Thought Leader Profile

Ray Rothrock

Managing General Partner, Venrock Associates

Ray Rothrock joined RedSeal as CEO in February 2014. Prior to RedSeal, he was a general partner at Venrock and one of RedSeal's founding investors. At Venrock, he invested in 53 companies - over a dozen of which were in cybersecurity, including Vontu, PGP, P-Cube, Imperva, Cloudflare, CTERA, and Shape Security. He is on the board of Check Point Software Technology Ltd., an original Venrock investment, and Team8.

A thought leader in cybersecurity, Ray was a participant in the White House CyberSecurity Summit held at Stanford University in February 2015. A sought-after speaker, he has been a featured panelist at this year's SXSW Conference, the lead moderator for the CyberSecurity Panel at the Milken Institute Global Conference, and a speaker at the 2017 NACD Global Board Leaders' Summit.

Ray holds a BS in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A & M University, an MS in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School. Ray is also a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation board.

Speaker at FiRe 2006, 2013, 2017


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FiRe 2017 Media

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