TriCipher Board of Directors
Sandra England Bergeron is one of the best known and
highly respected women of technology in Silicon Valley.
Following a ten year career at McAfee, Inc (NYSE: MFE),
Mrs Bergeron is currently a Strategic Advisor to the
CEO and Board of Directors of McAfee. She also sits on the Board of Directors
of TraceSecurity Inc. and is a Venture Advisor to Trident
Capital, and an advisor to Varonis Systems. She also
sits on the Board of Advisors for the J. Mack Robinson
College of Business of Georgia State University in Atlanta.Prior
to her current Board of Directors roles, Mrs.Bergeron
served on the Board of Directors of three public companies
Tipping Point, Netegrity, and Nuance Communications,
all of whom were acquired by other public companies.
Sandra Bergeron's national reputation as a computer security
thought leader earned her the distinction as one of Information
Security Magazine's Top 25 Women of Vision in 2003. Bergeron's
opinions on security matters are highly sought after
by government and private industry leaders. She has testified
to the Subcommittee on Technology within the House Science
Committee, regarding how government and private industry
can better prepare for virus attacks. Bergeron was selected
by U.S. Congressman Mike Honda and San Jose, California
Mayor Ron Gonzales to serve on the Silicon Valley Blue
Ribbon Task Force on Aviation Security and Technology.
The Task Force, comprised of experts from Silicon Valley
in the areas of technology, business, policy and aviation,
delivered recommendations to increase aviation security.
Prior to her current roles, Mrs. Bergeron served as Executive
Vice President of Strategy, Research, and Corporate Development
at McAfee, Inc. While in this role, Bergeron completed
seven acquisitions, and completed several divestitures
of major business lines for McAfee. She was also President
of PGP Security, a McAfee division, from 2000 to 2001.
Prior to that, Mrs. Bergeron held executive positions
in Sales and Engineering for McAfee.
Mrs. Bergeron holds a Bachelor of Business Administration
(Cum Laude) from Georgia State University and a Master
of Business Administration from Xavier University in
Cincinnati.
John De Santis has more than 25 years of sales, marketing and general management experience in the telecommunications and information technologies fields and has held management positions with both start-ups and large international public companies.
Most recently, he was President and CEO of Sygate Technologies (an enterprise security software company) from 2000 to 2005 until its acquisition by Symantec. Prior to Sygate, De Santis served as senior vice president for Network Computing Devices, and also was vice president, European operations for Cincinnati Bell Information Systems (now Convergys Corporation). De Santis is an alumnus of Fairfield University, and completed the Stanford University Executive Institute Program for Management of High-Technology Companies. He also is on the board of directors for three IT security technology and service providers, Tablus Inc., Applied Identity, Inc., and KSR, Inc.
Nick Efstratis is a Managing Director with Wasatch Venture
Fund. He has been a venture capitalist investing in early
stage technology companies for the past 7 years. Prior
to joining Wasatch Venture Fund, Nick worked in the Business
Development Group at Excite and was a founding member
of the management team of NetDocuments. Nick and his
family are the founders and operators of RanchLife Adventures,
a working cattle and guest ranch located in Montana.
He has a B.S. in Entrepreneurship with a minor in Accounting/Economics
from Brigham Young University. His M.B.A. is from the
Marriott School at BYU.
Peter Meekin is a Managing Director of Trident Capital.
He has more than 20 years of experience in software,
information services, and technology consulting. Prior
to joining Trident Capital, he was Vice President of
Venture Development at Enterprise Associates, LLC, the
venture capital division of IMS Health. He has also held
senior technology and management positions with Dun & Bradstreet
Corporation, Lotus Development Corporation, and IBM.
In addition, Peter has hands-on entrepreneurial experience
having launched three start-up companies in the software
and consulting industries. Peter has a BS in Mathematics
from the State University of New York at New Paltz.
Morgan Rodd is a Managing Partner of ArrowPath Venture Partners and brings over 15 years of experience with information technology companies as an investor, investment banker and finance executive. He focuses primarily on investments in application and infrastructure software, with an emphasis on security, data management and data integration. Morgan currently serves on the Board, or is a Board observer, of Bridgestream, Gamma Technologies, Siperian, TriCipher and Xceedium. Prior investments and Board seats include Actional (acquired by Progress Software), Immunix (acquired by Novell), NetSec (acquired by MCI), Security Focus (acquired by Symantec) and Sanera Systems (acquired by McData). Before joining ArrowPath, Morgan was Vice President of Corporate Development and New Ventures at E*TRADE Financial. Prior to E*TRADE, Morgan was CFO and Vice President of Business Development of Urbanite Systems, a venture-backed Internet software company. Prior to Urbanite, Morgan was a Principal at Volpe Brown Whelan, where he was head of the firm's healthcare technology investment banking group. He was also a member of the technology investment banking group at Alex. Brown & Sons. Morgan received his B.A. in History from Wesleyan University and M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.