Elvis Hovor

I've spent the better part of two decades at the intersection of artificial intelligence and enterprise cybersecurity — building the products that help security operations teams work faster, respond smarter, and stay ahead of adversaries who never sleep.

My career started in R&D at Accenture Tech Labs, where I worked on some of the earliest applied NLP systems for threat intelligence — work that yielded 6 granted USPTO patents and conference presentations at Black Hat USA, Black Hat Europe, and ShmooCon. That hands-on research foundation shaped how I think about product: ruthlessly focused on what actually works in production, not what looks good in a demo.

At TruSTAR, I served as VP of Product and helped scale the company's threat intelligence platform to $50M+ in deal flow, culminating in its acquisition by Splunk in 2021. At Secureworks, I owned XDR and Identity Detection & Response, delivering a 30% improvement in MTTR and taking a new IDR product from zero to $1M ARR in six months. At Sophos I led AI product strategy for next-generation MDR through May 2026.

Today I'm Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at ThirdPR, a B2B third-party risk management platform moving organisations from passive vendor monitoring to active, threat-informed response. In parallel, I run Gardant Consulting Services (est. 2024) — an independent advisory practice helping security leaders and boards navigate AI risk, programme maturity, and third-party security obligations.