Ron Gula is a former NSA cyber operator who founded and sold Network Security Wizards, co-founded and took Tenable public, and now runs Gula Tech Adventures—a self-funded venture firm with no LPs that allows him to back both high-ROI companies and longer-horizon cyber infrastructure plays. Unlike typical investors, he personally installs and runs most of the cybersecurity products he backs to understand their technical fit and operational reality, while also mentoring ex-government technologists to become commercial founders through his learn, earn, return philosophy. Ron Gula is a former NSA cyber operator who founded and sold Network Security Wizards, co-founded and took Tenable public, and now runs Gula Tech Adventures—a self-funded venture firm with no LPs that allows him to back both high-ROI companies and longer-horizon cyber infrastructure plays. Unlike typical investors, he personally installs and runs most of the cybersecurity products he backs to understand their technical fit and operational reality, while also mentoring ex-government technologists to become commercial founders through his learn, earn, return philosophy.