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Robert R. Ackerman Jr.

Cyber Security Venture Capitalist and Serial Entrepreneur. Member of the Forbes Finance Council.

Fulton, Maryland

Invests in

Sectors:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $3,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $4,000,000.00

Skills

Entrepreneurship
Venture Capital
Strategic Partnerships
Start-ups
Product Management
Mergers & Acquisitions
Business Strategy
Strategy
Strategic Planning
Corporate Development
Investments
Marketing
Management
CEO - Founder
Cyber-security

Education

Work Experience

  • Founder & Managing Director

    1996

    Early-Stage Venture Capital firm focused on cutting-edge Cyber Security and Data Sciences innovation. With a 20 year history of cyber security investing, Allegis was the first dedicated cyber security venture firm in the world and raised the industry's first dedicated cyber security fund.

  • Co-Founder & Member of the Board of Directors

    2016

    DataTribe is a start-up "co-creation" foundry based in Columbia, Maryland. DataTribe teams with technologists to leverage research and development from US National Laboratories and other sources of cutting edge innovation to build disruptive start-ups in the domains of Data, Analytics and Cyber Security.

  • Chairman

    2018

    The Global Cyber Innovation Summit (described as the "Davos of Cybersecurity") is an "invitation-only" gathering of Chief Information Security Officers, industry, policy and government leaders, leading technology innovators and industry investors. The Summit takes place each year in Baltimore, Maryland, ground zero for the largest cyber security community in the world.

  • Official Member of Forbes Finance Council

    2022

  • Executive Chairman

    2015

  • Member Board of Directors

    2023

  • Member Board Of Directors

    2017

    Dragos Inc. is the trusted authority on threats to industrial networks (ICS/IoT). The Dragos Platform is an on-premise or cloud-based security technology that continually and passively collects data to perform asset identification, detects cyber threats through industrial specific behavioral analytics, and enables better efficiency and effectiveness of security personnel through the codification of automated workflows, best practices and incident response procedures. The Dragos Platform is continually enhanced through the Dragos Threat Operations Center, a team of experts providing services that include incident response, threat hunting, and compromise assessments. Both are backed by Dragos Intelligence, which allows for the analysis of adversary intrusions and provides the industry with weekly threat intelligence reports and adds new behavioral analytics to the Dragos Platform

  • Member Board Of Directors

    2021

    Panaseer has been pioneering a totally new category of cybersecurity technology – Continuous Controls Monitoring. In 2020, years of our hard work have been validated as Gartner recognized CCM as a new category in risk management. Panseer's goal is to give enterprise security teams and their stakeholders the insights they need to make risk-informed decisions that will keep their organization and its data secure.

2017

  • Member Board Of Directors

    2017

    Pioneer in Homomorphic Encryption and leader in securing Data in Use.

  • Investor

    2017

    Callsign’s Intelligence Driven Authentication (IDA) consists of passive (intelligence) aspect as well as active (authentication challenge from finger to face) components. It is being deployed by a range of different organizations from tier 1 banks to governments.