Meet Our Leadership Team, Board, and Investors

Sophie Shiatis

VP, Marketing

As Virtru’s SVP of Marketing, Sophie is responsible for the strategy and execution of all areas of marketing, including product marketing, brand, corporate communications, demand generation, and marketing operations. Sophie offers more than 20 years of experience as a Marketing Executive and Strategic Marketing Consultant. Prior to Virtru, and in addition to running her own consulting business, Sophie spent five years working in progressively responsible roles at Neustar, Inc. where she was responsible for developing and delivering scalable marketing programs as VP of Revenue Marketing. 

Sophie holds an MBA with a focus on E-Business from Johns Hopkins University in addition to a BBA in Marketing and a BS in English and Speech Communication from Radford University.

Dana Morris

VP, Product

As Virtru’s SVP of Product, Dana is charged with leading product strategy across Virtru and building out a world-class product management function. Dana brings more than 20 years of product management and product development expertise to Virtru. Prior to joining the company, Dana led product and engineering for the administration and business analyst tooling at MicroStrategy. Before that, Dana spent 19 years at IBM where he held numerous product roles, most recently owning the M&A and partnership strategy for the Watson Data Platform.

Dana holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from George Mason University.

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John Ackerly

Co-Founder and CEO

As CEO and Co-Founder of Virtru, John is proud to be helping millions of individuals and thousands of organizations take control of the information they store and share online. A longtime privacy advocate, John was responsible for technology policy at the White House and was the Policy and Strategic Planning Director at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Prior to co-founding Virtru, John was an investor at Lindsay Goldberg LLC, working with entrepreneurs to dramatically scale their businesses.

John graduated summa cum laude from Williams College, was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School with Highest Honors.

Will Ackerly

Co-Founder and CTO

Will is the CTO and Co-Founder of Virtru. Prior to founding Virtru in 2012, Will spent eight years at the National Security Agency (NSA) where he specialized in cloud analytics and security architecture—specifically protecting the agency’s in-house data transfers. During his tenure at the NSA, Will invented the Trusted Data Format (TDF), an open standard used today by various government agencies for the secure transfer of data and the technical foundation upon which Virtru was founded.

Will graduated magna cum laude from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

Jim Timmer

CFO

As Virtru’s Chief Financial Officer, Jim is responsible for creating and managing financial planning and accounting operations to ensure the company’s success as it grows rapidly. Prior to joining Virtru, Jim was the CFO at iSIGHT Partners, where he led financial operations through the company’s growth and acquisition by FireEye.

Jim holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Loras College and an MBA from Drake University.

Robert McDonald

SVP, Research and Development

Rob McDonald is Virtru’s SVP of Research & Development, overseeing the product, engineering, and platform teams. Rob has been with the company since 2013. Prior to Virtru, Rob was the CIO for several Acute Care facilities and Denovo Healthcare development teams. His significant expertise in the healthcare industry earned him a spot in Becker’s Review as a 2013 and 2014 Top 100 Healthcare CIOs. Rob has also consulted with corporations to help them assess their current information security position and develop a plan to not only mitigate the discovered technical shortcomings but more critically to raise security awareness amongst their employees.

Rob holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas and is a perpetual student of technology, information security, and privacy practices.

Renaud Perrier

SVP, International Business Development and Operations

As Virtru’s SVP of International Business Development and Operations, Renaud is charged with directing Virtru’s operations, product strategy, and technology partnerships in EMEA and APAC. Renaud brings more than 20 years of sales engineering, product management and partnership development expertise to Virtru. Prior to joining the company, he co-founded We Advocacy, and before that, was chief product officer at LumApps overseeing the collaborative platform provider’s product strategy and marketing. Before that, Renaud spent eight years at Google, where he developed its global ISV program and helped launch Google Cloud solutions in EMEA. Earlier in his career, Perrier held sales engineering positions at Microsoft.

Renaud holds a Master of Engineering degree in Robotics, IT, and Management, from École d’Ingénieurs en Sciences et Technologies du Numérique.
 

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