OLIVER FRIEDRICHS

Oliver Friedrichs is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pangea, an enterprise cybersecurity platform provider currently based in Tahoe City, California. Over a two-decade career in the technology sector, he has founded and scaled multiple enterprise security ventures, resulting in four successful corporate acquisitions. Prior to launching Pangea, Friedrichs served as Vice President of Security Products at Splunk following its 2018 acquisition of Phantom, a security operations platform he co-founded. His earlier entrepreneurial ventures include founding Immunet, which was acquired by Sourcefire and later integrated into Cisco, and establishing SecurityFocus, which Symantec purchased in 2002. He also architected SNIPER, the first commercial penetration-testing product, and regularly contributes industry analysis to publications like TechCrunch. Friedrichs maintains a primary focus on developing scalable security platforms, vulnerability management systems, and advanced malware protection technologies for modern enterprise environments.