadog,
Inc. where he has served on the board since investing in its seed
round. Before cofounding Awake Security, Callahan served as
Entrepreneur in Residence at Greylock Partners, which had funded
his first startup, PolyServe, that built early scale-out
infrastructure software. PolyServe was acquired by HP, where
Callahan served as CTO for HP StorageWorks Enterprise NAS. Before
working in enterprise software, Callahan had a research career in
differential geometry and topology, distributed systems, storage
software, and scientific visualization. He is a graduate of Harvard
College and was a Rhodes Scholar and Junior Research Fellow in
mathematics at the University of Oxford.
“I’ve seen, in my work in security, how difficult it is for
enterprise teams to track what happens to their data and ensure it
isn’t misused; working with cloud infrastructure startups I’ve seen
how companies can build new data flows more rapidly and cheaply
than ever before,” Callahan said. “The tension between these two
trends creates a huge opportunity for Cyral. I’ve enjoyed a long
working relationship with Cyral’s founders and look forward to
helping them build a great company.”
About CyralCyral enables companies to guard
against data exfiltration without requiring any agents or
application modifications. The Cyral service is easy to use and
plugs seamlessly into an infrastructure-as-code framework. The
Cyral founding team has deep expertise in building databases,
compilers and proxy-based distributed services. The company is
venture backed by Redpoint, A.Capital and Costanoa.
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