Dennis Dayman

Venture Partner

2020 - Current

Partner

2020

Bluewater International is a growth management firm that specializes in the rapid scaling of businesses in the cybersecurity and information risk markets. Bluewater works with partners to develop market-leading technologies and create winning go-to-market strategies in order to solve critical organizational risk issues. Bluewater’s experienced team works directly with executive and board leadership to break through growth plateaus related to expansion. Our senior-level executives have decades of hands-on experience in the cybersecurity, information risk, identity management, homeland security, intelligence and defense arenas. Partner companies gain credibility and reputation through the vast network of Bluewater’s leadership across government, financial services, healthcare, energy cybersecurity and technology risk sectors. Further, Bluewater International’s expertise in operational effectiveness, strategy, go-to-market, finance, investment, executive coaching, product and service road maps and intellectual property is fully integrated into our practices in order to ensure success for our partners.

Mentor

2013

Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer

2024 - 2025

As a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), I’m dedicated to building resilient security programs that protect Constant Contact from evolving digital threats while aligning with business objectives. I focus on designing and implementing comprehensive security frameworks that empower organizations to manage cybersecurity risks proactively. By prioritizing alignment with business goals, I create risk management frameworks that ensure compliance with regulatory standards overseeing security audits, and promote a culture of accountability. With hands-on experience in incident response, I lead proactive strategies to mitigate cyber threats, ensuring swift recovery when incidents arise and minimizing potential impact. I’m committed to safeguarding both corporate and customer data, advocating for data protection strategies that meet regulatory and business needs, from privacy policy management to adaptive security measures like multi-factor authentication. Believing in the power of a security-aware organization, I am passionate about educating employees on cybersecurity best practices to create a vigilant workplace. By fostering robust security practices across vendor and third-party relationships, I align with partners on essential security requirements and compliance. Through close collaboration with IT, compliance, legal, and executive teams, I bridge the gap between security needs and business objectives, ensuring security initiatives support organizational growth. With an adaptive approach to emerging threats, my goal is to protect digital assets while creating an environment where security drives confidence, innovation, and success.

Chair - Policy Subcommittee

2020 - 2025

Chair the Policy Subcommittee that provides written guidance on best practices to ensure the effective implementation of privacy requirements for information sharing across the DHS enterprise

Appointed Advisor to the Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee

2018 - 2025

Appointed by DHS Secretary Nielsen to the Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee that provides input to DHS on programmatic, policy, operational, administrative and technical issues that relate to personal identifiable information, as well as data integrity and other privacy-related matters.

Chief Information Security Officer

2023 - 2024

Code42 is the leader in data loss protection, visibility and recovery solutions. Native to the cloud, the Code42 Next-Gen Data Loss Protection solution rapidly detects insider threats, satisfies regulatory compliance requirements and speeds incident response — all without lengthy deployments, complex policy management or blocks on user collaboration. Security, IT and compliance professionals can protect endpoint and cloud data from loss, leak and theft while maintaining an open and collaborative culture for employees. Founded in 2001, more than 50,000 organizations worldwide, including the most recognized brands in business and education, rely on Code42 to safeguard their ideas. The company is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and backed by Accel Partners, JMI Equity, NEA and Split Rock Partners.

Chairman of the Board

2014 - 2023

Resident Chief Information Security Officer

2022 - 2023

Support the pursuit of 'people-centric security' which I firmly believe is the most crucial aspect of compliance for firms today. Work with both customers and prospects to help build visibility and actionable strategies to place people at the heart of effective compliance and defenses. • Support and advance Proofpoint’s CISO Customer Council. • Drive Proofpoint’s people-centric security vision, strategy and initiatives. • Act as key spokesperson for media and press engagements. • Guide C-level executives to build better security programs within their organizations. • Develop customer relationships through regular CISO one to one meetings, to engage and offer advice on their cybersecurity and data protection strategies & tactics. • Build the Proofpoint brand by contributing to whitepapers, cybersecurity research, provide thought leadership, insights, and ideas via industry conference speaking engagements, executive briefings, round tables and webinars targeted towards customers, prospects, and the global CISO community. • Attend and participate in industry associations to promote Proofpoint’s standing and capabilities. • Train sales leaders on engaging senior level executives using the language of business, risk and maturity. • Whiteboarding Zero-Trust initiatives (and other security strategies) with customers. • Help build visibility and actionable strategies to place people at the heart of effective security defenses. • Adding to our advisory services here at Proofpoint, sharing and discussing thought leadership with our clients, and help monitor industry trends that support and augment our customer CISO community. • Serve as an extension of our customers’ CISO teams and the thought leadership and knowledge we bring is a value add on that allows operational CISOs to focus ‘heads down’ into the companies they represent without having to worry about other factors that we can assist them with.

Security and Data Protection Advisor

2019 - 2023

Juvo was founded with an overarching vision: to establish financial identities for the billions of people worldwide who are creditworthy, yet financially excluded. In partnership with mobile network operators, Juvo’s proprietary Identity Scoring technology uses data science, machine learning and game mechanics to create an identity-based relationship with anonymous prepaid users, opening up access to otherwise unattainable mobile financial services. Juvo is a privately held company backed by global business leaders and luminaries in the world of tech, mobile and finance. Its executive team comprises accomplished industry leaders across the data science, consumer internet, financial services and mobile telecom fields.

Security and Data Protection Advisor

2022 - 2022

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