Our team
Valimail is a place where our people and culture are a paramount part of our success
Our team members come from various backgrounds, and we foster and celebrate thoughtful and creative ideas from wherever they emerge. We enjoy a highly-collaborative and high-velocity environment where our team members continuously grow and develop themselves.
Engineering
Valimail engineers get the opportunity to make a meaningful impact by improving on the core communications platform used by more than 3.8 billion people every day: Email. The engineering team are the builders of our amazing platform – exercising the craft of code in everything they create.
Product
Our product team is focused on enhancing and delivering our product and building on its value to our users. From managing product roadmaps, to producing quality design, to assessing our product impact to our users – our product team, in partnership with our engineering team, build our technology to great heights.
Marketing
Our marketing team is the core of developing presence for Valimail. From positioning & messaging, to digital programs, events, communications, sales enablement, and overall market awareness – our marketing team is critical to bringing awareness to the impeccable Valimail technology and the importance of what we do. Our marketing team is comprised of specialists from various industries who lend their unique abilities to making sure Valimail’s brand is powerful.
Customer Success
Valimail’s customer success team owns the full lifecycle of a client’s journey with Valimail. From when a prospective client is considering our technology, to when they’re onboarding and turning on our products for the first time, to making sure client needs are continuously met – our customer success team ensures each one of our clients get the most from Valimail and continues to be delighted.
Sales/BD
Our sales and business development teams are focused on getting our technology out to prospective clients and partners. They are specialists with our solution and align your business needs with our products and solutions. Our sales and BD teams are passionate representatives of our technology and strive to get our anti-phishing solutions to as many people as possible.
People Operations
Our people operations team owns the mission of ensuring our people are enabled to be their best, optimized with the right tools for success, and in an environment where they can flourish. The team comprises of recruiting, HR, IT, as well as facilities/office operations. The people operations team strives to be the heartbeat of the company and has a commitment to ensure all of our people are heard and well taken care of.
Leadership
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Alexander García-TobarCEO & Co-founder, ValimailAlexander García-TobarCEO & Co-founder, ValimailA serial entrepreneur and global executive, Alexander has been CEO at two previous firms and has run global sales teams for three companies that went IPO. He held analyst and executive positions at leading research companies such as The Boston Consulting Group and Forrester Research along with Silicon Valley startups such as ValiCert, Sygate, and SyncTV.
Peter GoldsteinCTO & Co-founder, ValimailPeter GoldsteinCTO & Co-founder, ValimailPeter is an MIT and Stanford trained technologist who has worked in a variety of software verticals including security, enterprise, email, and video. He has built products and teams at a number of large technology companies such as RSA Security and Perot Systems, as well as at small startups like Tout, Securant, and Swapt.
Seth BlankVP, Standards and New TechnologiesSeth BlankVP, Standards and New Technologies
Robert DunnChief Financial OfficerRobert DunnChief Financial OfficerRobert has nearly three decades of experience working with over a dozen technology companies. He has built the entire G&A function multiple times, advised startups from infancy, overseen a range of financing rounds as well as seeing firms through successful acquisitions four times, most recently VMware’s $375 million acquisition of Wavefront.
Elaine MakChief Advisor and VP of PeopleElaine MakChief Advisor and VP of PeopleElaine is a talent, engagement, and diversity executive with experiences at both for and non-profit organizations moving from start up to scale up. Her ability to strategically connect the employee and customer experiences has created significant momentum for organizations in the hospitality, education and hospital/health care industries. At Valimail, Elaine’s focus includes the company’s people and culture strategy plus serving as a strategic advisor to the executive team on business transformation. Outside of work, Elaine loves her family time with her husband and young daughter, and actively volunteers her time developing emerging leaders in the social sector.
Board of directors
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Alexander García-TobarCEO & Co-founder, Valimail
A serial entrepreneur and global executive, Alexander has been CEO at two previous firms and has run global sales teams for three companies that went IPO. He held analyst and executive positions at leading research companies such as The Boston Consulting Group and Forrester Research along with Silicon Valley startups such as ValiCert, Sygate, and SyncTV.
Peter GoldsteinCTO & Co-founder, ValimailPeter is an MIT and Stanford trained technologist who has worked in a variety of software verticals including security, enterprise, email, and video. He has built products and teams at a number of large technology companies such as RSA Security and Perot Systems, as well as at small startups like Tout, Securant, and Swapt.
John De SantisChairman and CEO, HyTrustJohn De Santis is a company builder with experience in networking, network operations software, data center infrastructure software, identity management, and security. He has over 30 years of experience in sales, marketing, software development, and general management at venture-backed technology start-ups as well as public companies.
Prior to HyTrust, he was VP, Cloud Services for VMware, Chairman & CEO of TriCipher (acquired by VMware), a venture partner and entrepreneur-in-residence at Trident Capital, and CEO of Sygate (acquired by Symantec).
Brian MeltonPartner, Tenaya CapitalBrian focuses on enterprise investments, including infrastructure and application software. He enjoys helping teams navigate the challenges they face as they build their companies. Brian co-founded Tenaya Capital, and prior to that was a partner at Lehman Brothers Venture Partners. Brian holds an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. from Wake Forest University.
Jason PressmanManaging Director, Shasta VenturesAs a Managing Director at Shasta Ventures, Jason is an active investor in enterprise cloud computing and mobility, commerce, open source software, SaaS, security and social networks. Jason is Shasta’s lead investor in and currently serves on the Boards of Valimail, CloudPassage, Glint, Leanplum, Nextdoor, Smule, and Zuora, among others. He is also responsible for numerous past investments with successful exits.
Prior to joining Shasta in 2005, Jason was VP, Strategy and Operations at Walmart.com, where he took the online retailer from zero to large scale revenue in five years.
Thomas KranePrincipal, Insight PartnersThomas is a Principal on the investment team at Insight and joined the firm in 2012. His focus areas include cybersecurity, DevOps, IT automation, cloud-enabling technologies and education technology. Thomas studied Astrophysics at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and earned his Masters degree in four years. He was recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 Venture Capitalist in 2019.