Varun Badhwar

Varun Badhwar is the Founder and CEO of Endor Labs, established in September 2021, focusing on enhancing safe Open Source Software adoption for developers and security teams through a comprehensive Code and Pipeline Governance Platform. Badhwar is also a member of the Forbes Technology Council and serves on the Board of Directors for Cowbell since October 2019, while advising ArmorCode Inc. Since October 2018, Badhwar held the position of SVP and GM of Prisma Cloud at Palo Alto Networks, where a business was built from the ground up to achieve $300M in ARR and 2,700 customers, including 77% of Fortune 100 companies, in just three years. Previous achievements include founding RedLock, which was acquired by Palo Alto Networks, and holding advisory roles at Tetrate and SafeBreach. Badhwar co-founded CipherCloud, directing product marketing, strategy, and customer success across key industries, and managed security strategy for Salesforce's Force.com platform. An alumnus of the University of Southern California, Badhwar holds a BS in Computer Science.