Meet Team aiden

Serial entrepreneur who has raised over $10m, business strategist, and angel investor. With over 30 years of experience in coaching FinTech startups, Jeff helped two clients rapidly scale to $100m in revenue resulting in 100x ROI and a $60m exit from scratch, both within 2 years. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from NYU and is a certified Scaling Up coach.

Senior-level automation engineer and creator of MassDeploy (now aiden), an advanced software deployment platform servicing top-tier private equity and technology firms developed over 15 years. From his nearly two decades in deployment automation technology, Sean has worked with some of Silicon Valley’s top pioneers in software deployment and Microsoft systems administration.

As aiden’s head of sales, Laura educates prospects and spreads the word about our mission to help enterprises build and maintain high-performance computing environments that ultimately increase productivity and reduce risk. She has worked with top executives in each of her prior roles, always generating sales straight from the inception of a product or service. Based out of Silicon Valley for most of her career, Laura is recognized for her creativity, integrity, consultative selling approach, and ability to turn jargon into prose.

Leveraging a career spanning nearly two decades at Microsoft, Rob is focused on the support strategy for all of Microsoft’s commercial business and manages a budget of $750 Million. Prior to Microsoft, Rob consulted in the high-tech industry for Accenture and served 9 years as an officer in the US Navy, where he ran flight operations and multiple reconnaissance missions worldwide. Rob received his MBA from University of Washington’s Foster School of Business and a BSE in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan.

With over 30 years in the IT Cybersecurity Software industry, Chris helped to pioneer the concept of using automated binary analysis to discover vulnerabilities in software after founding Veracode. As a subject matter expert, Chris has not only testified to the US Congress on the subjects of government security and how software vulnerabilities are discovered, but he’s also an international keynote cybersecurity speaker and the author of The Art of Software Security Testing. Since his tenure, Veracode was acquired by CA Technologies for $614M in 2017, in 2018, CA Technologies was acquired by Broadcom for $18.9B and in 2019, Thoma Bravo acquired Veracode for $950M.

Nana is a senior finance executive, whose career spans two decades in global private equity prior to her current position as Managing Director at Deloitte. Nana accomplished this, plus attained a master’s degree in taxation from Golden Gate University, all while raising a family of 4 girls. Her passion for her family, finance, and people led her to Deloitte where she builds trusted relationships with the firm’s clients and leadership. In her spare time, she invests in innovative technology companies that are outperforming the market and prepares exquisite culinary creations for family and friends.

Matthew advises healthcare providers, emerging health IT companies, vendors and investors in the digital industry on regulatory and strategic matters. Matthew has worked with digital health startups, IT vendors and health systems throughout the United States to develop and implement technology products, platforms and services. He also advises businesses on privacy and security matters, including, matters relating to HIPAA, state law privacy and security compliance and cyber security and interoperability issues.

A seasoned international IT leader in the private equity and healthcare spaces as CTO, CISO and CIO, Bart has almost 40 years of IT experience under his belt. He spent 7 years working for the United Nations and 2 years with the European Space Agency (ESA) building out their infrastructures to be world class. Bart received his engineering degree and masters in microelectronics from Ghent University in Belgium.

Scott has extensive experience in counseling on IP issues across a broad variety of technologies, including major gaming platforms, social networks, telecommunication companies, synthetic biology, and data trading platforms. He’s represented large defense contractors, innovative pharmaceutical companies, and hardware and software-based start-ups. Prior to founding Ballast IP Law, Mr. Popma was a Partner at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP where he amassed over 16 years of experience in all aspects of obtaining and enforcing patents.