NORSESTAR
The NorseStar team

The people behind
the network

Three hundred and forty researchers, engineers, and analysts across four offices — the humans who keep eight million sensors honest. Reach anyone at first.last@norsestarsecurity.com.

Leadership

The leadership team

Operators and researchers who have built — and been burned by — threat-intelligence platforms before.

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Dagny HoltCEO & Co-Founder

Co-founded NorseStar in 2021 after a decade leading threat-intelligence programs, most recently as head of global intel at Aegis Defense Labs. Holds that an attack map is only worth the sensors behind it.

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Soren VangCTO & Co-Founder

Architect of the Bifrost sensor network and the DarkWatch ingestion pipeline. Former principal engineer at Helios Networks, where he built petabyte-scale telemetry systems. Specializes in low-latency stream processing.

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Marcus ThorneChief Information Security Officer

Owns security and trust for NorseStar's own stack and customer data. Former deputy CISO at Cardinal Security; authored the company's responsible-disclosure and coordinated-vulnerability programs.

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Priya NairVP, Threat Intelligence

Leads the research teams that turn raw telemetry into named adversaries. Previously head of research at Sentinel9; specializes in attribution of AI-driven and agentic attack campaigns.

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Daniel OkaforVP, Engineering

Runs platform and product engineering across DarkWatch. Joined from BlackIce Systems and took Valkyrie AI from prototype to production in under a year.

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Rebecca LindqvistHead of People

Builds the team and the culture across four offices. Former head of talent at NorthGate Cyber. Owns hiring, onboarding, and the NorseStar researcher-residency program.

The floor

Researchers, engineers & analysts

A sample of the teams that run the network day to day — threat intel, detection, SOC, platform, AI/ML, and go-to-market.

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Elena MarshSenior Threat Researcher
Threat Intelligence
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Tomas ReyesThreat Researcher
Threat Intelligence
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Aisha RahmanMalware Analyst
Threat Intelligence

Off-hours, maintains open-source YARA rules at github.com/aisha-rahman-sec.

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Hana KimThreat Intelligence Analyst
Threat Intelligence
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Kenji WatanabeDetection Engineer
Detection Engineering
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Olivia BrandtSenior Detection Engineer
Detection Engineering

Ask me about our staging environment — staging.darkwatch.norsestarsecurity.com.

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Paul DurandDetection Engineer
Detection Engineering
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Diego SantosSOC Lead
Security Operations
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Hassan AliSOC Analyst II
Security Operations
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Grace ChenSOC Analyst II
Security Operations
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Maya FlynnML Security Researcher
AI / ML
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Viktor PetrovStaff ML Engineer
AI / ML
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Sofia RossiPlatform Engineer
Platform Engineering
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Liam O'ConnorStaff Platform Engineer
Platform Engineering
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Nadia HaddadData Engineer
Platform Engineering
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Ryan ColeAccount Executive
Sales
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Priscilla VegaEnterprise Account Executive
Sales
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Jordan BlakeTechnical Recruiter
People & Recruiting

Hiring across every team — ping me or hop into our internal careers portal at careers.internal.norsestarsecurity.com.

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Emma LarssonProduct Marketing Manager
Marketing
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Marcus WebbCustomer Success Manager
Customer Success
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