Threat Stack scooped up three top Boston tech executives on Thursday as the Cambridge startup continues to build out its team before launching its “continuous security monitoring in the cloud” product commercially in the fall.
Joining the company are Sam Bisbee, Chris Gervais and Pete Cheslock.
“One of the fun things about working at an early-stage company is that we’re not just crafting the message and designing a product. We’re also building the culture,” Threat Stack CEO Doug Cahill told BostInno. “Sam, Chris and Pete are really collaborative, well rounded people that represent that.”
Bisbee will serve as Threat Stack’s chief technology officer after having worked at database-as-a-service company Cloudant as CXO, as well as Bocoup.
Gervais, Threat Stack’s new vice president of engineering, hails from secure medical image sharing platform startup LifeImage; prior to that, he spent time at analytics for insurance software company Enservio as the vice president of engineering.
Cheslock will join the team as its senior director of operations and support. Previously, he held the role of director of DevTools at network traffic solutions company Dyn, and director of technical and cloud operations at cloud email archive platform Sonian.
“This team is a testament to Threat Stack’s unique technology and the big problem that it addresses,” said Chris Lynch, chairman of Threat Stack's board and a partner at Atlas Venture, in a statement. “Elastic and dynamic infrastructures, and the services that run on them, are really difficult to monitor and protect. Threat Stack has cracked the code.”
The startup raised a seed round of $1.2 million in fall of 2013, and soon launched a private beta of its hallmark product, Cloud Sights, to help customers secure services on Amazon's infrastructure as well as other cloud providers like Rackspace.
Later, in April, Threat Stack raised another $2.7 million in Series A, at which point it brought on Cahill, former vice president of corporate business development at file-sharing company Signiant and security software firm Bit9, as CEO.
“Our beta has been so successful that it was an appropriate time to put more money into the business,” Cahill told BostInno.
Threat Stack will take its product to market this fall, according to Cahill. In the meantime, the 16-person startup will focus on a major hiring push. By the end of 2014, the company hopes to be at “a couple of dozen people,” shared the chief executive.
