They’ve earned respect—and trust. We’re proud to have these distinguished technical and financial experts serve as our advisers.
Reed Taussig
President and CEO, ThreatMetrix
Reed Taussig has more than 30 years of experience in the computer hardware and software field. Prior to joining ThreatMetrix, Mr. Taussig was president and CEO of Vormetric Inc., a leader in the data privacy and protection industry. Under Mr. Taussig’s direction, Vormetric established itself as a leading provider of encryption solutions for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS). Mr. Taussig also served as president and CEO of Callidus Software [NASDAQ:CALD], the leading provider of enterprise incentive compensation management application systems. As founding CEO and the fifth employee, Mr. Taussig led the growth of company to more than $70 million in revenues and over 350 employees. Prior to Callidus, Mr. Taussig was the president and CEO of inquiry.com, a pioneer in the B2B Internet space as well as senior vice president of operations for Gupta Technologies, the leader for PC client server software development tools and databases. Mr. Taussig holds a bachelor of arts in economics from the University of Arizona.
Mark Gill
CM Capital
Mark Gill joined CM Capital in 2006 and is involved in all aspects of IT and telecommunications investments. Over the past 16 years, Mr. Gill has worked in general management, CEO, and global sales and marketing roles, building and managing organizations and delivering products to over 30 countries. He has been actively engaged in the many challenges facing entrepreneurs, including raising capital on several continents. In 1994, Mr. Gill became CEO of Star Technologies, a telecom software products company, concluding a successful sale in 1997 to Claremont. Subsequently, CEO at satellite modem developer, DSpace, Mr. Gill led the company to profitability and in 2006 executed a sale to a large U.S. corporation.
Allan Aaron
Technology Venture Partners
Allan Aaron is one of the two founding partners of Technology Venture Partners, which is a specialist investor in the IT and telecommunications sector with over $200 million in funds under management. Mr. Aaron was a founding executive with the Australian Technology Group and has been involved in early stage venture capital for the past 15 years, three of which were spent in Silicon Valley. Prior to this, he spent eight years in management consulting with McKinsey & Company, and as a director of Ernst & Young’s management and technology consulting practice. He has also spent several years in professional and systems engineering roles as well as marketing with IBM Australia. Mr. Aaron has been a member of Ausindustry’s ITC committee overseeing Commercial Ready Grants and the Concessional Loans Committee. He is a member of the Australian Venture Capital Associations (AVCAL) council. He represents Technology Venture Partners on the board of directors of Clear2Pay BV, Peregrine Semiconductor Inc, Sensory Networks Inc, and ThreatMetrix. He holds an honors degree in aerospace engineering and a master of business administration and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Steve Krausz
US Venture Partners
Steve Krausz has over 25 years of venture capital experience, having joined US Venture Partners in 1985. Mr. Krausz’ background and training is in information technology and electrical engineering. Mr. Krausz plays a leadership role in both USVP and the venture capital community. His focus areas include security and internet infrastructure. He was recognized by Forbes in 2003 with a ranking of number 6 on its list of top venture capitalists, and he has been on the Forbes top venture capitalist list four out of six years. He served for four years on the National Venture Capital Association Board of Directors, was Treasurer and on the executive committee. Mr. Krausz is a frequent panelist and moderator at many industry and engineering events and forums. Prior to joining USVP, Mr. Krausz had eight years of operating experience with NASA Ames, BTI Computers, Direct Inc. and Daisy Systems, all Silicon Valley based organizations, where he built the strong network and experience base that he brings to his portfolio companies. He served on the Boards of Directors of EPIC Design Technologies, Elantec, Microlinear, Checkpoint Software, Verity, Harmonic Lightwaves, Photon Dynamics; all USVP investments that became successful public companies. Currently he is on the Boards of multiple USVP investments including, Force10 Networks, Guidewire, Imperva, Occam Networks (OCNW), Threatmetrix, Trusteer and Xirrus. Mr. Krausz holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Mr. Krausz serves on the Strategy Committee of Stanford University’s DAPER Fund, Chair of the Stanford GSB Venture Fund and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is also on the Board of Trustees of the World Affairs Council of Northern California.
Rhonda MacLean
MacLean Risk Partners, LLC
Rhonda MacLean has more than more than 30 years of information technology industry experience and is founder and CEO of MacLean Risk Partners LLC, a consulting firm that provides strategic security and risk advisory services. Prior to founding MacLean Risk Partners, Ms. MacLean was the global leader of information security for Barclays, PLC in London, England and Bank of America headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
For over 12 years she was responsible for the respective banks’ security policies; compliance reporting for relevant legal and regulatory statutes; security and risk technology implementations; cyber forensics and e-discovery; and general information risk management awareness. Prior to joining Bank of America in 1996, she was responsible for information security at The Boeing Company, managing Boeing’s proprietary and government programs. Ms. MacLean previously served on the board of directors for the Vontu Corporation and PGP prior to their respective acquisitions by Symantec Corporation.
In 2002, the U.S. Treasury Secretary appointed Ms. MacLean as the financial services sector coordinator for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security. Over the years numerous awards have been presented to her for visionary industry leadership. Some highlights include The Executive Women’s Forum (EWF) “2003 Women of Vision”; NetworkWorld’s 2003 and 2004 issues named her one of the 50 most powerful people in technology; 2005 CSO’s Compass Award; 2008 EMEA Visionary Award; and most recently in 2009, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the EWF.
Steven Boutelle
Lieutenant General, U.S. Army (Retired)
Steve Boutelle brings decades of strategic and operational experience managing complex technology systems to ThreatMetrix. Most recently Mr. Boutelle served as the chief information officer of the U.S. Army responsible for the Army’s worldwide use of information technology. He has received numerous industry citations for his leadership, including “Top 100 CIO” by Federal Computer Week in 2006; the “North American Leadership Award” by Armed Forces Communication and Electronics Association – Rocky Mountains in 2006; and “U.S. Department of Defense Executive of the Year” by Government Computer News in 2005. Mr. Boutelle has served in several leadership positions in the U.S. Army throughout his career, including director of information, operations, networks and space; program executive officer of command, control and communications systems and Joint Chiefs of Staff project manager communication systems. He holds a doctor of laws (honorarium) from the University of Puget Sound. Mr. Boutelle graduated with departmental honors and a bachelor of arts in business and finance from the University of Puget Sound and from Marymount University with a master’s degree in business administration as a member of the National Honor Society. He also holds an honorary doctor of laws degree from The University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington.
Peter Relan
Advisor
Peter Relan brings over 20 years of domain expertise, as well as technology and executive management experience to ThreatMetrix. Formerly the founder and CEO of Business Signatures Corporation, he led the company from inception through to acquisition by Entrust Corporation for its bank fraud detection. At Oracle, Mr. Relan was vice president of its Internet division, responsible for creating Oracle’s Application Server and E-Commerce applications. At Hewlett-Packard he was principal architect of the Open View enterprise platform. Before co-founding Business Signatures in 2001, Mr. Relan was founding senior vice president of technology and CIO for two years at Webvan Group, where he was responsible for the technology organization and CRM platform, including software development, IT operations, and application support. Mr. Relan holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science from UCLA and a master of science degree in management from Stanford University.
David Jones
Entrepreneur
David Jones co-founded ThreatMetrix in 2005. He has more than 15 years experience in technical and management roles within the software industry. Prior to co-founding ThreatMetrix, Mr. Jones founded SpamMATTERS delivering products used by federal government enforcement agencies for tracking phishing and spamming operations. At SurfContol, a leading Internet content filtering company that was later acquired by WebSENSE, he served as vice president of global research. Among his major achievements at SurfControl was the management of the email filtering and flagship anti-spam solutions generating over 30% of company revenues. Mr. Jones arrived at his position at SurfControl when EmU Tech, another company he founded, was acquired by SurfControl in 2001. Mr. Jones holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
