Michael Brown Joins Strider Technologies’ Board of Directors

Brown brings decades of experience as Director of DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit and CEO of Symantec to fast-growing strategic intelligence firm

Salt Lake City,December 7, 2022 -- Strider Technologies, Inc. ("Strider"), the leading provider of Strategic Intelligence, today announced that former Department of Defense (DoD) official and corporate chief executive Michael Brown is joining their Board of Directors. In this role, Brown will support and provide guidance to the Strider executive team as the company rapidly scales operations to enable more organizations to protect their talent, technology, and supply chains and compete in this new environment of global geopolitical competition.

“Michael Brown is one of our nation’s premier security leaders and has a unique understanding of the role innovation and industry can play in protecting our people, businesses, and national security,” said Greg Levesque, CEO and co-founder of Strider. “More importantly, he knows what it takes to build a culture that delivers cutting-edge solutions to address important global challenges. We’re fortunate to have him on our board, and I look forward to collaborating with him to advance our mission.”

“Strider provides game-changing intelligence solutions to government, private industry, and research institutions, which are under constant attack from nation-states seeking to steal their technology, recruit their talent, and compromise their supply chains,” said Michael Brown. “Strider’s work is essential to curbing the technology and talent loss that threatens the competitiveness of individual organizations and, ultimately, the free world. I look forward to supporting the Strider team.” 

Most recently, Brown served as the Director of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) from 2018 to 2022. As director, he spearheaded the unit’s efforts to field leading-edge commercial capabilities to the military and strengthen the U.S. national security innovation base.

Before joining DIU, Brown served as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow at the DoD. In this role, he co-authored the Pentagon study on China’s participation in the U.S. venture ecosystem, a catalyst for the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA). 

Earlier in his career, Brown spent two decades as a corporate executive at leading computer storage and security software providers. From 2014 to 2016, he was the CEO of Symantec, where he led a turnaround focusing on its security business, sold its storage software business, hired a new executive leadership team, and led the articulation of a new company culture.

Currently, Brown is a visiting scholar at The Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a venture partner at Shield Capital, a VC firm that invests in companies building solutions in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, space, and autonomy for commercial and government enterprises. 

About Strider
Strider is revolutionizing the way companies, universities, research institutions, and government agencies protect their innovation and compete in a new era of global strategic competition. Our trailblazing technology and intelligence solutions enable clients to proactively identify, manage, and respond to nation-state-directed IP theft and supply chain vulnerabilities. Strider has operations in Salt Lake City, Washington, D.C., and London.

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