Leadership

Todd Davis

Chief Executive Officer

Todd Davis is a man who knows how to make people take notice. His efforts have been recognized with numerous regional and national business, consumer, and leadership awards, including:

• The 2009 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for Orange County/Desert Cities region for a Top Emerging Company
• CRM Magazine's Service Elite Award
• The Arizona Business Leadership Association's Leadership Award
• Arizona Business Journal's 25 Most Admired CEOs in 2009

He's been nominated three times for the American Business Award's Best Executive. And under his leadership, LifeLock was also honored with the 2010 Best New Product or Service of the Year Stevie^® Award for the LifeLock Identity Alert^® system. In 2009, the company received American Business Award's People's Choice Award for its TrueAddress^® service.

David Cowan

Partner Bessemer Venture Partners

David Cowan, a partner in Bessemer's Menlo Park, Calif. office, joined the firm in 1992. He has invested mostly in network technology, infrastructure SaaS, consumer Internet and data security. His current portfolio includes CrowdFlower, Delivery Agent, LifeLock, LinkedIn, Nominum, ReputationDefender, Smule, Tripwire and Zoosk.

More than 20 of David's startup investments have gone on to IPO. His historical portfolio includes: network- technology companies Ciena (IPO) and P-Com (IPO); Internet-infrastructure services such as PSI-Net (IPO), Keynote (IPO), Flycast (IPO) and Netli (acquired by Akamai); and consumer Web sites Hotjobs (IPO), Blue Nile (IPO) and Playdom (acquired by Disney). In 1995 David co-founded VeriSign as a Bessemer-funded spinout of RSA and served as VeriSign's initial chairman; his other data-security exits have included Counterpane (acquired by BT), Cyota (acquired by RSA), ON (IPO), Postini (acquired by Google), Tumbleweed (IPO), Valicert (IPO) and Worldtalk (IPO).

David received both his A.B. in math and computer science and his MBA degrees from Harvard University. The first Forbes Midas List ranked David among the world's top 10 venture investors. Follow David on Twitter, read his blog WhoHasTimeForThis?", his Startup Stuff for Entrepreneurs or his posts on Bessemer Investments. You can also see David perform with his men’s a capella singing group Voices in Harmony

Governor Tom Ridge

Former Secretary of Homeland Security and former Governor of Pennsylvania.

The Honorable Tom Ridge is the president and CEO of Ridge Global. As the company's chief executive, Ridge leads a team of international experts that help businesses and governments address a range of needs throughout their organizations, including risk management, global trade security, emergency preparedness and response, strategic growth, infrastructure protection, technology integration, crisis management and other issues that encompass a diverse portfolio.

Following the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, Tom Ridge became the first Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and, on January 24, 2003, became the first Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. During his tenure, Secretary Ridge worked with more than 180,000-plus employees from a combined 22 agencies to create an agency that facilitated the flow of people and goods, instituted layered security at air, land and seaports, developed a unified national response and recovery plan, protected critical infrastructure, integrated new technology and improved information sharing worldwide. Before the events of September 11th, Tom Ridge was twice elected Governor of Pennsylvania. He served as the state's 43rd governor from 1995 to 2001.

Born August 26, 1945, in Pittsburgh's Steel Valley, Ridge was raised in a working-class family in veterans' public housing in Erie. He earned a scholarship to Harvard, graduating with honors in 1967. After his first year at The Dickinson School of Law, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he served as an infantry staff sergeant in Vietnam, earning the Bronze Star for Valor, the Combat Infantry Badge and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. After returning to Pennsylvania and to Dickinson, he earned his law degree and was in private practice before becoming assistant district attorney in Erie County. He was elected to Congress in 1982. He was one of the first Vietnam combat veterans elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and was overwhelmingly re-elected by Pennsylvania voters five times.

Throughout his public and private sector career, Tom Ridge has received numerous honors, including the Woodrow Wilson Award, the Veterans of Foreign Wars' Dwight D. Eisenhower Award, the John F. Kennedy National Award, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the American Bar Association's John Marshall Award, the National Guard's Harry S. Truman Award, the Pennsylvania Wildlife Federation's Conservationist of the Year Award, U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce's Good Neighbor Award, the American Cancer Society's prestigious National Medal of Honor, the Mister Rogers Award, the Champion of Public Television Award, the Intrepid Freedom Award and the Esperanza Leadership Award. Secretary Ridge has also been awarded honorary degrees and awards from many national and international academic institutions.

Tom Ridge and his wife, Michele, have two children.

Chini Krishnan

Founder and CEO Vimo, Inc.

With over 20 years of experience in the high technology industry, Srinivasan "Chini" Krishnan is founder and CEO of Vimo Inc., a national leader in providing affordable health insurance to Americans. Chini also serves an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, where he focuses on the security and consumer Internet opportunities, with an emphasis on financial services. Before, Vimo, Chini founded Valicert Inc., a Bessemer-funded company and leader in communications security across the Internet. At Valicert, Chini held multiple operational roles, including CTO, and helped complete several acquisitions. Valicert went public in 2000 and ultimately merged with Tumbleweed Communications (NASDAQ:TMWD) in 2003.

Prior to founding Valicert, Chini was product-marketing manager at Enterprise Integration Technologies (EIT), where he was closely involved in releasing the world's first secure browser. Chini holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology and an M.S. in Computer Science from Duke University.

George Reyes

Retired Chief Financial Officer Google, Inc.

George Reyes served as the Chief Financial Officer of Google Inc., from July 2002 to December 31, 2008 and as its Senior Vice President from January 2006 to December 31, 2008. A seasoned finance executive with a wide range of experience at several well-known Silicon Valley technology companies, George joined Google from ONI Systems where, as interim CFO, he assisted in the sale of the optical networking company to Ciena Corporation.

Prior to ONI Systems, George spent 13 years at Sun Microsystems. During his years at Sun, he held a number of finance roles, including group controller, general systems; director of finance, intercontinental operations; audit director; vice president, corporate controller; and vice president, treasurer.

George holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of South Florida.

Gene Yoon

Managing Director Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Head of Private Capital Investing for Goldman, Sachs & Co.'s Americas Special Situations Group, focusing on middle market and growth equity investing. On behalf of the firm, Gene serves on the Board of Directors of Picis Inc., LifeLock, Viawest, Integra Telecom, DataPipe, and Business Records Management. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Gene was a Partner at Great Hill Partners, LLC, a private equity firm specializing in media/communications, technology and business services. Gene was formerly Director of Corporate and Business Development at Geocast Network Systems, a technology infrastructure provider backed by Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield and IVP. Prior to Geocast, he was in investment banking at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Gene has received both a B.S. in Economics and a Master's of Business Administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.