Justin Somaini

Justin Somaini, Partner at YL Ventures, leverages his extensive CISO experience to provide practical value-add support to his portfolio companies by offering customer insights, refining product roadmaps, cultivating partnerships, and managing customer engagements. Justin leads the firm’s US-based Business Development team and is heavily involved in the firm’s investment processes, helping to evaluate candidates and concepts in the pipeline. Justin is a renowned leader in the global cybersecurity industry with a long record of transforming companies’ security capabilities and driving security as a competitive differentiator. He is the former CISO of global giants including Unity, SAP, Box, Yahoo!, and Symantec.