ENVEIL - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Business Development Representative
- Sales Development Representative
Aaron is a Business Development Representative supporting the commercial verticals at Enveil. His role consists of developing the market in various industries including Financial Services, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare. Prior to joining Enveil, Aaron earned his undergrad in Marketing and International Studies from the IU Kelley School of Business, and worked at Salesforce on their business development team.
Ahbi moved to the United States from Nepal in late 2006 to pursue his Bachelor's degree in Information Technology Management from University of Wisconsin - Stout. He serves as Enveil's IT Administrator and has more than 10 years of experience working for Managed Services Providers as subject matter expert in VMware and Microsoft Server Administration discipline.
Job Titles:
- Data Scientist
- Solutions / Architect
Beau is a data scientist with a passion for the application of machine learning and advanced analytic technology to national security missions, with a particular emphasis on financial intelligence, counter terrorism financing, and cryptocurrency. As a Solution Architect, Beau helps conceptualize and architect the solution delivery to Enveil's customers.
Bob founded Allegis Capital in 1996 after a successful career as a serial entrepreneur. In founding Allegis, Bob's mission was to build a seed and early-stage venture firm that would combine operational experience with an entrepreneurial spirit and a focus on forging true partnerships with portfolio companies to build successful and sustainable cybertechnology companies. Bob has been recognized as a Fortune 100 cybersecurity executive and also as one of "CyberSecurity's Money Men". As an entrepreneur, Bob was the President and CEO of UniSoft Systems, a global leading UNIX Systems House and the Founder and Chairman of InfoGear Technology Corporation, a pioneer in the original integration of web and telephony technology and creator of the original iPhone. Outside of Allegis, Bob teaches New Venture Finance in the MBA program at the University of California, co-manages his family's small Napa Valley winery - Ackerman Family Vineyards, and enjoys fly fishing.
Building on a foundation of experience in full stack development including building mobile apps, designing web interfaces, implementing backend storage systems, and database design, Bryan serves as a Manager for Enveil's Engineering team. He started his career at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab where he built data collection systems, radar simulations, and distributed processing systems. He later moved into the commercial sector, where he designed and implemented mobile tracking systems for asset security. Bryan holds a Master's in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.
Buddy has spent more than 20 years working as a technologist specializing in enterprise software for Financial Institutions. His software engineering background helped prepare him to provide tremendous value in customer facing and leadership roles. At Enveil, Buddy specializes in customer delivery and engagement for the commercial sector.
Charley has 24 years of experience supporting the Air Force Special Operations Command's various cyber operations, intelligence, and counterintelligence missions. Serving as a Program Manager on Enveil's Customer Success team, he brings an extensive knowledge of project, program management, criminal investigations, and the multi-domain command and control mission sets supporting U.S. Military and Federal Law Enforcement missions.
Job Titles:
- Federal Sales Representative
Chris brings more than 12 years of diverse customer engagement experience including direct support to the U.S. Government's efforts to combat global financial crime, contract negotiation, and oversight of program delivery. Prior to joining the sales team at Enveil, Chris worked at Booz Allen Hamilton where he supported the U.S. Intelligence Community and the Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).
Claire's expertise is in algebra, number theory, and cryptography. Before joining the Engineering team at Enveil, she spent six years at the National Security Agency. Claire holds a B.S./M.S. in Mathematical Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University and a M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, where she spent five years studying category theory.
Job Titles:
- Talent Acquisition Manager
Colleen served the National Security Agency for many years in the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service (DISES), and held various leadership roles in Administration, Budget, HR and Installations & Logistics. At Enveil, she is pursuing her passion in Talent Acquisition where she enjoys providing opportunities for candidates to excel at a fast-paced, category-defining startup.
Job Titles:
- Engineering Manager
- Engineering Manager for Enveil 's ZMET
Dan serves as an Engineering Manager for Enveil's ZMET team. He started his career at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, where he spent 17 years doing a blend of software development, analysis, and deployment. He brings over a decade of experience in managing people and projects. Dan holds a M.S. in Applied Physics from Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. in Applied Physics with minors in Math and Comp Science from Grove City College.
Job Titles:
- Vice President Federal Sales
Dave serves as the Vice President of Federal Sales at Enveil and brings over 25 years of successful sales and leadership experience in the federal market. He leads the federal team in identifying key growth opportunities across DoD, IC, and Civilian agencies that align to our customers' mission requirements Prior to joining Enveil, Dave spent 11 years at ViON Corporation, most recently as Executive Vice President, and was integral in the successful sale of ViON's aaS business to Peraton in September 2021. Dave also held several positions at EMC, Legato, and OTG Software.
Contributing as part of Enveil's engineering team, Dave has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Utah and has been a professional software engineer since 2008. He is especially interested in areas where software development and applied mathematics overlap.
Job Titles:
- Technologist
- Presales Engineer
Dez is a military technologist with a focus on enterprise network engineering and tactical command and control systems. He comes to Enveil from Cisco, where he spent ten years as a technical consulting engineer and systems architect for the DoD team. He is a Marine Corps Reserve C4 systems and information operations officer with multiple operational assignments across Europe and North Africa. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a masters of science from Florida Tech.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Founder
- Member of the Board of Directors
Enveil CEO Ellison Anne Williams answers questions on preserving the privacy of sensitive data while still allowing it to be used.
Dr. Ellison Anne Williams is the Founder and CEO of Enveil, the pioneering data security company protecting Data in Use. Building on more than a decade of experience leading avant-garde efforts in the areas of large-scale analytics, information security, computer network exploitation, and network modeling, Ellison Anne founded the startup in 2016 to protect sensitive data while it's being used or processed - the 'holy grail' of data encryption. Powered by homomorphic encryption, Enveil's award-winning ZeroReveal® solutions provide Trusted Compute in Untrusted Locations™, enabling previously impossible business functionalities for intelligence-led decision making.
Leveraging her deep technical background and a passion for evangelizing the impact of disruptive technologies, Ellison Anne has helped define and advance the Data in Use security space and cultivated Enveil's capabilities into category-defining solutions that enable secure search, analytics, sharing, and collaboration. In addition to her ongoing contributions as a cybersecurity mentor and thought leader, Ellison Anne has been recognized as an SC Media Reboot Leadership Innovator Award winner, a Woman to Watch in Security, and a CyberScoop Leet List Honoree. She started her career at the U.S. National Security Agency and holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics (Algebraic Combinatorics), a M.S. in Mathematics (Set Theoretic Topology), and a M.S. in Computer Science (Machine Learning).
Part of Enveil's engineering team, Guillermo hails from Ventura County, California, but has spent the last few years in the DC area working in data science at various government contractors. Currently, he is working through a M.S. in Operations Research at Georgia Tech focusing on mathematical optimization and machine learning.
Job Titles:
- Industry Consultant & Strategic Account Planning Lead
Jason is the Strategic Partners & Initiatives Lead for Enveil, working directly with our Industry Consultants and outlining Strategic Planning for industry engagements. He is a 26-year retired Cyberspace, Space and Acquisitions Air Force Officer (w/ and additional 2 years' experience as a DoD contractor). He holds an MBA in Project Management and a B.S. in Computer Information Systems Management (CISM) from Colorado Christian University. He also holds certifications as a PMP, CASP+ and Sec+.
With expertise in customer engagement and client delivery in national security and Department of Defense programs, Jim serves as a Portfolio Lead on Enveil's Customer Success team. Previously, he worked as a Program Manager at CACI Federal, where he supported a portfolio of technical defense sector projects and solutions. Jim was a "Green Beret" and Non-Commissioned Officer in the U.S. Army Special Forces, and earned a B.S. in Cybersecurity from the University of Maryland Global Campus.
Job Titles:
- Representative
- Federal Sales Representative
Part of Enveil's Federal sales team, John brings a diverse range of experience enabling mission and business success for various DoD, IC, and federal entities. He maintains operational experience as a government contractor, most recently serving as an enterprise account manager for defense and intelligence customers where he directly oversaw the application of digital mission engineering solutions for operations in contested environments. A ten-year Marine Corps Infantry Officer, he has multiple combat deployments and command positions to his name. John earned a Bachelor's degree from the US Naval Academy and an MBA from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Job Titles:
- Executive Assistant to CEO
Julie brings over 26 years of experience as an Executive Assistant to C-suite executives to Enveil. She possesses high-level organizational skills with ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects and deadlines. At Enveil, Julie is recognized for taking initiative, managing multiple complex projects, event planning, building relationships at all levels, discretion, positive attitude, and willingness to get the job done. She has a Bachelor's degree in Business Management from Salisbury University.
Job Titles:
- Program Manager
- Federal Program Manager
As a Program Manager at Enveil, Kimberly brings over a decade of federal government experience and an understanding of the unique challenges facing federal customers. Analytically focused with a background as an attorney, Kimberly faces problems head on and enjoys working with multiple stakeholders to find long-term solutions for problems and delivering solutions with high mission impact.
Lauren's expertise is in backend software development. Before joining the engineering team at Enveil, she spent seven years at the National Security Agency working in and around the field of cryptography. Lauren holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
With a background in strategic communications and emerging media, Lisa Bader is passionate about telling technology stories in a way that connects, engages, and inspires action. Lisa previously served as Senior Vice President of External Affairs at In-Q-Tel where she led communication strategy and outreach to IQT's key audiences in the government, venture capital, and startup communities. Prior to IQT, Lisa worked in crisis communications where she was responsible for helping Fortune 500 clients respond to media coverage, interpret opinion research, and understand the impact of pop culture on consumer trends.
Job Titles:
- Director Strategic Alliances & Capture
Mark has over 25 years of experience in National Security and in various areas across the Department of Defense and continues to serve as a Colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve. He has most recently worked as the head of Business Development for a defense technology company where he expanded their network of partnerships. He leverages that expertise and his broad understanding of the federal market for Enveil as the head of Strategic Alliances.
Job Titles:
- Marketing & Events Specialist
Mary Paige serves on the Communications team as the Marketing and Events Specialist where she oversees Enveil's external event engagement. A proud Virginia Tech alumni, Mary Paige has experience in the fields of event planning, alumni and class relations, public affairs, and targeted communications.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Vice President, Corporate Development at USAA
Paco Rivera is Assistant Vice President, Corporate Development at USAA. He executes and oversees venture capital investments in support of USAA Bank and enterprise efforts and leads due diligence for acquisitions and divestitures. Paco currently serves as a board member for Enveil and Gridspace and as a board observer for ID.me. He previously served as board member for Robin (acquired by Rakuten), Narrative Science (acquired by Salesforce), board observer for MindMeld (acquired by Cisco), ObserveIT (acquired by Proofpoint), and ClickSWITCH (acquired by Q2 Holdings) where USAA realized successful exits. He currently holds the NACD (National Association of Corporate Directors) Directorship Certification.
Paco has led financial planning and analysis teams in Corporate Finance and USAA Bank since joining in 2011. He previously held corporate finance and strategy roles at Verizon, Merck & Co., Banco Popular de Puerto Rico and Bank of America. Key efforts include support for the 2011 Terremark ($1.4B) and 2007 Cybertrust ($450M) acquisitions, and for the launch of the Verizon Digital Media Services business unit. Paco began his career as an analyst covering Telecommunications for Bank of America Securities. He held the Series 7 and 63 licenses.
He holds a bachelor's degree in Finance from the University of Puerto Rico and an MBA from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
Job Titles:
- Director of Strategic Business Development
Driving customer engagement as part of Enveil's business development team, Patrick brings more than 15 years of diverse international business experience working with organizations to find unique and creative solutions for improving operational efficiencies, achieving strategic goals and maximizing growth within the business ecosystem. As a strategic problem solver, Patrick takes a hands-on approach to working with the company and its strategic partners to bring products to market and identify new market strategies to achieve mutual goals. Prior to joining Enveil, Patrick worked with several successful international organizations and ventures, leading efforts to road-map the growth and expansion of existing and new market opportunities, building on the prior success and lessons learned to achieve strategic goals and growth.
Job Titles:
- Director of Market Strategy
Phil leads Enveil's Business Development efforts, overseeing global customer outreach and engagement across the commercial and federal sectors. He has more than a decade of experience developing global pipeline from enterprise accounts at companies like Invincea (acquired by Sophos) and Instart Logic.
Part of Enveil's Engineering team, Robert has a background in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and algorithmic development. Outside of work, he enjoys playing basketball and teaching.
Enveil CTO Ryan Carr reflects on his career working at a startup and shares what tech trends he is most excited about.
With experience in leading engineering efforts at institutions such as the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Ryan Carr's fields of expertise include large scale analytic systems, distributed algorithms, artificial intelligence, game theory and social learning, and applying cloud computing techniques to simulate and analyze complex interactions among large numbers of autonomous agents. His research in these areas has been published in highly competitive venues such as Proceedings of the Royal Society, AAAI, and AAMAS. Ryan holds a PhD/BS in Computer Science.
Job Titles:
- Commercial Sales Representative
Ryan is a sales and go-to-market leader with a proven record of success in technology sales, and experience delivering technology-enabled solutions within complex enterprise client sales environments. At Enveil, he manages major accounts with a focus on verticals in the commercial sector.
Scott Ostrowski serves as the Chief Customer Officer at Enveil, a pioneering Privacy Enhancing Technology company. He leads the company's global customer delivery and support activities, building on more than two decades of customer engagement and client delivery experience in cyber operations, data analytics, and national security. Previously, Scott was a Chief Technologist at Booz Allen Hamilton where he filled diverse roles such as Technical Director of a major cryptanalysis contract and Program Manager of a large-scale, cyber analytics portfolio. He recently retired from the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve after 20 years of combined active duty/reserve service. Scott holds a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech, a M.S. in Strategic Intelligence from the National Intelligence University, and a B.S. in Operations Research from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
Job Titles:
- Sales Operations Specialist
Seamus is a sales operations professional that aims to fuel efficient sales life cycles via useful systems and scalable processes. He leads Enveil's Sales Operations efforts, working alongside the broader sales team to ensure process and operational efficiency. While Seamus digs clean data and automation, he also enjoys disc golf (during which he may or may not keep score).
A three decade security and intelligence professional, Iain spent the last ten and a half years of his career in the top two leadership roles at the UK's largest intelligence and security agency, GCHQ. In this period he pioneered an integrated service of intelligence and security in domains as varied as cyber defence; counter terrorism; military campaigns overseas; and the prevention and detection of serious crime.
His reputation is of a transformational leader and he was credited with repositioning GCHQ externally, seeing and grasping the opportunity to radically re-shape GCHQ's role for the cyber security era. He is a proven leader through crisis, providing powerful leadership internally, strong reassurance for partners at home and overseas, and evidenced assurance for UK Ministers.
He spearheaded the execution of the UK's first two national Cyber Security strategies, forging strong partnership between government and industry, and developing substantive links with international partners. After retiring from public service at the end of 2014, he was asked by the Australian Prime Minister to be a member of the five person expert panel advising on the creation of Australia's first Cyber Security Strategy. Thereafter he acted as one of the senior three person team conducting the 2017 Independent Review of the Australian Intelligence Community, commissioned by the Australian Prime Minister.
He is an operating partner at C5 Holdings, the investment company specialising in cyber security, data analytics and cloud. Elsewhere his advisory work for boards spans cyber security risk management and financial crime compliance. He is a Visiting Professor at King's College London; and an Honorary Fellow of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge.
He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in the UK's 2013 New Year Honours, having previously been made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the UK 2006 Honours. In 2014 the United States Government presented him with the National Intelligence Distinguished Public Service Medal for extraordinary contributions in support of the intelligence community.
Steve is a Portfolio Lead for Enveil, working directly with customers to design and implement Enveil's novel privacy-enhancing suite of products. He brings a decade of experience in consulting to the US Government, working in the areas of advanced technology research, cyber, and intelligence. Steve holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Business Management from Washington College, and a Certificate in Software Development from the University of California, Berkeley.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
With over 20 years of leadership experience in sales, marketing, and executive management at the CEO level, Tim Eades has deep expertise in driving high growth for computing, security and enterprise software companies. Tim joined vArmour as CEO in October, 2013. Prior to that, he was the CEO at Silver Tail Systems from March, 2010 until the company was acquired by RSA, the security division of EMC in late 2012. Prior to leading Silver Tail Systems, Tim was CEO of Everyone.net, an SMB focused SaaS company that was acquired by Proofpoint. Tim has also held sales and marketing executive leadership positions at BEA Systems, Sana Security, Phoenix Technologies and IBM. Tim holds advanced degrees in business, international marketing, and financial analysis, primarily from Solent University in England.
With expertise in systems administration and global software support, Tim contributes to the company's success as part of Enveil's engineering team. He most recently spent nine years with the Department of Defense as an analyst, a software developer, and a software and systems engineer. Tim started his career as a technical services engineer with Epic Systems, a leader in the electronic medical records industry. He holds a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering and a B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics, Engineering, and Physics, both from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Job Titles:
- Federal Sales Representative
Part of the Federal Sales team, Tyler brings a range of experience in the areas of technical collection, data analytics, and operational mission planning supporting the Intelligence Community and Special Operations Forces. Over a 12 year career as a U.S. Navy Cryptologist, he deployed to multiple theatres in direct support of counter terrorism and sensitive activities missions. At Enveil, he manages key federal accounts within the Intelligence Community.