Rod Schultz

Member

Forbes Technology Council

Jul 2025 - Current (11 months)

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CEO

Bolster AI

Oct 2024 - Current (1 year 8 months)

Bolster uses generative AI that delivers unparalleled speed and accuracy in the mean-time-to-detect (MTTD) and mean-time-to-respond (MTTR) of phishing and impersonation threats. Correlating threat signals from natural text and images with threat categories, Bolster gives visibility into attacker activity for insight and takedown.

Senior Vice President of Product

DUST Identity

Nov 2022 - Aug 2024 (1 year 10 months)

I led product and engineering at Dust, as we focused on industries that had foundational needs in the concepts of scarcity, authenticity, and trusted data. Worked across commercial, aerospace, and defense tech to create and execute the Dust product and engineering strategy. The goal of the platform was to reduce information asymmetry and provides secure access to data for objects as diverse as game worn NFL jerseys and aerospace engine parts. My team builds services that harness the entropy from distributed diamonds on the surface of objects. We transform that entropy into a secure identity and use it to track, trace, and establish business models for the selling and securing of scarce and unique products. Using engineered diamond particl

Advisor

Bee Partners

Jul 2022 - Current (3 years 11 months)

Bee Partners is a pre-seed VC that partners with founders at the forefront of human-machine convergence.

Head of Product Security and Privacy

Zoom

Sep 2020 - Jun 2022 (1 year 10 months)

Led and grew the team (from one to 12 PMs + architects) at Zoom that were responsible for product security, privacy, governance, trust and safety, anti-fraud (AML, KYC), and data protection. Set the vision and roadmap to scale security and privacy for products, infrastructure, marketplace applications, and data.

Business Development and Strategy Consultant

Oasis Labs

Dec 2019 - Mar 2020 (4 months)

Oasis is a blockchain based platform for the management and protection of high value data. The technology is being developed by an international team of researchers, security experts, and privacy advocates — all working together to build a platform for a responsible data economy.

Product Advisor

Booxby

Mar 2018 - Mar 2021 (3 years 1 month)

Booxby uses NLP (Natural Language Processing) and ML (Machine Learning) to identify, target, and monetize stories

Chief Product Officer

Rubicon Labs Inc

May 2017 - Dec 2019 (2 years 8 months)

Rubicon is a cloud platform and service that provides identity to low powered and resource constrained IoT devices. These identities are used to define business models that allow enterprises to shift from CapEx to OpEx revenue generation. As CPO I led the product definition, design, and marketing for a platform that enables the monetization of IoT through the secure provisioning, authentication, and control of identities for connected devices. As Chief Product Officer I am responsible for: • Definition and execution of the overall corporate strategy. • Work closely with architecture, engineering and operations teams to create product roadmaps and demos that create value for Rubicon's evolving IoT security focus. • Apply cryptographic and

Technical Advisor: Product

IdentifyD

Jun 2015 - May 2021 (6 years)

Acquired by Materialise The Identify3D technology suite protects confidentiality and integrity of data in digital manufacturing by providing intellectual property protection, manufacturing repeatability, and traceability — from initial design to finished product

VP of Product

Rubicon Labs Inc

Oct 2014 - Apr 2017 (2 years 7 months)

Co-founder and CTO

Pencil Networks

Aug 2012 - Nov 2013 (1 year 4 months)

Pencil was created with the following in mind: The education of a child is a journey of a million steps. What if there was a way to follow those steps and reinforce the learning process? Could the very foundation of early education be changed in a way to help more children succeed? Pencil is a mobile based platform designed to drive parent engagement in the preschool and elementary school classroom. A key predictor of a child's success in the classroom is the level of engagement of the paren. Pencil uses the parent graph of the classroom to drive this engagement, along with the prosperity of the child, the classroom, and the school. As the digital divide crumbled, we looked at the device landscape and determined that there was value creat

Senior Computer Scientist, Project Lead Adobe Primetime DRM and Flash Player Security

Adobe

Mar 2008 - Oct 2014 (6 years 8 months)

Project Lead (Flash Player Platform for Content Protection and DRM); Working on the Flash Player team as the lead engineer in the design and development of Flash Player DRM: Architecting, designing, and implementing Flash Player DRM and secure digital content distribution for desktop, mobile devices (Android, RIM, iOS), and set top boxes. This includes all aspects of the product: Writing specifications, code implementation, patent filing, cryptographic review, update mechanisms, performance investigation, and reverse engineering (red team) of protection solutions. Negotiate deliverables, contracts, and payment with third parties that provide DRM components for cryptographic strength and integrity.

Senior Software Engineer, iTunes FairPlay

Apple

Jan 2006 - Mar 2008 (2 years 3 months)

Worked in a small team designing and architecting DRM, content integrity, and device security solutions for iTunes, Apple TV, iPhone, iPod, and the iTunes Store. The FairPlay DRM was the secure connective tissue for data exchange, trust generation, and content protection for the entire Apple ecosystem.

Software Engineer (Networking Security Infrastructure)

Cisco

Mar 2003 - Jan 2006 (2 years 11 months)

Worked in a start-up like environment to develop prototype code that would become the foundation for next generation Cisco device-wide security (Cisco TrustSec)

Software Engineer Mobile Internet Protocol

Cisco Systems

Sep 1999 - Mar 2003 (3 years 7 months)

Designed, developed, and debugged Cisco IOS operating system code for mobile IP standards RFC 2002, RFC 3220, and RFC 3344: Worked directly with Nextel for three years to innovate and develop Mobile IP, Mobile IP home agent redundancy, and Mobile IP security association AAA key management. These features are the basis for the Nextel wireless web infrastructure. Provided the first line of development support for a nation-wide network that covered over 25 metropolitan markets (including New York, Boston, Los Angeles). Independently developed a patent pending technique for Mobile IP AAA key management between the home agent, mobile node, and AAA server. This prevents denial of service attacks on the AAA server and provides more effective key

Software Engineer Cisco IOS Wide Area Networking

Cisco Systems

Mar 1997 - Aug 1999 (2 years 6 months)

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