Leigh Honeywell
Founding Advisor at iVerify
Ottawa, Ontario
Overview
Work Experience
Lead Security Strategist, Business + Executive
2024 - Current
Founding Advisor
2023
Worked closely with the iVerify team through their spinout from Trail of Bits and beyond, including strategy, hiring, and fundraising.
IVerify is a mobile threat hunting company that provides mobile security solutions.
Raised $16,000,000.00 from Shine Capital, Talons Ventures, BoxGroup, Exponential Founders Fund, Trail of Bits, Mischief and Parameter Ventures.
Venture Partner
2019
Pioneer Fund invests primarily in companies participating in the Y Combinator startup accelerator.
CEO
2018 - 2024
As founder and CEO of Tall Poppy, I'm building tools and services to help companies protect their employees from online harassment and abuse.
Technology Fellow
2017 - 2018
As a Technology Fellow at the ACLU, I applied my technical expertise to legal briefs, public writing, and advocacy work in collaboration with lawyers and other staff. I worked with ACLU IT on security and hiring, as well as volunteer recruitment and coordination. During my time at the ACLU I was quoted as an expert in media outlets such as CNN, Gizmodo, CNET, and Quartz.
American Civil Liberties Union is a nonpartisan organization that works to defend and preserve the nation's civic values.
Raised $120,000.00 from Y Combinator.
Security Response Manager
2016 - 2017
Senior Staff Security Engineer
2015 - 2016
Slack is a cloud-based communication and collaboration platform for teams.
Raised $1,391,100,000.00 from Light Street Capital, Meyer Ventures and Employee Stock Option Fund.
Senior Platform Security Engineer
2014 - 2015
Security Program Manager 2
2011 - 2014
PM with the Microsoft Security Response Team and later with the Microsoft Security Engineering Center.
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
Consultant
2006 - 2011
Provided a variety of consulting services to SMB IT customers, including: -VOIP integration using the Asterisk PBX -Linux system administration (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL) -Small office network management
Malware Operations Engineer
2008 - 2010
Joined Symantec via the MessageLabs acquisition.
Email Filtering Company
Raised $35,000,000.00 from TCV, Crosslink Capital, NortonLifeLock, Critical Path, Accel, Opportunity Capital Partners, Esther Dyson, Bill Joy and Thomas Weisel Partners.