Reed Taussig
President and CEO
Reed Taussig has more than 30 years of experience in the computer hardware and software fields. Prior to ThreatMetrix, Mr. Taussig was president and CEO of Vormetric, Inc., a leader in data privacy and protection. Under his leadership, Vormetric established itself as a leading provider of encryption solutions for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards industry.
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’s of arts degree in economics from the University of Arizona.
David Jones
Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering
Mr. Jones has more than 15 years experience in technical and management roles in the software industry. Prior to co-founding ThreatMetrix in 2005, Mr. Jones founded SpamMATTERS, delivering products used by federal government law enforcement agencies for tracking phishing and spamming operations.
Mr. Jones joined SurfControl when EmU Tech, another company he founded, was acquired by SurfControl in 2001. At SurfControl, he was vice president of global research, a leading Internet content filtering company that was acquired by Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN). Among his major accomplishments at SurfControl was the management of the email filtering and flagship anti-spam solutions generating over 30% of company revenues.
Mr. Jones holds a bachelor’s of engineering in electrical engineering degree from the University of Technology, Sydney.
Alisdair Faulkner
Chief Products Officer
Alisdair Faulkner is a technology entrepreneur who has over a decade of experience building products and delivering mission critical technologies that are run by the world’s most trusted brands.
Mr. Faulkner is a noted industry expert in issues relating to online fraud, device identification, cybercrime, identity theft, information security and networking technology. He is a frequent industry speaker appearing before such industry forums as the Anti-Phishing Working Group, CyberSource Payment Summit and Experian Vision Conference. He has appeared on BBC online news commenting on cybercrime and is a past winner of the DEMOgod award for technology innovation and is a co-author of the ThreatMetrix blog, “Frauds & Ends.”
As chief products officer at ThreatMetrix, he is responsible for product management and strategic accounts. Prior to ThreatMetrix, Mr. Faulkner was a founder and business development director of NetPriva, a leading network performance software provider, acquired by Expand Networks.
Mr. Faulkner came to NetPriva with the acquisition of the assets and IP of Foursticks where he was a co-founder and responsible for product management. Earlier in his career, he was a senior consultant at Accenture.
He holds a master’s of engineering degree in information technology and telecommunications from Adelaide University, a graduate diploma in applied finance from the Securities Institute Australia, and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) directors course.
Sam Hageman
Vice President of Finance
Sam Hageman has over 20 years experience in senior accounting, finance and general management positions. At ThreatMetrix, Mr. Hageman is responsible for ensuring strong financial controls and accounting best practices.
Prior to joining ThreatMetrix, he worked as corporate controller at Adomo, Inc., (sold to Avaya, Inc.) where he managed the company’s accounting, finance, human resources, facility, risk management and treasury activities. He has also held financial and consulting positions with Robert Half Management Resources, Enkata Technologies, SeeCommerce (sold to Teradata), Emotion (sold to Kodak Ventures) and was a manager, information and communications practice, with KPMG.
Mr. Hageman holds a bachelor’s in business administration degree from San Jose State.
Tom Grubb
Vice President of Marketing
Tom Grubb has more than 25 years of experience in the computer hardware and software fields. Prior to joining ThreatMetrix, Mr. Grubb was vice president of marketing for Polivec Inc., a pioneer in the governance, risk and compliance industry.
He has also served as vice president of marketing for Vormetric, a leader in data privacy and security. Mr. Grubb has held senior marketing positions at Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU), Embarcadero Technologies (NASDAQ: EMBT), and co-founded Bluecurve which was acquired by Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT).
Mr. Grubb holds a bachelor’s of science degree in business from Eastern Illinois University.
Lance Jacobs
Vice President of Sales
Lance Jacobs has over 15 years in management, business development, sales and marketing in the software industry. At ThreatMetrix, Mr. Jacobs is responsible for accelerating the adoption of ThreatMetrix fraud prevention solutions by etailers, social networks, online dating services, gaming companies and payment processors.
Prior to ThreatMetrix, he was director of North American business development at F-Secure, a publicly held IT security and anti-virus software provider, where he built relationships with service providers such as Cox, Charter Communications, CenturyLink, Shaw Communications, Dish Network, DirecTV, WildBlue, and others. Earlier in his career, he was director of business development at Verifia (since acquired by Quova), a pioneer in Internet IP geolocation technology.
Mr. Jacobs is a graduate of Utah State University.
Neil Katz
Chief Financial Officer
Neil Katz has over 20 years of experience in finance, accounting and general management roles across a number of industries. During the past seven years, Mr. Katz has held the positions of CFO with Hicom International, Aptrix and Sensory Networks, all innovative and high growth start-up companies in the engineering and IT sectors. He has extensive experience in corporate restructuring, capital raising and played a key role in the sale of Aptrix to IBM.
Mr. Katz holds a bachelor’s of commerce (honors) degree in financial management from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.
Scott Thomas
Director, ThreatCenter, Bots and Malware
Mr. Thomas co-founded ThreatMetrix in 2005 and is responsible for ThreatCenter sensor network, partnerships with external parties and government law enforcement agencies. Since ThreatMetrix’ inception, Mr. Thomas has been a key manager and technical lead for providing ThreatMetrix’s range of investigative and forensic tools for tracking fraudsters, botnets, spamming and phishing operations to government agencies.
He is an expert in email hacking techniques and malware distribution. He has been a veteran software engineer in the email filtering industry since 2000 and was the lead developer for automated email analysis and rules engine at SurfControl (now Websense) email filter. He has delivered commercial Internet products since 1997 beginning with TurboSoft’s range of terminal emulation products.
Mr. Thomas holds a bachelor’s of information technology degree.
