Leadership Team
HYPR is led by an experienced team of technologists, security experts and business leaders. They work closely together to empower our company, protect our customers and achieve our vision.
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George Avetisov
CEO
George AvetisovCEO
George Avetisov is Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer of HYPR, responsible for strategy and execution of the company's vision. George sets forth the product and technical direction of the company, architects sales and marketing strategies, and works closely with team leads to build strong company culture. Under George’s leadership, HYPR has grown to become a leading provider of decentralized authentication with millions of users secured across the globe. Named Forbes 30 under 30 in 2018, George brings with him a decade of experience in e-commerce, digital payments, and fraud prevention that have served as the foundation for HYPR’s vision.
Bojan Simic
CTO
Bojan SimicCTO
Bojan Simic is the Chief Technology Officer and Cofounder of HYPR. Previously, he served as an information security consultant for Fortune 500 enterprises in the financial and insurance verticals conducting security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and penetration testing. Bojan has a passion for deploying applied cryptography implementations across security-critical software in both the public and private sectors. His extensive experience in decentralized authentication and cryptography have served as the underlying foundation for HYPR technology.
Roman Kadinsky
COO
Roman KadinskyCOO
Roman Kadinsky, CFA is the Chief Operating Officer and Cofounder of HYPR. Roman is responsible for HYPR’s day-to-day operations and works closely with employees, partners and clients to deliver on the company’s mission of enabling true password-less security. Roman is also responsible for all aspects of finance, control, legal affairs and human resources. Prior to cofounding HYPR, Roman worked at Goldman Sachs in a variety of roles including Securities Sales and Equities Management as well as Market Risk for the Investment Management Division.
Seth Robbins
Chief Revenue Officer
Seth RobbinsChief Revenue Officer
Seth Robbins joined HYPR in 2018 as Chief Revenue Officer where he is responsible for HYPR field operations, customer success and global go-to-market. Seth previously served as Vice President of WW Field Operations responsible for sales and all field operations including pre-sales and post-sales support at Fireglass (acq. Symantec for over a quarter of a billion dollars). Prior to Fireglass, Seth held the position of Vice President of Sales, NA East & EMEA for Bromium, Inc., a pioneer in isolation for defeating end user based advanced threats by leveraging hardware isolation. Before his tenure at Bromium, Seth won numerous awards for successfully executing a series of increasing responsibilities at RSA Security.
Michael Porzio
VP Engineering
Michael PorzioVP Engineering
Michael Porzio serves as the Vice President of Engineering at HYPR overseeing the company's infrastructure, server, mobile, hardware and design teams. His professional experience includes private sector technology for over 14 years including work at Lockheed Martin, Goldman Sachs, and Venator Solutions. Throughout his career, Michael has been charged with protecting sensitive institutional and national secrets requiring US government issued security clearance. In all of his positions, Michael takes an active role in the work of systems automation while maintaining the highest levels of user privacy protections and information access gateways.
Sean Connolly
VP SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, NA
Sean ConnollyVP SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, NA
Sean Connolly is the Vice President of Systems Engineering, Americas at HYPR where he oversees Western Hemisphere SE activity. Prior to his tenure at HYPR, Sean worked at SecureAuth Corporation where he held increasing responsibilities as a Sales Engineer, Customer Solutions Specialist, and Identity and Access Management Sales Director. Sean brings to his role a wealth of technical and customer service expertise, especially in IAM and authentication, adding immense value to interactions between HYPR's internal teams and customers.
Kevin Turner
VP SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, EMEA
Kevin TurnerVP SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, EMEA
Kevin Turner joined the HYPR team's London, UK office upon the company's 2018 expansion to EMEA, as the company saw demand for password-less authentication solutions accelerated by GDPR and PSD2 requirements. Kevin has over 25 years in sales and engineering roles at Oracle, Sun Microsystems, RSA Security, and most recently Okta, where he built and directed the systems engineering operation in Europe. Kevin's career has allowed him to undertake a variety of responsibilities which require a strong combination of consultancy and technical depth.
Nicholas Donofrio
Board
Nicholas DonofrioBoard
Nicholas Donofrio is a Board Director at HYPR. Nicholas was the Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology at the IBM Corporation until 2008. With 4 decades of experience bringing advanced technologies to market, Nick works closely with HYPR leadership to guide and execute the company's vision. Nick has served on numerous Fortune 500 boards including those of Bank of New York Mellon, Liberty Mutual, Delphi, AMD and many more.
Alice Lloyd George
Board
Alice Lloyd GeorgeBoard
Alice Lloyd George of RRE Ventures is a board member at HYPR. Alice loves working with entrepreneurs on the frontier of innovation and helps RRE invest in emerging technologies including the blockchain, machine intelligence and computer vision, robotics, virtual and augmented reality, and NewSpace. She appears regularly on Fox Business, was Forbes 30 under 30 (2016) and Marc Andreessen calls her "one of the unknown rockstars in tech."
Kirill Sheynkman
Board
Kirill SheynkmanBoard
Kirill Sheynkman is a Board Director at HYPR and the founder and Senior Managing Director of RTP Ventures. Kirill is a 25-year software industry veteran, who has spent 10 of those years as a CEO of software startups. He is a three-time founder of venture-backed enterprise software companies, including an early relational OLAP vendor acquired by IBM in 1995 and Plumtree Software (NASDAQ: PLUM), the creator of the corporate portal market, acquired by BEA/Oracle in 2005. Kirill's companies were twice backed by Sequoia Capital where he was also an Entrepreneur in Residence. Kirill also held sales, product management, and business development positions at Oracle and Microsoft.
Ed Sim
Board
Ed SimBoard
Ed Sim is a board member at HYPR. Ed is founder of boldstart ventures, an enterprise seed fund which has invested in over 50 startups in enterprise infrastructure. He loves to work with engineering driven founders with a laser sharp focus on product. Over 20 yrs has led many seed and first rounds and helped a number of entrepreneurs successfully scale from seed to market leader including big data pioneer Greenplum (sold to EMC, now Pivotal), LivePerson (Nasdaq: LPSN), GoToMeeting (acq. by Citrix) and many others.
Jim Robinson IV
Board
Jim Robinson IVBoard
Jim Robinson IV is a Cofounder of RRE Ventures and a Board Director at HYPR. Jim has been active within the technology community for over thirty years, and has led investments in and served on the boards of more than forty technology companies. His core focus is on businesses that are transforming industries by leveraging network effects, intelligence and decentralization. Jim has been recognized on the Forbes Midas List of Top 100 VC's, as well as Institutional Investors' Top Fintech Investors.
Ed Chyau
Board
Ed ChyauBoard
Edward is a board member at HYPR and Managing Partner of Mesh Ventures. He helps startups succeed by working closely alongside founders and connecting them with global strategic partners—predominantly in the electronics and semiconductor industry. His multidisciplinary engineering background and experience working with a wide gamut of technologies allow him to guide teams through the process of developing and commercializing cutting-edge products.JOIN MILLIONS OF USERS SECURED BY HYPR
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