Jennifer Steffens

Speaker Bio

As CEO, Jennifer Steffens is responsible for all aspects of IOActive's global business operations including sales, delivery, and finance as well as driving the company's strategic vision. Steffens brings a wealth of industry and business experience to the company, having been an early member of several successful startups.

Earlier in her career, Steffens was a Director at Sourcefire, where she helped build and grow the business from $250K to an over $35M run rate in just four years. Working closely with the CTO, Steffens helped commercialize the open source Snort technology and build several service offerings around the research initiatives. Prior to joining IOActive, she came to Seattle to help the struggling startup GraniteEdge reinvent itself. She spearheaded initiatives to restructure the company, and developed a product strategy to drive early market penetration that ultimately secured two additional rounds of funding.

With over 10 years of industry experience, Steffens has also held senior management positions at Ubizen, NFR Security, and StillSecure. She graduated from Mary Washington University with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology.