Anonos protects data in use anywhere – without conflict or compromise (aka drama) – so enterprises can use theirs to create more value. We understand the complex, global regulatory environment regarding privacy and security as well as data management disciplines and architectures.
Ten years of R&D have yielded unrivaled intellectual property for the unique and proven combinations of data protection techniques we deliver. Learn more about the Anonos team members here to help you dial down data risk while dialing up data utility.
Gary LaFever
Co-CEO & General Counsel
Ted Myerson
Co-CEO & President
Omar
Ali Fdal
Chief Data Scientist & Head of Privacy Research
Evgeniya
Panova
Head of Content
Mikhail
Dyakov
Chief Software Engineer & Head of Synthetic Software Engineering
Michael
Edholm
Head of Client & Partner Success
Magali
Feys
Chief Strategist, Ethical Data Use
Tobias
Gessner
Head of Human Resources
Mark
Little
Chief Data Strategist & Head of Engineering
Benjamin
Nolan
Director, Corporate Sales & Commercial Enablement
Steve
Prestidge
Chief Commercial & Innovation Officer
Joseph
Saad
Vice President, Americas
Jeffrey
Dobin
Vice President Sales - Americas
Mike
Washington
Vice President, UK Data Ecosystem
Steve
Badger
Vice President, Technology Partnerships
Jeff
Weishaupt
Head of
Product
Xander
Bouwens
Head of Channel & Alliances
Alastair
Williams
Head of Client Solutions
Our Advisors
Poornima
Ramaswamy
Prior Chief Transformational Officer at Qlik
Jules
Polonetsky
Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), CEO
Martin
Abrams
Information Accountability Foundation (IAF), Executive Director & Chief Strategist
Robert
Tetenbaum
Shipshape, Chief Marketing Officer
Jonas
Almeida, PHD
National Cancer Institute, Chief Data Scientist at Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics
Sandeep
Pulim
Biofourmis, Medical Director
Paulo
Pereira
Amazon, Director of Alexa Privacy
Meg Leta
Jones
Georgetown University, Assistant Professor
Michael
Waxman
Waxman Strategies, CEO
James
Jorasch
Founder, Science House and Model Meetings
Rita J.
King
Science House, EVP for Business Development
Howard
Kaushansky
Sovrn, Head of Business & Corporate Development
Steven
Mason
Liquid Patents & The Brand Mason, Principal
Molly
Maloof, M.D.
Physician Entrepreneur
Rebecca
Herold
The Privacy Professor®, Brainiacs, CEO & Co-Founder
Sean
Clouston
Stony Brook University, Associate Professor
Rye
Clifton
Multiplier, Chief Marketing Officer
John
Downey
Google Cloud, Business Development Manager
Andrew
Schulman
Software Litigation Consulting
Gary LaFever
Co-CEO & General Counsel
How would you describe yourself? A solutions-oriented futurist with a computer science and legal background. My 30+ years of technical and legal policy expertise enable me to approach data privacy and security issues from both perspectives.
What most excites you about Anonos? Our ability to address timely global data challenges facing data subjects, companies and governments. By leveraging unique technology and intellectual property, we unlock the full value of data.
Ted Myerson
Co-CEO & President
How would you describe yourself? An inventor and visionary who "sees what other people don't see" and who's keenly aware of what's necessary to convert inspiration and innovation into highly profitable and sustainable businesses.
What most excites you about Anonos? Leveraging our experience in data risk management to meet the challenge of maximizing data value. Now that we have a solution, we can provide significant value and protection to both individuals and industry. Anonos can restore and increase the value of data.
Steve Badger
Vice President, Technology Partnerships
Xander Bouwens
Head of Channel & Alliances
How would you describe yourself? An experienced, skilled and committed Channel & Alliances Manager with 20x years of experience supporting client data operations. With honesty and integrity, I build bridges within the partner ecosystem. I will never walk away from a challenge and will always do as much as possible to deliver the best possible solution for our customers.
What most excites you about Anonos? The partner ecosystem is more important at Anonos. We have legal advisories, technical consultancy, and technology partners all working on solving the same challenges with the Anonos Data Embassy solution in the middle.
With all the recent changes in the regulations, customers need to change. They need to have supplementary measures in place in order to process their data lawfully. I think we are at the start of a new IT revolution and Anonos together with our business partners will drive this as one of the market leaders and that excites me!
Michael Edholm
Head of Client & Partner Success
Magali Feys
Chief Strategist, Ethical Data Use
How would you describe yourself? I’m a hands-on tech lawyer and strategic advisor with a passion for innovation, data protection and cybersecurity. I love to bridge the gaps between technology founders, cyber-security professionals, risk-managers, business people and politicians to ensure that in a rapidly evolving society, a legal, as well as an ethical framework is provided.
What most excites you about Anonos? In an economy where data protection and compliance is increasingly considered a competitive edge, Anonos offers a unique technology that supports companies in their endeavours to achieve lawful and ethical secondary processing of data. I believe that Anonos is solving a real-world problem. It is the only player today that offers a solution that gives its clients the security and control over their data necessary to comply with international legal frameworks while also answering the many ethical and legal challenges that come with big data, artificial intelligence, and more broadly, the exchange of data in a trusted manner.
Mark Little
Chief Data Strategist & Head of Engineering
How would you describe yourself? An experienced and versatile leader with a passion for all-things data. I bring to our senior team a leadership style grounded in fact-based decision-making, evolving plans based on new data, and hiring and empowering exceptional talent.
What most excites you about Anonos? Businesses have never had such enormous opportunities to create value from data, nor faced a more pressing need to address data privacy, forces that are often in conflict. Anonos offers a unique and innovative solution that enables both.
Steve Prestidge
Chief Commercial & Innovation Officer
How would you describe yourself? An inspiring facilitator and problem solver who brings people together to find answers for forward thinking companies and individuals in the global data world. An astute listener and clear, quick thinker who filters through information given and finds smart solutions.
What most excites you about Anonos? These are exciting times for data use and having worked globally in the industry and seen first hand what large corporate enterprises are asking for, Anonos has created something really special and unique - a solution that enables all commercial use-cases with full data utility whilst preserving individual's privacy and managing this within all governing guidelines. There is a large well of opportunity locked within data and Anonos will unlock your company's potential ethically and lawfully.
Joseph Saad
Vice President, Americas
Mike Washington
Vice President, UK Data Ecosystem
Jeff Weishaupt
Head of Product
How would you describe yourself? Strategic thinker, experienced product leader and lifelong learner. I have a passion for "getting into the customer's world" and building solutions that solve real problems and pain points.
What most excites you about Anonos? In today's world, businesses are experiencing entirely new privacy challenges and demands from individuals to regulators. I believe Anonos is uniquely positioned to enable organizations to maximize their business value creation from data in a lawful, ethical and privacy-respectful way.
Alastair Williams
Head of Client Solutions
How would you describe yourself? A successful and entrepreneurial IT Architect, with a wealth of technical knowledge and experience along with a sustained record of success within fast-paced environments. An innovative strategist, with a demonstratable record transforming operations, developing effective teams and enabling my clients to capitalise on technology investments and deliver projects that maximise business value.
What most excites you about Anonos? Passionate about data privacy for over 15 years, most solutions in the market did little to embed data protection by default into business operations and simply promoted reactive short-term fixes to narrow focus issues. The team at Anonos recognised early that Privacy regulations globally were evolving, and a reactive approach would be hugely disruptive to data supply chains and ultimately unsustainable if corporate wide protections could not be enforced to the highest level yet still enable modern data operations. This visionary stance enables me to have truly strategic conversations with my clients. Embedding privacy and trust into data not only reduces risk but enables more use cases and delivers digital transformation faster as a result allowing me to demonstrate Privacy as an enabler rather than a blocker to innovation and success.
Jules Polonetsky
Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), CEO
How would you describe yourself? Advocate for responsible data practices.
What most excites you about Anonos? Innovative uses of data open up opportunities for incredibly useful advances in healthcare, environment - just about every facet of human life - but also create real risks of a future ‘Orwellian’ world destructive to the welfare of a free and open society. Anonos shows there are smart technical and policy solutions that can ensure we gain the benefits of new data uses while avoiding the risks.
Martin Abrams
Information Accountability Foundation (IAF), Executive Director & Chief Strategist
How would you describe yourself? Information Policy visionary and evangelist.
What most excites you about Anonos? Anonos makes effective controls possible that break the stalemate between responsible use and data obscurity.
Robert Tetenbaum
Shipshape, Chief Marketing Officer
How would you describe yourself? A nationally-recognized innovator in using data and analytics to create high value targeted marketing campaigns for the largest US financial institutions.
What most excites you about Anonos? Anonos’ experienced and knowledgeable team has a well conceived strategy and products that solve a massive problem facing all entities operating under GDPR prohibitions on data use and privacy protection. Awareness of the substantial legal and regulatory liability facing entities holding and analyzing consumer data is growing as corporate counsels, CEOs, CMOs and boards of directors become educated on GDPR’s prohibitions and fines for newly-defined abuses. Anonos has unique patents and regulator-approved products that eliminate legal exposure and give users an advantage in analytics supporting customer retention, cross-sell, and prospect acquisition. Anonos’ growth potential is intoxicating.
Jonas Almeida, PHD
National Cancer Institute, Chief Data Scientist at Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics
How would you describe yourself? I am a researcher in Biomedical Informatics at the intersection of Data Sciences and Pervasive Computing. Over the past 20 years, I've held faculty appointments from Biostatistics to Computational Pathology in Academic Medical Centers such as MD Anderson Cancer Center. Since 2015, I have served as Chief Technology Officer as well as a member of the faculty at Stony Brook University (SUNY). Accordingly, I am driven towards R&D framed by the technology intensive nature of modern healthcare, which is increasingly challenged by the need to articulate consumer-facing information systems capable of delivering what NIH labels Precision Medicine.
What most excites you about Anonos? Anonos is driven by a very early vision of data privacy and user-centric governance. This early vision, and the early stage dynamic de-identification technology development it enables, anticipates Web 3.0 infrastructure that is only now becoming available at scale. These solutions are critically needed to cope with a world awash by data streaming from a myriad of web-enabled devices and Big Data resources. This is what excites me about Anonos – they saw the need to govern sensitive data-driven ecosystems when they were mostly at an Academic conjecture. Anonos is now developing information and communications technology (ICT) that delivers solutions at scale, when most don't yet know their businesses will critically depend on such solutions.
Sandeep Pulim
Biofourmis, Medical Director
How would you describe yourself? Someone who is always asking questions and learning.
What most excites you about Anonos? Exciting opportunities in healthcare, primarily the ability to protect patient privacy and simultaneously add value directly back to the individual.
Paulo Pereira
Amazon, Director of Alexa Privacy
How would you describe yourself? A customer centric innovator that has spend his 20+ career with IBM and GE looking for new solutions to extract the maximum value of data.
What most excites you about Anonos? I believe data is driving the next wave of digital revolution. However, this revolution is impossible without automation to handle the intrinsic and complex technical, legal and compliance constraints. By enabling data protection by default, Anonos is enabling an important aspect of RegTech that increases the ability for companies like mine to de-risk this space.
Meg Leta Jones
Georgetown University, Assistant Professor
How would you describe yourself? I am a legal and technology scholar. I study the way different legal cultures interact with computational technological change.
What most excites you about Anonos? Anonos is exciting because it's driven by inspired and enthusiastic leaders. It's a company that provides an expansive and practical system for fostering trust, protecting privacy, and ensuring security in a dynamic policy landscape.
Michael Waxman
Waxman Strategies, CEO
How would you describe yourself? I'm an advocate for transformational change, continually striving to use my legislative know-how and communications skills to advance worthy causes and policy solutions.
What most excites you about Anonos? The founders of Anonos have not just developed a technical solution that artfully threads the needle of unlocking the power of data while protecting the privacy of individuals, they are genuinely committed to sharing their expertise to help guide the next generation of privacy policies.
James Jorasch
Founder, Science House and Model Meetings
How would you describe yourself? An inventor and entrepreneur at the intersection of people and technology, I enjoy working across domains to find hidden value in the connection between seemingly unrelated ideas. I'm excited about creating high-value businesses in a rapidly changing world, and finding new ways to make those businesses work and grow.
What most excites you about Anonos? I love working with experienced, highly energetic, successful entrepreneurs who are looking to make a significant, positive difference in the world. This isn't another social network. Gary and Ted's passion and refreshing originality are matched by a willingness to pioneer a path in the wilderness of the modern business landscape.
Rita J. King
Science House, EVP for Business Development
How would you describe yourself? I'm a futurist and strategist. I pay close attention to the inevitable arc of technology and human behavior and the choices organizations face within that framework. I enjoy navigating the many facets and layers of a complex system and identifying the key drivers for transformation in a rapidly changing world.
What most excites you about Anonos? The current split between data value and privacy is stifling progress, particularly when it comes to leveraging data sets that could result in healthcare advances. As the Internet of Things takes shape, I am excited by the promise of protecting individuals while the data we generate is mined for a kind of collective value we haven't yet begun to fully imagine – until now.
Howard Kaushansky
Sovrn, Head of Business & Corporate Development
How would you describe yourself? I'm a big data business geek. I love starting and building businesses around finding interesting things in large amounts of data.
What most excites you about Anonos? The explosion of data and affordable processing power has opened up unfathomable opportunities for good and for evil in big data analytics. To date opportunity has driven innovators to focus on the question "What can be done?" rather than "What should be done?" Anonos changes this paradigm. By delivering high value analytics while also providing unprecedented privacy and security Anonos has given us back a piece of our soul.
Steven Mason
Liquid Patents & The Brand Mason, Principal
How would you describe yourself? An intellectual detective who finds hidden problems in complex business and technical systems and innovates solutions intersecting across disciplines such as branding, communications, computer science, economics, psychology and patent law.
What most excites you about Anonos? How we transform privacy advocates and data marketers, former mortal enemies, into strong allies by overturning the conventional wisdom that more privacy means less data value. With Anonos, maximum privacy and anonymity mean maximum value from data. Everybody – individuals and marketing companies – wins.
Molly Maloof, M.D.
Physician Entrepreneur
How would you describe yourself? I am an endlessly curious, systems-thinking physician focused on building bridges between medicine and technology. I split my time between my medical practice and advising a variety of tech companies on clinical innovation strategy.
What most excites you about Anonos? I began digging into health care privacy and security after I learned about how digital health data is brokered. This is a real gray area that a lot of consumers do not understand. Understanding the complicated relationships between data and policy makes Anonos' solution particularly compelling. Anonos is making data available for different uses and is enabling compliance with state, national, and global policy. It's a win-win for everyone.
Rebecca Herold
The Privacy Professor®, Brainiacs, CEO & Co-Founder
How would you describe yourself? I am an information security and privacy entrepreneur and evangelist with two primary goals: 1) helping businesses of all sizes to establish more effective and efficient security and privacy practices, and 2) raising awareness and understanding of privacy and information security risks in the general public; encouraging everyone to demand that the organizations they do business with, and purchase products from, do the best job possible in protecting their privacy.
What most excites you about Anonos? I have been impressed with how Anonos has not only addressed privacy and security concerns with their solution, but how they've gone far beyond the typical approach to anonymization to make what is a truly innovative solution to a long-time problem that preserves data value while equally preserving privacy. I am also excited to find that Gary and Ted are just as passionate as I am about creating privacy solutions that address emerging privacy threats.
Sean Clouston
Stony Brook University, Associate Professor
How would you describe yourself? Fulbright Scholar, Social Epidemiologist, and Statistician. I use complex longitudinal modeling to answer new and interesting puzzles in the socio-medical sphere.
What most excites you about Anonos? Data security is a tough problem that desperately needs to be solved in a rapidly changing world. I think the solution that Anonos has is exciting. More important, though, their solution has clearly come around through their interest in providing a solution that cares about individuals and is responsive to policy-makers, but also seeks to forge a way to safely use that data.
Rye Clifton
Multiplier, Chief Marketing Officer
How would you describe yourself? I have a knack for simplifying complex issues, and solving problems in unorthodox ways. I've worked as a strategist and creative for some of the biggest brands in the world.
What most excites you about Anonos? We're about to embark on a new data economy. The possibilities for new thinking and new industries that open up once Anonos is in place is difficult to wrap your head around, but it is really exciting to think about. From medical research to retail transactions, Anonos is going to be an important part of our lives.
John Downey
Google Cloud, Business Development Manager
How would you describe yourself? Somebody who aspires to deliver thought leadership around data storage and data management technologies and their intersection with cloud computing. I seek out and inventory what the brightest data storage minds in the world have developed while creating go-to-market models that dramatically simplify the complexity of this ecosystem. I deeply appreciate the art of technology development, creation, and implementation.
What most excites you about Anonos? Two things: First, Gary and Ted have reset my expectations for how a team should be assembled and how a market opportunity should be attacked. Second, I can't wait to see how the world will apply Anonos to shape the future of data storage, data management, and data access paradigms.
Andrew Schulman
Software Litigation Consulting
How would you describe yourself? I've been a software developer for several decades, specializing in code reverse engineering. This led first to work as an expert witness and consultant in connection with software, trade secret and patent disputes, then to becoming a lawyer, with an LL.M. in intellectual property. My work has included research for the Privacy Foundation's Workplace Surveillance Project, and a co-authored peer-reviewed paper demonstrating problems in the code for a web anonymizing service.
What most excites you about Anonos? Anonos's principals, Gary LaFever and Ted Myerson, approach data privacy, security and data value by welcoming critiques, nit-picking, "what-ifs?," and "what-abouts?". I work as a "devil's advocate," combining my technical background and legal education, to help test, challenge and validate select Anonos initiatives. I am excited about their genuine desire to deliver real-world solutions to real-world data privacy, security and value problems.
Omar Ali Fdal
Chief Data Scientist & Head of Privacy Research
Mikhail Dyakov
Chief Software Engineer & Head of Synthetic Software Engineering