Board of Directors

Arxan Technologies, Inc.

The Arxan Board of Directors is responsible for management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Arxan Bylaws. This includes management of the corporate assets (funds, intellectual property, trademarks, and support equipment) and allocation of corporate resources to projects. The current Board of Directors includes:

 

Michael Dager
CEO and Chairman of the Board

Michael Dager joined Arxan as Chief Executive Officer in May 2006. Mr. Dager has over 27 years of experience in senior level positions at leading technology companies. He came to Arxan from Worksoft, a leading provider of automated enterprise testing solutions, where he served as CEO and Chairman of the Board. Prior to Worksoft, he was president and CEO of OSE Systems Inc.(ENEA.ST), growing the company from a startup in 1997 to the number two embedded operating system supplier in 2001 with a stock market valuation of over $1 billion. Before OSE Systems, Mr. Dager held senior sales management positions at Pure Software (RATL) for many years helping raise the market valuation of the company from start-up level to over $1 billion. During his tenure at Pure the company completed one of the most successful IPOs of 1995. The company was later acquired by Rational Software. He began his career at Texas Instruments in the semiconductor division after earning a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Rich Earley
Founder

Richard Earley co-founded Arxan in 2001. He currently serves as CEO for Arxan Defense Systems, Inc. and as Vice Chairman of Arxan Technologies, Inc. Mr. Earley is recognized as a distinguished entrepreneur and investor with a proven track record of launching and building successful companies. He is a co-founder and General Partner of Dunrath Capital, a critical infrastructure-focused venture capital firm, where he is actively involved in launching and building several businesses and providing strategy consulting. Prior to Dunrath Partners, Mr. Earley served as President and Director of Synergy Software Inc. (an IT systems integrator). In 1997 he facilitated merging Synergy Software with Complete Business Solutions, Inc., which is currently publicly traded as Covansys Inc. (CVNS). Mr. Earley has also held executive general management and sales/marketing positions for two other IT software companies. Mr. Earley currently serves on several corporate boards, the Defense Trade Advisory Group, DHS's Critical Infrastructure Protection Advisory Group, the Information Technology Sector Coordinating Council, and the Advisory Board for the University of Notre Dame's Gigot Entrepreneurial Center. Mr. Earley received his MBA from Benedictine University, a BA from the University of Notre Dame and completed Harvard University's Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security.

Peter T. Meekin
Board Member

Mr. Meekin is a Managing Director of Trident Capital. Prior to joining Trident Capital, Peter had more than 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur, executive and investor in the software, information services and information technology consulting sectors. Immediately prior to Trident, Peter was Vice President of Venture Development at Enterprise Associates, LLC, the venture capital division of IMS Health. Previously, he 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's current board memberships include Aethon, Arxan Technologies, iRobot (IRBT), Spire, TriCipher, Vidient and Voltage Security, Inc. He formerly served as a director of Berkeley Enterprise Partners, Inc. (acquired by Extraprise, Inc.), Circles (acquired by Sodexho Alliance), Customer Analytics, Inc. (acquired by Exchange Applications (EXAP)), Cymfony (acquired by TNS Media Intelligence), ELetter, Inc., ESS Software, Inc., Sygate Technologies (acquired by Symantec), Tablus, Inc (acquired by RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC) and Thor Technologies (acquired by Oracle).

John De Santis
Board Member

John De Santis is Chairman and CEO of HyTrust, Inc., a leading innovator of security and management software for data center virtualization infrastructure. He has over 30 years of international and US-based experience at venture-backed technology start-ups, as well as large global public companies in the telecom and IT fields. Prior to HyTrust, Mr. De Santis was VP, Cloud Services for VMware. He joined VMware after being Chairman and CEO of TriCipher, a software security infrastructure company acquired by VMware in 2010. Prior to TriCipher, Mr. De Santis served as CEO of the enterprise security software company, Sygate Technologies, from 2000 until its acquisition by Symantec in 2005. Mr. De Santis was a public company officer and SVP for Network Computing Devices (a leading thin client manufacturer), where he was responsible for all worldwide sales, marketing, and service operations before Sygate and prior to NCD, he was with Cincinnati Bell Information Systems (now Convergys Corporation) where he was Vice President, European Operations. Recently, Mr. De Santis also served on the boards of two early stage enterprise security software companies: Tablus (acquired by RSA) and Applied Identity (acquired by Citrix). When he was 28 years old, he co-founded an optical fiber networking start-up which built the first commercial application of optical channel networking for IBM mainframes. Mr. De Santis earned an AB in Philosophy from Fairfield University and completed the Stanford University Executive Institute Program for Management of High-Tech Companies.

Mary Lincoln Campbell
Managing Director, EDF

Mary Lincoln Campbell is a Managing Director and Founder of EDF Ventures. She has been an active investor both in healthcare and technology companies for over twenty years. Currently, Mary is a board member or board observer for the following companies:  Cerenis Therapeutics and Lycera (pharmaceuticals); IntelePeer and Vontoo (telecommunications); Alure and ValenTx (medical devices); Arxan and Greenplum (software); and Accio Energy (a wind-energy company). Mary led several of the firm's most successful transactions including: Pixelworks, a leader of system-on-a-chip integrated circuits for the advanced display market which became a public company; HandyLab, a developer of molecular diagnostic assays and automation platforms, sold to Becton Dickinson & Company; and Sircon, a provider of automation solutions for the insurance industry, sold to Vertafore the nation’s number one insurance software provider. She is active with The Stephen M. Ross School of Business at The University of Michigan and currently serves as an advisor to the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, as well as its student-run venture activity, the Wolverine Venture Fund. She is an advisor to The University of Michigan's Life Science Institute and is a member of the Steering Committee for the Michigan Strategic Economic Investment and Commercialization Board, a statewide initiative to foster research and commercialization. Mary is past president of the Michigan Venture Capital Association, the State's premier public policy advocate for the venture capital industry and continues to serve on its board of directors. Mary received her MBA and BA in English from The University of Michigan and a Master of Special Education from Fairfield University.

Kenneth Minihan
Board Member

Lieutenant General Kenneth Minihan retired from the U.S. Air Force in June of 1999, after more than 33 years of active commissioned service. On his final tour of duty, he served as the 14th Director of the National Security Agency (NSA)/Central Security Service, a combat support agency of the Department of Defense with military and civilian personnel stationed worldwide. As Director, he was the senior uniformed intelligence officer in the Department of Defense. He has also served as the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Lieutenant General Ken Minihan created strategic approaches to exploit and secure modern network technologies, reshaped multinational operations, and reconstructed business products and services. His innovative design solutions helped maintain a competitive advantage in a highly charged global market. He led NSA to recognition as a Baldridge and Presidential Quality Award finalist.

Lieutenant General Ken Minihan is President of the Security Affairs Support Association in Washington, DC, the flagship organization for industry and government partnership to enhance intelligence business development. He is also a member of the Air Force Association, the National Military Intelligence Association, and several other national organizations. He often serves on government pro bono committees and panels to examine ways to enhance homeland and national security capabilities.

Jim Pastoriza
Board Member

Jim joined TDF early in 2004 and is the Managing Partner at the Fund. Jim was a Partner of J.P. Morgan Communications Partners, L.P. in San Francisco, CA. He was previously a Partner at AT&T Ventures, leading Fund investments in Internet Security Systems (ISSX), WNP Communications (sold to Nextlink). Prior to AT&T Ventures, Jim held operational positions at AT&T and Lucent Technologies. He was the Product Manager for AT&T's Consumer Long Distance Service which generated $13 billion in revenue from 60 million customers. Jim also served as the Executive Assistant to AT&T's Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development. Previously, Mr. Pastoriza was a Lucent Technologies Account Executive ranking in the top 1% of national sales. He received a B.S. from Columbia University and earned his M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

Fred Bamber
Board Observer

Mr. Bamber is a General Partner at Solstice Capital, an active, early-stage investor in information and medical technology. He has over 30 years of experience in the computer and venture industries. Mr. Bamber has led investments in Okena, a leading provider of intrusion prevention software, acquired by Cisco just 18 months after Solstice's investment; Lumigent, a provider of enterprise data base auditing software; SupplyWorks, a supply chain management software company; and Unveil Technology, a provider of speech-based call center service software.

Mr. Bamber co-founded Applied Technology, which managed three early-stage venture funds focused on the computer industry. The funds made investments in over 60 start-up companies including Interleaf (enterprise electronic publishing software), Cadence Design (software for electronic design), ISD (multistage memory chips) and Maker Communications (network communications chips). Previously, Mr. Bamber spent 10 years as an operating executive after his participation in the start-up of Data Resources, Inc. (DRI), a pioneer electronic information software and services company. One of the few successful start-ups of the seventies, DRI went public in 1976, and was acquired by McGraw-Hill in 1979.

Mr. Bamber has been a Director at a number of public and private companies, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Connected Corporation, SupplyWorks, and Lewtan Technology.

Mr. Bamber received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and holds an AB from Yale College.

 

Todd Klein
Board Observer

Todd Klein is founder and Managing Partner of Legend Ventures, LLC a venture capital management company focused on New Media, Information Technology and Telecommunications that he established in 2005. Mr. Klein has over 18 years of venture capital, finance and business development experience ranging from early stage investments to multi-billion dollar corporate finance transactions.

Prior to founding Legend, Mr. Klein was Managing Director of Kinetic Ventures, which he joined in 1994. As a member of Kinetic's Investment Committee, he was involved in over 60 portfolio investments and 21 successful exits, served as a board representative for 10 companies, and financed industry leading enterprises such as Grande Communications, Ramp Networks and Placeware, Inc.

Previously, Mr. Klein was Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions at Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan Chase), and a Corporate Finance Analyst for Salomon Brothers. Mr. Klein has been an active spokesman for the venture capital industry. He has presented at several national and local conferences and has been quoted in the Associated Press, Boston Globe, and Venture Capital Journal. He has also been a featured guest on CNNfn.

Mr. Klein earned an MBA from Harvard University and a BBA with honors from the University of Texas. He is an active member of the Washington, DC chapter of Young Presidents Organization, where he serves on the Executive Committee.