Erik Peterson is the CEO and founder of CloudZero. Previous to founding CloudZero Erik was Director of Technology Strategy for Veracode and has nearly 20 years of software industry experience, including senior leadership and technology roles at HP, SPI Dynamics, GuardedNet and Sanctum.

Erik has also held IT & InfoSec roles at Moody’s Investors Service, SunTrust Bank, U.S. Embassy Vienna, Austria and the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency where he provided technical assistance to UN weapons inspectors. Erik has spoken at numerous events including QCon, RSA, BlackHat, Security BSides, AppSec, OWASP, ISSA, InfraGard and the Cloud Security Alliance