Jay Leek
Founder at SYN Ventures Management LLC
Profile
Jay A.
Leek is the founder of SYN Ventures Management LLC, founded in 2021, where he is currently the Managing Partner.
He is also currently the Managing Director at ClearSky Power & Technology Partners LLC, Director at HUMAN Security, Inc., Board Director at BigID, Inc., ShiftLeft, Inc., Blue Lava, Inc., Phosphorus Cyber Security, Inc., and Sevco Security, Inc., and Director at RegScale, Inc. Additionally, he is a Director at Revelstoke Security, Inc. since 2020.
Mr. Leek has held former positions as Board Director at ProtectWise, Inc. and RedOwl Analytics, Inc., Board Director at Optiv, Inc. from 2015 to 2017, Board Director at Verodin, Inc. from 2016 to 2019, Board Director at IntSights Cyber Intelligence Ltd.
from 2016 to 2020, Board Director at CyberGRX, Inc. from 2015 to 2023, Board Director at Capsule8, Inc. from 2017 to 2021, Board Director at Respond Software LLC from 2019 to 2020, Board Director at CloudKnox Security, Inc. from 2018 to 2021, and Board Director at SecZetta, Inc. from 2019 to 2023.
He also held the position of Vice President-International Security at Equifax, Inc. and Manager-Corporate Information Technology Security at Nokia Oyj.
Mr. Leek's education history includes an undergraduate degree from Capella University LLC.
Jay Leek active positions
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BigID, Inc.
BigID, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services BigID, Inc. develops software solutions for managing the privacy and protection of personal customer data. It offers subject access, breach response, post DLP discovery, privacy shield, and anonymization and account fraud privacy and protection solutions. The company was founded by Dimitri Sirota and Nimrod Vax and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Director/Board Member | - |
ClearSky Power & Technology Partners LLC
ClearSky Power & Technology Partners LLC Investment ManagersFinance ClearSky Power & Technology Partners LLC (ClearSky) is a private equity/venture capital firm co-founded in 2012 by James Huff and Jay Leek. The firm is headquartered in Juno Beach, Florida with offices in New York and San Francisco. | Private Equity Investor | 2016-12-31 |
HUMAN Security, Inc.
HUMAN Security, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services HUMAN Security, Inc. provides cyber security services. It specializes in detection and prevention of advanced bot and malware fraud, protecting the digital advertising ecosystem and enterprise organizations across the globe. The firm's products include MediaGuard and FraudSensor. The company was founded by Michael Tiffany, Dan Kaminsky, Ashur Kalb and Tamer Hassan in 2012 and is headquartered New York, NY. | Director/Board Member | - |
Sevco Security, Inc.
Sevco Security, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Sevco Security, Inc. provides cyber security services. The company was founded by Jaffrey Guy and Greg Fitzgerald in 2020 and is headquartered in Austin, TX. | Director/Board Member | - |
SYN Ventures Management LLC
SYN Ventures Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance SYN Ventures Management LLC (SYN Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Jay A Leek and Patrick Heim. The firm is headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida. | Founder | 2020-12-31 |
Blue Lava, Inc.
Blue Lava, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Blue Lava, Inc. develops and operates security platform designed to manage the critical business function of security. The company was founded by Demetrios Lazarikos, Julia Tran, Joinna Melinauskas, and Andy Hoemecke and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA. | Director/Board Member | - |
RegScale, Inc.
RegScale, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services RegScale, Inc. provides a continuous compliance automation platform for highly regulated industries. The company is based in McLean, VA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The platform offers continuous contextual assurance, devops for compliance, integrated risk management, issues management, and cap. It is designed to leverage OSCAL and automation to help customers accelerate their FedRAMP accreditations. RegScale is purpose-built on top of the OSCAL standard to support continuous compliance automation. The company was founded in 2021 by Travis Howerton and Anil Karmel. Anil Karmel has been the CEO since 2021. | Director/Board Member | - |
ShiftLeft, Inc.
ShiftLeft, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services ShiftLeft, Inc. engages in the provision of cloud security solutions. It code property graph, protect, inspect and ocular products. It offers spring-based Java web application with hypertext transfer protocol handlers that a user can trigger from outside. The firm provides solutions for appsec, developers and code auditors. The company was founded by Manish Gupta, Vlad Alexandru Ionescu and Chetan Conikee Sathyanarayana on November 21, 2016 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Director/Board Member | 2022-02-28 |
Phosphorus Cyber Security, Inc.
Phosphorus Cyber Security, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Phosphorus Cyber Security, Inc. is a computational genomics company. The company is based in Carlsbad, CA. The company was founded by Earle W. Ady, Christopher J. Rouland, Rebecca Rouland. Christopher J. Rouland has been the CEO since incorporation. | Director/Board Member | 2022-01-31 |
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Training of Jay Leek
Capella University LLC | Undergraduate Degree |
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Linked companies
Listed companies | 3 |
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EQUIFAX INC. | Commercial Services |
NOKIA OYJ | Electronic Technology |
BLACKSTONE INC. | Finance |
Private companies | 21 |
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ProtectWise, Inc.
ProtectWise, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services ProtectWise, Inc. provides cloud-based network security services. It offers cloud network DVR platform which records and retains network traffic automated analysis and retrospection. The firm also provides time machine analytics and collective noise reduction services. The company was founded by Gene Stevens and Scott Chasin in April 2013 and is headquartered in Denver, CO. | Technology Services |
RedOwl Analytics, Inc.
RedOwl Analytics, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services RedOwl Analytics, Inc. provides security analytics platform. The firm uses machine learning to identify and analyze trends, patterns and anomalies in user behavior within the firm to improve security and oversight. The company was founded by Renny McPherson, Guy L. Filippelli and Les Craig in December 2011 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD. | Technology Services |
ClearSky Power & Technology Partners LLC
ClearSky Power & Technology Partners LLC Investment ManagersFinance ClearSky Power & Technology Partners LLC (ClearSky) is a private equity/venture capital firm co-founded in 2012 by James Huff and Jay Leek. The firm is headquartered in Juno Beach, Florida with offices in New York and San Francisco. | Finance |
HUMAN Security, Inc.
HUMAN Security, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services HUMAN Security, Inc. provides cyber security services. It specializes in detection and prevention of advanced bot and malware fraud, protecting the digital advertising ecosystem and enterprise organizations across the globe. The firm's products include MediaGuard and FraudSensor. The company was founded by Michael Tiffany, Dan Kaminsky, Ashur Kalb and Tamer Hassan in 2012 and is headquartered New York, NY. | Technology Services |
Optiv, Inc.
Optiv, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Optiv, Inc. provides end-to-end cyber security solutions. The company was founded on October 23, 2014 and is headquartered in Denver, CO. | Technology Services |
Verodin, Inc.
Verodin, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Verodin, Inc. engages in the provision of security infrastructure management and monitoring solutions. It develops a platform to test weaknesses in company cybersecurity networks. The company was founded by Christopher Key and Ben Cianciaruso in 2014 and is headquartered in McLean, VA. | Commercial Services |
Intsights Cyber Intelligence Ltd.
Intsights Cyber Intelligence Ltd. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Intsights Cyber Intelligence Ltd. engages in developing a cyber risk analysis system for large enterprises. The system is designed to provide intelligence on potential threats, analyze the possible attack methods, and automatically take appropriate defense measures. The company was founded by Guy Nizan, Alon Arvatz, and Gal Ben David on January 29, 2015 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. | Technology Services |
BigID, Inc.
BigID, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services BigID, Inc. develops software solutions for managing the privacy and protection of personal customer data. It offers subject access, breach response, post DLP discovery, privacy shield, and anonymization and account fraud privacy and protection solutions. The company was founded by Dimitri Sirota and Nimrod Vax and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Technology Services |
CyberGRX, Inc.
CyberGRX, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services CyberGRX, Inc. develops software for cyber risk management services. The firm through its platform, enables enterprises to identify, assess, mitigate, and monitor companies cyber risk exposures. Its solutions include TPCRM, risk insights, and dynamic assessments. The company was founded by Fred H. Kneip in 2015 and is headquartered in Denver, CO. | Technology Services |
Capsule8, Inc.
Capsule8, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Capsule8, Inc. offers attack protection for linux production environments. Its products include attack responsiveness, workflow integration, stability and reliability. The company was founded by John Viega, Dino Dai Zovi, Brandon Edwards and Pete Markowsky in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Technology Services |
Respond Software LLC
Respond Software LLC Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Respond Software, Inc. develops enterprise-scale security software. The firm offers Respond Analyst, a self-driving security operations center SOC that automatically diagnoses and escalates incidents in the areas of an expert system. The company was founded by Mike Armistead, Chris Calvert and Robert Hipps in 2016 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. | Technology Services |
ShiftLeft, Inc.
ShiftLeft, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services ShiftLeft, Inc. engages in the provision of cloud security solutions. It code property graph, protect, inspect and ocular products. It offers spring-based Java web application with hypertext transfer protocol handlers that a user can trigger from outside. The firm provides solutions for appsec, developers and code auditors. The company was founded by Manish Gupta, Vlad Alexandru Ionescu and Chetan Conikee Sathyanarayana on November 21, 2016 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Technology Services |
Intsights Cyber Intelligence, Inc.
Intsights Cyber Intelligence, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Intsights Cyber Intelligence, Inc. engages in the provision of all-in-one external threat protection suite designed to neutralize cyberattacks outside the wire. Its products include threat command, threat intelligence platform, threat orchestration, and treat research. It also offers solutions such as dark web monitoring; digital footprint visibility; data and credential leakage; proactive compliance and risk management; active directory integration; blocking and blacklisting; IOC enrichment; takedowns; brand protection; VIP and executive protection; fraud detection; and phishing protection. It serves banking and financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, oil and gas, retail and e-commerce, and gaming and leisure industries. The company was founded by Alon Arvatz, Gal Ben David and Guy Nizan in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Technology Services |
CloudKnox Security, Inc.
CloudKnox Security, Inc. Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services CloudKnox Security, Inc. operates as an infrastructure authorization administration company. The firm provides a single platform that manages the identity privilege life cycle across any private and public cloud. It also enables organizations to reduce risk against compromised credentials, accidents, and malicious insiders. The company was founded by Balaji Parimi and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. | Technology Services |
SecZetta, Inc.
SecZetta, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services SecZetta, Inc. provides employee management services. It offers identity advisory services and identity implementation & managed services. The firm offers services to retail, healthcare, financial services and higher education industries. The company was founded by David Pignolet in 2006 and is headquartered in Newport, RI. | Technology Services |
Blue Lava, Inc.
Blue Lava, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Blue Lava, Inc. develops and operates security platform designed to manage the critical business function of security. The company was founded by Demetrios Lazarikos, Julia Tran, Joinna Melinauskas, and Andy Hoemecke and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA. | Technology Services |
Phosphorus Cyber Security, Inc.
Phosphorus Cyber Security, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Phosphorus Cyber Security, Inc. is a computational genomics company. The company is based in Carlsbad, CA. The company was founded by Earle W. Ady, Christopher J. Rouland, Rebecca Rouland. Christopher J. Rouland has been the CEO since incorporation. | Commercial Services |
Sevco Security, Inc.
Sevco Security, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Sevco Security, Inc. provides cyber security services. The company was founded by Jaffrey Guy and Greg Fitzgerald in 2020 and is headquartered in Austin, TX. | Technology Services |
SYN Ventures Management LLC
SYN Ventures Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance SYN Ventures Management LLC (SYN Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Jay A Leek and Patrick Heim. The firm is headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida. | Finance |
RegScale, Inc.
RegScale, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services RegScale, Inc. provides a continuous compliance automation platform for highly regulated industries. The company is based in McLean, VA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The platform offers continuous contextual assurance, devops for compliance, integrated risk management, issues management, and cap. It is designed to leverage OSCAL and automation to help customers accelerate their FedRAMP accreditations. RegScale is purpose-built on top of the OSCAL standard to support continuous compliance automation. The company was founded in 2021 by Travis Howerton and Anil Karmel. Anil Karmel has been the CEO since 2021. | Technology Services |
Revelstoke, Inc.
Revelstoke, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Revelstoke, Inc. is a company that provides a security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) solution to empower CISOs and security analysts. The company is based in San Jose, CA. The company's platform allows for the automation of analysis, optimization of workflows, and scaling of processes without the need for software development. Additionally, their solution prevents vendor lock and offers no-code automation and low-code customization. Revelstoke was founded by Josh McCarthy and Bob Kruse, with Bob Kruse serving as CEO since incorporation. | Technology Services |
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