Meet the team that’s making global data compliance their mission
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Our team has extensive experience in enterprise infrastructure software, cyber security architecture, cryptography, and developer tools.
Peter Yared
CEO & Founder
Peter founded six enterprise software companies that were acquired by Sun, Citrix, VMware, Oracle, Sprinklr and Prograph. Previously, Peter was the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2.
Peter Yared
CEO & Founder
Pierre Wolff
SVP Business Development
Pierre has run business development for numerous startups, including companies acquired by Google, Adobe, and Inktomi. Most recently, Pierre ran business development for a blockchain audit trail startup Tierion and advised numerous blockchain and financial services startups.
Pierre Wolff
SVP Business Development
Scott Persinger
SVP Engineering
Scott is an experienced technical leader and builder of products, teams and companies. He has co-founded companies in FinTech, consumer and enterprise software and sold companies to Salesforce and webMethods. He built the Heroku Connect product for Salesforce, and most recently grew
Scott Persinger
SVP Engineering
Tim Wolfe
SVP Worldwide Operations
Tim has spent a career building and scaling up worldwide operational systems in both cloud and on-premises. He has built out data centers and operations for high growth companies including Kabam, Jelli, Demandtec, Responsys, and Quinstreet. Tim has also run infrastructure at Salesforce, Oracle and IBM.
Tim Wolfe
SVP Worldwide Operations
Renné Devasia
Chief Compliance and Data Protection Officer
Renné has instituted and run compliance for high growth companies including Twilio and Segment.io. He has also worked in compliance at large organizations including Microsoft and Adobe. Renne began his career as an auditor at KPMG.
Renné Devasia
Chief Compliance and Data Protection Officer
Marc Raiser
Chief Architect
Marc invented the Newbound Protocol, a highly secure peer to peer protocol used for secure email, video, IoT, and blockchain. Marc was the initial architect of enterprise software products that were acquired by Citrix, Sprinklr, and Prograph.
Marc Raiser
Chief Architect
Shannon Rapp
VP Finance and Human Resources
Shannon has run Finance and Human Resources for a variety of high growth companies including Datasift, Brightroll and IDEO.
Shannon Rapp
VP Finance and Human Resources
Alex Castro
Product Advisor
Alex Castro has held product leadership roles at Microsoft, Amazon, Electronic Arts, and Uber. Alex was one of the first employees at Amazon AWS and helped start Microsoft Dynamics. He founded Delve Networks, which was acquired by Limelight Networks. Alex also ran Electronic Arts' global data platform.
Alex Castro
Product Advisor
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