Michael Coates is the founding partner of Seven Hill Ventures, backing the next generation of cybersecurity startups across the United States and Israel.

With over two decades of experience as a cybersecurity leader, entrepreneur, and investor, Michael has served as the first Chief Information Security Officer at Twitter, head of security at Mozilla, and Chairman of the OWASP Foundation. He also co-founded and served as CEO of Altitude Networks, a cloud security startup acquired by CoinList where he served as CISO and COO.