Michael Dube

Chief Executive Officer Aqua Security

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Michael Dube is Chief Executive Officer of Aqua Security, the cloud-native application protection company built jointly out of Boston and Ramat Gan. He is a revenue leader who was handed the whole company: he arrived as Chief Revenue Officer in April 2024, was president and CRO within eighteen months, and became CEO in November 2025 when the two founders who had run Aqua since 2015 stepped back to advisory roles. The career behind that is almost entirely enterprise security sales — CrowdStrike, Splunk, Cybereason and Check Point — which is a particular kind of appointment for a founder-led company to make. It signals that the problem the board thought needed solving was distribution rather than product.

Career Highlights

• Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Aqua Security on 6 November 2025, succeeding co-founder Dror Davidoff.
• Joined Aqua Security as Chief Revenue Officer in April 2024 and had become president and CRO by the time of the CEO announcement.
• Served as Vice President, North America Strategic Sales at CrowdStrike, where Aqua says he built and led the sales organisation.
• Held senior sales leadership roles at Splunk, Cybereason and Check Point Software Technologies.
• Leads a company that, by its own account, secures more than 500 of the world’s largest enterprises and more than 40% of the Fortune 100.

Professional Journey

Dube’s career has been spent in enterprise cybersecurity sales, across a sequence of companies that between them trace the industry’s last two decades: Check Point Software Technologies, the firewall business that largely invented the category; Cybereason, in endpoint detection; Splunk, where security became a data problem; and CrowdStrike, where he was Vice President, North America Strategic Sales and, in Aqua’s description, built and led a high-performing sales organisation. Aqua characterises the whole span as nearly three decades of industry experience, though its own earlier announcement put it at over twenty years in cybersecurity — the two figures are the company’s, and they do not quite agree.

He joined Aqua Security as Chief Revenue Officer in April 2024. Aqua had been founded in 2015 by Dror Davidoff and Amir Jerbi to secure containerised and cloud-native applications — the security layer for software that is assembled from public components, shipped continuously, and run somewhere the organisation does not own. On arrival Dube framed the proposition in the terms a buyer uses rather than the terms a vendor does: security teams need a partner who can secure the supply chain and prevent cloud attacks in production.

He was promoted to president alongside the CRO role, and on 6 November 2025 Aqua announced the full transition. Davidoff and Jerbi stepped back from their day-to-day roles as chief executive and chief technology officer after a decade, remaining as strategic advisors, and Dube became CEO. His statement on the appointment was deliberately continuous rather than a break: an honour to step into the role and continue building on the foundation the founders created.

Aqua today operates from Boston, Massachusetts and Ramat Gan, Israel, and its backers include Shlomo Kramer, TLV Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Insight Partners, StepStone Group and ION Crossover Partners. The company does not publish funding totals on the pages consulted here.

Education

No education record was established for Michael Dube. Neither Aqua Security’s leadership listing nor either of the two company announcements covering his appointments mentions a degree or an institution, and no other first-party or primary source was located within the research budget for this profile. The field is left empty rather than filled from aggregator data.