Our Investors
TENEX's $250M Series B is led by Crosspoint Capital Partners— the cybersecurity-focused investment firm led by Greg Clark, former CEO of Symantec. Also backed by Shield Capital,DTCP (formerly Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners), Deepwork Capital, and the Florida Opportunity Fund. Seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
TENEX Leadership
Our leadership combines three decades of cybersecurity expertise, hyperscaler engineering pedigree and proven operational experience to build the AI SOC company defending enterprises at scale.
Eric Foster
Eric previously co-founded Cyderes alongside legendary cybersecurity entrepreneur Gary Fish under Fishtech Group, where he served as President. With a cybersecurity career spanning three decades, Eric has been a three-time CISO, an early employee at RiskIQ, and the President of Stairwell.
Bashar Abouseido
Most recently SVP and CISO at Charles Schwab, where he led enterprise cybersecurity strategy across trillions in assets under management and guided security through the TD Ameritrade integration. Previously held security leadership roles at Thomson Reuters and Rockwell Automation.
Edwin Solis
Most recently led Google Cloud's Security Sales for the Central Region and Latin America. Part of the pioneering go-to-market team for Google's Chronicle, emerging from Google X (Moonshot Factory). Previously held sales leadership at ProtectWise, Citrix, Dell SonicWALL, Entrust, Websense, and CDW.
Jan Grzymala-Busse
Over two decades in cybersecurity, risk management, and regulatory compliance. Previously led threat hunting at BMO Financial Group, spearheaded security engineering at Cboe Global Markets, and held key cybersecurity and intelligence roles for the Federal Government.
Paul Edmonds
Paul Edmonds is the Chief of Staff at TENEX.AI, bringing a strong track record of executive leadership in customer success and revenue operations, with prior CCO and VP-level roles at Cyderes and Onspring. Known for building customer-centric cultures and high-performing teams, he specializes in driving customer outcomes, organizational talent development, and revenue growth across the technology sector.
Piers Morgan
With 20+ years in EMEA and Asia Pacific cybersecurity, Piers has a proven track record of building and scaling international GTM strategies and partner relationships. He deeply understands the buyers, regulators, and ecosystem. Piers previously led successful GTM teams at Pulse Secure, eSentire, and Coro.
Richard Rogers
25+ years building and scaling global marketing and go-to-market organizations. Previously served as CMO at ExtraHop, led Startup Marketing globally at AWS, and held senior marketing leadership roles at Palo Alto Networks, SAP, Oracle, Veritas, Symantec, and KPMG. Also serves as an Operating Partner at Crosspoint Capital Partners.
Jackie Kelly
Marketing and Sales leader, 20+ years of experience with 10+ years specializing in cybersecurity. At Microsoft she led global GTM strategies for cybersecurity solutions. Coca-Cola Refreshments Sales Leadership and Marketing Director roles at RiskIQ, professional sports and agency firms. She excels at building brand narratives and translating complex tech into messaging that drives growth.
Drew Fearson
Drew Fearson is the Vice President of Recruitment at TENEX.AI, bringing a wealth of executive leadership experience including serving as CEO and COO of NinjaJobs for over nine years and Chief Growth Officer at RightSeat, alongside his work as host of The Cyber Edge podcast. A seasoned operator with deep roots in the cybersecurity and talent space, Drew combines his growth, operations, and people expertise to help build world-class teams.
Anthony Guida
Cybersecurity leader and 25-year industry veteran, including 7 years as a founding Customer Engineer for Google Chronicle (now SecOps). Anthony specializes in scaling platform implementation and driving customer success through both deep technical expertise and strategic leadership.
Ryan Swiggler
Ryan is a seasoned software executive with a track record of building high-performing Customer Success teams that have overseen nearly $2B in ARR while consistently delivering 110%+ net retention for some of the world's largest and most complex organizations. A hands-on leader and team builder, he has scaled CS and product teams to 250 people, launched innovative programs that drove measurable ROI, and developed a reputation for turning customer relationships into long-term growth engines.
Sam Moss
Founding Engineer at TENEX, a practitioner-turned-executive whose decades long career has spanned the front lines of cyber warfare operations to enterprise cybersecurity leadership. Previously, Sam served as Head of Customer Success at Stairwell and Principal of Product & Strategy at Cyderes, where he designed and delivered service and product portfolios across multiple ecosystems.
Dusty Evanoff
A decade and a half of experience in cyber defense across financial services, payments, SaaS, and global commercial real estate, including at multiple Fortune 500 enterprises. At TENEX, Dusty leads the Cyber Defense function, where deep domain expertise and operational rigor meet TENEX's AI-native approach to managed detection and response.
Tricia Giesselmann
With 15+ years in People Operations, Tricia builds scalable HR infrastructure with culture at its core, serving as a trusted resource employees can count on. She doesn't see people as tasks to process — she measures success by whether the people who pass through her orbit leave better than they arrived. She's driven by the belief that technology should serve people, not the other way around, and has led enterprise-wide AI adoption initiatives that free her team to spend less time on process and more time on people. At TENEX, she's applying that same philosophy to build the systems that let the company scale without losing what makes it human.
Caitlin Marco
Marketing and growth leader with 15+ years in enterprise go-to-market and a decade specializing in cybersecurity. She has held marketing and growth leadership positions at People.ai, Aviatrix, Okta, tCell, and Rapid7, taking security and SaaS companies from early stage through acquisition. Her work spans brand and category strategy, enterprise demand generation, executive and field engagement, and the measurement systems that connect marketing investment to revenue. Certified in Agentic AI by Johns Hopkins University, Caitlin builds brand narratives and growth engines that turn complex security technology into pipeline and market position.
Paul "PK" Kleinschnitz
A strategic hands-on technology executive with extensive expertise in monetizing technology, specifically cyber security solutions. Experienced general manager and commercial leader who builds and executes go-to-market strategies that deliver profitable growth by leveraging product solutions, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships. Passionate about applying technologies to solve problems in unique and innovative means.
Guided by Trusted Advisors
At TENEX, our strength lies in the diverse expertise and dedication of our team. We take pride in working alongside a distinguished group of professionals, investors, and advisors—our ’10x’ers’—who drive innovation and excellence in AI-driven cybersecurity. Meet some of the exceptional individuals contributing to our mission:
