Management and Board Members/Investors

Stu Sjouwerman

Founder & CEO

Stu Sjouwerman (pronounced “shower-man”) is the founder and CEO of KnowBe4 Inc, provider world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform. A serial entrepreneur and data security expert with more than 30 years in the IT industry, Sjouwerman is the author of four books, with his latest being “Cyberheist: The Biggest Financial Threat Facing American Businesses.”

Along with his CEO duties, Stu is Editor-in-Chief of Cyberheist News, an ezine tailored to deliver IT security news, technical updates and social engineering alerts. Stu is a five-time Inc 500 award winner.

Bob Reich

CFO

Robert (“Bob”) Reich serves as our Chief Financial Officer and brings more than 25 years of business and financial management expertise to his role at KnowBe4.  He has held numerous senior positions with a number of leading public and private equity sponsored companies, leading transformative value creation strategies.  Most recently, he served as EVP and CFO of Catalina Marketing Corporation, a leader in targeted, personalized marketing solutions for some of the world’s largest brands and retailers; and previously served as EVP and CFO of Syniverse Holdings, Inc., a leading global software and services provider connecting mobile network operators and enterprises in nearly 200 countries.

Earlier roles included SVP and CFO for Hawaiian Telcom Communications, Inc., which successfully became a public equity registrant after returning to profitable growth; and senior leadership roles at McLeodUSA, Inc. and Wisconsin Central Transportation Corporation.  Bob began his finance career with Deloitte in Chicago.

Lars Letonoff

Co-President/CRO, Board Observer

Lars Letonoff is the Chief Revenue Officer of KnowBe4, Inc. and serves as a board observer of the organization’s board of directors.

He joined KnowBe4 in 2011, early in the organization’s initial start-up phase, and has developed the organization’s sales processes and sales team throughout the organization’s many phases of growth. He is responsible for all areas of global sales, including direct sales, channel sales, customer success, business development and strategic accounts.

Jeremiah Daly

Jeremiah co-founded Elephant in 2015.  He co-leads the firm's investment activities and management.  Jeremiah is on the board of KnowBe4, A Cloud Guru, Mosyle and several other Elephant investments. 

Prior to co-founding Elephant, Jeremiah was an investor at Accel, Highland Capital Partners and Summit Partners.  He started his career at Silicon Valley Bank and Gold Hill Capital.  Jeremiah holds an AB in Government from Dartmouth College where he captained the golf team.

Stephen Shanley

Stephen Shanley joined KKR in 2014 and is Head of KKR’s Technology Growth Equity business in Europe. He has served on the boards of KnowBe4, Darktrace, Feedzai, OutSystems, GetYourGuide, Ivalua and several other KKR investments.

Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Shanley was with Technology Crossover Ventures in Palo Alto, California and subsequently London. Prior to TCV, Mr. Shanley was with the TMT investment banking group of Needham & Company and started his career in the transaction services group of KPMG. Mr. Shanley holds a BS and a BSC from Santa Clara University.

Kevin Klausmeyer

Kevin Klausmeyer is a veteran technology financial officer and board member. Mr. Klausmeyer is currently on the board of Jamf, wherein he chairs their audit committee. Mr. Klausmeyer served on the Hortonworks board from August 2014 until it merged with Cloudera, Inc. in January 2019. He chaired the Cloudera audit committee until the company went private in October 2021. Mr. Klausmeyer served on the board of directors of Callidus Software Inc., a provider of SaaS sales and marketing automation solutions, from April 2013 until its acquisition by SAP SE in April 2018. From April 2013 to October 2013, Mr. Klausmeyer served on the board of directors of Sourcefire, Inc., a provider of intrusion detection security solutions (acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc.).

From July 2003 to September 2012, Mr. Klausmeyer served on the board of directors of Quest Software, Inc., a software company that was ultimately acquired by Dell Inc. From July 2006 to February 2011, Mr. Klausmeyer served as the Chief Financial Officer of The Planet, Inc., a pioneer in the infrastructure‑as‑a‑service market, which was acquired by SoftLayer Technologies (a company later acquired by IBM as the core of its cloud platform). Mr. Klausmeyer began his career in public accounting, with Arthur Andersen, and subsequently held senior financial positions at several software companies, including BMC Software and PentaSafe Security Technologies. Mr. Klausmeyer graduated with highest honors from the University of Texas.

Krish Venkataraman

Krish Venkataraman was a veteran Wall Street and software executive who held senior leadership roles at some of the world’s most respected firms, including posts as Co-President & CFO of KnowBe4 where he drove the successful IPO of the firm, CFO of Dealogic, a fintech company that serves financial firms worldwide, and where he led the company through a successful and strategic sale; and CFO and COO of Syncsort, a global leader in Big Iron to Big Data software, where he also led the successful sale of that company.

Earlier roles included serving as CFO for information technology for NYSE Euronext when it was the parent company for the world’s largest exchange, where he helped in the sale process to Intercontinental Exchange; chief administrative officer for U.S. equities for Lehman Brothers; and as a strategist for both American Express and Deloitte Consulting.

His education includes a BS from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from Cornell University - Johnson School of Management.