James Winebrenner

James Winebrenner is the CEO of Elisity, an innovative enterprise cybersecurity solution provider. Since assuming the role in November 2020, his visionary leadership has positioned Elisity to redefine the network security market by adopting a software-first approach to bring identity-based microsegmentation to critical infrastructure in the life sciences, oil & gas, clinical healthcare, and manufacturing verticals. Prior to his role at Elisity, James served as the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Aviatrix, the leader in the multi-cloud networking and security market. During his tenure he achieved remarkable results, introducing an enterprise go-to-market strategy and tripling the company's revenue. Before that, James worked at Cisco Systems, where he played a pivotal role in leading the transition from legacy routing to software-defined wide area and cloud networking as part of the Global Routing and SD-WAN team. James came to Cisco via the acquisition of Viptela, the inventor of SD-WAN technology, where he served as the Vice President of Worldwide Sales, leading the company's GTM function from inception through acquisition by Cisco. Throughout his career, James has also held influential leadership positions at Cisco and Check Point Software Technologies. Notably, during his role at Check Point, he was instrumental in shaping enterprise cybersecurity strategies that are now recognized as industry best practices.