Nicole Perlroth spent the past decade immersed in the most significant cyberattacks in history, tracking state-sponsored hacking campaigns, and embedding with the nation’s top cybersecurity operators, executives, researchers and policymakers. Her articles on government spyware were nominated for Pulitzer Prize and her New York Times bestseller, This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends earned her the McKinsey/Financial Times’ prestigious Best Business Book of the Year Award and the Arthur J. Ross Award 2023 for foreign policy.  Her investigations helped compel the U.S. government to indict state-sponsored hackers, mercenaries, and even led to the outing, and blacklisting, of multiple spyware companies. Her work drilled home the urgency of digital threats and helped catapult the challenges, and solutions, into the national consciousness. In 2021, she left journalism to go “inside the tent” to help solve the nation’s cybersecurity challenges. She joined the advisory board of the Homeland Security Department’s cybersecurity defense agency, CISA, as well as the Council on Foreign Relations’ Cyber Task Force where she helped draft a new U.S. cyber foreign policy to confront the reality and dangers of our new virtual age. Perlroth is founding partner of Silver Buckshot Ventures, a cyber mission fund, a Venture Partner at Ballistic Ventures, a cybersecurity venture firm and advises a number of gamechanging cybersecurity startups including Rubrik, Veza and others. She is a graduate of Princeton University (B.A.) and Stanford University (M.A.) and lectures at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.