Leadership Team

As Chief Executive Officer at IRONSCALES, Eyal Benishti pioneered the development of the world’s first self-learning email security solution that combines AI, machine learning, and human insights to automatically stop advanced phishing, BEC, and account takeover attacks.

Eyal brings to his executive leadership role over 15 years of software industry experience with enterprise and startup companies. Prior to founding IRONSCALES in 2013, he was a security researcher and malware analyst at Radware and worked as technical lead for various information security solutions at Imperva.

Previously, he held a variety of R&D roles with Comverse and Amdocs. A passionate cybersecurity researcher from a young age, Eyal earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics from Bar-Ilan University in Israel.

Russell McGuire is an experienced and successful executive with a track record of driving growth in competitive markets. He has over 15 years of experience as a strategic leader, consistently exceeding expectations and delivering results.

Throughout his career, McGuire has demonstrated an ability to create, develop, and lead high-performance teams to achieve their full potential. As a sales leader, he is highly experienced in top methodologies like MEDDICC, Challenger, SPIN, and Miller Heiman.

McGuire is passionate about building a positive work environment where his team members feel valued and supported in achieving their goals. He celebrates every victory, big or small, and creates a culture of success that motivates his team to perform at their best.

Grant Ho is an innovative marketing executive with deep experience scaling high-growth, enterprise software companies.

As CMO of IRONSCALES, Grant oversees the company’s global marketing strategy and execution to drive category leadership in the integrated cloud email security market. This includes demand generation, product marketing, field marketing, channel marketing, and corporate communications and brand.

Before IRONSCALES, he was CMO of Domino Data Lab, the leading enterprise MLOps platform provider powering data science teams at Fortune 100 companies. Prior to Domino, he served as CMO at CloudBolt Software, where he helped to establish the company as a category leader in the cloud management market, tripled top-line growth, and integrated two acquisitions into the product portfolio.

Based in Boston, Grant began his career as a strategy consultant and holds three degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

As COO, Alex is responsible for customer facing operations at IRONSCALES, including customer success, onboarding, implementation, and technical support. Prior to joining IRONSCALES, he served in customer success and support leadership positions at VMware and AirWatch, as well as a technical role at Home Depot. Alex holds an engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Alex lives in Atlanta, GA with his wife Alyse and their 3 young children. As a family, they enjoy Georgia Tech football games, spending time with friends/neighbors, and actively serving the Lord and the local community. “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.”