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.

Two-time founder, technology advisor and author of The Culture Project: 30 Days to Reboot Your Organization, Tom has spent his career of over 20 years performing numerous workplace technology assessments for globally renowned and mid-market brands focused on the business impact of infrastructure, cyber hygiene, and software deployment practices. As a technology advisor and entrepreneur, Tom has built an extensive, international network of diverse technologists and business leaders. As CEO of Helix2, a consultancy created to curate a multiplier effect on an organization’s ability to drive transformational initiatives, Tom excels at aligning technology and talent to dramatically increase the rate of success for better results and ROI.

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.

20-year Innovation Storyteller and Founder of Emerging Media, an innovation communications consultancy dedicated to helping innovators and disruptors create stories that get them the resources, runway, and recognition they deserve. Experienced speaker to startups, innovators, and top executives from 60+ countries at Fortune 100’s like GE, PWC, Deutsche Bank, and Capital One. Susan speaks at global conferences, consulates, and trade organizations about strategic storytelling, US market entry, and how to master the message and the media for maximum impact. Winner of 3 Golden Bridge Awards, SmartCEO Magazine’s Brava Award for Top Women CEO’s in NY, American Business Awards Mentor of the Year, and Best in PR’s Mobile & Wireless.

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.

Dave is CISO at RMS (Risk Management Solutions), a premier provider of catastrophe risk models forecasting losses for the insurance industry. With over 25 years of experience developing and managing security programs, Dave holds CISSP and CRISC certifications and has guided pre-IPO startups to Fortune 500 enterprises. Prior to RMS, Dave was Director of Cybersecurity Operations & Chief Security Architect for Maxim Integrated. As CTO & Co-Founder of DataLode, Dave provided marketing data analytics for brands such as HP, Toshiba, and Orbitz.

Senior technology executive focused on strategically enabling positive business outcomes via innovation and operational change. Casey is an accomplished CIO and cybersecurity leader, an Advisory Board member to several technology companies, and Board Director for multiple professional and charitable non-profit organizations. Prior to her corporate career, Casey spent 4 years with NASA and participated as Propulsion System Flight Controller for over 20 Space Shuttle missions. Member of LCDA (Latino Corporate Directors Association) and HITEC. Dedicated to the development of Hispanic women youth and career-oriented professionals, supporting diversity and inclusion in the technology sector.

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 20-year enterprise and government IT veteran, Kurt has played significant leadership roles in driving digital transformation and security initiatives. As the CTO of Thundercat Technology, a Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned business, he’s responsible for driving technology value for organizations through evaluation, architecture, and outreach. Prior to Thundercat, Kurt was the CIO of MacAndrews and Forbes Inc. where he built a dependable, modern, standardized, and secure infrastructure. As the Chief Enterprise Architect for the FBI, he established the IT vision and strategy and under his leadership, the EAPO created IT transformation roadmaps, strategic direction for shared services, mobile platforms, enterprise storage, and user experience in addition to the design of enterprise-class solutions.

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.