RemoteThreat Expands Executive Leadership Team with Appointment of Joe Castellanos as Vice President of Product and Taylor Pettis as Vice President of Marketing

Veteran product and marketing leaders from Bugcrowd and SOCRadar join after RemoteThreat emerged from stealth with the O/C/O Platform and $7 million in pre-seed funding

FULTON, Md., Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- RemoteThreat, the AI-enabled offensive cyber operations company, today announced the expansion of its executive leadership team with the appointments of Joe Castellanos as Vice President of Product and Taylor Pettis as Vice President of Marketing. The two executives join founders Chris Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, and Shawn Jones, Chief Technology Officer, along with Rob McCall, Chief Operating Officer, as the company accelerates deployment of the O/C/O Platform, the first commercial, fully integrated, end-to-end platform for offensive cyber operations.

The appointments come just weeks after RemoteThreat emerged from stealth with $7 million in pre-seed funding led by Osage University Partners and DataTribe, a strategic advisory partnership with The Nakasone Group, and membership in USSOCOM's Special Operations Forces Rapid Acquisition Consortium for Emerging Requirements (SOF RACER). Castellanos will lead product vision and roadmap for the O/C/O Platform. Pettis will lead global marketing strategy and growth initiatives to establish RemoteThreat as a globally recognized leader in offensive cybersecurity.

"We are building the most sophisticated offensive cyber operations platform in the market today, and that requires an experienced leadership team that can execute. Joe and Taylor bring the background and skillsets we need to operate in this space," said Chris Thompson, Co-Founder and CEO of RemoteThreat. "While we launched just a few weeks ago, our team and the market are already moving at a pace that requires relentless execution. Joe has taken products from concept to significant revenue at some of the most demanding companies in security and identity. Taylor has built the brands behind multiple high-growth technology companies. Together they give us the product and go-to-market leadership to turn that momentum into category leadership."

Joe Castellanos, Vice President of Product

Castellanos is an enterprise product executive with more than 15 years of experience building and scaling cybersecurity products. He spent the first half of his career on the defensive side of security, launching Entra ID Governance at Microsoft, leading Salesforce's internal identity governance platform, and launching Okta DynamicScale. Along the way, he watched organizations pour huge budgets into security controls with no way of knowing whether they would hold up against a real adversary. That led him to offensive security, first at AppOmni, where he launched AppOmni Discovery, and then at Bugcrowd, where he led the entire product portfolio, including its expansion into AI penetration testing with Pathseeker. He has brought multiple products from concept to significant revenue scale and led high-performing product teams at startups and global technology organizations. He has presented at Microsoft Ignite and Oktane.

At RemoteThreat, Castellanos leads the company's product strategy and development, shaping solutions that advance offensive cyber operations and deliver measurable value to enterprise red teams, government mission teams, and defense partners.

"Red teams are being asked to emulate adversaries whose capabilities evolve faster than the tools built to model them. RemoteThreat is the first company I have seen answer that with an integrated platform instead of another point tool," said Castellanos. "The founders have spent their careers running the kinds of operations this platform is built for. My job is to make sure the O/C/O Platform keeps pace with what those operators need next, and that we ship it faster than anyone expects."

Taylor Pettis, Vice President of Marketing

Pettis is a global marketing executive with more than 20 years of experience helping early-stage and private equity-backed technology companies accelerate growth, build market leadership, and scale for long-term success. Throughout his career, he has guided multiple organizations through critical growth phases, including cybersecurity companies Code42, Intel 471, and SOCRadar. His expertise spans demand generation, product marketing, brand strategy, go-to-market execution, and building high-performing marketing organizations.

As Vice President of Marketing, Pettis leads RemoteThreat's global marketing strategy and growth initiatives, focused on establishing RemoteThreat as a world-renowned cybersecurity brand while scaling the business for meaningful and sustainable growth.

"RemoteThreat has the three things every marketer wants and almost never gets at once: a category that is being defined in real time, a product that is years ahead of the market, and founders who are the most credible voices in it," said Pettis. "The company's launch out of stealth showed how quickly this team moves. My focus is on making sure every red team leader, mission owner, and defense partner knows RemoteThreat is the name in offensive cyber operations."

A Team Built to Outpace the Adversary

Castellanos and Pettis join a leadership team of offensive security veterans. Thompson and Jones founded RemoteThreat after decades of building and leading adversary simulation teams, developing malware and offensive tooling, and executing red team operations against defense targets, nuclear power plants, critical infrastructure providers, and some of the world's largest financial institutions. McCall joined after years of venture investing in early-stage cybersecurity and AI startups, he most recently led customer success and support at Randori (acquired by IBM), one of the first Continuous Automated Red Team (CART) vendors.

"The gap between what AI-enabled adversaries can do and what red teams can emulate is widening every month. Closing it is an engineering problem and a product problem," said Shawn Jones, Co-Founder and CTO of RemoteThreat. "Joe has shipped products operators actually adopt, in environments where the bar is unforgiving. Having that discipline alongside our research and engineering teams means the platform gets better at the speed our customers need."

"In the weeks since launch, demand from enterprise red teams and mission teams has outpaced even our own projections," said Rob McCall, Chief Operating Officer of RemoteThreat. "Scaling to meet that demand without losing the precision our customers expect is the job in front of us. Joe and Taylor bring the operating rigor and the growth playbooks to do it. This is the team that takes RemoteThreat from a launch to a category leader."

Building on Launch Momentum

RemoteThreat emerged from stealth earlier this month with the launch of the O/C/O Platform, which brings eight connected systems into one operational picture to plan, execute, and adapt offensive cyber operations: mission planning, native command-and-control (C2), implants, initial-access frameworks, advanced capabilities, obfuscation pipelines, analysis engines, and AI-assisted operation. AI-enabled and built for expert operators, the platform equips enterprise and critical infrastructure red teams to emulate sophisticated adversaries and outpace frontier model advancements in cyber capabilities, while enabling U.S. government mission teams and vetted defense partners to conduct offensive cyber operations at mission speed.

Since launch, the company has announced $7 million in pre-seed funding led by Osage University Partners and DataTribe, a strategic advisory partnership with The Nakasone Group, founded by retired four-star U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone, former director of the National Security Agency and commander of U.S. Cyber Command, membership in USSOCOM's SOF RACER consortium, and a capability integration partnership with Talon Defense. The company is actively hiring senior operators, researchers, and engineers across its offensive capability, platform, and go-to-market teams.

The O/C/O Platform is available now to qualified enterprise, U.S. government, and vetted defense industry customers. To request access or schedule a briefing, visit remotethreat.com.

About RemoteThreat

RemoteThreat is the offensive cyber operations platform. Built by experienced offensive operators for internal red teams and defense industry partners, it combines deep capability, precise control, and human-machine operation at mission speed. RemoteThreat. The O/C/O Platform. Learn more at remotethreat.com.

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