Liz Maida is instrumental in building and leading the company and its technology, which is founded on core elements of her graduate school research examining the application of graph theory to network interconnection. She was formerly a senior director at Akamai Technologies, and served in multiple executive roles focused on technology strategy and new product development. She played a lead role in Akamai's initial efforts in DDoS mitigation, fraud detection, and mobile authentication, as well as security products including Akamai's cloud-based web application firewall and an analytical engine that leveraged Akamai's visibility into almost 30% of Internet traffic to assess the security risk of end user requests. Liz holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Princeton University and dual Masters degrees in Computer Science and Engineering Systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.