Our Leadership

Corey E. Thomas

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Corey Thomas is the CEO of Rapid7, as well as the chairman of its board of directors. In 2021, Corey became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was appointed class-C director and deputy chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He also serves on the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts board of directors, LPL Financial board of directors, and Vanderbilt University board of trust. He is an active angel investor to technology companies, advisor to organizations undergoing technology transformation, and sought-after speaker and panelist. He previously served on the US Commerce Department's Digital Economy Board of Advisors. Corey has extensive experience leading technology companies to the next stage of growth and innovation. Prior to joining Rapid7, Corey spent time at Parallels, Inc., Microsoft, Deloitte Consulting, and AT&T. Corey received a B.E. in electrical engineering and computer science from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Andrew Burton

President & Chief Operating Officer

Andrew leads Rapid7’s go-to-market initiatives including global sales, marketing, customer engagement, consulting, and IT functions. Previously, he was the CEO of Logentries, a leading provider of scalable, real-time machine data search and analytics technology, acquired by Rapid7 in October 2015. Prior to Logentries, Andrew was SVP of products and engineering at LogMeIn, Inc., where he played an instrumental role in leading the company from venture-backed startup through a successful IPO and on to a high-growth public company. Andrew also held senior product and go-to-market roles at Symantec Corporation, IMLogic, Inc. and Groove Networks. Andrew earned a B.S. from Oregon State University, a MSc Information Systems from University College Dublin, and a MBA from Boston College.

Tas Giakouminakis

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Tas leads the development and integration of Rapid7’s award-winning solutions, driving the technical direction to enable customers through quality, simplicity, and innovation. Prior to founding Rapid7, Tas helped form Percussion Software, where he led the development of Percussion's first product. He has also developed software in the security and risk areas for CitiCorp.

Tim Adams

Chief Financial Officer

Tim is the Chief Financial Officer at Rapid7. Working in concert with the other members of the leadership team, his extensive experience is instrumental in fortifying and scaling the company in its mission to provide the best in security operations.

Tim brings more than a decade of financial leadership experience in the technology industry, most recently serving as CFO of BitSight Technologies. He previously served as CFO of ObsEva SA, Demandware, Inc., and athenahealth, Inc. Tim began his career in public accounting at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, formerly Price Waterhouse. He holds a B.S. in accounting from Murray State University and an MBA from Boston University.

Christina Luconi

Chief People Officer

Christina leads Rapid7's strategic people initiatives, focusing on the entire employee lifecycle. She has a leading approach to human resources and a strong commitment to recruiting stellar talent, corporate culture, and acquisition integration. Prior to joining Rapid7, Christina was the founder of People Innovations, a consulting firm focused on the creation of innovative people strategies. Her other previous positions include chief people officer at @stake (a professional services security firm she helped build that was eventually acquired by Symantec), and VP of people strategy at Sapient Corporation. She holds a B.A. in psychology from George Washington University and a M.S. in organizational administration from Boston University.

Larry D'Angelo

Chief Customer Officer

Larry is the Chief Customer Officer at Rapid7, leading the end-to-end customer lifecycle, across new customer sales, customer onboarding, health and retention, customer support and services, and customer expansion. Larry brings more than 25 years of experience in building and scaling successful global go-to-market teams across these areas.

Prior to joining Rapid7, Larry served as a Senior Advisor at numerous software companies and private equity firms, including Cove Hill Partners, Sixth Street Growth, and ZipRecruiter. He also served on the board of directors at Notarize, and stepped in as President to help the company hire its executive team and drive new customer acquisition. Before operating as an advisor, Larry served as Chief Sales Officer of LogMeIn for over 8 years, where he helped the company grow from $100M in revenue to $1.4B.

Larry holds a B.S. in Optical Engineering from the University of Rochester.

Jaya Baloo

Chief Security Officer

Jaya Baloo is an information security professional with more than 20 years’ experience leading and contributing to secure network architecture. As Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Rapid7, Jaya leads the efforts to evolve and mature the company’s internal security program, engages with customers as well as with the wider security community, and collaborates across all Rapid7 teams to develop and showcase security best practices.

Before joining Rapid7, Jaya was CISO at Avast and at KPN, the largest telecommunications carrier in the Netherlands, where she established and led its security team to create world class best practices in strategy and policy. Jaya has also been a faculty member of Singularity University since 2017, where she regularly lectures.

Jaya sits on the advisory boards of the NL’s National Cyber Security Centre, PQCrypto, and the EU Quantum Flagship’s Strategic Advisory Board. She serves on the audit committee of TIIN capital, a cybersecurity fund, and is also a board member of the RvT of the Dutch Broadcasting station, the NOS. She is recognized within the list of top 100 CISOs globally.

Kathy Klingler

Chief Marketing Officer

Kathy is the Chief Marketing Officer at Rapid7. She drives the company’s global marketing strategy and integrated marketing programs for its portfolio of leading products and services spanning brand, corporate communications, demand generation, digital marketing, events, and customer experience.

Kathy brings more than 25 years of experience across brand management, product marketing, lead generation, digital and artificial-intelligence (AI) transformation, customer experience, communications, public relations, and community relations.

Prior to joining Rapid7, Kathy was the Chief Consumer Experience and Marketing Officer for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA), driving the execution of brand positioning, digital and AI transformation, product marketing, and consumer experience. Before that, she served as SVP and Chief Marketing Officer at Kaplan Higher Education. She also previously served as EVP and Chief Marketing Officer for Santander Bank, leading the U.S. rebrand and business transformation from Sovereign Bank to Santander.

Kathy also serves on the executive board of Horizons for Homeless Children, the board of National Public Radio in Boston (WGBH), and the Ad Club of Massachusetts.

Lisa Agrella

Senior Vice President, Business Operations

Lisa leads the Go-To-Customer Operations, Business Planning, and Revenue Achievement teams at Rapid7, all of which are chartered to support and activate high customer achievement and revenue growth. She brings more than 20 years of leadership experience focused on analytics, process re-engineering, revenue operations, and strategic planning. Prior to joining Rapid7, Lisa was the Vice President of sales and revenue operations in several high technology companies focused on driving success across all levels of customer segments. She has held roles in the Fortune 500 space as well as emerging software companies where she was able to build a sustainable infrastructure for growth in the go-to-customer area. Lisa earned her Bachelor's degree from Syracuse University and holds an MBA from Southern New Hampshire University.

David Boffa

Senior Vice President, Commercial Sales

Dave leads the commercial sales organization at Rapid7 where he is responsible for leading the go-to-market and growth of the commercial sales business. He began his career at Rapid7 ten years ago as the Director of East Coast Sales before quickly being promoted to Vice President of the Americas where he helped lead the company to $100M in sales and bring the company public in 2015. He also played an important role in Rapid7's newly-formed IDR organization in 2017 and helped it quickly become a significant contributor to the company’s overall success. Prior to joining Rapid7, he spent eight years at Oracle in various sales roles. Dave is a graduate of Boston College.

Jeremiah Dewey

Senior Vice President, Managed Services Delivery

Jeremiah leads Rapid7's Managed Services Delivery practice. This includes overseeing operations teams for the Managed Services offerings, Strategic Consulting services, and Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) partner strategy. Prior to joining Rapid7, he served as a Vice President in Stroz Friedberg’s Incident Response practice and led FireEye’s Managed Services business for the Americas. Earlier in his career, Jeremiah supported the United States Government. During this tenure, he consulted with SAIC and Booz Allen, and served as a program leader for various federal agencies. He holds a B.A. from Fairleigh Dickinson University, an MBA from the University of Massachusetts, and an M.S. in Cybersecurity from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Raisa Litmanovich

Senior Vice President & General Counsel

Raisa leads our legal team and is responsible for the strategic direction and coordination of Rapid7’s legal affairs worldwide, including contracting, licensing, strategic intellectual property creation and protection, employment law, data privacy, compliance and corporate governance. Raisa joined Rapid7 in 2015 and established Rapid7’s compliance and capital markets internal capabilities after guiding the company through a successful IPO. Prior to joining Rapid7, Raisa was a corporate and securities attorney at the Boston offices of the law firm Cooley LLP where she represented and counseled public and private technology companies in securities and capital markets transactions, securities compliance, venture capital financings, M&A, and corporate governance. She received a B.A. in women’s studies from University of Wisconsin - Madison and a J.D. from Boston College Law School.

Conan Reidy

Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategic Alliances

Conan drives Rapid7's technology partnership strategy, including customer-value-driven integrations and acquisitions. Prior to joining Rapid7, he held similar positions at Zendesk and LogMeIn, where he helped both companies reach the public markets and subsequently grow through acquisition to achieve multi-billion dollar valuations. Earlier in his career, he managed alliances for IMlogic and then for Symantec, which acquired IMlogic in 2006. Conan got his start in software at Plumtree Software, running the business development function from pre-revenue through IPO in 2002. He holds a B.A. in business administration from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business.

Jen Renna

Senior Vice President, Customer Success

Jen leads global customer achievement for Rapid7, including Customer Success Management, technical customer success and our customer advisors organizations with the mission to deliver on our customers security outcomes. Jen brings more than 20 years of experience to Rapid7 in sales, account management and customer success. Prior to Rapid 7, Jen built scalable global teams to support and service Fortune 500 customers in her prior leadership roles at eBay, Acquia & Zeta Global. Jen holds a B.A. in Psychology from Smith College.

Pete Rubio

SVP, Platform

Pete leads the Platform Practice at Rapid7, driving new avenues of growth for the Insight platform.  Pete brings a passion for developing people and technology alongside a track record of running high trust, high energy teams that are driven by empowering customer success.  He possesses more than 20 years of leadership in software development spanning product development, design, product management, operations and security. 

Prior to joining Rapid7, Pete most recently served as the Vice President of Cloud Platform Development at IBM, leading the global team responsible for developing and operating the services at the core of the IBM Cloud. Across his prior executive leadership roles, Pete has driven innovation and growth to provide deep integration, seamless user experience, scale and resiliency.  Pete holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Florida.

Raj Samani

Senior Vice President & Chief Scientist

Raj Samani is a computer security expert responsible for extending the scope and reach of Rapid7’s research initiatives. Raj joins Rapid7 from McAfee where he served as McAfee Fellow and Chief Scientist after serving as VP and Chief Technical Officer in EMEA. Raj has assisted multiple law enforcement agencies in cybercrime cases, and is special advisor to the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) in The Hague.

Raj has been recognized for his contribution to the computer security industry through numerous awards, including the Infosecurity Europe hall of Fame, Peter Szor award, Intel Achievement Award, among others. Raj is also the co-author of the book 'Applied Cyber Security and the Smart Grid', CSA Guide to Cloud computing, as well as technical editor for numerous other publications.

Cynthia Stanton

SVP, Customer and Product Marketing

Cindy Stanton leads the VRM Practice at Rapid7, which includes product, engineering, and go-to-customer, in support of the vulnerability management, application security, and offensive security solutions. Prior to Practice Leader for VRM, she led Product Marketing.

Before joining Rapid7, Cindy developed the Public Cloud and Federal Government business at Qualys. She also led Commercial Product Management at Alert Logic, developing SaaS and managed services to secure public cloud and hybrid workloads. Prior to Alert Logic, she spent 10 years in global product management at Verizon Business building out the Security Services portfolio. She began her career in security as the Operations Director at a boutique security firm in London providing application assessment and managed security services to financial services, oil and gas, and retail organizations.

Cindy has an A.B. degree from Dartmouth College in Biology and a Masters of Engineering degree from the Engineering Systems Division at MIT. Cindy lives in Washington, DC with her husband, two daughters and her stepson.

Corey E. Thomas

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Corey Thomas is the CEO of Rapid7, as well as the chairman of its board of directors. In 2021, Corey became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was appointed class-C director and deputy chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He also serves on the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts board of directors, LPL Financial board of directors, and Vanderbilt University board of trust. He is an active angel investor to technology companies, advisor to organizations undergoing technology transformation, and sought-after speaker and panelist. He previously served on the US Commerce Department's Digital Economy Board of Advisors. Corey has extensive experience leading technology companies to the next stage of growth and innovation. Prior to joining Rapid7, Corey spent time at Parallels, Inc., Microsoft, Deloitte Consulting, and AT&T. Corey received a B.E. in electrical engineering and computer science from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Michael J. Berry

Director

Mike Berry is currently the executive vice president and chief financial officer for cloud data services provider NetApp®. He also serves on the board of directors of FinancialForce.com, Inc., a cloud-based applications company, and as chair of its audit committee. He has served as executive vice president and chief financial officer for McAfee, LLC, and held similar C-suite positions at FireEye and Informatica before that. Mike has also held financial leadership positions at IO Data Centers, SolarWinds, Inc., and i2 Technologies, Inc. His education includes earning a B.A. in finance from Augsburg College and an M.B.A. in finance from the University of St. Thomas. Mike Berry has served as a member of the Rapid7 board of directors since November 2012. He currently holds the position of Audit Committee Chairman.

Marc Brown

Director

Marc is currently partner and global head of EQT Growth at EQT Group, where his technology experience informs strategic decision-making at the investment organization. Additionally, he is a partner at Union Bay, LLC, a private investment firm. Previously, he was corporate vice president of corporate development at Microsoft Corporation. While there, Marc led acquisitions that included LinkedIn, GitHub, and Minecraft. He also made notable strategic investments into companies such as Flipkart, Databricks, and Graphcore. He holds an A.B. in economics from Colgate University, an MBA from the New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business, and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Marc Brown has served as a member of the Rapid7 board of directors since July 2016.

Judy Bruner

Director

Judy served as the executive vice president, administration and chief financial officer of SanDisk Corp, a supplier of flash storage products, from June 2004 until its acquisition by Western Digital Corporation in mid-2016. She currently serves on the board of directors of Applied Materials, Inc., a publicly traded semiconductor manufacturer and as chair of its corporate governance and nominating committee and as a member of its audit committee. In addition, Judy serves on the board of directors of Seagate Technology plc, a publicly traded provider of storage solutions, and as a chair of its audit committee and a member of its nominating and governance committee. Judy also serves on the board of directors of Qorvo, Inc., an American semiconductor company that designs, manufactures, and supplies radio-frequency systems for applications. Judy holds a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and a MBA from the University of Santa Clara. Judy Bruner has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2016.

Ben Holzman

Director

Ben is a partner at Venture Guides, an early-stage investment firm. He previously served as the CFO of Artemis Health, COO at MX Technologies and as a managing director at Bain Capital Venture Partners, LLC, where he also served on the boards of several technology companies. Ben received a B.S.E. in biomedical and electrical engineering from Duke University and a MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Ben Holzman has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2008 and holds the position of Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

Christina Kosmowski

Director

Christina is CEO of LogicMonitor, where she also previously served as President. Prior to joining LogicMonitor, she was VP, Global Head of Customer Success and Services of Slack Technologies, Inc. for four years. From May 2002 to February 2017, Christina was employed by Salesforce.com, Inc., where she served most recently as SVP, Revenue Lifecycle Management and Customer Success. Christina received a B.S. in industrial engineering from Northwestern University.

Christina Kosmowski has served as a member of our board of directors since July 2019.

Ben Nye

Lead Independent Director

Ben is a partner at Venture Guides, an early-stage investment firm. His previous positions include leading the technology and infrastructure investing efforts for Bain Capital Venture Partners, SVP at Veritas Software Corporation, COO and CFO of Precise Software Solutions, Ltd., and director of SolarWinds. Ben received a B.A. in government from Harvard College and a MBA from Harvard Business School. J. Benjamin Nye has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2008 and holds the position of Chairman of the Compensation Committee.

Tom Schodorf

Director

Tom is the founder of View Consulting, an advisory firm for technology companies, and an author. Previously, Tom served as SVP, field operations of Splunk, Inc., a provider of log management and analytic systems software. Prior to that, Tom served as VP and general manager of BMC Software, Inc.’s Identity Business Unit. He currently serves on the board of directors of Tufin and is a member of the audit committee. In addition, Tom serves on the boards of directors for Egnyte, Inc., Outsystems, and Kaseya. Tom holds a B.S.B.A. from The Ohio State University and a MBA from the University of Dayton.

Tom Schodorf has served as a member of our board of directors since July 2016.