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
Robert founded the company in 2009 and was responsible for the original product vision that provided the basis for the services the company brought to market and sells today. Robert continues to provide the vision behind the company’s strategy, products and services and also spearheads technical integration work with email receivers, ISPs and distribution partners, and represents the company in key industry organizations and standards bodies including the Messaging Anti Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) and the Antiphishing Working Group (APWG).
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.
Bjorn Jorde
VP of Engineering
Bjorn leads all software development, architecture, QA and IT 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.
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Kenneth Lopez
Director, Sales & Business Development
Kenny leads all customer acquisition efforts for Truedomain, including direct inside & outside sales, as well as managing the company’s reseller channel partners. WIth over 17 years of start-up company sales and sales management experience, Kenny brings critical leadership, skills and networks to drive revenue for the company.
Prior to Truedomain, Kenny was a driving force in several successful sales teams that helped build companies like Remedy Corp (IPO), BayStone Software (acquired by Remedy Corp), IPivot Inc. (acquired by Intel Corp), Proofpoint, Inc., and Mendocino Software (acquired by Symantec). Prior to making the move to sales leader, Kenny held sales engineering and systems engineering positions at Sun Microsystems and ELXSI Corp. Kenny earned a B.S. Computer Science from California State University, Hayward.
Steve Seike
Principal Engineer
Steve is the senior software development engineer for Truedomain and has driven the design and implementation of many of the software components, particularly in areas involving database design, high volume data processing, scalability and performance tuning. He has three decades of experience in software development and management with a focus on high availability Cloud deployments.
Prior to joining Truedomain, Steve ran a successful software engineering consultancy focused on developing web/database applications. He spent five years at Satmetrix, which provides cloud-based customer satisfaction and loyalty solutions, most recently as VP of Engineering. While at Intuit, he led the development of Quicken.com’s web-based bill presentment and payment service and worked on both domestic and international online banking projects. He held both senior individual contributor and team lead roles at EO and led the electronic mail development team at Convergent for many years. Steve established his “rocket scientist” credentials early in his career, developing experimental solid rocket fuels at United Technologies Corporation.
Steve received a B.S. in Chemistry with high honers from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
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