Patrik Bless

CISO @ Partners Group | High Performance Technology Leader | Secure Base Leadership (IMD) | Agile Transformation | Cloud Risk Management | Private Equity | EPFL, MBA HSG, IMD

📍 Switzerland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2024
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Early-Stage Investor
Jun 2024
Imagine a world where AppSec finally delivers on its promise. Where you’re not drowning in endless findings, but guided by absolute clarity. Where you’re never in the dark about your apps—but understand exactly how they work, how to fix them, and how to protect them, all in real time. Sounds impossible? Maybe. But every so often, something is discovered that changes everything. A breakthrough so fundamental, it redefines what’s possible. That moment is coming.
Early-Stage Investor
Dec 2020
The CardinalOps platform is powered by automation and MITRE ATT&CK to optimize the security controls of your existing tools in order to maximize your threat detection coverage and reduce your organizations overall risk and exposure. It improves detection engineering productivity by more than 10x and integrates with existing tools including CrowdStrike LogScale, Google SecOps (formerly Chronicle), IBM QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel, and Splunk. With CardinalOps, organizations can eliminate critical security exposures, operationalize threat intelligence, and gain comprehensive visibility into their detection posture.
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2024
Early-Stage Investor
Jun 2024
Imagine a world where AppSec finally delivers on its promise. Where you’re not drowning in endless findings, but guided by absolute clarity. Where you’re never in the dark about your apps—but understand exactly how they work, how to fix them, and how to protect them, all in real time. Sounds impossible? Maybe. But every so often, something is discovered that changes everything. A breakthrough so fundamental, it redefines what’s possible. That moment is coming.
2020
Early-Stage Investor
Dec 2020
The CardinalOps platform is powered by automation and MITRE ATT&CK to optimize the security controls of your existing tools in order to maximize your threat detection coverage and reduce your organizations overall risk and exposure. It improves detection engineering productivity by more than 10x and integrates with existing tools including CrowdStrike LogScale, Google SecOps (formerly Chronicle), IBM QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel, and Splunk. With CardinalOps, organizations can eliminate critical security exposures, operationalize threat intelligence, and gain comprehensive visibility into their detection posture.
2017
Chief Information Security Officer
Jan 2017
Partners Group is a global private markets firm with USD 185 billion in assets under management and c. 2,000 professionals across 24 offices worldwide. We seek to generate superior returns through capitalizing on thematic growth trends and transforming attractive businesses and assets into market leaders. As a committed, responsible investor, we aim to deliver lasting, positive impact for all our stakeholders. We provide an innovative range of bespoke client solutions to institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, family offices and private individuals globally. Partners Group has been listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange since 2006 (symbol: PGHN).
2006
Head of Portfolio Management
Dec 2006
We care how our customers experience secure connectivity. Anytime. Anywhere. We care for our customers’ business. Their projects. A new idea, a new design, a new treatment.  A child’s future.  That’s why wherever customers need us…  We care about every detail, to make systems work seamlessly…  We focus on finding patterns, to stay ahead of attacks…  We think unconventionally, to deliver beyond expectations... We craft, we test, we deliver. We do the hard work to make things simple. We’re constantly refining our approach to make customers’ cloud and security systems work better together for a world always in flux. As a result, we’ve pioneered a secure access service edge (SASE) that’s adaptable and scalable. We’ve also created a zero trust approach to ensure businesses have secure access, wherever their people may be. We supercharge our world-class engineers with advanced AI-driven detection and insights to ensure they can make critical decisions faster and more accurately than ever before, keeping business moving, and delivering an outstanding experience. Our groundbreaking network operations center, known as Mission Control, gives customers an invaluable extension to their own teams. Our experienced security engineers, certified through 400+ hours of training, provide 24x7 rapid support and observability. Thats our job and we love it.