Mr. Mandia is the Founder and Former CEO of Mandiant, now a part of Google Cloud.

In 2004, Mr. Mandia founded Mandiant Corporation, which became known as a world leader in responding to prominent cyber security
breaches. In 2013 Mandiant was acquired by FireEye, where Mandiant went on to become the core of FireEye’s highly successful cyber security business. From 2016 until the company’s acquisition by Google in September 2022, Mr. Mandia served as CEO and a member of the Board of Directors of FireEye and later, Mandiant, Inc.,
following its corporate name change.

Mr. Mandia began his cyber security career in the United States Air Force as a Computer Security Officer, and later as a Special Agent in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. He is a Founder and
General Partner at Ballistic Ventures, and serves as a member of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC). He has taught Graduate classes at both The George Washington University as well as Carnegie Melon University on cybersecurity and computer forensics, and has authored three books on the topic of responding to cybersecurity breaches.