Lane Bess

Lane M.
Bess is the founder of Bess Ventures & Advisory LLC, founded in 2015, serving as Principal since its founding.
Current jobs include Chief Executive Officer at Deep Instinct Ltd. since 2022, Chairman at Deep Instinct (USA), Inc., Chairman at Blaize Holdings, Inc. starting in 2025, Director at Zero Gravity Corp.
since 2022, Director at Salient Systems, Inc. since 2020, Director at Evident Id, Inc., Director at Blaize, Inc., Director at 1126833 B.C.
Ltd., Director at TrueFort, Inc. since 2021, Director at Panorays, Inc., and Trustee at Carnegie Mellon University since 2019.
Former jobs include Chief Executive Officer at Palo Alto Networks, Inc. from 2008 to 2011, Executive Chairman at Fifth Dimension Ltd., Director at ZeroFox, Inc., Director at vArmour, Inc., Independent Director at Plum Acquisition Corp.
I from 2021 to 2023, Director at ParkMyCloud, Inc., Principal at NCR Voyix Corp., Executive VP-Worldwide Sales & General Manager at Trend Micro, Inc. from 2002 to 2007, Executive Vice President-Sales at Tableau Software LLC, Principal at AT&T, Inc., and Chief Operating Officer at Zscaler, Inc. from 2011 to 2018.
Education includes undergraduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the University of Dayton.