About

Dr. Ellison Anne Williams is the Founder and CEO of Enveil, the pioneering Privacy Enhancing Technology company protecting Data in Use. Building on experience leading avant-garde efforts in the areas of large-scale analytics, information security, and machine learning, Ellison Anne founded the startup in 2016 to transform how and where data can be securely and privately leveraged to unlock value. Enveil’s award-winning ZeroReveal® solutions are deployed and operational at scale helping global organizations securely utilize data across silos and organizational, jurisdictional, and security boundaries.

A mathematician by training, Ellison Anne leverages her deep technical background to advocate for the impact and advancement of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs). She has raised $40M in venture funding to cultivate and deliver Enveil’s capabilities for use cases ranging from cross-jurisdictional data usage to Secure AI. In addition to her ongoing contributions as a thought leader and mentor, Ellison Anne has been honored as a Business Insider Cybersecurity Leader, SC Media Reboot Leadership Innovator, EY Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, and a Cyberscoop Leet List Honoree. She started her career in the U.S. Intelligence Community and holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics (Algebraic Combinatorics), a M.S. in Mathematics (Set Theoretic Topology), and a M.S. in Computer Science (Machine Learning).

With experience in leading engineering efforts at institutions such as the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Ryan Carr’s fields of expertise include large scale analytic systems, distributed algorithms, artificial intelligence, game theory and social learning, and applying cloud computing techniques to simulate and analyze complex interactions among large numbers of autonomous agents. His research in these areas has been published in highly competitive venues such as Proceedings of the Royal Society, AAAI, and AAMAS. Ryan holds a PhD/BS in Computer Science.

With a background in strategic communications and emerging media, Lisa Bader is passionate about telling technology stories in a way that connects, engages, and inspires action. Lisa previously served as Senior Vice President of External Affairs at In-Q-Tel where she led communication strategy and outreach to IQT’s key audiences in the government, venture capital, and startup communities. Prior to IQT, Lisa worked in crisis communications where she was responsible for helping Fortune 500 clients respond to media coverage, interpret opinion research, and understand the impact of pop culture on consumer trends.

Chris Tallent serves as Enveil’s Vice President of Sales, leading all efforts relating to the company’s DoD, FedCiv, and Intelligence business. He oversees the Sales team and is responsible for business strategy, revenue generation, and successful execution of growth.

Chris joined Enveil in May 2023 from L3Harris where he most recently served as Program Director and General Manager of the USSOCOM business with Broadband Communications Systems. In this role, he advanced business strategy and financial performance while executing growth and driving product development through the voice of the customer. Chris led a diverse group of program managers and business developers charged with overseeing a portfolio focused on resilient communications, ISR products, and development programs.

Chris’s experience also includes managing DoD, Commercial, and International Sales teams with Cubic Corporation’s Rugged IoT business where he was focused on delivering baseband communication systems across the DoD and foreign military organizations, as well as radio gateway solutions in the state and federal spaces.

Chris started his career with eight years in the U.S. Air Force where he served as a communicator supporting joint special operations around the globe. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from American Military University and an MBA from the Haslam College of Business.

As Chief of Customer Success, Steve leads the post-sales delivery efforts across Enveil's global customer base and is responsible for product deployment as well as ongoing engagement with our diverse collection of end users. He believes in a consultative approach to customer success; his goal is to work collaboratively with Enveil's customers to ensure our business and mission-enabling capabilities meaningfully solve their greatest challenges. Leaning on his deep technical and program management background, Steve helps ensure that Enveil’s ZeroReveal technologies are optimized to best address the customer’s specific needs relating to use case, data source, and deployment environment.

Steve joined Enveil in 2020, initially leading efforts primarily supporting U.S. Intelligence Community and Department of Defense customers. He transitioned into his current role in early 2023. Prior to joining Enveil, Steve spent more than a decade consulting to the U.S. Government, working in the areas of advanced technology research, cyber, and intelligence.

With over 20 years of leadership experience in sales, marketing, and executive management at the CEO level, Tim Eades has deep expertise in driving high growth for computing, security and enterprise software companies. Tim joined vArmour as CEO in October, 2013. Prior to that, he was the CEO at Silver Tail Systems from March, 2010 until the company was acquired by RSA, the security division of EMC in late 2012. Prior to leading Silver Tail Systems, Tim was CEO of Everyone.net, an SMB focused SaaS company that was acquired by Proofpoint. Tim has also held sales and marketing executive leadership positions at BEA Systems, Sana Security, Phoenix Technologies and IBM. Tim holds advanced degrees in business, international marketing, and financial analysis, primarily from Solent University in England.

Bob founded Allegis Capital in 1996 after a successful career as a serial entrepreneur. In founding Allegis, Bob’s mission was to build a seed and early-stage venture firm that would combine operational experience with an entrepreneurial spirit and a focus on forging true partnerships with portfolio companies to build successful and sustainable cybertechnology companies. Bob has been recognized as a Fortune 100 cybersecurity executive and also as one of “CyberSecurity’s Money Men”. As an entrepreneur, Bob was the President and CEO of UniSoft Systems, a global leading UNIX Systems House and the Founder and Chairman of InfoGear Technology Corporation, a pioneer in the original integration of web and telephony technology and creator of the original iPhone. Outside of Allegis, Bob teaches New Venture Finance in the MBA program at the University of California, co-manages his family’s small Napa Valley winery – Ackerman Family Vineyards, and enjoys fly fishing.

A three decade security and intelligence professional, Iain spent the last ten and a half years of his career in the top two leadership roles at the UK's largest intelligence and security agency, GCHQ. In this period he pioneered an integrated service of intelligence and security in domains as varied as cyber defence; counter terrorism; military campaigns overseas; and the prevention and detection of serious crime.

His reputation is of a transformational leader and he was credited with repositioning GCHQ externally, seeing and grasping the opportunity to radically re-shape GCHQ’s role for the cyber security era. He is a proven leader through crisis, providing powerful leadership internally, strong reassurance for partners at home and overseas, and evidenced assurance for UK Ministers.

He spearheaded the execution of the UK's first two national Cyber Security strategies, forging strong partnership between government and industry, and developing substantive links with international partners. After retiring from public service at the end of 2014, he was asked by the Australian Prime Minister to be a member of the five person expert panel advising on the creation of Australia’s first Cyber Security Strategy. Thereafter he acted as one of the senior three person team conducting the 2017 Independent Review of the Australian Intelligence Community, commissioned by the Australian Prime Minister.

He is an operating partner at C5 Holdings, the investment company specialising in cyber security, data analytics and cloud. Elsewhere his advisory work for boards spans cyber security risk management and financial crime compliance. He is a Visiting Professor at King’s College London; and an Honorary Fellow of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge.

He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in the UK’s 2013 New Year Honours, having previously been made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the UK 2006 Honours. In 2014 the United States Government presented him with the National Intelligence Distinguished Public Service Medal for extraordinary contributions in support of the intelligence community.

Paco Rivera is Assistant Vice President, Corporate Development at USAA. He executes and oversees venture capital investments in support of USAA Bank and enterprise efforts and leads due diligence for acquisitions and divestitures. Paco currently serves as a board member for Enveil and Gridspace and as a board observer for ID.me. He previously served as board member for Robin (acquired by Rakuten), Narrative Science (acquired by Salesforce), board observer for MindMeld (acquired by Cisco), ObserveIT (acquired by Proofpoint), and ClickSWITCH (acquired by Q2 Holdings) where USAA realized successful exits. He currently holds the NACD (National Association of Corporate Directors) Directorship Certification.

Paco has led financial planning and analysis teams in Corporate Finance and USAA Bank since joining in 2011. He previously held corporate finance and strategy roles at Verizon, Merck & Co., Banco Popular de Puerto Rico and Bank of America. Key efforts include support for the 2011 Terremark ($1.4B) and 2007 Cybertrust ($450M) acquisitions, and for the launch of the Verizon Digital Media Services business unit. Paco began his career as an analyst covering Telecommunications for Bank of America Securities. He held the Series 7 and 63 licenses.

He holds a bachelor's degree in Finance from the University of Puerto Rico and an MBA from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.