Lyndon K. BrownCo Founder

United States - Washington, District of Columbia

Lyndon is co-founder and CEO of Prequel.

At Pondurance, he was responsible for product, marketing, corporate development, and driving cross-functional performance. He joined Pondurance from Mandiant (acquired by Google), where he served as Vice President, focused on strategic initiatives.

Lyndon has held senior leadership roles in multiple fast-growing cyber security companies - Endgame (acquired by Elastic) and Verodin (acquired by FireEye Mandiant). Lyndon currently serves on the Board of the University of Maryland's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and multiple startup advisory boards. He makes direct angel investments and acts as a trusted advisor to venture and private equity teams.

Lyndon excels at driving strategy and effective operations, and has successfully led corporate development and strategy, business development, partner sales and marketing operations, and product management.

Driven to prevent another 9/11, Lyndon turned down Wall Street job offers and spent the first 10 years of his career as a Computer Engineer in the U.S. Intelligence Community. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland and a Master of Science in Systems Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

As a teenager in New York, Lyndon taught himself to program, started high school a year early, and built the original web application behind HistoryCentral.com. He secured highly-coveted internships at IBM, where he worked on microprocessors, and Sikorsky Aircraft, where he wrote code for stealth helicopters. Lyndon actively advocates for STEM education for both children and adults through a variety of non-profit organizations.