Management Team

Michael J. Boyd, CITP is the SVP of Customer Success, serving as the voice of the customer within SecurityScorecard. Michael guides the Customer Success, Professional Services and Technical Support teams that help customers efficiently manage risk for their organizations.Michael has over 20 years of experience in enterprise software and advisory services, specializing in professional services, solution architecture, application development, technical presales, and customer success. Prior roles include Customer Success leadership positions at Tanium and Pythian, global Professional Services leadership positions at NCR and Progress Software, and financial advisory roles at KPMG. Michael is a Certified IT Professional (CITP) and holds degrees from Long Island University and Bryant University.

Heather Fleming is the VP of Program Management at SecurityScorecard and is responsible for executing our strategic roadmap and implementing methodologies and processes to help accelerate team velocity. With more than 10 years in the technology industry focused on vision articulation and strategy execution, Heather focuses on agile principles and methodologies to enable teams to work smarter and more efficiently. Formerly featured in a Harvard Business Review study on Agile as a competitive advantage, she is an active speaker at many national conferences including Agile Alliance, Atlassian Summit, ADC East, Agile NYC, and Big Apple Scrum Day. Prior to joining SecurityScorecard, she held the role of VP of Product Delivery at Grubhub and VP of People Operations & Product Delivery for HBC Digital.

Alexander Heid serves as Chief Research & Development Officer at SecurityScorecard. Heid joined the company in June 2014 and has been instrumental in developing the company’s threat reconnaissance capabilities and building its security-centric platform. A recognized expert in the field, he frequently presents at industry conferences and is sought out by the media and analysts to discuss cybersecurity issues. Prior to joining the company, Heid held senior security roles within the financial industry, and was a senior analyst at Prolexic Technologies during the #OpAbabil DDoS campaigns. In addition, he is co­-founder and President/CEO of HackMiami and served as chapter chair for South Florida OWASP.

Matthew McKenna has over 15 years of experience commercializing emerging technologies in the supply chain management and cybersecurity space. Prior to SecurityScorecard, Matthew functioned as the Chief Operating Officer of SSH Communications Security, where he led large scale Fintech deployments in the areas of access control and cryptographic services. Matthew holds a BA in German Language and Literature and an MBA from the Helsinki School of Economics.

Pia McSharry is the VP of Sales Engineering at SecurityScorecard, responsible for leading the global sales engineering team supporting the revenue organization on technical solutions consulting for our customers and prospects. Pia has spent the last thirteen years working in cybersecurity start-ups, focused on hiring, developing, and scaling global teams. Pia spent many years as a technical solutions consultant, acquiring experience and knowledge in multiple security domains including vulnerability management, incident response, SIEM, penetration testing, compliance, and vendor risk management.

Charlie brings over 15 years of policy and regulatory experience to SecurityScorecard. Charlie comes to SecurityScorecard after 2 years at Signal Group, a bipartisan public affairs firm in Washington where he represented a variety of clients on issues ranging from child abuse prevention to cybersecurity to bringing more data science rigor to federal policy. Before that he spent almost a decade on Capitol Hill in policy and investigatory roles, ultimately serving as the Chief Policy Counsel for the Democratic staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee under Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO).Prior to his time on Capitol Hill, Charlie spent 3 years as an international trade attorney at Hogan Lovells, focusing on customs issues. Before law school, he began his career in a marketing partnerships group at the National Basketball Association before turning his attention to politics and policy and participating in the Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs in Los Angeles, CA. Charlie brings a lawyer's eye and a marketer's creativity to accomplishing SecurityScorecard's policy and regulatory goals. Charlie lives in Washington, DC with his wife and 2 children, but New York City, where he was born and raised, will always be home.

Prashant is the SVP and GM of Strategic Initiatives at SecurityScorecard. He has experience in building and growing organizations. Previously, Prashant has demonstrated leadership and excellence in building risk consulting into a multi-million dollar business.Prashant brings varied quantitative and qualitative risk management background spanning market, credit, operational, and cybersecurity risk. He has hands-on experience developing risk management systems as well as positioning these systems to senior management within financial institutions for wider adoption.In his current role, Prashant is actively working to help shape a cyber risk market, where an enterprise can measure and manage cyber risk both qualitatively and quantitatively and both parties to a cyber risk transfer transaction have transparency of data and insights.

Paul Salamanca is the Vice President of Global Accounts at SecurityScorecard. Paul Salamanca has over 16 years of sales and sales management experience. Paul has successfully scaled sales teams for some of the fastest growing startups. He was previously the Vice President of Enterprise Sales for vArmour, a hybrid-cloud security company in Silicon Valley where he was overseeing Sales Development, Commercial and Enterprise Sales teams across North America. Prior to that, he was at BitSight, where he was consistently among the top 1% globally in annual sales working with the company’s largest Fortune 500 customers and prospects.

Joe Santamorena serves as VP of Americas Commercial & SLED business and has a long history of leadership roles across Unisys, NetApp, and UiPath. He joined both NetApp (“99-“16) and UiPath (“18-“20) in their early years and played an influential role in helping both companies grow to be leaders in their respective markets. His leadership capacities included Commercial & Mid-Market, Global Financial Services, Strategic Products, Inside Sales and Renewal

Ryan is the VP of Cyber Threat Research & Intelligence where he oversees the threat research, collections, and intelligence teams. Prior to SecurityScorecard Ryan was at McAfee Corp where he led and contributed to nation state threat research and analysis. He is also the former Chief Corporate Evangelist at Panda Security, where he managed the US strategic response for new and emerging threats. Ryan is widely recognized as a security, intelligence expert throughout the country.

A former astrophysicist, Bob spent most of his career in the medical imaging sector where he served in executive leadership roles ranging from R&D Manager to CEO in a number of private and public companies. He has led R&D teams developing state-of-the-art CT, digital x-ray, and breast imaging systems, and a host of other imaging modalities. Confronting challenges in image analysis, pattern recognition and classification exposed him to machine learning techniques and led to his migration into Data Science. Bob holds a BS and PhD in physics from MIT and 11 US patents.

Nicole Stavroff is the VP of Worldwide Channels at SecurityScorecard, leading a complete relaunch of the Partner Program in FY20 while creating valuable relationships with new strategic partners. Nicole brings over 20 years of sales and channel experience and prior to joining the company, was the director of sales and business development at Kognetics. Nicole was also the senior sales director at CloudGenix, where she worked with Cardinal Health, Chipotle, Kroger and other large enterprise customers. Prior to that, she spent 13 years at NetApp, in a mix of different sales, sales leadership, strategy, channel and alliance roles and as the district manager of enterprise sales in the Ohio valley in her last position. She started her career at Oracle, where she managed $500 million and above accounts in both the financial and healthcare verticals.

Heidi Thompson is the VP of Revenue Operations and is responsible for the performance, strategy, and alignment of revenue operations at SecurityScorecard. Heidi oversees the operations of Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success departments, and ensures that the interaction between those departments is aligned with the larger company-wide strategy. For the last 13 years, she has specialized in scaling out systems, teams, and processes within hypergrowth companies. Prior to joining SecurityScorecard, Heidi worked at RapidMiner, Confer Technologies, Acquia, and Rapid7 in various operations leadership positions.

Mike Wilkes is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at SecurityScorecard. Wilkes is responsible for developing enterprise-wide security programs to protect corporate systems as well as growing and extending the SecurityScorecard platform to customers, executives, and boards of directors.Wilkes is a technology evangelist with experience reaching back to the earliest days of the internet and the birth of ecommerce (he and his team built, launched, and supported starbucks.com in 1998), Mike has been leading the digital transformation of globally renowned brands such as Sony Playstation, Macy’s, nVidia, KLM, and many others. Before joining SecurityScorecard, he was the VP, Information Security at ASCAP and the Director of Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, and DevOps teams for Marvel Entertainment.Mike has held leadership roles in financial services with hedge fund AQR Capital as Vice President in the Information Technology Group and prior to that as Manager of the Enterprise Server Platform for the CME Group. Earlier roles performed while living abroad in Europe saw him designing and hardening critical energy sector infrastructure for Nuon and RWE, authoring Rabobank’s first global trading technology vision document, creating the world’s first bank MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) as well as delivering a security audit of the euro printing facilities for Royal Johan Enschedé (founded in Haarlem, Netherlands in 1703) to renew their accreditation with the European Central Bank.Mike received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison and a Master’s degree from Stanford University. He is the author of Cisco Internet Applications and Solutions (Cisco Press, 2002) and joined NYU as an Adjunct Professor Teaching infosec to graduate students for the Computer Science and Engineering department.

Mike is VP of Data Analytics and is responsible for applying data science methods to corporate data to improve corporate efficiency and performance.Mike has spent a 20-year career analyzing, interpreting, and modeling data in different industries. He has published widely in academic journals and trade publications, spoken at many international conferences, and won the British Computer Society’s IT Award for Excellence. He has degrees from British and American universities and has patents in Europe and the US.

A former president of NASDAQ. Berkeley was a Captain in the 438th Military Airlift Wing and served as a Major in the USAF Reserve. He has testified before the Joint Committee on Economics of the US Congress, and before the House Science Committee, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the House Committee on Homeland Security. Served on the International Advisory Council for the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and is currently on the Board of Visitors of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and a Trustee of Hollins University. Al earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia and received his M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Karen is a Principal Interaction Architect who solves challenging interaction design issues for her clients, working to improve ROI and reduce risk on design investments.Her client work focuses on enterprise product design in the areas of Enterprise IT, cybersecurity, and device management. Karen’s clients include Google, VMware, T-Mobile, SecurityScorecard, Imprivata, ForAllSecure, and many startups. Karen is also an Advisor to Turivius (Sao Paolo), SecurityScorecard (NYC) and recently served for one year as an External Advisor to the Tufts University Department of Computer Science.Karen is an inventor on over a dozen software patents related to software user experiences. In 2002, she authored the first book linking business strategy to online user experience, published by McGraw-Hill in New York. Karen earned a MS from the MIT Media Laboratory in Cambridge, MA where her research focused on developing algorithms to define gesture languages. She also earned a BS in Computer Science from Tufts University in Medford, MA, and worked in the industry as a senior software engineer in Boston.Karen works with many different types of clients worldwide, from startups to established organizations. She collaborates closely with product teams to clarify requirements, envisions solutions, and quickly get to prototypes. A startup client CEO recently wrote about Karen’s consulting services: “Your work defines the category and allows us to accelerate at a pace that otherwise would simply not be possible.”

Joan Feigenbaum is the Grace Murray Hopper Professor of Computer Science at Yale University, where she also holds a courtesy appointment as Professor of Economics. She received a BA in Mathematics from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford. Between finishing her Ph.D. in 1986 and starting at Yale in 2000, she was with AT&T, where she participated broadly in the company's Information-Sciences research agenda, e.g., by creating a research group in Algorithms and Distributed Data, of which she was the manager in 1998-99.Professor Feigenbaum's research interests include security, privacy, anonymity, and accountability; Internet algorithmics; and computational complexity. While at Yale, she has been a principal in several high-profile activities, including the DHS-funded Pri-Fi Project, the DARPA-funded DISSENT project, and the NSF-funded PORTIA project. Her many service contributions to the research community include Program Chair of Crypto '91, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cryptology (1997-2002), Program Co-Chair of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (2004), Program Chair of the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (2013), Department Chair of the Yale Computer Science Department (July 2014 through June 2017), General Chair of the inaugural ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law (2019), and ACM Vice President (July 2020 through June 2022).Professor Feigenbaum is an Amazon Scholar, a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the AAAS, a Member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, and a Connecticut Technology Council Woman of Innovation. In 1998, she was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians. In May 2020, she won the Test-of-Time Award from the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy for her 1996 paper (with Matt Blaze and Jack Lacy) entitled "Decentralized Trust Management."

Martin Gedalin is the founder of Lumia Capital, an investment firm partnering with early-growth stage US category-leaders pursuing international markets and locally-dominant leaders across the fastest growing global markets. At Lumia, Martin is responsible for overseeing Lumia’s investments in OpenDNS (acquired by Cisco), Pagerduty (NYSE:PD), Procore, Greenhouse Software, and Kabbage, among others. Martin launched Lumia after four years at Focus Ventures, an IT venture capital firm in Palo Alto with $850M under management and 110 investments across three funds, where he helped lead the firm’s Internet and software efforts. Prior to Focus, Martin was a Product Manager at Oracle, where he was responsible for managing core components of Fusion CRM, a $1B+ product line. Previously, Martin was a management consultant at both Oracle and Siebel Systems, providing strategic recommendations across people, process, and technology domains to Oracle and Siebel’s top global customers. Martin began his career in Corporate Strategy at NCR Corporation after co-founding one of the earliest mobile advertising companies in 2000. Martin holds a BBA from Emory University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Grant Geyer has had a successful career as an operator in the cybersecurity industry for over 20 years. Currently, he oversees Claroty’s product management, engineering, and research organizations, and is responsible for the company’s product strategy and development. Prior to this, he worked as an Executive-in-Residence at Scale Venture Partners, where he assisted the firm in analyzing cybersecurity markets and ventures. Geyer held the role of Senior Vice President of Products for RSA, responsible for both traditional and SaaS product offerings. Before RSA, Geyer served as Vice President at Symantec, which he joined through its acquisition of Riptech. Earlier in his career, Geyer served as a Military Intelligence officer for the U.S. Army. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a M.S. in Engineering Management from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Moriah is a Global Chief Information Security Officer and risk executive acting as 2nd line CISO owning cybersecurity, fraud, data analytics & AI, data governance, physical security at BMO Financial Group, a multinational investment bank and financial services. She was formerly the Founder and Security Consulting Advisor of Vigilance Security, a security consulting firm serving Fortune 500 CISOs, CIOs and their businesses in the hedge fund, banking, insurance and technology space. Previously, Moriah served as a Chief Information Security Officer at several Fortune 500 companies, including Interpublic Group and Wells Fargo Capital Markets. In 2019, Moriah was named by Cybercrime Magazine as one of the top 100 Fascinating Women Fighting Cyber and has been recognized as ISE NorthEast CISO Executive of the Year. She is passionate about aligning and integrating values into her work. In order to bring in more diversity to the cybersecurity industry, she mentors female-led startups, is a sponsor of the ‘Year Up’ program which helps place young adult students into Cybersecurity careers and volunteers at her local daughter’s school as a Cybersecurity Girl Scout lead. She is a graduate of Harvard University's Executive Cyber Security Program and is a sought out thought leader at security forums such as FS-ISAC, FINRA, SINET and Bloomberg Publications and was the ISE NorthEast CISO Executive of the Year in 2017.

Before joining RapidMiner, Peter advised growth companies disrupting established markets such as Attivio, BlogTalkRadio, Ektron, Infomatix, Novus, NOPSEC, Reonomy, SecurityScoreCard and others as co-founder of Mister Wolf & Associates. Previously, Peter served as Executive Vice President of TIBCO where he was responsible for the Analytics/Big Data, B2B, Cloud, CXM and SIEM product groups. Peter joined TIBCO when it acquired DataSynapse, where he served as CEO and co-founder.Peter began his career as a strategy consultant for Deloitte International and as an investment banker for J.P. Morgan & Co.Peter earned an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School, an MA in International Affairs from The University of Pennsylvania and graduated AB cum laude from Harvard University. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Attivio and as an Independent Member of the Investment Committee of the Advanced Finance & Investment Group. He has previously served on the Boards of Ektron (acquired by Accel-KKR, merged with EpiServer) and Upwardly Global.

Marshall Lux has been a financial services consultant and practitioner for 30 years. He began his career at McKinsey where he served all manner of financial service firms across a variety of subsectors and functional areas. Lux led McKinsey’s and Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) private equity practice. He has extensive relationships across private equity firms. He left McKinsey after approximately 25 years to become the Chief Risk Officer for Chase (all consumer products globally) during the 2008 financial crisis. He then joined BCG, where he was a Senior Partner for 5 years, and in particular, helped build a private equity practice.Lux continues to be an active advisor to BCG. He sits on several private equity boards and advises companies ranging from consumer credit, wealth, insurance, and cybersecurity. Lux has a broad network of financial services C-suite executives with whom he has worked on some of their most important issues. He has also diligenced many of the largest private equity deals that have been done. Along with his client work, he has also done 35 probono assignments and has served on a number of not-for-profit boards, including the Harlem Children’s Zone, the New York Historical Society’s Chairman’s Council, the New York Tenement Museum, Junior Achievement, and Reading is Fundamental.Lux is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is active at the New York Historical Society. He was a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and he continues to do research there. He is also a Senior Advisor to the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation and a Senior Fellow to the Program on International Financial Systems, both at Harvard Law School. His overall writings have concerned the unintended consequences of Dodd-Frank on financial services. He has written papers entitled: “The State and Fate of Community Banking,” “What’s Behind the Non-Bank Mortgage Boom?” and “Out of Reach: Regressive Trends in Credit Card Access.” All papers have been cited in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, among others. In late 2017 he released a paper entitled: “When Markets Quake: The Past, Present, and Future of Online Lending.”Lux also teaches private equity at the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Business School. He has spoken broadly, including at the House Small Business Committee, the Federal Reserve, and various universities and trade groups. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Online Lending Policy Institute. Lux’s board, advisory, and academic work consume most of his time.Lux attended the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and graduated Summa Cum Laude. He also attended Harvard Business School where he was a Baker and Ford Scholar. He was the first person in his family to attend college.

Ray Mabus has been Secretary of the US Navy, Governor, Ambassador, and CEO.Ray Mabus served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Navy from 2009 to 2017, the longest tenure as leader of the Navy and Marine Corps since World War I. As Secretary during President Obama’s Administration, he revolutionized the Navy and Marine Corps, opening all jobs to women, aggressively moving to alternative energy as a warfighting measure, building more than twice as many ships during his term than in the preceding eight years, and developing the Gulf Coast Restoration Plan after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It was during his watch that Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden. Among many awards, he was chosen as one of the top fifty CEOs in America by GlassDoor, the only government person picked.From 1988 to 1992, Mabus served as Governor of Mississippi, the youngest elected to that office in more than 150 years. Mississippi experienced record growth in jobs, education, tourism, and exports.Mabus was United States Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 1994-1996 and was CEO of a public company from 2006-2007.Today, Mabus is a senior advisor to Google Ventures, a director of two public companies, and is a lecturer at Harvard Law School and an executive fellow at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Explorers Club. He has thrown out the first pitch at all 30 major league ballparks.Secretary Mabus is a native of Ackerman, Mississippi, and received a Bachelor's Degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Mississippi, a Master's Degree from Johns Hopkins University, and a Law Degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. Mabus served in the Navy as an officer aboard the cruiser USS Little Rock.

Glen Pendley is the Deputy CTO at Tenable. Glen has over 20 years of experience in software engineering and cybersecurity. Glen has held multiple senior roles at Tenable, including SVP and Deputy CTO, helping to lead them to a successful IPO. Prior to Tenable, Glen was the CTO at SecurityScorecard, he was also the Director of R&D and Product Management at McAfee for over three years. Glen started his career in the United States Marine Corps, where he spent four formative years honing his leadership skills.

Ken is the SVP of User Growth and Embedded Analytics at ThoughtSpot. Previously, he led the centralized User Growth and Analysis team at Google, where he’s focused on increasing user acquisition, engagement, and retention across all Google products and services. His team works with product teams across Google, providing analysis, best practices, tools, and services to optimize products and marketing campaigns for growth.Prior to Google, Ken built the Analytics organization at Facebook, which included both the data scientist teams and the data engineering teams. He led the organization to deliver high-impact analyses across all Facebook products to optimize Facebook’s products and overall business.Before Facebook, Ken was the VP of Analytics and Platform Technologies at Zynga, helping Zynga to become known for excellence in analytics, and helping to build the foundation for one of the world’s largest social gaming

A research fellow with MIT Sloan School's Initiative on the Digital Economy, Michael Schrage’s research, writing, and advisory work focuses on the ‘behavioral economics’ of models, prototypes, and metrics as strategic resources for managing ‘innovation risk’ and opportunity. He is the author of award-winning ’The Innovator’s Hypothesis’ [MIT Press 2014], ‘Who Do You Want Your Customers To Become?’ [Harvard Business Review Press 2012] and ‘Serious Play’ [Harvard Business Review Press 2000]. His next book, ‘Recommender Systems,’ will be published this year by MIT Press as part of its ‘Essential Knowledge’ series. He’s run design workshops and executive education programs on innovation, experimentation, and ’strategic measurement' for organizations all over the world.His pioneering work in ‘selvesware’ technologies - he coined the word - designed to augment aspects, attributes, and talents of productive individuals. Current research efforts examine the interplay of ’network effects’-driven innovation, such as recommender systems, and human capital creation for the enterprise. His work exploring the ‘future of KPIs,’ digital ‘performance management’ dashboards and machine learning - in collaboration with Google, McKinsey, and the Sloan Management Review – builds on that theme, i.e. what happens when 'essential metrics' become ’software agents.' This research – part of a global ‘Strategic Measurement’ initiative – is widely cited. These efforts have led to ‘future of workforce capability and design’ research in collaboration and co-sponsorship with Deloitte. He is particularly interested in the future co-evolution of ‘expertise,’ ‘advice' and human ‘agency’ as technologies become ‘smarter’ than the people using them. Consulting and innovation/experimentation/KPI clients have included Prudential, Pfizer, Microsoft, PwC, BASF, SNCF, ZF, Amazon, Mars, BT, Google, Raytheon, Edmunds, Embraer, among others. He’s conducted non-classified research for the U.S. Department of Defense [Office of Net Assessment] and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on cyber-conflict, complex systems procurement, and ‘other’ issues. Previously, a Merrill Lynch Forum Innovation Fellow, he founded and was executive director of its Merrill Lynch Innovation Grants Competition for doctoral students worldwide. An angel investor in several digital media and machine learning start-ups, he’s been a featured and top trafficked blogger on the Harvard Business Review site. His work has been published in the Sloan Management Review, Fortune magazine (where he was a columnist), the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Nikkei Asian Review, the CACM as well as other peer-reviewed publications.

Mr. Sparks currently serves as a Managing Partner for Interlock Partners. In addition, he is serving on the boards of both CommenSold, a SaaS platform enabling small businesses to power e-commerce via social media platforms and influencers, and Avid Budget Group, the car rental company. Sparks was the Chief Executive Officer and a director of Academic Partnerships, an online service provider for higher education, from 2016 to 2017. From 2011 to 2014, Mr. Sparks was the Chief Executive Officer of Travelocity Global. Mr. Sparks was also employed by Gilt Groupe, serving as its Chief Marketing Officer in 2009 and its President from 2010 to 2011. Prior to joining Gilt Groupe, Mr. Sparks served in a variety of leadership roles at Expedia Inc. from 2004 to 2009, including as Senior Vice President, Marketing and Retail Operations at Hotels.com from 2004 to 2006, Chief Marketing Officer at Expedia.com from 2006 to 2007, and General Manager at Hotels.com USA, Latin America & Canada from 2008 to 2009. Earlier, Mr. Sparks served as Vice President of Direct Business and Brand at Capital One Financial Corp., and also served in senior marketing and strategy roles at Guinness & Co., PepsiCo Inc., and The Boston Consulting Group. Mr. Sparks is a director of Dunkin’ Brands Group, Inc., which files reports pursuant to the Exchange Act. Mr. Sparks previously served on the board of Vonage Holdings Corp., which files reports pursuant to the Exchange Act. Mr. Sparks is also currently serving as a director of ActionIQ, Inc., an enterprise software company; Blue Nile, an online jewelry retailer; and Lucid, LLC, a market research company.

Rus Yusupov is an American product designer and entrepreneur whose businesses include Vine and HQ Trivia. Rus began his career as a digital product designer at various digital firms including Razorfish and R/GA, before founding his own design and engineering consultancy, Big Human, in 2008. Based in NYC, Big Human’s clients include Google, Facebook, TDAmeritrade, Compass, Time Warner, OKCupid, Urban Dictionary, among others. In 2012, Rus incubated Vine out of the Big Human offices and within months sold the looping, short-form video service to Twitter. Vine turned people into stars. It transformed the world of comedy, the music industry and cultivated popular memes. It was imitated by larger competitors and was the first app to launch a generation of short-form video apps. After three years of overseeing Product for Vine at Twitter, Rus teamed up with his Vine co-founder to create HQ Trivia – and almost overnight, the show began drawing millions of concurrent players, generating significant excitement around its fun, novel concept and simple design. HQ’s pioneering format and massive audience has drawn large advertisers including Nike, Warner Bros., Amazon, Wendy’s, Target, Chevrolet among others. Rus has received several industry recognitions, including a Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award, Variety Magazine Breakthrough of the Year Award, UJA Lydia Vareljan Leadership Award, PGA Digital VIP Award 2014, multiple Webby Awards and an Emmy Nomination. He is a graduate of LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and The School of Visual Arts, where he earned a BFA in Design. Rus lives in New York with his wife and daughter.