As authorities on data security technology and best practices, our executives are often invited to speak at conferences and to consult with the agencies that set today's compliance standards. To earn the trust of the Global 2000 companies that rely on Protegrity, we've assembled a senior management team comprised of:

Iain Kerr, President and CEO
Ulf T. Mattsson, Chief Technology Officer
Theresa McSpedon, VP Services
Timo Aittola, Chief Financial Officer
Kyle Pond, VP Sales Operations and Business Development


Iain Kerr, President and CEO
Iain, a senior business executive with a record of demonstrated success, joined Protegrity in April, 2008, bringing extensive domestic and international business experience in software and technology companies. Before joining Protegrity, Iain was Senior Vice President of Sales at Verid where he more than doubled company revenues before being acquired by RSA/EMC. As Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Sygate Technologies, he grew revenues over 100% prior to the company's acquisition by Symantec. Iain also served in various senior management positions in his fifteen year career at Hyperion.

Iain holds a degree in business and finance from De Montford University, Leicester, England.
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Ulf T. Mattsson, Chief Technology Officer
Ulf created the initial architecture of Protegrity's database security technology, for which the company owns several key patents in the areas of Encryption Key Management, Policy Driven Data Encryption, Internal Threat Protection, Data Usage Control and Intrusion Prevention. His extensive IT and security industry experience includes 20 years with IBM as a manager of software development, and a consulting resource to IBM's Research and Development organization in the areas of IT Architecture and IT Security.

Ulf holds a degree in electrical engineering from Polhem University, a degree in Finance from University of Stockholm and a master's degree in physics from Chalmers University of Technology.
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Theresa McSpedon, Vice President Services
Theresa joins Protegrity with over 20 years experience managing world-class services organizations. She joins Protegrity from Bristol Technology, where she was Sr. Director of Global Services. Previously Theresa worked at Flexi International and dotCOM Management Consultants.
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Timo Aittola, Chief Financial Officer
Timo joined Protegrity in January 2006 after being CFO of Mirror Image Internet, Inc., since 1999. He had previously worked as an executive in the financial sector holding positions with GE Capital, Vik Brothers Insurance Group and Kansallis-Osake-Pankki (Nordea Bank), and with engineering companies in Finland.
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Kyle Pond, VP Sales Operations and Business Development
Kyle joined Protegrity in August, 2004, bringing more than 18 years of enterprise software experience. Before joining Protegrity, Pond was vice president of corporate development at Conduit Internet Technologies where he was instrumental in generating a four-fold increase in annual revenues. Kyle also served as director of corporate development for Toronto-based Delano Technology and was a research director at Gartner covering the enterprise applications marketplace.

Kyle holds a degree in business administration from University of Rhode Island and holds an MBA in Finance from Sacred Heart University.
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