Michael Nicosia is one of the co-founders and the COO of Salt, a company that provides a solution to identify and prevent zero-day API attacks through the use of artificial intelligence. The solution is designed to be deployed quickly without the need for configuration and without time limitations. Michael has over 20 years of experience in sales and marketing of enterprise software. He was part of the founding team at Adallom, a cloud security company, where he worked as the VP of Global Sales from its inception until it was acquired by Microsoft for $327m. Prior to Adallom, Michael worked as the VP of Sales at Appsense, a virtualization/endpoint security software company where he helped to increase sales from $25m to $100m+. Appsense was later acquired by Ivanti. Michael obtained a B.S. in Marketing from San Jose State University.