About Casey Ellis
Casey is Bugcrowd's Chairman, Founder, and CTO. He is a 20+ year information security veteran who has been inventing things and generally getting technology to do things it isn't supposed to do since childhood.
Casey's career in cybersecurity has seen him work as a pentester, security/risk consultant and solutions architect, Chief Security Officer, and a serial entrepreneur and company leader. He pioneered the Crowdsourced Security as a Service model by launching the first bug bounty programs on the Bugcrowd platform in 2012, and in 2014 co-founded the disclose.io vulnerability disclosure standardization project.
Casey is a sought-after industry visionary, media commentator, and keynote speaker who has spoken at DEF CON, Black Hat, RSA Conference, Techcrunch DISRUPT, Shmoocon, ENISA, Usenix ENIGMA, Nullcon, Derbycon, SOURCEConf, AISA, AusCERT, and other conferences. He has advised the US Department of Defense, the Australian and UK Intelligence Communities, as well as US House and Senate legislative initiatives, including pre-emptive cyberspace protection ahead of the 2020 Presidential Elections.
Casey, a native of Sydney, Australia, splits his time between Sydney and the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children.