Our Leadership Team

Security veterans, AI researchers, and enterprise technology leaders united by a mission to make proactive cyber defense accessible to every organization.

James Gozney

James Gozney

CEO & Co-Founder

James spent 12 years at the NSA before moving to the private sector, where he served as CISO for two Fortune 500 companies. His frontline experience with nation-state cyber threats shapes AslenProtexts' approach to proactive defense. He holds an MS in Cybersecurity from Johns Hopkins University and a BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon.

Alex Rivera

Alex Rivera

Chief Technology Officer

Alex is a leading AI security researcher who spent five years at Palo Alto Networks building machine learning models for network threat detection. He has published 15 papers on adversarial machine learning in cybersecurity contexts and holds 6 patents in threat intelligence automation. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Diana Zhao

Diana Zhao

VP Research

Diana leads AslenProtexts' vulnerability research and threat intelligence programs. Previously a Principal Security Researcher at Microsoft, she uncovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in enterprise software and operating systems. Her research has been presented at DEF CON, Black Hat, and RSA Conference. She holds a PhD in Information Security from MIT.