Silicon Valley
Founder & CBO
Rishi Bhargava
Rishi Bhargava is a co-founder at Descope, a developer-first authentication and user management platform. In a career spanning over 20 years, Rishi has run product, strategy, go-to-market, and engineering for category-creating cybersecurity startups and large enterprises. Before Descope, Rishi served as VP of Product Strategy at Palo Alto Networks which he joined via the acquisition of Demisto. Rishi was a co-founder at Demisto where, under his stewardship, the company created and later led a new “security orchestration” category within 3 years before being acquired. Prior to Demisto, Rishi was VP and GM of the Datacenter Group at Intel Security and launched multiple products at McAfee (acquired by Intel).
Rishi is passionate about technology and serves as an active investor and advisor to multiple startups in Silicon Valley and India, some of which have already seen successful exits.
https://www.descope.comInfo about the founder
Rishi Bhargava is a co-founder at Descope, a developer-first authentication and user management platform. In a career spanning over 20 years, Rishi has run product, strategy, go-to-market, and engineering for category-creating cybersecurity startups and large enterprises. Before Descope, Rishi served as VP of Product Strategy at Palo Alto Networks which he joined via the acquisition of Demisto. Rishi was a co-founder at Demisto where, under his stewardship, the company created and later led a new “security orchestration” category within 3 years before being acquired. Prior to Demisto, Rishi was VP and GM of the Datacenter Group at Intel Security and launched multiple products at McAfee (acquired by Intel).
Rishi is passionate about technology and serves as an active investor and advisor to multiple startups in Silicon Valley and India, some of which have already seen successful exits.