Mr. Mandia is the Founder of Mandiant and Former CEO of Mandiant, Google Cloud. He currently holds the position of Strategic Advisor at Google Cloud.

In 2004, Mr. Mandia founded Mandiant Corporation, a leading provider of cyber security software and services. Following its acquisition by FireEye in 2013, Mandiant went on to become the core of FireEye’s highly successful cyber security business. From 2016 until the company’s acquisition by Google in September 2022, Mr. Mandia served as CEO and a member of the Board of Directors of FireEye and later, Mandiant, Inc., following its corporate name change.

Mr. Mandia began his cyber security career in the United States Air Force as a Computer Security Officer, and later as a Special Agent in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Mr. Mandia is a General Partner at Ballistic Ventures, and serves as a member of the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.