To accelerate its mission of redefining cyber defense with autonomous offensive security, XBOW has strengthened its leadership team with two key appointments from the application security elite. The company welcomes Jonaki Egenolf, formerly of Snyk and Veracode, as Chief Marketing Officer, and Dean Breda, formerly of Veracode, HackerOne, and Nasuni, as General Counsel. These additions bolster an executive bench focused on disrupting legacy security models with AI-driven offensive capabilities.
XBOW appoints Jonaki Egenolf (ex-Snyk, Veracode) as Chief Marketing Officer.
Dean Breda (ex-Veracode, HackerOne) joins as General Counsel.
The hires aim to accelerate XBOW's momentum in autonomous offensive security.
Leadership expansion supports the company's recent product launch and market milestones.
XBOW's autonomous agents recently topped the HackerOne global leaderboard.
The strategy focuses on defending against AI-powered attacks with AI-driven offensive testing.
These appointments signal XBOW's transition into a new phase of growth and market execution. Jonaki Egenolf brings deep marketing expertise from leading AppSec innovators, while Dean Breda adds crucial governance and strategic experience from high-growth cybersecurity firms. They join recently added executives like Chief Revenue Officer Niroshan Rajadurai and Chief Security Officer Nico Waisman, forming a leadership team designed to scale the company's vision. This collective experience underscores a shared belief that traditional application security tooling is insufficient against modern, AI-enabled threats.
The expanded leadership team arrives as XBOW achieves significant technical and commercial validation. The company was recently named the Early Growth Stage winner in the Fortune Cyber60 list. More concretely, its autonomous agents reached the top of the HackerOne global leaderboard, outperforming human hackers across thousands of real targets in under five months. This technical feat demonstrates the practical capability of its platform to conduct expert-level security testing at machine speed, a core value proposition for enterprise customers.
A key immediate focus for the new team will be driving adoption of XBOW's recently launched product, XBOW Lightspeed Pentest On Demand. This self-serve, continuous offensive security offering delivers compliance-ready results in days, not weeks, by utilizing autonomous agents. Egenolf and Breda will play pivotal roles in strengthening XBOW's brand, governance, and strategic execution to expand across key markets. Their mission is to help global organizations evolve their security posture from reactive to proactive, meeting the scale and speed of AI-powered attacks with autonomous offense.
The strategic hiring of seasoned executives from established cybersecurity leaders marks a deliberate step by XBOW to bridge innovation with market maturity. It reflects the company's confidence in its technology and its readiness to translate autonomous offensive security from a disruptive concept into an enterprise-grade solution. This leadership infusion is poised to accelerate XBOW's challenge to legacy defensive models, positioning autonomous offense as a foundational element of modern cyber resilience.
About XBOW
XBOW is the autonomous offensive security company redefining cyber defense for the AI era. Combining AI reasoning with offensive security workflows, the XBOW platform delivers expert-level security testing at machine speed. XBOW empowers security teams to transform from reactive to proactive defense at AI scale. For XBOW customers, autonomous offense is the best defense.