Kevin O’Brien

Kevin has a 20+ year background in the cybersecurity industry, beginning in the late 1990s with the security firm @stake (acquired by Symantec in 2004), where he directly contributed to enterprise security projects, reverse engineering, and penetration testing.

Kevin has held multiple senior executive roles in Boston-area startups over the past 15 years, as well as early roles at QAS (acquired by Experian in 2004), Contact Networks (acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2007), @stake (acquired by Cisco in 2016). He was CEO and co-founder of the first integrated cloud email security solution, GreatHorn, sold to private equity in 2022. He is a frequent speaker, commentator, and author within the security industry, and has appeared both regionally and nationally to discuss data security and privacy issues. Kevin holds a BA from the University of Massachusetts in Philosophy.

He is currently the CEO of DeepKeel AI, an early-stage and stealth new venture in the security space.