About Us
Pioneering
Pre-Zero-Day Cybersecurity
Headquartered in beautiful Victoria, Canada, HYAS is the world's leading authority on pre-zero-day cybersecurity risk. HYAS provides the industry’s first security solution that integrates into existing security frameworks and enables enterprises to detect and mitigate cyber risks before attacks happen and identify the adversaries behind them.
Mission and Values
At HYAS our mission is simple - provide customers with the world’s best system for detecting and mitigating cyber risks before attacks happen and identifying the bad actors behind them. In an almost limitless world of devices and protocols, the only guarantee is that DNS will be used to establish communication. We believe that the use of DNS provides the best intelligence on the planet -- and HYAS has the keys to unlock it.
Equally important are our corporate values and how we approach our mission. We internally pledge to:
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Communicate Internally and Externally
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Focus on our Customers and Their Success
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Win Together as a Team
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Act with Integrity & Trust
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Get Stuff Done
- Embrace the Power of Differences
We have the team, the expertise, the hunger, and the drive. Our mission is clear.
Management Team


After obtaining his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA, David spent his career in various areas of software and technology, from writing code for some of the world’s first and largest mobile and messaging systems to scaling, growing, and exiting multiple software companies – venture-backed, private-equity owned, and public. Ratner helped establish MAAWG, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (now M3AAWG), has international B2B experience in all geographies, over two million lifetime flight miles, is a martial-arts black-belt and active soccer player. Currently resides in Silicon Valley.


Chris Davis is an InfoSec guy who hates the term “cyber”. He’s also the only Canadian to receive the FBI Director’s Award of Excellence, for his forensic research and effective takedown of the Mariposa botnet: one of the world’s largest malware schemes, and has been named one of Microsoft's Digital Crime Unit's "Global Heros".


After finishing a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, Paul spent several years in the defense industry working on large-scale distributed simulation systems. After that he transitioned into developing scalable systems for consumer email and mobile messaging. He has significant experience in software architecture, distributed systems, and scalable storage/database solutions, and leads the engineering team at HYAS to develop, release, and support products that make HYAS' customer successful. Paul lives in Santa Barbara, California with his wife, 2 children, and 2 dogs. He loves to play chess, and write code to control and fly his multicopter drone.


Todd runs all aspects of marketing for HYAS. He is a cybersecurity veteran having worked for over 15 years in information security. Todd has an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA and received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University. Todd is a Silicon Valley native who was born and raised and currently lives in Palo Alto, California.


Jonathan has spent the past 20 years driving revenue growth and scaling organizations in the Internet technology arena. Jonathan enjoyed several years developing enterprise agreements with hyperscale cloud and infrastructure companies. In 2014 Jonathan transitioned toward SaaS and joined Fastly, Inc. Over the next five years, iterating on systems, developing teams, and go-to-market strategy in the Enterprise space; he helped scale Fastly from Series B into a successful IPO. Jonathan has an MBA from Regis University and received his undergraduate degree from University of Georgia. Last year, Jonathan moved from Denver, CO to Austin, TX where he resides with his wife, two children, and Labrador.


A global-minded leader hailing from Atlanta, GA, Melissa moved to Vancouver Island, BC in pursuit of the technology start-up experience as one of the first team-members at HYAS. Responsible for keeping the company focused, on-track, and efficient, Melissa runs the core business needs across Accounting & Finance, Human Resources and Operations departments. She has a demonstrated history of leading high-performance teams in multiple countries, with an emphasis on new program development and corporate culture needs in high growth environments. When not at the office, Melissa enjoys yoga, cooking, and spending time with her family and friends.
Our Board


After obtaining his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA, David spent his career in various areas of software and technology, from writing code for some of the world’s first and largest mobile and messaging systems to scaling, growing, and exiting multiple software companies – venture-backed, private-equity owned, and public. Ratner helped establish MAAWG, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (now M3AAWG). He has international B2B experience in all geographies, over two million lifetime flight miles, is a martial-arts black-belt and active soccer player. Currently resides in Silicon Valley.


Chris is an InfoSec guy who hates the term “cyber”. He’s also the only Canadian to receive the FBI Director’s Award of Excellence, for his forensic research and effective takedown of the Mariposa botnet: one of the world’s largest malware schemes, and has been named one of Microsoft's Digital Crime Unit's "Global Heros".
Careers
We are a passionate group of experienced cybersecurity professionals on a mission to fundamentally change the way enterprises manage and protect against cyber threats.
Our unique pre-zero-day approach to cybersecurity helps some of the world's largest organizations solve some of cybersecurity's most difficult challenges - proactively identifying risk before attacks happen and identifying the bad actors behind the attacks. But, we're just getting started.
If you share our passion and value the opportunity to do meaningful and rewarding work that will make a real difference in the war against cybercrime, we'd love to hear from you.