Advisors who’ve built and scaled businesses, with skills matched to meet the challenge in front of you.
Paul Warnagiris
Founding Partner - ChairPaul Warnagiris is Founding Partner and Chair of Elano, where he chairs the board and is the firm’s lead investor. A serial entrepreneur and investor with a strong technical background, Paul works with venture capital and private equity firms on technical diligence and helps portfolio companies build plans that hold up in practice. Having spent his career on both the buying and selling sides of technology, he advises security leaders and the companies that serve them.
Paul founded The Teneo Group in 2007 and still leads it as CEO. The Washington, D.C.-based cybersecurity engineering and services firm was named Check Point’s 2025 Americas New Logo Partner of the Year. Earlier, he was Chief Information Security Officer at Promontory Interfinancial Network, where he ran the security program and regulatory examinations. He started his career as a network security analyst at UUNET.
Scott Kasper
Founding Partner - ManagerScott Kasper is a Founding Partner and the Manager of Elano, and runs the firm’s day-to-day operations. A serial entrepreneur and investor with three decades in technology, Scott advises early-stage companies on go-to-market strategy, market entry, client development and channels. He also consults to venture capital and private equity firms on their portfolio companies. He works closely with Israeli founders expanding into the United States and is an active member of ISAN, the Israeli Security Advisory Network.
Scott has been on executive teams through multiple exits. He was Chief Revenue Officer at Veriti through its acquisition by Check Point Software Technologies, then left Check Point to co-found Elano. Before that, he helped grow Skyhigh Networks through its acquisition by McAfee, and he held leadership roles at Atlantic Data Security, GuidePoint Security, Symantec, Check Point and UUNET. Scott is an angel investor and a limited partner in several early-stage funds, and holds a BBA from Longwood University.
Chris Storey
Founding PartnerChris Storey is a Founding Partner of Elano, advising early-stage companies and managed service providers on business development, partnerships and growth. He started his career at an MSP more than a decade ago, where he saw the technology and security problems small and mid-sized businesses face every day. Since then he has worked on both sides of the market, building and selling managed services and helping technology companies sell through service providers.
Chris focuses on putting AI to practical use, especially to give smaller organizations capabilities that used to require large teams and big budgets. Before Elano, he was President of Teneo AI, founded Gluck.ai and Gluck Creative, and led North American business development for Qriar Technologies. He also held business development and sales roles at ShowTech Solutions and Big Sur Technologies.
Jarrett Miller
Founding PartnerJarrett Miller is a Founding Partner of Elano, advising companies on channel strategy, strategic alliances and international expansion, with a focus on Asia-Pacific and Latin America. Over more than 20 years, he has built and led channel teams in cybersecurity, cloud, networking, AI and healthcare technology. He has negotiated OEM, distribution and reseller agreements around the world.
Jarrett helped drive growth at four companies through successful exits: Solutionary (NTT Security), Elastica (Symantec), Lastline (VMware) and Veriti (Check Point). Gartner has recognized his channel program work, and he was a Microsoft Partner of the Year finalist for AI. He most recently led channels at Komodo Health and earlier held channel roles at eSoft, MCI and Cisco. Jarrett is fluent in Japanese.
Jaci Tomek
Founding PartnerJaci Tomek is a Founding Partner of Elano and a global sales executive with more than 25 years in technology. She has sold to enterprises and governments in the U.S. and abroad, and her expertise includes the federal and defense markets. A serial entrepreneur and investor, Jaci builds revenue organizations from the ground up and advises early-stage companies on go-to-market strategy, sales process and growth into new markets.
As a Chief Revenue Officer, Jaci has built revenue teams, sales ops infrastructure, channel programs and charter programs, and has won first customers. She led the U.S. Public Sector Cortex team at Palo Alto Networks, where her team closed a record deal. She built Aerospike’s public sector business from inception and consulted for Dragos, Wickr and Phantom Cyber, all of which have exited. Jaci led the U.S. Public Sector at RSA after the acquisition of NetWitness, where she grew revenue more than 15X. She has also held senior roles at LookingGlass, now ZeroFox, and Symantec. Jaci founded TomahawX Technologies in 2017 and serves as a board advisor and early-stage investor.
Chris Brosnan
PartnerChris Brosnan is a Partner at Elano, advising managed service providers and technology services firms on revenue strategy, sales leadership and public sector growth. He has more than 25 years of experience building sales teams and exceeding quota. He has sold everything from security hardware and software to managed security, professional services, cloud and hosting.
Chris was Chief Revenue Officer at Ampcus Cyber, where he led U.S. revenue, including enterprise sales and federal and commercial partnerships. Before that he was Chief Revenue Officer at DeepSeas, the managed detection and response provider formed from Booz Allen Hamilton’s commercial managed threat services business and Security On-Demand. Earlier, he was Vice President of Global Managed Security Sales at Trustwave and Director of Sales at FireEye.