Jay Kaplan is the CEO and Co-founder of Synack, the premier crowdsourced platform for on-demand security expertise, which is a four-time CNBC Disruptor 50 award-winner and Gold Medalist in Inc. Magazine’s 2020 Best in Business list. Jay trained as a hacker at the National Security Agency before leaving the government to launch Synack in 2013 with funding from leading Silicon Valley investors such as Ted Schlein of Kleiner Perkins. Today, Synack has raised more than $112 million and backers include B Capital, C5 Capital and GGV Capital. The company protects the largest global banks, federal agencies, DoD classified assets and more than $6 trillion in Fortune 500 and Global 2000 revenue. Jay regularly appears in major news outlets discussing the latest trends in cybersecurity and has been a featured speaker at the major information security conferences such as the RSA Conference, DEF CON and Black Hat.