Meet the team behind SpartanX.
Seasoned cybersecurity veterans who have spent careers building, scaling, and securing enterprise systems. We have been where you are, and we build the adversary we wish we had.
Leadership

Diego Spahn
Co-Founder and CEO
A multi-time founder with more than two decades in cybersecurity and product, roughly ten years in consulting and ten building companies. He co-founded Neuralys, an automated vulnerability and penetration-testing management platform, and guided it from bootstrap through its 2021 acquisition by Coalfire.

Erik Hardy
President and COO
Erik has spent his career building companies and the world class GTM teams that power them. Grounded in the discipline and sales rigor he learned at EMC and sharpened across a run of category-defining companies, he surrounds himself with extraordinary people who solve complex business problems at scale.

Catalino Vega
Head of Security Research
An executive cybersecurity leader with 20+ years building AI governance, application security, and enterprise risk programs across global organizations, from AI/ML security strategy to cyber due diligence for large-scale M&A. He translates complex AI and cybersecurity risk into business-aligned decisions at the executive and board level.
Board of Directors
Our advisors

Mark Williamson
US GTM and strategic partnerships (commercial and federal)
CEO @ Conquest Security

Gabriel Marcos
Strategic marketing
Head of Product @ Saddleback Communications

Joseph Pearce
AI product and governance
Head of Product @ RecordPoint

Facundo Calcagno
AI and cloud technical
AI Director, Healthcare and Life Science Studio @ Globant
How the Phalanx operates
The Phalanx
We operate as one unit. Every member covers the person beside them. If one fails, we all fail; if one succeeds, we all succeed.
Extreme ownership
No "they broke it," only "we let it slip." Everyone here is a leader, and every leader owns the outcome.
Shield overlap
Look left and right. If a peer is blocked, you pair, you unblock, you extend your shield.
Built for victory
We optimize for outcomes, not comfort. We plan together, swarm together, and deliver together.
We built the ultimate adversary so regulated enterprises can test themselves the way real attackers would.
SpartanX is The Ultimate Adversary™, an autonomous offensive platform that maps your surface inside and out, proves the ways in with evidence, and never stops. We organize with the discipline of a military unit because the adversary we are building has to be relentless, precise, and under your control. We do not fight for vanity metrics. We fight for every security team that deserves better tools than the ones they have today.
See how we serve enterprise teams, or join the Phalanx.
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