Kevin Mandia — Founder & CEO, Mandiant (now Google Cloud Security)

**Kevin Mandia** is the founder of Mandiant (formerly FireEye), the world's most respected incident response and threat intelligence company, acquired by Google in 2022 for $5.4 billion. He now serves as CEO of Mandiant within Google Cloud, leading the security division that governments and Fortune 500 companies call when they've been breached. Mandiant was the firm that exposed China's PLA Unit 61398 (APT1) in 2013 — the first public attribution of state-sponsored cyber espionage to a specific military unit — fundamentally changing how the world understood nation-state hacking.