Dave Merkel

Dave Merkel is the Co-Founder and CEO of Expel. He’s been involved in the information security field for nearly 30 years, first as a federal agent pursuing early cybercriminals, then as CTO and VP of products at Mandiant. Following FireEye’s acquisition of Mandiant, Dave served as the global CTO of FireEye. Dave got his start as a security practitioner: first as a Special Agent in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, conducting digital forensic investigations, and later as head of AOL’s technical security organization. While at AOL, he created and ran the first incident response capability for AOL and Time Warner, managed software security and policy programs, and built technologies for AOL’s security infrastructure.