Authentic8 Leadership

Scott has been using the cloud to disrupt the information security market for nearly 20 years. He founded Postini in 1999, which pioneered the cloud-delivered service model for email security and content compliance, effectively securing SMTP while remaining compatible with every existing mail service. In 2007, Postini was acquired by Google, where Scott remained as Director of Product Management for Google Enterprise to further cloud adoption.

In 2010, he co-founded Authentic8, a secure virtual browser solution designed to address the inherent lack of security in the protocols the world uses to access the web. Silo, its flagship product, executes in the cloud, providing isolation from web code while providing a full-fidelity user experience.

Scott started his career at Apple Computer, worked in the wireless industry (SkyTel) and the open-source industry (Cygnus and Red Hat). He graduated with a B.S. from San Diego State University. As a member of the U.S. National Rowing team, earned a bronze medal in the World Championships. In addition to Authentic8, he sits on the boards of UpGuard and Virtru.

Ramesh is co-founder and CEO of Authentic8. Prior to this leadership role, he was VP Corporate Development at Postini running all strategic planning and business development leading up to the acquisition of the company by Google in 2007 for $625 million.

Before Postini, Ramesh was Senior Director of the Corporate Strategy Group at Microsoft, where he co-led a team in identifying and evaluating new growth opportunities for the company in areas including consumer web services, business applications and security.

In his time before Microsoft, Ramesh worked at JP Morgan in both the investment banking and capital markets groups. He holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Cambridge.

Kevin is chief technical officer of Authentic8. In his earlier career, he led Postini's anti-threat team and served as the principal system architect. When Positini was acquired by Google, Kevin became staff engineer at the tech multinational. Kevin holds a doctorate in psychology from the University of California where he specialized in machine learning and computational psycholinguistics. 

Chirag Vasavada is head of finance and business operations at Authentic8, where his responsibilities include finance and strategy, operations and business development functions. Previously, Chirag helped build out the commercial sales and customer success teams.

Prior to joining Authentic8, Chirag spent 13 years investing in and advising technology companies at T Rowe Price, Fidelity and several other investment firms, and he was responsible for building and overseeing finance teams, as well as research and compliance functions. Chirag began his career as a strategy consultant at Accenture and later was a member of the corporate development and strategy team at Microsoft.

Jessica is the head of marketing at Authentic8 where she brings more than 20 years of hands-on marketing and communications experience. Jessica's background is in building and executing brand and content strategy for software and technology start-ups in the areas of IT security, finance, IoT and cloud.

She has a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Taylor is the general counsel and head of legal affairs at Authentic8. He’s spent the previous thirteen years providing legal and business counsel to technology and government contracting companies, including Blackbird Technologies, Raytheon Company, SOS International and Merlin International. He received his J.D. from George Mason University School of Law and his B.S. from the University of Virginia.

Christina is the head of human resources for Authentic8. She has more than 15 years of experience working with small to mid-size technology companies, implementing human resources infrastructure and strategy.

Christina has a B.S. in Business Administration from San Francisco State and an MBA in Finance from Notre Dame de Namur University. She holds SPHR-CA and SHRM-SCP certifications in Human Resources.

Les began his career writing software in C and Motorola Assembly while he was obtaining his bachelor's in CS. He next took up network engineering at Cisco where his responsibilities included the build-out of enterprise network topologies using 90 percent of Cisco's product line.

He then went into IT consulting in the biotech space where he learned to effectively manage time, budgets, projects and people. This work led to tech startups, where he built infrastructures that supported 70 million users.

He currently splits his time between developing chef recipes, automation tools in ruby and managing his group.
 

Miguel is the head of product at Authentic8, responsible for product management and product marketing. Prior to joining Authentic8, Miguel was a corporate strategy director at Forcepoint, where he worked with the senior leadership team to establish Forcepoint’s long-term strategy and identify and evaluate new market opportunities.

Miguel began his career in software engineering, and over the years he held several product management roles at companies such as Forcepoint, Raytheon, Neustar and Network Solutions. Miguel holds an MBA from the University of Toronto Rotman School, an M.S. in Computer Information Systems from Boston University, and a B.Sc. (Hon.) in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Toronto.

Sean Heritage is the head of platform adoption at Authentic8, leading the charge on training, customer success and renewals across the growing install base. As a career naval officer, he led defensive cyberspace operations, guided the development of the cyber workforce and helped create — as well as ultimately lead — the Defense Innovation Unit.

Sean has a B.S. in Economics from the U.S. Naval Academy, an M.S. in IT Management from Johns Hopkins University, and an M.A. in National Security Studies form the U.S. Naval War College.

Tony is the Head of Site Reliability Engineering for Authentic8 where he has the responsibility of delivering the very high standards of server reliability our customers enjoy. Prior to this, he was Head of Operations for Okta and led them through rapid growth and their successful IPO, his second after leading various reliability efforts for Twitter as they made the transition to becoming a public company. Originally from London he moved to the United States in 2005 with Microsoft where he learned about massive scale environments such as MSN, Hotmail and ultimately led the transition of the infrastructure to deliver the all new Outlook.com.

He currently spends his time using his experience of running services at planet scale to deliver the low touch automation and infrastructure delivery to support the rapid growth of the Authentic8 platform.