OF

Oliver Friedrichs

Protecting the future

Palo Alto, California

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  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Work Experience

  • General Manager, AI Detection and Response

    2025

    CrowdStrike AI Detection and Response empowers security teams to secure AI from cloud to code. Organizations can enable secure workforce AI use and ship secure AI applications faster with the industry's most comprehensive set of AI guardrails.

2021 - 2025

  • Founder and CEO

    2021 - 2025

    Pangea stops GenAI security threats ranging from prompt injection to sensitive data leakage, covers 8 out of 10 OWASP Top Ten Risks for LLMs, and accelerates engineering velocity while unlocking AI runtime visibility and control for security teams. Now a part of CrowdStrike!

2018 - 2021

  • VP, Security Products

    2018 - 2021

  • Founder and CEO

    2014 - 2018

    Phantom pioneered the SOAR space as the industry's first commercial SOAR platform built in collaboration with NSA and JHU APL. Acquired by Splunk (now a part of Cisco).

2011 - 2014

  • SVP, Cloud Technology and Strategy

    2011 - 2014

2008 - 2010

  • Founder and CEO

    2008 - 2010

    Immunet developed one of the industry's first cloud-based EDR platforms to discover, detect, and remove advanced malware. Acquired by Sourcefirce (now a part of Cisco).

2002 - 2008

  • Director, Emerging Technologies

    2002 - 2008

  • Co-founder and Director of Engineering

    1999 - 2002

    Built the first global cyber early warning system, DeepSight. Created the DeepSight Threat Analyst team providing thorough analysis of emerging vulnerabilities and malicious code. Acquired by Symantec.

1998 - 1999

  • Senior Manager

    1998 - 1999

  • Co-founder and VP of Engineering

    1996 - 1998

    Co-founder and Vice President of Engineering at Secure Networks, Inc., acquired by McAfee in 1998. Architected and managed the CyberCop Vulnerability Management solutions. Acquired by McAfee.