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Cobalt Appoints Paul Zymba and Deepak Dalvi to Strengthen Product Innovation and Customer Success

New leadership appointments support enterprise growth and continued evolution of the Cobalt Offensive Security Platform.

  • Advances penetration testing as a Service (PTaaS) and continuous pentesting for enterprise security programs.
  • Strengthens AI-powered offensive security platform and product innovation for modern attack surfaces.
  • Expands customer success leadership to deliver measurable risk reduction and operational security outcomes.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cobalt, the pioneer of penetration testing as a service (PTaaS) and a leading provider of human-led, AI-powered offensive security solutions, today announced the appointments of Paul Zymba as Senior Vice President of Customer Success and Deepak Dalvi as Vice President of Product. The leadership additions reinforce the company’s focus on product innovation, enterprise scale, and delivering measurable security outcomes for customers.

Zymba joins Cobalt with more than 25 years of experience building and scaling customer success, delivery, and professional services organizations across B2B SaaS and security companies. He previously held senior leadership roles at Veracode, Mendix, GAN Integrity, and Galvanize. As Senior Vice President of Customer Success, Zymba will lead the end-to-end customer journey, spanning customer success, delivery, and support, with a focus on long-term customer value.

Dalvi brings extensive experience leading product strategy and innovation across cloud, endpoint, and data security. Prior to joining Cobalt, he held senior leadership roles at Trellix, Aqua Security, and Lacework, where he helped grow and modernize security portfolios, delivered and scaled value with automation, AI and SaaS for global enterprises. At Cobalt, Dalvi will focus on accelerating platform innovation, expanding enterprise capabilities, advancing continuous pentesting and accelerating AI capabilities as a core component of modern security programs.

“These appointments reflect where Cobalt is headed as we continue to scale with enterprise customers,” said Sonali Shah, CEO of Cobalt. “Deepak brings deep product leadership and a strong track record of innovation, while Paul’s experience building world-class customer success and service delivery organizations ensures we continue to deliver real, measurable value with our pentest programs. Together, they strengthen our ability to help organizations operationalize offensive security.”

The appointments support the company’s continued expansion into the enterprise market, where security teams face growing pressure to manage complex environments, faster release cycles, and increasingly sophisticated adversaries. By strengthening both product leadership and customer success, Cobalt is reinforcing its commitment to modernizing offensive security through continuous testing, expert-led engagement, superior AI capabilities and real-world assurance that goes beyond point-in-time assessments. Together, these leadership additions help ensure customers can operationalize pentesting as an ongoing discipline that delivers measurable risk reduction at enterprise scale.

About Cobalt 

Cobalt is the pioneer in pentesting as a service (PTaaS) and a leader in offensive security services. We are focused on combining talent and technology with speed, scalability, and expertise. Thousands of customers and hundreds of partners rely on the Cobalt Offensive Security Platform, along with 450+ trusted security experts, to find and fix vulnerabilities across their environments. By enabling faster pentest launches, real-time collaboration with pentesters, and seamless integration with remediation workflows, we help organizations identify critical issues and accelerate risk mitigation so they can operate fearlessly and innovate securely. 

Cobalt maintains an outstanding NPS of 9.12, reflecting its dedication to customer satisfaction. Read our reviews on G2 to see why customers love us. More at https://www.cobalt.io/. Follow Cobalt on LinkedIn and X.


Media Contact: 
Leslie Kesselring
Kesselring Communication for Cobalt
leslie@kesscomm.com

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About Cobalt
Cobalt combines talent and technology to provide end-to-end offensive security solutions that enable organizations to remediate risk across a dynamically changing attack surface. As the innovators of Pentest as a Service (PtaaS), Cobalt empowers businesses to optimize their existing resources, access an on-demand community of trusted security experts, expedite remediation cycles, and share real-time updates and progress with internal teams to mitigate future risk. More By Cobalt