PRELUDE RESEARCH - Key Persons


Bill Coughran

Job Titles:
  • Partner at Sequoia Capital
Bill is a Partner at Sequoia Capital, and has been involved in numerous enterprise SaaS companies such as Cohesity and Orbital Insight. Prior to Sequoia, Bill held multiple engineering leadership positions including SVP of Engineering at Google and Bell Labs.

David Hunt - CTO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chief Technology Officer
  • Co - Founder
David leads the engineering effort at Prelude as CTO. Before Prelude, he led the team that built MITRE CALDERA. He has spent his career analyzing security across countless industries, including enterprise, aerospace, and OT.

Pete Constantine

Job Titles:
  • VP of Product
Pete Constantine is the VP of Product at Prelude. He comes to Prelude after nearly 9 years at Tanium, most recently as the Chief Product Officer, where he was responsible for the innovation and strategy of their market-leading endpoint management platform that secures the world's largest, most complex environments.

Spencer Thompson - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Co - Founder
Spencer founded and has been growing Prelude as its CEO since 2020. Previously, he founded a career discovery company called Sokanu, which racked up 10-million-plus annual users before it was sold in 2021 to Two Sigma Impact & Baypine. He is also an active investor and advisor to multiple startups.

Stephen Ward

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director at Insight Partners
Stephen is a Managing Director at Insight Partners, where he joined in 2021 to lead cybersecurity investments. Stephen was previously Chief Information Security Officer at The Home Depot.