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About SINET

Our Mission

At SINET, our mission is to advance innovation to defeat global cybersecurity threats. We connect CISOs, risk executives, and investors with early-stage and emerging companies driving cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions. By facilitating transparent dialogue, earning trust, and building relationships, SINET empowers our network to build a safer, more resilient digital future.

Why Join SINET

Cybersecurity innovation and evolution requires industry and government to have continuous and intimate communication with pioneering solution providers, researchers and investors focused on strengthening global security solutions.  SINET is widely recognized as the premier catalyst for building a global community of interest and trust within the security domain. By promoting inspired innovation models, embracing executive level collaboration and invigorating private-public partnerships, participation in the SINET community offers many benefits to its members, including:

Industry
Access to cutting edge solutions, deep understanding of best practices, shared understanding of threat landscape, substantial input into product strategy

Solutions Providers
Direct access to Fortune 2000 decision makers, improved understanding of threat landscape, input into product strategy

Investors
Access to latest security innovations, improved understanding of threat landscape, introductions to talented entrepreneurs

Government
Access to leading edge solutions, improved understanding of best practices, superior understanding of the evolving threat landscape

Robert D. Rodriguez
Chairman and Founder of SINET
Venture Partner at SYN Ventures

SINET accelerates investments and innovation of early-stage, emerging growth, and publicly traded cybersecurity companies into global marketplaces by connecting them to industry and government Chief Information Security Officers, risk executives, venture capitalists, and private equity firms. SINET brings together the world’s highest level of executive cybersecurity professionals through workshops, conferences, public-private partnership dinners, and virtually through SINETConnect, an invitation–only, highly curated platform that connects investors, buyers and sellers.

SYN Ventures invests in disruptive, transformational early-stage cybersecurity and AI solutions whose objectives are to reduce technology risk to protect our nation’s critical infrastructures. SYN’s primary investments are Seed, Series A and occasional B rounds.

Previously, Robert served 22 years as a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service, where he held numerous executive leadership positions within the Presidential Protection Detail, Protective Intelligence, Inspection, Criminal Investigation Division, and the Counter Assault Team (CAT). His executive protection experience spanned 10 years at the White House serving Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. Bush, Bill Clinton, and numerous Heads of State. He serves on numerous cybersecurity advisory boards and boards of directors, and has been called upon to advise private industry and federal governments as they build private sector outreach initiatives with corporations and the entrepreneurial and venture capital communities. In December of 2024, he was inducted into the Cybersecurity Hall of Fame for his numerous contributions towards the advancement of innovation and his support of public-private partnerships.

“The mission of SINET is to advance innovation and enable global collaboration between the public and private sectors to defeat Cybersecurity threats.”