Meet our team!
Our mission is simple: deliver powerful, affordable, and easy-to-manage cybersecurity solutions that help organizations identify risks, prevent data loss, maintain compliance, and stay ahead of evolving cyber threats. From small businesses to growing enterprises, we provide the tools and expertise needed to secure sensitive information across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments.
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Zach Avery
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Zach began his IT career at 16 when he started working on networking configurations and custom server and computer building. Since then and over the past decade, Zach has built five SOCs, worked on countless IR teams, engineered thousands of alerts, and has gone head-to-head against the most malicious foreign APT groups in the world.
Throughout his experience working in Cyber/IT, Zach has observed DLP routinely being treated as an afterthought in many cyber programs. After handling large RIFs and cyber attacks alike, and observing unopposed data egress without a trace, Zach tired of the only data received by the SOC being little more than the file size. There and then, Zach resolved himself to address this DLP blindness problem and find a way to provide protection teams real telemetry data they need during and after an incident at a reasonable price. Zach began drawing up a solution to the DLP blindness problem in 2021, and by 2025 fully developed and patented (allowed) Atlas Trace. While DLP remains a neglected area in cybersecurity, Zach and his team at Kiken work every day to provide SOCs with the tools needed to actually do their job.
B.S. Information Security & Risk Management
Gregory Patricoski
Chief Operation Officer & General Counsel
Gregory began his career as a plaintiff trial attorney with 10 years of experience representing hundreds of clients in State and Federal cases, including before Illinois Supreme Court. Throughout his career, he has sought to blend safe early-adoption of automation, AI, and cyber security into his daily legal practices. To that end, in 2018 he became the first practicing attorney to receive a Master of Science in Information Systems from Northwestern University which he used to fully engineer and automate his law firm’s custom built applications and servers. In 2023 Greg joined Kiken as General Counsel and has worked hard as COO to combine his tech background with his years of experience in addressing liability with the simple aim of bringing affordable cybersecurity tools to the SMB and enterprise market.
J.D. (Corporate and Commercial Law endorsement), MSIS (Business Analytics endorsement)
Licensed in IL
Gregory Patricoski
Chief Operation Officer & General Counsel
Gregory began his career as a plaintiff trial attorney with 10 years of experience representing hundreds of clients in State and Federal cases, including before Illinois Supreme Court. Throughout his career, he has sought to blend safe early-adoption of automation, AI, and cyber security into his daily legal practices. To that end, in 2018 he became the first practicing attorney to receive a Master of Science in Information Systems from Northwestern University which he used to fully engineer and automate his law firm’s custom built applications and servers. In 2023 Greg joined Kiken as General Counsel and has worked hard as COO to combine his tech background with his years of experience in addressing liability with the simple aim of bringing affordable cybersecurity tools to the SMB and enterprise market.
J.D. (Corporate and Commercial Law endorsement), MSIS (Business Analytics endorsement)
Licensed in IL
Aneta Chelpa
Director of People & Operations
Aneta brings to Kiken a professional foundation that spans organizational development, HR transformation, and early-stage technology operations. Her background includes talent and HR transformation work, where she developed expertise in change management, corporate communications, and building the internal systems that growing organizations depend on, as well as a product development role at a San Francisco-based startup, where she gained direct experience navigating the operational and human capital demands of a company in its early growth phase. Most recently, as a Senior Clinical Development Specialist at a University, she built and managed institutional partnerships at scale, demonstrating the kind of relationship-driven, results-oriented approach that translates directly into a fast-moving startup environment. Aneta leads people operations and organizational infrastructure and develops policies, processes, and culture to keep pace with the cutting technology being built by Kiken.
BS, Rehabilitation Services from Northern Illinois University.
Mike Gulczynski
Principal Systems Admin
Mike has over a decade of experience starting as a level 1 help desk and operated for a number of companies as a structure architect including federal contracts. Mike worked with Zach at the Joint Commission working for the Department of Health and Services. Mike has an absolute and laser of operation security and protected architecture.
BS, Information Systems
Mike Gulczynski
Principal Systems Admin
Mike has over a decade of experience starting as a level 1 help desk and operated for a number of companies as a structure architect including federal contracts. Mike worked with Zach at the Joint Commission working for the Department of Health and Services. Mike has an absolute and laser of operation security and protected architecture.
BS, Information Systems
Bryan Guerrero
Chief Sales Officer
Head of sales, Bryan has years of experience in both SMB and large software sales, initially specializing in medical industry, Bryan quickly learned the importance of cyber security. Bryan linked with founder Zach in 2024 and has since developed a sales and marketing strategy to bring affordable DLP and DSPM tools to the SMB and enterprise markets.
Michael Latham
Principal Engineer
Michael is a principal software engineer and systems architect with 27 years of experience building high-availability, critical software platforms for some of the most demanding environments in enterprise technology. One of the earliest production practitioners of Rust, Michael began working with the language at its public release and has spent a decade applying it to the class of problems it was built to solve: memory safety, concurrency, and performance in systems where operational failure is not an option. At Microsoft, he worked within the Cortana and Office 365 ecosystems, delivering Rust-backed services for Azure CI/CD infrastructure, real-time telemetry dashboards, and container orchestration at global scale. H has architected Rust APIs, backend administration services, and enterprise migration tooling for clients across financial services, healthcare, and the public sector, including organizations operating under the compliance requirements of institutions such as the NYSE, the Department of Defense, and the Department of the Treasury. Among his most significant engineering contributions is a general-purpose framework for porting legacy C codebases into modern Rust, a capability that reflects both the depth of his systems knowledge and a sustained conviction that critical infrastructure deserves memory-safe, performant foundations. At Kiken, Michael leads backend platform engineering, bringing to the Tracer Technology stack the architectural discipline and senior ownership that the company’s platform demands.
Michael Latham
Principal Engineer
Michael is a principal software engineer and systems architect with 27 years of experience building high-availability, critical software platforms for some of the most demanding environments in enterprise technology. One of the earliest production practitioners of Rust, Michael began working with the language at its public release and has spent a decade applying it to the class of problems it was built to solve: memory safety, concurrency, and performance in systems where operational failure is not an option. At Microsoft, he worked within the Cortana and Office 365 ecosystems, delivering Rust-backed services for Azure CI/CD infrastructure, real-time telemetry dashboards, and container orchestration at global scale. H has architected Rust APIs, backend administration services, and enterprise migration tooling for clients across financial services, healthcare, and the public sector, including organizations operating under the compliance requirements of institutions such as the NYSE, the Department of Defense, and the Department of the Treasury. Among his most significant engineering contributions is a general-purpose framework for porting legacy C codebases into modern Rust, a capability that reflects both the depth of his systems knowledge and a sustained conviction that critical infrastructure deserves memory-safe, performant foundations. At Kiken, Michael leads backend platform engineering, bringing to the Tracer Technology stack the architectural discipline and senior ownership that the company’s platform demands.
Issac Prada
Financial Advisor
Isaac launched his engineering career by winning the 2005 Altran Engineering Academy to serve as an R&D engineer for the Renault Formula One Team, an experience that instilled in him a management discipline he has since spent more than two decades applying to high-growth tech startups and SMBs. After earning a PhD in Electrical Engineering cum laude and completing R&D work at Airbus, Isaac co-founded KeelWit Technology, where as CEO and CTO he developed the Competitive Manager methodology that has improved revenue per employee by up to 200% and doubled revenues for several clients. Over the course of his career, he has secured €7 million in startup funding, filed multiple patents, and executed growth and innovation strategies across sectors spanning AI, fintech, aerospace, blockchain, and logistics, developing along the way a firsthand appreciation for the data security gaps that routinely leave SMBs exposed. Isaac brings that same engineering precision and results-driven methodology to Kiken, where his focus is building the robust go-to-market strategy and growth engine needed to bring Kiken’s DLP and DSPM tools to the SMB market at scale.
PhD, Electrical Engineering (Cum Laude) | Professional Engineer — Association of Professional Engineers of Spain
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