Tony Huie

Co-Founder & CEO Twingate

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Tony Huie is co-founder and chief executive of Twingate, a zero-trust network access company he started in 2019 with Alex Marshall and Lior Rozner. Twingate’s argument is that the corporate VPN is the wrong shape for distributed work — that the network perimeter no longer exists while most security architecture still assumes it does — and that zero-trust products have failed to displace VPNs mainly because they are too hard to deploy. Huie came to the problem from Dropbox, where he was an early executive helping take a consumer product into the business market, and from a spell as an investing partner at SignalFire. That combination shows in how Twingate positions itself: a security product sold on ease of adoption and user experience rather than on control.

Career Highlights

• Co-founded Twingate in 2019 with Alex Marshall and Lior Rozner; named “Co-founder & CEO” on Twingate’s own author page.
• Announced Twingate’s $17 million Series A on 28 October 2020, backed by WndrCo, 8VC, Green Bay Ventures, SignalFire, and Dropbox founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi.
• Announced a $42 million Series B on 14 April 2022 led by BOND, with WndrCo, 8VC and SignalFire following on; Forbes reported the round at roughly a $400 million valuation.
• Joined SignalFire as an investing partner before founding Twingate; SignalFire subsequently backed the company at seed stage and wrote publicly about the decision.
• An early Dropbox executive who, in Twingate’s own words, helped take Dropbox to the business market — alongside the co-founder he would later start Twingate with.
• Writes for Twingate under his own byline on zero-trust adoption and the usability problem in enterprise security.

Professional Journey

Huie’s early career, as reported by aggregator profiles rather than primary sources, ran through consulting and venture before it ran through product: a period at McKinsey & Company advising late-stage companies, then roughly three years as an associate at TCV. The move that matters for Twingate came next, when he joined Dropbox while it was still small.

At Dropbox he was among the executives who built out the company’s commercial side, and Twingate’s own Series A announcement credits him with helping take Dropbox into the business market. Aggregator records place him as Head of Business Operations and then Head of International & New Markets across roughly 2011 to 2016, though those exact titles and dates are not corroborated by a primary source. He left operating for roughly two years as investor and chief operating officer at Pango — the company later rebranded as Point Wild — before joining SignalFire as an investing partner.

Investing did not hold him. SignalFire’s own account is that Huie “got the itch to go back to operating” and founded Twingate, at which point the firm backed him at seed. The company was established in 2019 with Alex Marshall and Lior Rozner, pairing an engineering team with networking and large-scale-systems experience against the product-design instincts the founders had brought out of Dropbox.

Twingate’s funding history has been announced by Huie personally. The $17 million Series A, published in October 2020, drew WndrCo, 8VC, Green Bay Ventures and SignalFire, alongside Dropbox founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi — an unusually direct endorsement from his former employer’s founders. The $42 million Series B in April 2022 was led by BOND, with Huie framing the choice around Jay Simons, who had joined Atlassian when it was Twingate’s size and built a product-led distribution model there. Forbes covered the round at roughly a $400 million valuation. Twingate has remained independent and privately held since.

Education

No education record could be established from a primary source. The previous version of this profile asserted bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University; that claim traces only to aggregator databases and has been removed pending corroboration.