Mohamoud Jibrell

Mohamoud Jibrell is the co-founder of Black Kite. For more than 25 years, Mohamoud is a transformative, strategic business and technology leader with first-hand knowledge of the challenges of cybersecurity and third-party security risk.

Mohamoud has spent his entire career finding unorthodox but highly effective solutions to business problems. Prior to founding Black Kite, Mohamoud was vice president and chief information officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, one of the largest private medical research organizations in the U.S. There, he streamlined and optimized a global IT organization that supported groundbreaking biomedical research including research labs in major 79 universities, implemented innovative technologies like cloud-based business applications, virtualized data center infrastructure and high performance computing clusters while reducing overall IT cost by 25%. Prior, he was the chief technology officer for the Ford Foundation, where he transformed IT operations across 13 countries by consolidating global infrastructure and transitioning critical business applications to cloud/hosted model. He also held IT and business leadership roles at Thermo King Corporation, an Ingersoll-Rand subsidiary, including leading a product group that increased global sales from $3 million to $28 million in three years, while reducing product cost by 32%.

In all of these roles, Mohamoud witnessed the myriad security challenges faced by multinational organizations that work with hundreds, even thousands, of third-party partners that can potentially compromise a company’s cybersecurity posture. This served as his inspiration his journey to entrepreneurship and co-founding Black Kite in 2016. Mohamoud is passionate about mentoring and cultivating emerging leaders. He believes the key to any business’s success is building high-performing teams and developing new leaders. He holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Trinity College in Hartford, CT.