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Cobalt Appoints Zymba and Dalvi for Product and Success Growth


Cobalt Appoints Zymba and Dalvi for Product and Success Growth
  • by: Business Wire
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  • February 11, 2026

Cobalt, the pioneer of Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) and a leader in human-led, AI-powered offensive security, has appointed Paul Zymba as Senior Vice President of Customer Success and Deepak Dalvi as Vice President of Product. These strategic hires bolster Cobalt’s focus on enterprise-scale growth, accelerated platform innovation, and delivering measurable security outcomes for customers managing complex, fast-moving attack surfaces.

Quick Intel

  • Paul Zymba joins as SVP of Customer Success with over 25 years of experience scaling customer success, delivery, and professional services at Veracode, Mendix, GAN Integrity, and Galvanize.
  • Deepak Dalvi is appointed VP of Product, bringing deep expertise in cloud, endpoint, and data security leadership from Trellix, Aqua Security, and Lacework.
  • Appointments support Cobalt’s enterprise expansion, emphasizing continuous pentesting, AI-driven offensive security, and operational risk reduction.
  • Zymba will oversee the full customer journey, including success, delivery, and support, to maximize long-term value from Cobalt’s PTaaS programs.
  • Dalvi will drive product strategy, advancing AI capabilities, expanding enterprise features, and evolving the Cobalt Offensive Security Platform.
  • These moves align with rising enterprise demand for scalable, modern offensive security that goes beyond point-in-time assessments.

Enterprises today face intensified pressure to secure increasingly complex environments amid rapid software release cycles and sophisticated adversaries. Traditional pentesting often lacks the speed, continuity, and integration needed for ongoing risk management. Cobalt’s PTaaS model combines expert-led testing with AI-powered insights, real-time collaboration, and seamless remediation workflows to deliver faster vulnerability discovery and mitigation at scale.

Strengthening Customer Success and Value Delivery

Paul Zymba’s extensive background in building high-performing customer success organizations will enhance Cobalt’s end-to-end customer experience. His leadership focuses on ensuring clients achieve sustained value from their offensive security programs through proactive engagement, delivery excellence, and measurable risk reduction.

Accelerating Product Innovation and AI Capabilities

Deepak Dalvi brings proven success in modernizing security portfolios with automation, AI, and SaaS delivery for global enterprises. In his role, he will prioritize platform advancements, including continuous pentesting enhancements and deeper AI integration, to address modern attack surfaces and support proactive security operations.

“These appointments reflect where Cobalt is headed as we continue to scale with enterprise customers,” said Sonali Shah, CEO of Cobalt. “Deepak brings deep product leadership and a strong track record of innovation, while Paul’s experience building world-class customer success and service delivery organizations ensures we continue to deliver real, measurable value with our pentest programs. Together, they strengthen our ability to help organizations operationalize offensive security.”

The appointments underscore Cobalt’s commitment to evolving PTaaS into a core discipline for enterprise security programs—combining human expertise, AI acceleration, and continuous testing to help organizations identify and remediate risks efficiently and confidently.

About Cobalt

Cobalt is the pioneer in penetration testing as a service (PTaaS) and a leader in human-led, AI-powered offensive security services. We are focused on combining talent and technology with speed, scalability, and expertise. Thousands of customers and hundreds of partners rely on the Cobalt Offensive Security Platform, along with 500+ trusted security experts, to find and fix vulnerabilities across their environments. By enabling faster pentest launches, real-time collaboration with pentesters, and seamless integration with remediation workflows, we help organizations identify critical issues and accelerate risk mitigation so they can operate fearlessly and innovate securely.

  • CybersecurityOffensive SecurityCustomer Success
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