Daniel Bloom

• Spearhead the design and implementation of comprehensive, multi-modal security architectures for a diverse portfolio including high net worth family offices, philanthropic foundations, and dynamic venture investments.
• Oversee robust cybersecurity and cyber-physical systems spanning digital and physical environments—from offices and residences to stadiums, arenas, and other critical facilities.
• Integrate on-premises, cloud, and cyber-physical infrastructures to deliver cohesive, scalable security solutions across subsidiaries such as Anaheim Ducks, Samueli Foundation, XMP Technologies, and additional Samueli Family Ventures.
• Develop and drive enterprise-wide vulnerability assessment and management programs, leveraging quantitative risk analytics to establish clear, actionable security KPIs.
• Cultivate a forward-thinking, security-focused culture and continuously elevate security best practices to meet the evolving demands of a modern venture firm.

• Selected to join Opnbook’s advisory board, lending strategic insights on cybersecurity to enhance its cutting-edge AI infrastructure and measurement platform.
• Advise on risk-based security frameworks that support the company’s mission to optimize AI hardware efficiency and performance.
• Collaborate with executive leadership to integrate best-in-class cybersecurity practices into innovative product development and strategic growth initiatives.
• Equity stakeholder, underscoring a strong, long-term commitment to Opnbook’s disruptive market potential.

• Vulnerability Management department lead focusing on Red Team capabilities and operations
• Lead Research & Development activities that culminated in the identification, creation, analysis, and subsequent remediation or mitigation of malicious tactics, techniques, and procedures
• Lead the development of custom penetration testing and administrative automation tools, malicious payloads, and vulnerability exploits
• Managed Red Team day to day activities, priorities, schedule, and communications
• Lead penetration testing and threat simulation activities from initial planning and stakeholder buy-in to final reporting and security findings remediation against targets like SWIFT, AWS, Docker, Azure DaaS, and their relationship to the rest of the corporate environment

• Served as technical lead for the Fannie Mae Information Security Red Team.
• Lead a fully remote team of 4 operators in planned, prioritizing, and executing both standalone and continuous penetration testing and adversarial simulation operations.
• Performed extensive management, reporting, and communication of valuable and confidential threat intelligence and operations metrics related to TTP simulation, security research and development, and other penetration testing activities.
• Created and implemented automated Confluence based testing and threat intelligence management and metrics reporting system

• Joined a brand new internal red team as a senior analyst and assisted in developing internal processes for performing targeted and exploratory penetration testing operations, adversarial threat simulation, large scale coordinated purple team efforts, and security research and development
• Assisted a completely remote team in performing, tracking, and reporting extensive TTP testing, emergency vulnerability response activities, and other penetration testing activities.
• Communicated valuable and confidential threat intelligence to Directors and C-level Executives

Founded Bloom Cyber Defense, a company focused on penetration testing and threat group simulation. Communicated with new and existing customers, performed customer outreach activities, sales activities, and pre-engagement information gathering, and post-engagement remediation assistance. performed multiple web, infrastructure, and mobile application penetration tests for customers in the marketing and finance industries. Performed secure code review for web and mobile applications.