Back in 2004, Marcin Kleczynski picked up a nasty malware infection one day while cruising the Internet in search of video games. This despite having a big-name paid antivirus in place.
It was the family computer, so his parents said, you have to make this right. No big deal, said Marcin. He worked as a computer tech after school in Chicago. How long could it take to remove a small bit of malicious code?
Try three solid days.
“How long could it take to remove a small bit of malicious code?”
Three days searching the Internet and consulting with other people on security forums like spywareinfoforum.com who had similar problems. Who had also come to the same two conclusions:
So Marcin set out to build a better malware fighter. He taught himself code and eventually engineered a small but highly effective anti-malware tool called Rogue Remover that quickly became popular in the security community.
More importantly, in this community Marcin discovered like-minded security gurus and malware hunters. They battled malicious code, traded malware intel, and helped desperate folks who came to the message boards. And they were coming up with outside-the-box answers to the new threats that gave traditional antivirus a hard time. On their own dime and their own time.
“Marcin discovered like-minded security gurus and malware hunters.”
Today, threats have mutated far beyond simple viruses. Cryptojackers turn your browser into a bitcoin-mining operation while ransomware locks data files, paralyzing businesses and national infrastructure all over the world. And malicious code is now polymorphic, constantly shape shifting to elude detection by traditional antivirus and their old signature-based technology.
So now it takes a hacker to beat a hacker.
It's this hacker's mentality that has made Malwarebytes one of the most trusted names in cybersecurity. Our team of more than 600 malware hunters, software engineers, and security industry veterans has been awarded six patents for our innovative technology. And our tech is validated by the results—millions of folks and businesses worldwide rely on Malwarebytes code to protect what’s important.
But beyond the tech, the team is united behind one simple belief: You and everyone have a right to a malware-free existence.
Malwarebytes is your first line of defense against malware and hackers.
Join the Malwarebytes team in the fight to rid the world of malware, and have a great time doing it.
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Marcin Kleczynski is CEO and co-founder of Malwarebytes, a cybersecurity company specializing in simple, intuitive cyberprotection for both consumer and businesses. Marcin believes everyone deserves the right to be safe online, and stands behind the belief by continuing to offer a free consumer product. As CEO, Marcin has overseen the phenomenal growth of Malwarebytes from a one-man band to a company with over 800 employees and offices across the globe. Today he continues to lead the strategic expansion of the business and guide the long-term vision for the research and development teams. Marcin is recognized as a foremost authority on cyberthreats, receiving numerous awards including the Silicon Valley’s 40 Under 40, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award and the Forbes 30 Under 30.
Tom joined the company in April 2018 and leads finance, accounting, corporate strategy, legal affairs, and workplace operations at Malwarebytes. He has nearly 20 years of leadership experience in high-growth technology businesses in both financial and operating roles. Before Malwarebytes, Tom was CFO of Angie’s List, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANGI) and prior to that he spent over a decade at NAVTEQ Corp. (NYSE: NVT), and later Nokia, where he held executive and managerial roles across sales, product management, strategy, and investor relations. Tom also serves as an advisory board member at privately-held ZYYAH, Inc. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BBA from the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.
Barry Mainz, Chief Operating Officer (COO), leads global operations, sales, marketing, analytics, and customer success for Malwarebytes. In this role, he is responsible for leading customer-facing go-to-market strategies, operations, and activities, accelerating growth across our Consumer and Corporate businesses. Barry brings more than 25 years of experience in global sales, marketing, customer operations, and product development to Malwarebytes. He has held numerous executive leadership roles, including CEO, President, COO, CRO as well as advisory and board positions at private and public companies such as MobileIron, WindRiver (an Intel subsidiary), Makara (acquired by RedHat), and Sun Microsystems.
Mark Strassman joined Malwarebytes as the company’s Chief Product Officer in January 2020 to lead product and design. Mark brings a focus on customer empathy – anticipating user needs and delivering delightful experiences, while building and executing on strategies to meet emerging market trends. He comes to Malwarebytes from LogMeIn, where he was General Manager of their Unified Communication and Collaboration business unit, delivering the industry-leading GoTo product portfolio, serving hundreds of millions of users. Previously, he led BlueJeans’ product, design, and integrated portfolio strategy to transform from a video transcoding service to a communications and collaboration platform focused on end-user love and IT trust. Mark has also held senior leadership positions at Blackboard, Autodesk, Adobe Systems, and Macromedia. Mark holds a master’s degree from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University.
Camellia joined the company in 2018 and leads candidate and employee experience at Malwarebytes. She brings extensive human resources leadership experience that spans private and public technology companies, including compensation, and international business, insurance and employment law.
Greg is a Silicon Valley technology executive who brings more than 25 years of experience driving technology vision, strategy, global operations management, acquisition integration and scalable business growth. As Malwarebytes CIO, Greg oversees company security, business applications and information technology. Prior to joining Malwarebytes, he was CIO of Marketo, where he helped navigate a successful IPO and sale to Vista Equity Partners for $1.8 billion.
Adam Hyder, Senior Vice President of Engineering, drives Malwarebytes’ product development, innovation strategy, vision, engineering, and cloud operations, ensuring the company continues to make the world safer and more secure through innovations on its cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions. Adam has a proven track record of successfully bringing large-scale consumer and SaaS products to market and accelerating growth. Prior to Malwarebytes, Adam was EVP of Engineering at BlueJeans Network. He also served as the CTO of Jobvite and as the CTO of Yahoo HotJobs. Adam started his career with Sun Microsystems, where he worked on Java technologies in its early days.
Pedro envisions the future of advancements and threats that will impact the industry while leading his innovative team of engineers and developers to find proactive solutions. Pedro joined Malwarebytes in 2013 and was the co-founder of the company's anti-exploit technology.
Fernando leads business and corporate development, focusing on the company’s worldwide market penetration. Since joining Malwarebytes in 2011, he has helped the company expand globally, opening our office in Estonia, and driving business growth through strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions.
Jamie joined the company in 2016 and leads the worldwide support and services teams at Malwarebytes. In this role, she is responsible for the strategy and creation of the experience for current customers around support, customer education and technical account management. She brings more than 15 years of experience to this role and focuses on creating great customer experiences.
Marcin is the founder of Malwarebytes. He oversees the strategic expansion of the business, as well as the long-term vision for the research and development teams. Marcin has been recognized for his work in cybersecurity, receiving the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, and being named to the Forbes 30 Under 30.
Alex is COO of AutoLoop, a leading-edge SaaS provider of deep marketing and software services for the automotive industry. He has served on the board of several technology companies, including BlueStripe Software (acquired by Microsoft) and StopBadware, and was chairman of the board at Runaware. Previously, Alex was the president of the security business unit for GFI Software.
Brooke joined NEA in 2005 as a Venture Partner, focusing on software, systems, and Internet investments. He brings 30-plus years of experience in technology finance and operations. Brooke currently serves on the board of directors of Tableau Software, Lithium Technologies, SugarCRM, Technical Communities, and NVIDIA.
Justin has long been recognized as an industry leader in cybersecurity. He's served as an advisor to several companies, including Raytheon, Verasynth, and SentinelOne. Prior to joining SAP, he was CISO at Yahoo!, where he was responsible for the company's information security strategy. Before that, he was CISO at Symantec and VeriSign.
One of the original creators of the core technology in Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Doug is a founder and partner at Zipline Scientific Consulting, focused on data-driven decision making, data analysis, machine learning, and quantitative problem-solving. He was formerly a research physicist with experience in theoretical and experimental physics, specializing in computational modeling and numerical simulation.
Gary founded Proofpoint in 2002 and led its rise from an early-stage start-up to a leading security-as-a-service provider, successfully going IPO in 2012. Prior to that, Gary was CEO at Portera, an early stage private SaaS company focused on delivering applications to the professional services industry.
Carolyn has over 20 years of experience leading high impact marketing organizations and building creative and effective marketing strategies for emerging and established brands.
Most recently, Carolyn was the Chief Marketing Officer at Dropbox where she developed and led its global marketing organization. Her legacy at Dropbox includes developing the company’s iconic, differentiated, and enduring brand; engaging and acquiring customers to drive growth; and, helping successfully execute the company’s IPO.
Carolyn has an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill. She currently serves on the board of directors at 826Valencia and the San Francisco Parks Alliance.
Marcin Kleczynski
Chief Executive Officer
Marcin Kleczynski is CEO and co-founder of Malwarebytes, a cybersecurity company specializing in simple, intuitive cyberprotection for both consumer and businesses. Marcin believes everyone deserves the right to be safe online, and stands behind the belief by continuing to offer a free consumer product. As CEO, Marcin has overseen the phenomenal growth of Malwarebytes from a one-man band to a company with over 800 employees and offices across the globe. Today he continues to lead the strategic expansion of the business and guide the long-term vision for the research and development teams. Marcin is recognized as a foremost authority on cyberthreats, receiving numerous awards including the Silicon Valley’s 40 Under 40, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award and the Forbes 30 Under 30.
Tom Fox
President & Chief Financial Officer
Tom joined the company in April 2018 and leads finance, accounting, corporate strategy, legal affairs, and workplace operations at Malwarebytes. He has nearly 20 years of leadership experience in high-growth technology businesses in both financial and operating roles. Before Malwarebytes, Tom was CFO of Angie’s List, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANGI) and prior to that he spent over a decade at NAVTEQ Corp. (NYSE: NVT), and later Nokia, where he held executive and managerial roles across sales, product management, strategy, and investor relations. Tom also serves as an advisory board member at privately-held ZYYAH, Inc. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BBA from the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.
Barry Mainz
Chief Operating Officer
Barry Mainz, Chief Operating Officer (COO), leads global operations, sales, marketing, analytics, and customer success for Malwarebytes. In this role, he is responsible for leading customer-facing go-to-market strategies, operations, and activities, accelerating growth across our Consumer and Corporate businesses. Barry brings more than 25 years of experience in global sales, marketing, customer operations, and product development to Malwarebytes. He has held numerous executive leadership roles, including CEO, President, COO, CRO as well as advisory and board positions at private and public companies such as MobileIron, WindRiver (an Intel subsidiary), Makara (acquired by RedHat), and Sun Microsystems.
Mark Strassman
Chief Product Officer
Mark Strassman joined Malwarebytes as the company’s Chief Product Officer in January 2020 to lead product and design. Mark brings a focus on customer empathy – anticipating user needs and delivering delightful experiences, while building and executing on strategies to meet emerging market trends. He comes to Malwarebytes from LogMeIn, where he was General Manager of their Unified Communication and Collaboration business unit, delivering the industry-leading GoTo product portfolio, serving hundreds of millions of users. Previously, he led BlueJeans’ product, design, and integrated portfolio strategy to transform from a video transcoding service to a communications and collaboration platform focused on end-user love and IT trust. Mark has also held senior leadership positions at Blackboard, Autodesk, Adobe Systems, and Macromedia. Mark holds a master’s degree from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University.
Camellia Ngo
Chief People Officer
Camellia joined the company in 2018 and leads candidate and employee experience at Malwarebytes. She brings extensive human resources leadership experience that spans private and public technology companies, including compensation, and international business, insurance and employment law.
Greg Higham
Chief Information Officer
Greg is a Silicon Valley technology executive who brings more than 25 years of experience driving technology vision, strategy, global operations management, acquisition integration and scalable business growth. As Malwarebytes CIO, Greg oversees company security, business applications and information technology. Prior to joining Malwarebytes, he was CIO of Marketo, where he helped navigate a successful IPO and sale to Vista Equity Partners for $1.8 billion.
Adam Hyder
Senior Vice President of Engineering
Adam Hyder, Senior Vice President of Engineering, drives Malwarebytes’ product development, innovation strategy, vision, engineering, and cloud operations, ensuring the company continues to make the world safer and more secure through innovations on its cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions. Adam has a proven track record of successfully bringing large-scale consumer and SaaS products to market and accelerating growth. Prior to Malwarebytes, Adam was EVP of Engineering at BlueJeans Network. He also served as the CTO of Jobvite and as the CTO of Yahoo HotJobs. Adam started his career with Sun Microsystems, where he worked on Java technologies in its early days.
Pedro Bustamante
Vice President of Research & Innovation
Pedro envisions the future of advancements and threats that will impact the industry while leading his innovative team of engineers and developers to find proactive solutions. Pedro joined Malwarebytes in 2013 and was the co-founder of the company's anti-exploit technology.
Fernando Francisco
Vice President of Corporate Development & Strategy
Fernando leads business and corporate development, focusing on the company’s worldwide market penetration. Since joining Malwarebytes in 2011, he has helped the company expand globally, opening our office in Estonia, and driving business growth through strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions.
Jamie Hudson
Vice President, Support & Services
Jamie joined the company in 2016 and leads the worldwide support and services teams at Malwarebytes. In this role, she is responsible for the strategy and creation of the experience for current customers around support, customer education and technical account management. She brings more than 15 years of experience to this role and focuses on creating great customer experiences.
Marcin Kleczynski
Marcin is the founder of Malwarebytes. He oversees the strategic expansion of the business, as well as the long-term vision for the research and development teams. Marcin has been recognized for his work in cybersecurity, receiving the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, and being named to the Forbes 30 Under 30.
Alexander Eckelberry
Alex is COO of AutoLoop, a leading-edge SaaS provider of deep marketing and software services for the automotive industry. He has served on the board of several technology companies, including BlueStripe Software (acquired by Microsoft) and StopBadware, and was chairman of the board at Runaware. Previously, Alex was the president of the security business unit for GFI Software.
Brooke Seawell
Brooke joined NEA in 2005 as a Venture Partner, focusing on software, systems, and Internet investments. He brings 30-plus years of experience in technology finance and operations. Brooke currently serves on the board of directors of Tableau Software, Lithium Technologies, SugarCRM, Technical Communities, and NVIDIA.
Justin Somaini
Justin has long been recognized as an industry leader in cybersecurity. He's served as an advisor to several companies, including Raytheon, Verasynth, and SentinelOne. Prior to joining SAP, he was CISO at Yahoo!, where he was responsible for the company's information security strategy. Before that, he was CISO at Symantec and VeriSign.
Doug Swanson
One of the original creators of the core technology in Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Doug is a founder and partner at Zipline Scientific Consulting, focused on data-driven decision making, data analysis, machine learning, and quantitative problem-solving. He was formerly a research physicist with experience in theoretical and experimental physics, specializing in computational modeling and numerical simulation.
Gary Steele
Gary founded Proofpoint in 2002 and led its rise from an early-stage start-up to a leading security-as-a-service provider, successfully going IPO in 2012. Prior to that, Gary was CEO at Portera, an early stage private SaaS company focused on delivering applications to the professional services industry.
Carolyn Feinstein
Carolyn has over 20 years of experience leading high impact marketing organizations and building creative and effective marketing strategies for emerging and established brands.
Most recently, Carolyn was the Chief Marketing Officer at Dropbox where she developed and led its global marketing organization. Her legacy at Dropbox includes developing the company’s iconic, differentiated, and enduring brand; engaging and acquiring customers to drive growth; and, helping successfully execute the company’s IPO.
Carolyn has an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill. She currently serves on the board of directors at 826Valencia and the San Francisco Parks Alliance.
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