On a mission to
‍secure the internet and protect consumer data

Christina Cacioppo is the CEO and co-founder of Vanta,  the leading AI-powered Trust Management platform backed by Sequoia Capital, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs. Christina founded Vanta in 2018 after experiencing firsthand the manual and time consuming process of getting SOC 2 during her time leading Dropbox Paper.

Today, over 12,000 companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust—all in a way that's real-time and transparent. Prior to founding Vanta, Christina led product management for Dropbox Paper and was a member of the investment team for Union Square Ventures. Christina received her B.A. in Economics and M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

Stevie oversees Vanta’s go-to-market team to support the company’s rapid growth. Stevie brings over 15 years of sales and business development experience to the new role, most recently serving as Vice President of Mid-Market Sales at Twilio, a market-leading cloud communications platform.

Joining as one of their first account executives, Stevie played a pivotal role in establishing Twilio’s enterprise business with key Fortune 500 customers, generating more than $400 million in annual recurring revenue. She helped to grow the sales team from a dozen to over 1,000 team members. Stevie also supports startups, serving as an angel investor and advisor for the past decade.

David Eckstein is the Chief Financial Officer of Vanta, leading finance and accounting. With nearly a decade of security experience, David most recently served as CFO of Menlo Security, Inc., overseeing finance, accounting, human resources, recruiting, and legal. During his tenure, he raised over $200 million across three rounds of financing and helped the company expand to over 10 countries.

Prior to Menlo Security, David was the Head of Finance for Cisco Cloud Security, via its acquisition of OpenDNS. David began his career as a technology, media and telecommunications banker at Barclays in New York and has a BSBA from Washington University and MSc in Finance from the London School of Economics.

Scott Holden is Vanta's Chief Marketing Officer, leading Vanta’s efforts to expand global awareness of its market-leading trust management platform.

With 20 years of marketing leadership at high-growth SaaS companies including Brex, ThoughtSpot, and Salesforce, Scott has driven category creation in competitive, fast-evolving markets. During his tenure as CMO at Brex, Scott evolved the company’s brand into the leading AI-powered spend platform including Brex’s high-impact brand campaigns featuring companies like DoorDash, Robinhood, and the Boston Celtics. Prior to Brex, Scott served as CMO and Head of GTM at ThoughtSpot and held multiple marketing leadership roles at Salesforce, including VP of Marketing for the Salesforce Platform, Sales Cloud and Chatter. Scott has a B.A. in Economics and Philosophy from Colgate University and an MBA in Marketing from Stanford University.

Jeremy Epling is Vanta’s Chief Product Officer overseeing engineering, product and design. Bringing over two decades of building to Vanta, Jeremy joins Vanta from GitHub where he was VP, Product for Actions, Codespaces, npm, Packages, leading all things Code to Cloud. During his tenure, Jeremy more than quadrupled the engineering, product and design teams, as GitHub Actions scaled from zero to millions of global developers. He also led GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Packages, and npm, delivering security features such as supply chain security, improving and requiring MFA, and new provenance capabilities for npm.

Prior to GitHub, Jeremy spent over 16 years at Microsoft, last serving as Principal Group Product Manager for Azure, empowering developers to continuously build, test, and deploy to any platform or cloud. He studied Computer Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Jadee is Vanta's Chief Information Security Officer leading the organization's security program and overseeing Security, Enterprise Engineering and Privacy, Risk and Compliance (PRC). Prior to joining Vanta, Jadee served as CISO and CIO for Code42, where she elevated the Security team within Code42, helping internal teams and customers adopt right-sized risk management and increasing the company’s cyber detection, response, and recovery capabilities.

Previously, Jadee held a number of senior leadership roles in the security department of Target Corporation including serving as the security leader for the acquisition of software development and online retail companies, and the sale of Target Pharmacies to CVS Health. Before joining Target, Jadee worked at Deloitte as a security consultant for companies across diverse industries such as healthcare, manufacturing energy, retail and more. Hanson received her Bachelor of Science, Information Systems from the University of North Dakota.

Ari Shahdadi is Vanta's Chief People and Legal Officer overseeing all aspects of People, HR and Legal.

Prior to Vanta Ari held a number of senior executive roles including as the General Counsel of Capsule, the COO of Enigma Technologies, the SVP, Global Head of Business Development and Partnerships at BuzzFeed, and the General Counsel of Tumblr. Prior to Tumblr, Ari was a corporate lawyer at Gunderson Dettmer, a patent litigator at Fish & Richardson (including while getting his JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School), a software engineer, and an artificial intelligence student researcher at MIT, where he received his SB and MEng in Computer Science, studying under the late Patrick Henry Winston.