Tony Spinelli

Anthony Spinelli serves as Venture Partner at Sorenson Ventures. Anthony Spinelli serves as Advisor at Cobalt. He served as Chief Operating Officer and President, Cyberdivision at Fractal Industries. He has spent over 25 years on the leading edge of advancements in Cloud Security Engineering, Cloud Security Operations, Technology Risk Management, Security Engineering, Application Security, Cyber Security Operations, and Cyber Security Resiliency. Most recently, Tony was Senior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Information Security and Risk Management for Capital One Financial Corporation, a diversified bank with over 44 million customer accounts worldwide and more than 1,000 branch locations. Prior to joining Capital One, Tony served as the CISO of Tyco International, Equifax, and First Data Corporation. Tony possesses an active Top Secret/ Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) with polygraph clearance. He was appointed in 2008 to the National Security Agency (NSA) Advisory Board, and currently holds two patents in Data Loss Prevention and Network Security. In 2005, Tony received his MBA in Corporate Strategy from Washington University in St. Louis, including residencies at Fudan University in Shanghai, China and Tanaka Business School in London, England. [Source: Public Company Filing]