Verve Leadership
John Livingston
Chief Executive OfficerJohn leads Verve's mission to protect the world’s infrastructure. He brings 20+ years of experience from McKinsey & Co. advising large companies in strategy and operations. John's committed to helping clients find the lowest cost and simplest solutions for controls, data and ICS security challenges.
Robert Bevis
Founder & Chief Product OfficerBob is our founder and leads the technical vision for the company. With over 33 years of cyber security, ICS system design, and project management experience, Bob’s unique ability to understand cyber security requirements in a control system environment enables Verve Industrial to be best-in-class.
Bill Easton
Chief Technology OfficerBill is a visionary in integrating endpoint detection and response with big data analytics to combat threats against critical infrastructure. An active contributor to the open source community, Bill ensures that Verve always stays at the leading edge of technology.
David Brown
VP Global SalesIn addition to over 20 years of OT and cyber security experience, David is well-versed in rapidly advancing companies on a global scale. Originally a chemist designing the control systems for the same refineries Verve now protects, David is responsible for sales leadership and global operations.
Robert Held
VP Sales Engineering & Customer SuccessWith 25 years of cyber security expertise, Robert leverages his experience in incident response, threat intelligence, vulnerability remediation and risk management to ensure customers leverage the full suite of Verve’s industrial cyber security offerings.
Reddy Kallem
VP Controls EngineeringReddy has 20+ years experience working across power, oil & gas, chemicals and other industries. He is committed to our vision of being vendor-agnostic to bring the best solution to the customer. He is leading edge in his design thinking, developing many new approaches to controls solutions.
Rick Kaun
VP SolutionsRick has 20+ years in designing and implementing OT security programs, tailoring projects to clients in industries including oil and gas, refining, mining, power, and manufacturing. Rick always approaches engagements with an eye towards building a scalable, cost-effective and manageable solution.
Kurt Schiller
VP Human ResourcesKurt guides and manages the overall Human Resources services, policies and programs for Verve. Kurt has over 20 years of experience in small, medium and large size companies serving in CEO, General Manager and Division Manager capacities in manufacturing, distribution and healthcare markets.
Adnan Alawneh
General ManagerAs an OT cyber security specialist, Adnan has over 20 years of experience across several critical infrastructure sectors. Adnan oversees business development and technology partnerships in the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey to drive Verve's expansion into key international markets.
Meghan Ganzer
Director of MarketingSince making the strategic shift from sales to marketing, Meghan has focused on messaging, branding, content creation, communications, and event collaboration to lead Verve's demand generation efforts as well as sales and marketing alignment.
Jessica Howard
Director of FinanceJessica has been with Verve for 17 years and oversees the finance operations. She provides all C-level financial reports and is involved with the complete accounting process, compliance, and audits. Her wealth of knowledge is invaluable to the success of the business.
Verve Advisors
Jason Few
Senior AdvisorJason has leadership experience across the technology, wireless, broadband, manufacturing and energy sectors. He is the CEO of FuelCell Energy and the former President and CEO of Continuum Energy, L.L.C. and President of Reliant Energy
Eric Byres
Senior AdvisorEric is the CEO of Adolus, a software platform for software supply chain security management. He was the Inventor, Founder and former CEO of Tofino, the leading industrial firewall manufacturer. and is widely recognized as one of the world’s top experts in the field of ICS security.
Dale LeFebvre
Board MemberDale is Chairman of 35711, a Washington, D.C.-based holding company. 35711 has interests in a variety of leading companies providing services to critical infrastructure industries. Dale is a graduate of MIT and Harvard Law School. He is a leader in many civic arenas, currently serving on the board
Sonny Garg
Board MemberSunil (Sonny) is the Energy Solutions Lead of Uptake, an advanced industrial analytics company. Prior to Uptake, Sonny spent 13 years at Exelon Corporation, a Fortune 125 company, in a variety of senior executive positions, including Chief Information and Innovation Officer (CIIO).
Ron Brash
AdvisorRon injects technical expertise from vulnerability research to cyber-risk advisory from several critical infrastructure domains (O&G, energy, utilities, aviation). He has 12+ years experience working with embedded ICS, possesses a MsCompSci, a Btech, and co-authored a book on Bash programming.