ReliaQuest, a global leader in Agentic AI cybersecurity, has appointed Krish Venkataraman as Chief Financial Officer, effective October 5. In the role, Venkataraman will oversee the company’s global finance and accounting organization while supporting its strategic priorities and next phase of growth.
“Krish understands and has a deep appreciation for the problem we solve in AI and cybersecurity,” said Brian Murphy, founder and CEO of ReliaQuest. “His experience leading public and private technology companies, combined with his finance and technology background, will build on our already strong team and support our growth as we help more organizations defend against AI-accelerated threats.”
Venkataraman brings more than two decades of executive leadership experience across public and private companies in cybersecurity, enterprise technology, and financial services. His previous roles include President, CFO, and COO, with a track record of helping businesses scale and prepare for major strategic initiatives and capital-markets milestones.
As Co-President and CFO of KnowBe4, Venkataraman helped guide the company’s substantial expansion, growing annual recurring revenue (ARR) from approximately $10 million to approximately $300 million. He also played a role in taking the company public on Nasdaq in 2021, in what was among the decade’s most successful technology IPOs.
Before joining ReliaQuest, Venkataraman served as CFO at Solink, an AI technology company. He previously held the positions of President at Dataiku and CFO at Socure, both prominent technology companies operating in AI, data, and cybersecurity. Earlier in his career, he held leadership roles at Dealogic, Syncsort, NYSE Euronext, Lehman Brothers, American Express, and Deloitte.
“ReliaQuest is addressing one of the most important challenges facing organizations today: how security teams can keep pace with increasingly sophisticated and AI-accelerated threats,” said Venkataraman. “What attracted me to ReliaQuest is the combination of a critical customer problem, differentiated technology and a clear opportunity to redefine how organizations operate their security programs. GreyMatter brings together the technologies security teams already rely on with agentic AI to help them detect, investigate, and respond more effectively. I’m excited to join the ReliaQuest team and help build on the company’s momentum and expand its impact globally.”
Venkataraman earned an MBA from Cornell University’s S.C. Johnson School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in finance from Carnegie Mellon University. He also serves as a board member and advisor to several companies in cybersecurity, AI, and enterprise technology.
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About ReliaQuest
ReliaQuest is an agentic AI cybersecurity company whose platform, GreyMatter, serves as the Agentic Defense for the enterprise—defending organizations against AI-accelerated attacks. Any defender can harness that AI to detect threats, run investigations, execute response, and hunt across their entire tech stack in plain language without requiring any tool expertise.
GreyMatter makes this possible through three capabilities: the Universal Translator, which automatically normalizes telemetry across any vendor without data centralization; Detection at Source, at Storage, or in Transit, which catches threats where data lives or as it moves before it is ever indexed, parsed, or stored; and Agentic Orchestration, which combines a natural language operating layer, multiple autonomous agentic systems, and an AI Model Broker that continuously selects the best model for every task based on speed, cost, and accuracy.
GreyMatter enables organizations to re-architect their security environment for speed, efficiency, and cost control. ReliaQuest has been making security possible since 2007.
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