Fear nothing,
explore freely.

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

Dante's warning feels apt for today's digital world: where every click hides a trap, scrolling fragments attention, and manipulation lurks beneath the surface. Yet despite all our tech, one truth remains: securing human behavior is still unresolved.

Human risk and all its complexities isn't just a technical problem, it's cognitive. It's about how we process deception, how easily trust is hijacked, and how hard secure habits are to sustain in a world built to break them. Something has to change.

When in doubt, seek Maro
When in doubt, seek Maro

When in doubt,
seek Maro.

Our mission is to guide teams through the darkness of human risk by addressing its cognitive roots. After years of building cybersecurity tools, we kept seeing the same flaw: people aren't the issue, our tools just don't understand them.

At Maro, we're changing that. By understanding how people think and act in the moment, we turn behavior from a vulnerability into a source of resilience. Because when you create safe passage, the digital world stops feeling like an inferno and starts looking like a frontier worth exploring.

Read on about cognitive security →

The Maro Leadership Team

Together, we bring decades of experience building products that solve for asymmetries in cybersecurity protection. Meet the band of builders, shapers, and trailblazers.

 

Jadon Cruz Montero, Founder and CEO
 

Jadon Cruz Montero

Co-founder, CEO

Previously
Founder @ Murmur Secure
Head of MDR Product @ Bitdefender
Product, SOAR @ Rapid7

Gwen Betts, Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer
 

Gwen Betts

Co-founder, CXMO

Previously
Head of UX @ Rapid7
Founding Team @ Komand
Startup Advisor and Consultant

Jen Andre, Co-Founder and CTO
 

Jen Andre

Co-founder, CTO

Previously
VP Product @ GreyNoise
VP Product @ Rapid7
2x Founder

Franco Fróes, Chief of Staff
 

Franco Fróes

Chief of Staff

Previously
Consultant @ BCG
Analyst @ JP Morgan

Advisors, Investors, and Partners

Learning from leaders who have traveled brave paths before us!

Jim Brennan
 

Jim Brennan

CPTO, GetReal

Debasish Biswas
 

Debasish Biswas

CTO, Aware (acq. Mimecast)

Or Polaczek
 

Or Polaczek

Engineering Leader, Forter

Gabe Zichermann
 

Gabe Zichermann

Gamification Expert

Jon Schipp
 

Jon Schipp

Senior Director of Product, Rapid7

Victor Chang
 

Victor Chang

CISO, Backstory

Joram Borenstein
 

Joram Borenstein

Cyber Exec (Former GM @ Microsoft)

Everett Stern
 

Everett Stern

CEO, Stern Cybersecurity

Investors

Downing Capital Group

 

Partners

Goliath Cyber Security GRoup

 

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Make behavior your strongest control layer.

Maro transforms everyday behavior into your most trusted security signal, illuminating human risk and helping people make secure choices without shame, blame, or delay.