Evan Powell
Chief Executive Officer



Evan Powell
Chief Executive Officer
Evan Powell is a five-time founding CEO with a proven track record of building and scaling B2B infrastructure startups at the intersection of cybersecurity, AI, and open-source. At DeepTempo, he leads a world-class team that pioneers in state-of-the-art detections that are deep learning based and adaptive to novel and changing environments, giving defenders an edge against today’s most advanced threats, including agentic AI and polymorphic malware.
Before joining DeepTempo, Evan was the founding CEO of StackStorm, an open-source event-driven automation platform widely adopted in security operations, which Brocade later acquired. He has also been the founding CEO of several other venture-backed companies focused on data infrastructure and distributed systems that achieved broad distribution.
Known for his product vision, go-to-market leadership, and community-building ethos, Evan brings a rare blend of technical depth and entrepreneurial execution to the cybersecurity space.
Evan Powell is a five-time founding CEO with a proven track record of building and scaling B2B infrastructure startups at the intersection of cybersecurity, AI, and open-source. At DeepTempo, he leads a world-class team that pioneers in state-of-the-art detections that are deep learning based and adaptive to novel and changing environments, giving defenders an edge against today’s most advanced threats, including agentic AI and polymorphic malware.
Before joining DeepTempo, Evan was the founding CEO of StackStorm, an open-source event-driven automation platform widely adopted in security operations, which Brocade later acquired. He has also been the founding CEO of several other venture-backed companies focused on data infrastructure and distributed systems that achieved broad distribution.
Known for his product vision, go-to-market leadership, and community-building ethos, Evan brings a rare blend of technical depth and entrepreneurial execution to the cybersecurity space.
Evan Powell is a five-time founding CEO with a proven track record of building and scaling B2B infrastructure startups at the intersection of cybersecurity, AI, and open-source. At DeepTempo, he leads a world-class team that pioneers in state-of-the-art detections that are deep learning based and adaptive to novel and changing environments, giving defenders an edge against today’s most advanced threats, including agentic AI and polymorphic malware.
Before joining DeepTempo, Evan was the founding CEO of StackStorm, an open-source event-driven automation platform widely adopted in security operations, which Brocade later acquired. He has also been the founding CEO of several other venture-backed companies focused on data infrastructure and distributed systems that achieved broad distribution.
Known for his product vision, go-to-market leadership, and community-building ethos, Evan brings a rare blend of technical depth and entrepreneurial execution to the cybersecurity space.