Brian Nesmith

Brian NeSmith has more than 30 years of cybersecurity leadership, leading both startup and public companies. He has pioneered innovative solutions in the security market and lead companies throughout all phrases of growth—establishing new market categories and raising the bar for enterprise solutions. Before founding Arctic Wolf, he served as CEO of Blue Coat Systems, where he increased revenues from $5M/year to over $500M/year as the industry’s leading web proxy platform. Prior to Blue Coat, Brian was the CEO of Ipsilon Networks (acquired by Nokia). Brian’s experience as a leader and technology visionary has deep roots in security services, enterprise software, and cloud transformation. Brian graduated from the MIT with a BS in electrical engineering.