AGILEBITS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Accel Partner
Arun Mathew joined Accel in 2009 and leads growth investments in the enterprise, security, and infrastructure markets. Arun works closely with 1Password, BetterCloud, Code42, Dealer.com (acquired by DealerTrack), ForgeRock, G2 Crowd, PagerDuty, Qualtrics (acquired by SAP), ServiceChannel, Squarespace, Tenable (TENB), Webflow, XebiaLabs, and Yapstone. Arun also leads the firm's Tech Council initiatives and spends time in India, where he is active with Accel's investments in Flipkart, BookMyShow, Ola, and Freshworks. Arun is from Nashville, Tennessee and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Member of the Board of Directors
When Dave Teare created 1Password, freedom from commuting and being able to spend more time with family was at the forefront of his mind. He's incredibly proud of the environment he's helped create that allows ideas to blossom and grow into successful products and processes.
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer
- Member of the Executive Team
- President
David Faugno joins 1Password as President and Chief Operating Officer and brings 30+ years of global financial and business operations experience.
David was most recently a Venture Partner at Accel Partners. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President, both as Chief Financial Officer and in the Office of the CEO, at Qualtrics, the leader in experience management. Before joining Qualtrics, he served as the CFO of Barracuda Networks, Senior Director of Corporate Finance - M&A at Cisco Systems, and held sales and finance roles at AT&T, including CFO of AT&T EMEA.
David's extensive experience has earned him significant recognition, including 2012 Francisco Partners Portfolio CFO of the Year and 2013 Silicon Valley Business Journal CFO of the Year. He is a graduate of Rutgers University and holds an MBA from Duke University. David and his wife live in Los Gatos, California, and spend time in Utah and the East Coast.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Team
- VP, Office of the CEO
Most recently, Erin Figueroa served as the Vice President of Global Operations at Slack, responsible for Program Management, Workplace Operations, Safety, and Security. Erin joined the company in 2015 to found, build, and ultimately scale the Operations function from the ground up - establishing processes that serve as the foundation for how Slack, as an organization, operates to this day.
Erin and her teams were responsible for planning and executing the company's most strategic initiatives, in addition to overseeing operations across 18 global locations. She's an expert in building high-functioning teams and scaling organizations to be more efficient and effective through hypergrowth.
A few of Erin's most recent accomplishments include successfully taking Slack public with its direct listing in June 2019 (the first in enterprise software and the second of all time), leading Slack's Covid-19 response team, and managing Slack's re-entry into the workplace. Most recently, she focused on leading the integration of Slack into Salesforce, which is the second largest acquisition in Silicon Valley history.
Erin lives in the Bay Area with her wife and young kids. She's proud to be a working mom and is a strong champion of healthy work/life balance and flexibility. As for hobbies, she's happiest when she's outside, preferably near the beach.
Erin Zipes - Chief Legal Officer
Job Titles:
- Chief Legal Officer
- Member of the Executive Team
Erin joined 1Password in 2022 to lead the company's legal function. Previously, she served as Vice President, Assistant General Counsel at Shopify (NYSE/TSX) from pre-IPO in 2014 until December 2021. Before that she was Assistant General Counsel at Nordion (formerly NYSE/TSX), and started her legal career at Stikeman Elliott.
Erin is a Founding Partner at Backbone Angels, an investor collective of women in tech focused on empowering women and non-binary founders who are often overlooked. Erin and Backbone Angels were a part of 1Password's Series C funding in early 2022.
Erin lives in Ottawa with her husband, two teenagers, and their dog. She is an aspiring runner (in reality a jogger), and enjoys cooking, baking, and spending time with her family.
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the Executive Team
- Chief Financial Officer ( CFO ) at 1Password
Jeannie De Guzman is Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at 1Password. With over a decade of experience working in senior financial roles at some of the largest names in Canadian technology, Jeannie's expertise sees her steering the financial direction at 1Password. She joined shortly after the company's series A funding where she built many of the back office functions and operations from the ground up. Jeannie was part of 1Password's Series B funding round, which doubled the company's valuation, and its Series C round. At $620M USD, this marked the largest funding round in Canadian history.
Prior to joining 1Password, Jeannie De Guzman worked at OpenText - Canada's largest publicly traded software company, as Senior Manager of Corporate Finance where she oversaw all Treasury functions. She then moved on to the software company BlueCat Networks as VP of Finance, where she scaled the finance team and oversaw sales operations. BlueCat was acquired by private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners in 2017 for $400M (CAD).
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Executive Team
- CEO of 1Password
Jeff Shiner is the CEO of 1Password, a leader in human-centric security and privacy. Since joining in 2012, Jeff has grown the company from 20 people to a 900-employee global organization with a $6.8 billion valuation. Today, 1Password enables over 100,000 businesses and millions of individuals to navigate the digital world without fear or friction when logging in - and in less time. The company has been recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 list and Quartz's Best Companies for Remote Workers.
Prior to joining 1Password, Jeff held leadership roles at IBM Canada and Rosetta and has a demonstrated history of growing technology companies. Jeff also currently serves on the Board of Directors of GenomOncology, a company that provides the healthcare community with data-driven insights to improve cancer care.
Jeff is a noted speaker at events like Web Summit, Collision, and the C100. He also provides regular commentary to top-tier publications like Fast Company, Forbes, ZDNet, and VentureBeat, among others.
When he's not busy being a CEO, Jeff enjoys watching the 49ers, spending time on his tractor, and adding to his LEGO collection with his son - he's the proud owner of more than 1,000 pounds of bricks!
Job Titles:
- Chief Revenue Officer
- Member of the Executive Team
Julian comes to us having served most recently as the Sr. Vice-President of Global Sales at Lightspeed HQ, a company he helped scale from startup to IPO and through over 10 company acquisitions. Prior to Lightspeed, Julian held several roles in sales and marketing at Bell Canada and CIM.
Julian joined 1Password in 2020 because of the customer-centric culture and the love customers have for 1Password products and teams. In his current role, Julian leads the teams responsible for growth and overall customer health of the companies and users 1Password supports.
Through Julian's team, 1Password gains vital points of insight into what the market expects from a security partner and how 1Password can continue to meet customer needs as they evolve. When Julian's not working on shaping the customer journey, he loves spending time cycling outdoors.
Job Titles:
- Chief People Officer
- Member of the Executive Team
- Chief People Officer at 1Password
- Member of the Ordre
Katya Laviolette is the chief people officer at 1Password, where she doubled the fully remote workforce to nearly 900 employees in 2022, across five countries, and hit a record 83% offer-to-acceptance rate.
Katya believes that HR programs must be strategically aligned with business priorities and does so with a global mindset. She's passionate about creating a positive work culture and has been recognized for her ability to influence and drive business innovation through both talent and organizational development.
Prior to joining 1Password, Katya held executive positions at SSENSE, TC Transcontinental, CBC/Radio-Canada, Rio Tinto, Bombardier Aerospace, and Canadian National Railway. She's also a Board Director with Sanimax and Laps, two global organizations focused on the circular economy.
Katya is also a member of the Ordre des conseillers en ressources humaines agréés (ORHRI), as well as a certified coach with Integral Coaching Canada. Katya is actively involved in her community, having served many years on the Board of Pour 3 Points (P3P), as well as mentoring women leaders within the Governance au Féminin organization.
Job Titles:
- Chief Information Security Officer ( CISO ) at Flo
- Chief Information Security Officer at Flo
Job Titles:
- Chief Marketing Officer
- Member of the Executive Team
- Chief Marketing Officer ( CMO ) With a 20 - Year
Melton Littlepage joins 1Password as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) with a 20+-year track record of innovation, category creation, and growth acceleration at innovative technology companies.
Melton was most recently the CMO at Outreach, the leading sales execution platform helping individual sales reps and whole revenue organizations create more pipeline and close more deals. At Outreach, Melton led the global teams responsible for strategic communications, brand, demand generation, customer expansion, product marketing, community, and sales development.
He joined Outreach from Tenable, where he led marketing for one of the most respected and innovative brands in cybersecurity and helped the company evolve from consumer and SMB markets into enterprise. Prior to Tenable, he served as senior vice president of marketing at New Relic and as CMO at Schoology, the edtech leader acquired by PowerSchool. He also held a succession of marketing leadership roles for more than 10 years at Concur, a multi-billion dollar global B2B SaaS leader. Melton, his wife, and his three labrador retrievers are located in the suburbs of Washington, DC.
Natalia is proud of how quickly 1Password has been able to grow and adapt to continuously improve. One of Natalia's favorite memories is getting to see her husband, Roustem, present at an Apple Conference right after Steve Jobs.
In her spare time, Natalia loves binge watching TV shows with Roustem. She's also an avid reader and once read every book on The New York Times Best Seller list of that year.
Job Titles:
- Chief Technology Officer
- Member of the Executive Team
- Chief Technology Officer ( CTO ) of 1Password
Pedro Canahuati is the chief technology officer (CTO) of 1Password. Prior to 1Password, Pedro spent 12 years at Facebook where he held a number of roles committed to scaling its global infrastructure and ensuring 24x7 availability by developing a new industry standard for operations @ scale named Production Engineering.
Most recently, as the VP of Engineering for Security and Privacy his role focused on protecting users and their data. Prior to Facebook, Pedro led geographically dispersed teams, scaling complex web operations for companies like Buzzmedia, Qloud, Namemedia and Verio/NTT. Pedro holds degrees in Computer Science and Information Systems from the University of Maryland and American Intercontinental University.
At 1Password, Pedro applies his experience scaling teams and technology for one of the largest tech companies in the world, ensuring 1Password remains a leader in privacy and security. He drives product and infrastructure development for our production environments, client apps, data systems and IT. He ensures 1Password is building robust, reliable products and services that serve the families and businesses that entrust their data to us.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Member of the Board of Directors
For Roustem Karimov, 1Password started as a quick side project to solve the annoyance of remembering so many passwords when signing into different services. Of course, the rest is history!
As 1Password has grown, Roustem is proud of the team he's helped build and all the customers he's impacted along the way. One of his fondest memories is going to his first Technology Conference and happening to introduce himself to actual 1Password customers. It was fascinating to meet real people using his product.
Because of the constant growth and improvements going on at 1Password today, Roustem loves that he still gets the chance to continuously learn and try new things.
When he's off the clock, Roustem enjoys watching hockey and practicing yoga - something he picked up in the early days of 1Password's creation to keep him going through the long hours.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Member of the Board of Directors
In 1Password's infancy, Sara Teare made sure that all the legal paperwork was done, taxes were filed, and bills were paid - all so founders Dave Teare and Roustem Karimov could focus on the fun side of building a product. When Sara reflects on how 1Password has grown, she's awed by everything she's helped build with the support of 1Password's loyal customers and employees.
Working with a team of people who are passionate about what they do drives Sara's excitement. Now, making it a point to be involved in several projects, Sara gets to keep shaping the exciting future of 1Password as it continues to grow. When Twitter and her two kids aren't keeping her happily busy, Sara loves playing card games and board games with her friends and family. In fact, most of Sara's favorite stories start with "We were playing cards the other night and…"
Job Titles:
- Chief Product Officer
- Member of the Executive Team
Prior to joining 1Password, Steve Won served as Vice President of Product at e-commerce business, Shogun, where he oversaw the initiation of the product team as well as leading multiple high-impact partnerships programs. Previously, he was Head of Authentication Products at Duo Security. As an early employee, Steve contributed across Customer Success, Product Marketing, and Product Management disciplines as the company grew to become a leader in user authentication and was acquired by Cisco in 2018.
Steve believes that always starting from the customer and their hardest problems is the guiding principle of product leadership. His role at 1Password will see him continue to strengthen the bond between customers and the world-class security products they rely upon.
Steve lives in Seattle with his wife and two daughters. He enjoys cooking, loves hiking in the Pacific Northwest, and spent the past few years "unnecessarily" building small form factor PCs and custom mechanical keyboards in lieu of travel.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Web Security Consultant
Troy Hunt is a web security consultant and the founder of Have I Been Pwned, a free service that helps people establish if they've been affected by data breaches. Troy's been an advocate of 1Password since 2011 and has introduced millions of people to better password security.
Troy worked at Pfizer for 14 years and spent the latter half of that time working on application architecture in the Asia Pacific region. This experience gave Troy huge exposure to all aspects of technology and diverse culture.
Many of the things he teaches in post-corporate life are based on these experiences, particularly as a result of working with a large number of outsourcing vendors across the globe. Currently, Troy creates courses for Pluralsight and is a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP who travels the world speaking at events and training technology professionals. You can regularly find him in the press talking about security and even testifying before US Congress on the impact of data breaches.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- ICONIQ Investor
- ICONIQ Partner
- Partner at ICONIQ Capital
Will Griffith is a partner at ICONIQ Capital, where he founded ICONIQ Strategic Partners, ICONIQ's growth equity platform that partners with founders and leaders of best-in-class, high-growth technology businesses.
Representative investments include Alibaba, Adyen, Airbnb, Blackline, Braze, Coupa, Datadog, Docusign, Gitlab, Flipkart, HashiCorp, Procore, Snowflake, Uber, Wayfair, Wolt and Zoom. Will also co-founded IPI, ICONIQ's data center real estate investment platform that designs, builds and owns global data centers that support the digital economy.
Will graduated from Dartmouth College, where he double majored in engineering and history and played football, and earned an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. Will currently is on the Board of Overseers at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering and Stanford Business School Management Board.
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager, Security Engineering at ChartHop