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Sam Small

Operating Partner & CISO

Sam Small, Ph.D., is an Operating Partner and the Chief Information Security Officer of ClearSky. Prior to joining ClearSky full-time in 2022, Mr. Small served as a security portfolio consultant to ClearSky (since 2013), Chief Security Officer at ZeroFox, Chief Executive Officer at Fast Orientation, and Managing Partner of Camaril. In addition to serving as a litigation consultant and expert witness in numerous software-related legal proceedings, Mr. Small is the recipient of two patents issued by the USPTO.

Mr. Small currently serves as interim CEO of SAIFE, Inc., in addition to currently serving as a board observer of Inky.  Mr. Small holds a B.S. from the College of William and Mary and an M.S.E. and Ph.D. in computer science from Johns Hopkins University. He is also a graduate of the CISO certification program co-administered by Heinz College and the CERT division of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.