Daniel S. Ingevaldson

Daniel Ingevaldson is a General Partner at TechOperators and joined the firm in 2017.
He has over 20 years of experience protecting some of the world’s biggest organizations from next generation threats, and growing security companies to highly successful exits.
Daniel is focused primarily on TechOperators’ cybersecurity investments and represents the firm at Flashpoint, Scytale (acquired by HPE), Tala Security, Automox, Polarity, Todyl, Phylum and Reach Security.
Daniel was previously Chief Technology Officer of Easy Solutions, a global market leader in anti-fraud solutions.
During his tenure, Easy Solutions doubled its customer count annually until its sale to Cyxtera Technologies in 2017.
Prior to Easy Solutions, Daniel co-founded Endgame in 2008, a pioneering company focused on enhancing network defender’s capabilities by deploying offensive techniques such as active defense and active “hunt” capabilities to discover and evict adversaries.
As the Chief Operating Officer, he managed day-to-day operations at the company including technology, engineering and product strategy.
Endgame was sold to Elastic (NASDAQ:ESTC) in 2019.
Daniel also spent a decade at Internet Security Systems, Inc. (ISS), where he held various roles in research, management, consulting and strategy during the company’s early growth stages as well as its acquisition and merger with IBM.
He joined ISS in 1998 to form part of the trailblazing “X-Force” R&D group that would eventually become the most productive and influential independent vulnerability research group in the industry.
Later, after ISS was acquired by IBM in 2006, he helped create IBM’s overall security strategy and developed products to deal with issues such as network and browser protection, web application security, and data leakage prevention.
Daniel has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Purdue University.