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Bryan Palma named founding CEO

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Bryan Palma named founding CEO is listed as a founder of Trellix on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.

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Quick Facts

  • Role Founder
  • Company Trellix
  • Country United States
  • Industry AI in Cybersecurity
  • Founded 2022
  • Known For Trellix is both a large-scale experiment in whether two legacy security brands can be fused into…
  • Status Active
  • Last Reviewed Aug 2026

Executive Summary

Bryan Palma named founding CEO is listed as a founder of Trellix on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.

Career Timeline

Verified company milestones linked to this executive’s organization.

  1. 2021 Product

    June 2021: FireEye sells its products business and the FireEye name to Symphony Technology Group (STG) for $1.2 billion, spinning off its Mandiant incident-response unit as a separately traded company.

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  2. 2021 Acquisition

    July 2021: STG-led investors acquire McAfee's enterprise business for $4 billion.

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  3. 2022 Company founded

    Trellix was founded in 2022 per the company profile source on file.

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  4. 2022 Leadership

    January 2022: STG combines the FireEye products business and McAfee Enterprise into a single company, Trellix, with Bryan Palma named CEO; McAfee Enterprise's security service edge unit becomes a separate sister company, Skyhigh Security.

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  5. 2025 Leadership

    January 2025: STG appoints Vishal Rao, previously CEO of Skyhigh Security, to also serve as Trellix's chief executive, succeeding Palma.

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  6. 2026 Development

    May 2026: Trellix discloses unauthorized access to a portion of its source code repository; the RansomHouse extortion group later claims responsibility, dating the intrusion to April 17, 2026, and posts screenshots purporting to show access to Trellix's internal appliance-management console.

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Bryan Palma named founding CEO is listed as a founder of Trellix on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.

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