- DisrupTV
DisrupTV is a weekly podcast with hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. The audience can expect A-list guests, the latest enterprise news, hot startups, insight from influencers, and much more. Tweet questions to #DisrupTV or @DisrupTVShow. We broadcast live on StreamYard.
Show Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/ConstellationR
Featured Guests:
Angela Brescia
CEO
Synderys
Throughout her professional journey, Angela Brescia has consistently gravitated toward roles that champion important causes. As a lawyer and entrepreneur with an extensive history in risk management, her career has spanned from developing litigation support software platforms to improving cybersecurity policy implementation to cyber supply chain risk management with a consistent desire to solve serious problems while serving others. With her deep-rooted love for the United States of America, Angela made a decisive choice years ago to utilize her expertise for the protection of national security. She founded Synderys, an innovative cybersecurity company leading the global tech landscape with a mission to secure, protect and defend the technology that powers our lives. Recently selected as one of the Top 40 Cybersecurity CEOs in US Government Contracting, Angela’s commitment to excellence serves as a cornerstone for everything she does both personally and professionally. In 2025 alone, she has briefed the US National Security Council, the US House of Representatives’ Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, the US House Appropriations Committee (and its Defense Subcommittee), the US Armed Services Committee, and countless members of Congress on emerging cybersecurity threat intelligence and strategic policy development. As a policy development leader, Angela has served as a Special Advisor to the Committee on National Security Systems to support the crafting of several Executive Orders on cybersecurity. Additionally, Angela has been invited to speak for various events at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Cooperative Cyber Defence Center of Excellence, the Loomis Council at the Stimson Center, Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) International, TechNet Emergence, Nautilus DefenseWerx, the Intelligence Professionals Strategic Studies Group, and the US Technology Leadership Council. Synderys’ digital forensics experts have made astonishing discoveries of counterfeit components and devices where none were believed to exist. Angela's dedication to this cause underscores Synderys’ commitment to safeguarding the integrity of hardware systems in our most critical environments and constantly evolving capabilities that better defend against our adversaries.
Trent Teyema
Loomis Council Member
Stimson Center
Mr. Trent Teyema (FBI Special Agent – SES ret.), is a consultant advising governments and companies on cybersecurity, blockchain, infrastructures, national security, and space. He has served in numerous senior leadership positions, to include the Director of Cybersecurity Policy for the White House’s National Security Council, the SAC of the Cyber and Counterintelligence Division for FBI Los Angeles, the FBI Cyber Division’s COO / Chief of Cyber Readiness. Mr. Teyema founded and led the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF) which is one of the seven US cybersecurity centers. Mr. Teyema is a doctoral candidate in cybersecurity at Marymount University.
Dr. David Bray
Distinguished Chair of the Accelerator,
Stimson Center & Principal/CEO, LDA Ventures Inc.
Dr. David A. Bray is a Distinguished Fellow and Chair of the Accelerator with the Alfred Lee Loomis Innovation Council at the non-partisan Henry L. Stimson Center. He is also a non-resident Distinguished Fellow with the Business Executives for National Security, and a CEO and transformation leader for different “under the radar” tech and data ventures seeking to get started in novel situations. He is Principal at LeadDoAdapt Ventures and has served in a variety of leadership roles in turbulent environments, including bioterrorism preparedness and response from 2000-2005. Dr. Bray previously was the Executive Director for a bipartisan National Commission on R&D, provided non-partisan leadership as a federal agency Senior Executive, worked with the U.S. Navy and Marines on improving organizational adaptability, and aided U.S. Special Operation Command’s J5 Directorate on the challenges of countering disinformation online. He has received both the Joint Civilian Service Commendation Award and the National Intelligence Exceptional Achievement Medal. David accepted a leadership role in December 2019 to direct the successful bipartisan Commission on the Geopolitical Impacts of New Technologies and Data that included Senator Mark Warner, Senator Rob Portman, Rep. Suzan DelBene, and Rep. Michael McCaul. From 2017 to the start of 2020, David also served as Executive Director for the People-Centered Internet coalition Chaired by Internet co-originator Vint Cerf and was named a Senior Fellow with the Institute for Human-Machine Cognition starting in 2018. Business Insider named him one of the top “24 Americans Who Are Changing the World” under 40 and he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. For twelve different startups, he has served as President, CEO, Chief Strategy Officer, and Strategic Advisor roles.
