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Welcome and Meeting Kickoff

We are excited to welcome you to our Fall 2025 Advisory Council Meeting and Dinner.

This is our annual invitation-only gathering of 150+ stakeholders from the Forgepoint community to foster collaboration among our most trusted relationships, following the Chatham House Rule. Participants include members of our Global Advisory Council, CEOs and founders of portfolio companies, co-investors, GTM partners, and technology leaders who are driving change in Global 2000 organizations, government, and academic institutions.

Our program is designed to cultivate conversations and collaboration around the latest trends and issues in cybersecurity, AI, infrastructure software and beyond, while enabling security leaders to engage meaningfully with their peers and innovators building the emerging technologies that matter.

We hope you enjoy your time together and the opportunity to network and engage with such a special group. Thank you for joining us. Each of you is a vital member of our community and we appreciate your industry leadership and support.

 

Speaker Bio

Alberto Yépez, Co-founder and Managing Director, Forgepoint Capital

Alberto is a Co-founder and Managing Director at Forgepoint Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record of building global businesses and leading them to successful exits. He is considered one of the pioneers of the cybersecurity industry and one of the most influential global investors in the sector.

Prior to Forgepoint, Alberto worked at Trident Capital leading cybersecurity investments. Prior to Trident, Alberto was Founder, Chairman and CEO of enCommerce (acq. Entrust), Co-CEO and President of Entrust (acq. Thoma Bravo), and Chairman and CEO of Thor Technologies (acq. Oracle).

Alberto previously worked as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Warburg Pincus, a venture consultant at Bain Capital, and a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense as part of the DeVenCI Initiative. Earlier in his career, Alberto held various senior management roles at Apple and Oracle.

Alberto is a member of the Aspen Institute’s Global Cybersecurity Group and serves as the Chairman Emeritus of the Hispanic IT Executive Council (HITEC). He was previously on the Board of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and the Board of Trustees of the University of San Francisco, and was a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Technology Pioneers Community.

Alberto holds a BS from the University of San Francisco. He also attended the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria in Lima, Perú.

Alberto was recognized by Fortune as one of the top VCs Dominating Cybersecurity Investing and is on TAG Cyber’s “Fifty to Watch: People Shaping Cyber” list.