Leadership Team
TeleSign invests first and foremost in people. Learn more about the background and achievements TeleSign's leadership team.
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Steve Jillings Chief Executive OfficerSteve Jillings — serial entrepreneur, epicurean, travel adventurer — has a successful track record of growing start-ups and growth stage companies to highly profitable ventures, creating employee and shareholder value. As an experienced executive, Jillings is recognized for building strong leadership teams, fast-tracking company growth, and creating products and services that provide true differentiation. |
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Charles McColgan Chief Technology OfficerCharles McColgan — software hero, tech wonk, general over-achiever — McColgan spearheads the technical development, operations, and long-term vision of TeleSign. He brings 20 years of industry experience including 10 years of experience creating and operating SAAS solutions used by thousands of enterprises in the security and messaging space. |
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Matt Hardy Chief Financial OfficerMatt Hardy — finance guru, proud Cavalier King Charles Spaniel owner, handyman master — has a successful record of working with small tech companies, raising profits and guiding them to acquisition. He brings over 15 years of industry experience working in both the finance and technology sectors. Hardy is recognized in the field for building company’s market capital while substantially increasing shareholder value. |
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Forrest Hobbs Vice President, SalesForrest Hobbs — global sales driver, outdoor enthusiast, proud father — has led cloud software sales teams worldwide and achieved successful results through shared vision, teamwork, diligence in execution and customer focused innovation. Hobbs brings fifteen years of Sales, Marketing and Business Development experience to TeleSign, the last ten focused on building direct and partner sales organizations for cloud security and productivity software businesses. |
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Dean Nicolls Vice President, MarketingDean Nicolls — marketing innovator, aquatics dude, family guy, is a reigning marketing guru bringing more than twenty years of experience leading Cloud-based services. As VP of Marketing, Nicolls executes on the communication and marketing strategy for TeleSign, enhancing brand equity, building channel excitement and global awareness. He builds on two decades of experience, leading successful market development, defining competitive differentiation, as well as launching new products and services. |
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Darren Berkovitz Co-founder and Vice PresidentDarren Berkovitz — cinema enthusiast, high-tech junkie, and laugh practitioner — has an instinct for identifying great ideas and the business savvy to turn them into profitable companies. As a co-founder and Vice President of Business Development, Darren identifies and develops strategic partnerships and accounts, executes company wide strategy, and evangelizes TeleSign within the industry. He also oversees TeleSign's intellectual property strategy and secured a granted Patent for PhoneID (Patent No. 7,945,034) with several other pending patents. |
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Ryan Disraeli Vice President, Fraud ServicesRyan Disraeli — idea architect, grill master, sports fanatic — brings an entrepreneurial savvy to his role of directing the marketing and client services organizations. Disraeli draws on his experience in technical business management, professional services program deployment, as well as marketing and launching new products in the Internet security and telephony industries. |
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Max Powers Vice President, Client ServicesMax Powers — avid kickboxer, proud bulldog enthusiast, and client maven — brings decades of knowledge and expertise leading Client Services for international technology companies. Directing TeleSign’s Client Services Team, Powers brings her extensive background and experience to the management team where she is developing the strategic objectives required to ensure outstanding service for TeleSign’s growing client and partner roster. |
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Craig Whitney Vice President, EMEACraig Whitney — keen golfer, gadget addict, long-time suffering NY Mets fan — is a veteran of the IT industry in Europe. With his extensive experience, Whitney has a reputation for building successful technology companies in the EMEA region. |
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Stacy Stubblefield Co-founder and Vice President, Product StrategyStacy Stubblefield — globetrotting technologist, internet criminal profiler, ultimate fraudster denier — builds on two decades of experience conceiving and building internet companies. Stubblefield drives TeleSign's product strategy and identifies opportunities for innovation. |
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Terry Somers Vice President, Network OperationsTerry Somers — wanna be golf pro, dog person, Da Bears fan — brings more than three decades of experience managing worldwide networks for industry-leading technology enterprises, Somers is no stranger to the demands of supporting mission-critical enterprise application services. In his role at TeleSign, Somers oversees all network operations and is responsible for providing clients with a reliable and consistent experience by keeping the systems running smoothly and efficiently around the clock. |
