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Trunomi hires Kartik Venkatesh as chief architect

7 days ago BY

Trunomi, a provider of consent-based Know Your Customer (KYC) data-sharing technology, announces that it has expanded its team with new chief architect, Kartik Venkatesh and Advisory Board member, Fred Thiel.

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This Company Is Putting Personal Data In The Hands Of You, Me…Everyone

4 weeks ago BY

Trunomi, a finalist in the Benzinga FinTech awards, is attempting to make privacy and personal data control a reality in your online landscape with the launch of TruMobile, an app which lets consumers manage their own Personally Identifiable Information (Pii) and Know Your Customer (KYC) data sets.

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Today’s top demos from Finovate Europe 2015

3 months ago BY

Trunomi named as one of the top demos from Day Two of Finovate Europe. Finovate saw the debut of Trunomi’s TruMobile service, which connects customers to their banks to allow them to “share PII on the fly,” said Trunomi CEO and co-founder Stuart Lacey.

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Trunomi launches B2C KYC app

3 months ago BY

At Finovate 2015, the European showcase of the latest financial technology innovations, Trunomi launches the only mobile app that empowers financial institutions’ customers to control their personal identification data.

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The Race to Build a Know-Your-Customer Registry

5 months ago BY

Trunomi is named as one of the top six clearinghouse contenders; organizations lending the effort to streamline the know-your-customer vetting process for banks and their corporate clients. Trunomi’s solution works across registries to let bank clients provide consent to share their information with financial institutions and other regulated entities.

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7 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Privacy

5 months ago BY

There is no denying that we live in an age of over-sharing – while we are using social media to spread more information than ever before, we’re also becoming more concerned with how corporations use our personal data.

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Bermuda start-up Trunomi can be a ‘game changer’

5 months ago BY

Trunomi wants to put people — rather than corporations — in control of their own personal data. Trunomi’s aim is to provide a global standard to meet the emerging demands and to empower consumers to manage and protect their own Pii.

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The Importance of Hiring the Right Teammates: Our 3-Step Process

5 months ago BY

Hiring is about more than finding qualified candidates, it’s about building a winning team.

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Prepare for Customers to Push Back On Privacy

6 months ago BY

In the age of over sharing, privacy no longer exists – our biggest privacy issue is that most of us have no idea what information we’re sharing and with whom. Trunomi believes that consumers deserve to have more control over how their data is mined, shared and stored.

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Stuart Lacey
Stuart Lacey
FOUNDER & CEO

Investor and entrepreneur with a successful history of founding innovative companies and building remarkable shareholder value. Over 20 years of leadership experience in the C-Suite of global financial and technology markets,with a keen eye for growing successful teams and developing highly innovative solutions and technology platforms. A multiple award-winning Member of the Young Presidents Organization; the Young Entrepreneur’s Council and The Institute of Directors; as well as a graduate of McGill University and the inventor of a number of industry defining patents. In June, Stuart was named by Bank Innovation as a 2015 Innovator to Watch - one of 44 Executives ‘Shaping the Future of Banking’.

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Sally-Anne Baron
Sally-Anne Baron
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Chief Financial Officer with extensive experience in the financial sector, Sally-Anne started her career at Morgan Stanley. In 2004 she went to work for a hedge fund group client opening a Bermuda office with responsibility for the finance group and managing the opening of new funds. She later became a founding director, and then CFO, of an investment manager specializing in real asset investments, helping to grow the investment from seed to $400m in the post financial crisis environment. In all of her prior roles Sally-Anne encountered many of the issues Trunomi is solving. She is a graduate (Hons) of Business from Manchester Metropolitan University and a Maitrise in Commerce Exterieur from L’IUP Clermont-Ferrand, France and a Chartered Management Accountant.

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Naresh Singhal
Naresh Singhal
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Engineering and product management leader with experience delivering to international standards in multi-culture, multi-vendor, and multi-centre operations environments, from concept to delivery and customer experience management. Expertise in building enterprise/mobile applications and web scale systems. Deep interest in user experience and usability. Responsible for Trunomi’s product portfolio, defining feature roadmap and managing implementation, enabling end-users to easily manage their privacy and Pii footprint with their mobile devices.

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Anna Mazzone
GLOBAL HEAD OF CUSTOMER DEVELOPMENT

Anna joined Trunomi in November 2015 and brings 20 years’ financial services industry experience. The former Global Head of KYC Managed Services at Thomson Reuters, Anna founded and grew Thomson Reuters’ Org ID KYC Managed Service, leading a team of more than 150 staff and managing clients in more than 80 countries. In her dual global and UK role at Trunomi, Anna is leading the global growth of Trunomi’s client base, with operational responsibilities for Trunomi’s UK business based in Level39 as Managing Director, UK.

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Nicola Koronka
Nicola Koronka
ADVISOR / MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS

Nicola supports the Trunomi team from its London base in Level39. Bringing almost a decade of experience in the financial technology sector, Nicola has previously worked with startups including The Currency Cloud through to industry heavyweights such as VocaLink and data analytics firm, SAS. Nicola provides consultancy services to Trunomi as a director of Missive.

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Kartik Venkatesh
Kartik Venkatesh
CHIEF ARCHITECT

Full stack end-to-end architect with expertise in both Open Source/Apache and Microsoft stacks. 15 years of experience in a wide range of fields from entertainment to financial to medical. Kartik has a strong passion for architecting and delivering secure, web-scale, efficient, performant distributed systems, infrastructure and data solutions. He has an expert level knowledge of architecting and building big data and machine learning platforms, analytics solutions, social and collaborative solutions, and cloud and managed services.

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Chia Brewin
CUSTOMER DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATIONS MANAGER

A former Managing Director of a Young Enterprise (UK) company which won a 2008 Institute of Directors Award for Innovation, Chia joined Trunomi in late 2014. Before that she helped run successful general election campaigns for a major political party in Bermuda. Chia is a graduate of Queen Mary University of London majoring in Biology & Psychology. She has a strong interest in developing customer relationships and communications, and is an expert mulit-tasker.

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Douglas Cheline
Douglas Cheline
ADVISOR / TECHNOLOGY

Palo Alto native with 20 years of experience in leading teams to define, develop and deploy Cloud and Managed Services for customers of all types. Deep knowledge of processes for inventing, engineering and launching next generation security, networking, video and mobile services.

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Pawel Veselov
PRINCIPAL ENGINEER

Pawel is an end-to-end systems architect and engineer with over 20 years of total software development experience. He specializes in architecting and building server-side systems, and has an experience ranging from building proof-of-concept systems, to implementing scalable, fault tolerant and highly available cloud based backend platforms. Pawel has a deep understanding of large volume data and request processing designs, and he utilizes and brings together variety of different types of databases for optimized data storage and retrieval. He is also an expert in designing commercial grade web service APIs for inter-system communications.

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Brock Donnelly
CUSTOMER DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE

Brock’s career has already seen him live and work in Europe and the US. He specializes in customer relationships and implementation support. Brock graduated from Babson College and has experience in business development with an on-line products company, a healthcare company in the UK, and a SaaS start-up. He is happiest interacting with customers and dealing with unique challenges every day.

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William Guttman
DIRECTOR

Bill joins the Trunomi Board as a representative of Saturn Partners where he is a general partner. Over the past twenty years, Bill has held senior leadership roles – often as founder or chief executive – in several dozen institutionally backed early stage companies. Previously a professor of economics at CMU, Bill served on the cybersecurity committee of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, and co-founded CMU’s Cylab, one of the world’s largest cybersecurity research centers. Before entering the private sector, Bill worked on projects in 30 countries for the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the IMF, and the OECD. He earned master’s and doctoral degrees in international relations at Balliol College, Oxford University, where he was a British Council Scholar.

 

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Don Mackenzie
Don Mackenzie
CHAIRMAN

CEO of New Venture Holdings, which incubates various commercial, tech and real estate ventures. Entrepreneur and Angel Investor, Director on NYSE listed Company as well as many Government bodies. Undergraduate of Queen’s University and MBA from York University.

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James Donnelly
James Donnelly
DIRECTOR

Founder & CEO of Castle Group and Grid Systems. CPA, investor, serial entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Over 30 years of experience with particular focus on strategy, talent, and culture management. Recently inducted into the NSU - Huizenga Business School’s Entrepreneur Hall of Fame, is a past finalist of Florida’s Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, and has served in many leadership positions in the Young Presidents Organization.

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Graham Pewter
Graham Pewter
PRESIDENT AND CEO OF CATLIN INSURANCE COMPANY LTD

Former President and CEO of Catlin Insurance Company Ltd., a subsidiary of Catlin Group Limited. A veteran of the Bermuda insurance market, Graham has worked in various management positions on the Island for more than 35 years; before Catlin as President and CEO of Commercial Risk Partners Limited; as President and MD of LCF Edmond de Rothschild Insurance Services Limited and as Vice President and GM of Cologne Reinsurance Company (Bermuda) Limited.

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Aaron Smith
Aaron Smith
PRESIDENT AND CEO, IGILITY LTD

Aaron Smith is the President and CEO of Igility Ltd. The Igility Group of Companies includes the wholly-owned IBM Bermuda and Cayman Agencies as well as other complementary businesses and partnerships focused primarily in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. Mr. Smith has orchestrated several tech-oriented M&A’s including that for an ISP and an online classifieds advertisement and social networking site. Mr. Smith serves as a Director for several institutions including those in the ICT, financial services, education, recreation, and not-for-profit sectors. He sits on the local Chamber of Commerce Executive Board and chairs the Government’s Ecommerce Advisory Board. He is an active member of the Young President’s Organization (YPO).

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David Mallon
David Mallon
CEO OF MALLON ASSOCIATES

MSc in Computing from Oxford. PhD in Computing from Leeds. CEO of Mallon Associates - providing technology consulting and solutions to Top 3 global investment bank.

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Kim Perdikou
Kim Perdikou
EVP, OFFICE OF THE CEO, JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.

Most recently was Executive Vice President, Office of the CEO, Juniper Networks, Inc. where she focused on developing Juniper’s relationships with customers and partners, driving innovative solutions. As the executive vice president and general manager of the Infrastructure Products Group, she oversaw a significant expansion of the group’s portfolio and doubling revenue in 3 years. Earlier she was their CIO. Prior to Juniper, she was CIO at Women.com, VP global networks at Reader’s Digest and held leadership positions at Knight Ridder and Dun & Bradstreet. She holds several degrees including a Masters of Information Technology from Pace University in New York.

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Stephen Davidson
Stephen Davidson
VICE PRESIDENT AT QUOVADIS GROUP

Vice President at QuoVadis Group, a global digital certificate authority; accredited to Qualified Trust Service Provider (TSP) and WebTrust standards. Extensive security experience in managed PKI, digital signature, SSL, and eID.

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Prakash Chandra
Prakash Chandra
FOUNDING MEMBER AT DEVICEAUTHORITY

Founding member at DeviceAuthority, a device based advanced security solutions company, heading their product development. Oversight includes core security engine, entire services stack from ground up and management of Fortune 500 customers/partners on-boarding process. Responsible for the overall system architecture design, 3rd party vendor evaluation for product security, and bringing the right talent on-board. Prior to that, he managed TiVo’s core services platform and integration with Virgin Media, UK, and before that, held system architectural and engineering positions at NET (acquired by Sonus) and HP.

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John Malone
John Malone
FORMER CHAIRMAN OF LIBERTY GROUP

Served in a number of leadership roles (CEO, Chairman, President, SVP of Sales, Marketing, and Business Development, and on the Board of Directors for both private and public companies) including a Fortune 100 company, a mid cap, and the founding of a brand new start up. Mr. Malone has been a senior leader and significant contributor in 5 companies that have had successful exit events generating over $1B of shareholder value creation over the last 13 years.

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Charles Thresh
Charles Thresh
MANAGING DIRECTOR AT KPMG BERMUDA

Managing Director at KPMG Bermuda. 20+ years business advisory. Prior Director on UK based Private Equity and Consulting Group. Specialist in AML-KYC controls

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Niklas Traub
Niklas Traub
MANAGING DIRECTOR, IID PARTNERS

Dr Niklas Traub is Managing Partner of IID Partners, an investment boutique with interests in biotech, oil exploration, software, semiconductors, media, music, digital content, and various other things. Niklas was a co-founder of Foundation Capital Strategies, a successful highly quantitative equity hedge fund based out of Bermuda. The founders spun off from Ross Capital Markets, at the time one of the largest hedge funds in the world. He was one of the founding hires at European Silicon Structures, an early pioneer in custom silicon chip manufacturing and one of the largest European startups of the era. Niklas has a Bachelors degree from the California Institute of Technology in Engineering and Applied Science with an emphasis on Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Following graduation, he was one of the first wave of hires at Microsoft, then a tiny software company on one floor of a bank building in Bellevue. He left to pursue a PhD in mathematical Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh.

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Fred Thiel
Fred Thiel
CEO & CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, LOCAL CORP

Fred Thiel is the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Local Corporation (NASDAQ:LOCM). He provides deep technology industry expertise, strategic advice on generating growth and shareholder value, acquisition strategy development and execution, and exit strategy development and execution. Fred is a frequent speaker and futurist in the areas of Internet marketing, Internet of Things, smart systems, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics and Big Data. Fred attended classes at the Stockholm School of Economics and executive classes at Harvard Business School and is fluent in English, Spanish, Swedish and French. Fred is a current member of WPO and former chapter chairman of the YPO California Coast chapter.

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