threatER Leadership Team

Brian McMahon is currently the CEO and President of Threater. In his role, he is responsible for the operations of all of Bandura’s business units and he also serves as a Member of the Board of Directors.

Brian was most recently the President of Platforms & Data at Fractal Industries (now Qomplx), the world’s first Human + Artificial Intelligence (AI) Operating System. He served as the CEO of MapQuest, which served over 40M monthly consumers and hundreds of thousands of developers during his tenure. Brian was responsible for vision, strategy and operations over all MapQuest business units. He was responsible for the first MapQuest consumer user growth in almost a decade, a revitalization of their SaaS based location platform and the creation of a new Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) business unit to monetize and utilize the significant amount of location data that MapQuest generates.

Prior to his time at MapQuest, Brian co-founded Fishbowl Labs, Northern Virginia’s premier startup incubator and served as Vice President of Business Development at AOL. In his role at AOL, Brian led and managed the BD teams responsible for AOL Search, Local, MapQuest, Paid Services, AIM, Mobile, AOL.com, AOL Mail, Commerce & Marketplace, and corporate functions.

Brian is an advisor and investor in local Washington, D.C area startups and serves as a Mentor @ SparkLabs Cyber & Blockchain in DC.

Pat has more than 25 years of hands-on experience in all aspects of hardware and software development, to include iterative requirements analysis, architecture, engineering, test, managerial, and leadership roles. His skills have been brought to bear across a wide variety of technology-related disciplines including embedded systems design, network systems analysis and design, advanced network testing, cybersecurity, deployable machine learning and artificial intelligence, internet of things, big data, advanced data analytics, and high-performance heterogeneous computing. He has been granted three US patents and has spoken at a variety of user and industry conferences. He received bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science (BSCS, ’93) and Electrical Engineering (BSEE, ’94) along with a minor in Mathematics, all from Virginia Tech.

Courtney has more than 15 years of experience in technology marketing accelerating high growth, building strong brands and establishing product category leadership. At Threater, she oversees the global marketing team which includes product marketing, demand generation, communications, digital and brand strategy. She is passionate about marketing complex technology in a crowded marketplace and is fascinated by the latest cyberattacks believing research should never stay on paper. Courtney was employee number 2 at Distil Networks where she led marketing and drove the creation of the Bot Mitigation category, leading to their acquisition by Imperva. She received her bachelor’s from North Carolina State University and enjoys cheering on the Wolfpack with her husband, 3 children and 2 dogs (as well as instigating some inter-office ACC rivalry).

Jason Brvenik most recently served as CEO of NSS Labs, a leading cybersecurity product testing and research organization, and previously held leadership roles as a Principal Engineer at Cisco for its Security Business Group, and as VP Strategy at Sourcefire, where he helped shape one of the industry’s most widely used intrusion prevention and detection systems. His background combines deep technical expertise with a strong track record of turning complex security challenges into scalable product solutions. Passionate about aligning customer needs with innovative security solutions, Jason thrives at the intersection of business impact and technical execution.