About Truedomain
We started the company with the recognition that phishing has become a serious threat, and more importantly, that until now, there wasn’t a good solution to combat email-based phishing.
We’ve put together a top-notch team of people who know how to ship products, build businesses and solve problems and are all singularly focused on ridding the planet of phishing. Sure, that’s a big task, but that’s why we’re here.
Robert Pickup
Founder & CEO
As CEO of Truedomain, Robert provides the overall strategic direction for the company, as well as the vision behind the company’s current and future product portfolio.
Robert has been a founder and entrepreneur in the internet and email security space since 1995, having established several successful Internet start-ups including Creative Access (acquired by Sausage Software) and Agentarts (acquired by Fast Search & Transfer). Robert founded Bluebottle Solutions in 2002 to develop antispam and antiphishing technologies. In 2003, Robert led the development of Trusted Delivery, a lightweight email authentication framework designed to eliminate email spoofing and to establish a simplified approach to identify email from legitimate and trustworthy senders.
Most recently, Robert founded Truedomain Inc in early 2009, to further the evolution of Trusted Delivery into a standards based framework to enable email authentication between domain owners and email receivers to provide a foundation for effective antiphishing protection.
Robert has been actively involved with the Australian Internet Industry Association, SpamJam, Online Trust Alliance (OTA), and the Message Anti Abuse Working Group (MAAWG).
Andrew Steele
Co-Founder & COO
Andrew leads the go-to-market activities for Truedomain, including developing Truedomain’s network of email receivers, domain owners and strategic partners, along with product marketing, product management and communications. Prior to Truedomain, Andrew was the Founder & CEO of the Steele Consulting Group, a practice he founded to provide executive leadership and hands-on business development consulting services to clients in the consumer web, digital media and advertising sectors. As Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Terayon Communication Systems, Andrew helped lead a successful turn-around of its digital video platforms business highlighted by triple digit revenue and stock price growth, and ultimately acquisition by Motorola. As Vice President of Sales and Business Development at MetaTV, Steele delivered the company’s first revenue and forged strategic alliances with marquis cable, satellite and media companies, leading to acquisition by Comcast. Earlier, Andrew led strategic business development initiatives for WebTV and Microsoft, and held various business development and finance roles at MCI Communications, Pratt Industries and Johnson-Yokogawa Corporation.
Andrew received his Bachelor of Business Administration with Honors in International Finance and Marketing from the University of Miami and his MBA, magna cum laude, from Georgia State University. He has been a featured speaker at top industry conferences including CES, Digital Hollywood and Broadcast Asia, and has been published in leading digital media, broadcast and consumer technology publications.
Bjorn Jorde
VP of Engineering
Bjorn leads all software development, architecture and QA for Truedomain. He brings two decades of management and hands-on development experience delivering complex commercial enterprise software products into high volume, 24x7 operations.
Prior to joining Truedomain, Bjorn spent ten years at Tumbleweed Communications, most recently as the VP of Engineering. While at Tumbleweed, Bjorn led software development, hardware, QA and tech pubs teams for Tumbleweed’s entire product portfolio, including it’s well respected Email Security line. During his tenure, he not only shipped numerous award-winning products, but also successfully implemented Agile development throughout the organization, led an 80+ person international development organization, and successfully integrated engineering teams and product lines from two Tumbleweed acquisitions. Prior to Tumbleweed, Bjorn held software engineering and team lead roles at TCSI Corporation, Intergraph Corporation and the Norwegian Telecom Research Department.
Bjorn received both his Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Bob Sutterfield
VP of Network Operations
Bob is a seasoned IT leader, focusing on very large scale service delivery operations - often known as Cloud Computing - and is responsible for building, deploying and managing the infrastructure and operations that deliver Truedomain services. Prior to joining Truedomain, he led engineering programs and interdisciplinary teams for global services at Google, Tellme, Cheap Tickets, and Mission Aviation Fellowship. He builds the technologies, processes, and teams for revenue-facing production services, where users expect high availability and high performance, and businesses demand low drama and low cost. He has consulted with various Silicon Valley firms who are launching into the Clouds, and drives IT best practices into international non-profits.
Bob is a Big Ten sort of guy, a product of Northwestern University (Evanston IL) and The Ohio State University (Columbus OH). He is a motorcyclist and an instrument-rated private pilot, and teaches both bicycling traffic skills on the street, and sports car high performance driving on the racetrack
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