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SILVER TAIL SYSTEMS
Official Website: http://www.silvertailsystems.com
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Location: USA HQ: 1010 El Camino Real, Suite 300, Menlo Park, California 94025 USA

UK Office: 4 Lombard Street, London, EC3V 9HD UK

Founded: 2008
Business: SaaS, Big Data Real-time Analytics, Forensics,Integration
Contact
Phone: +1 650.649.0120 USA +44 (0)20-7190-2900 UK
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Background

Silver Tail Systems was co-founded by a NSA researcher and funded by the CIA's In-Q-Tel, as well as other investors.

Silver Tail Systems has been acquired by EMC, between $300 million and $400 million, [1] to accelerate RSA's strategy to leverage data analytics and adaptive risk-based controls. [2]

"Silver Tail Systems, Inc. provides predictive analytics for detection and prevention of fraud and abuse to Websites worldwide. It offers on-premise and software-as-a-service based detection and mitigation solutions to protect e-commerce, financial, government, and Web 2.0 Websites, as well as other sites that give access to finances or personal information.

The company provides Forensics that enables organizations to manage and report on the performance histories of security logic by deploying reporting and security logic to every single page of a Website; and Mitigation, a rules engine that allows Website owners to make changes to the business logic flows of the Website. In addition, it offers Junction Master that provides users with visibility and control of their customers’ Web sessions that are currently going directly to their third parties; and Profile Analyzer, a product that provides real-time analysis of individual user behavior and crowd behavior on Websites to identify malicious activity online.

"Silver Tail Systems is the leader in real-time Web Session Intelligence and behavioral analysis. Silver Tail Systems provides software and SaaS solutions to protect ecommerce, finance and government organizations from cyber attack, cybercrime, and fraud." - Silver Tail Systems -

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"The Silver Tail Systems platform collects and analyzes massive amounts of real-time data from web traffic to provide web session intelligence. Web session intelligence delivers complete visibility into all web and mobile application traffic, which powers the behavioral analysis engine. The behavioral analysis engine creates heuristics and rules to detect anomalies, IT security threats, fraud, insider threats, business logic abuse and other malicious activity."

Real-Time Detection and Visibility - "Forensics monitors all clicks and HTTP data in every web session, providing complete web session intelligence context in real-time. Forensics instantly identifies criminal behavior and alerts your cyber crime and fraud analysts, who can quickly change website flows to thwart bad actors in real-time, saving valuable engineering resources and avoiding impact to legitimate users."

"Mitigator uses targeted rules to instantly detect, alert, and communicate those events out to other network devices. This can allow for blocking of IPs and users that Silver Tail Systems identifies as malicious, including Denial-of-Service, site scraping, horizontal password guessing, or other attacks worthy of instant blocking with targeted rules. You can use our API to prompt suspected bot-like activity with CAPTCHA or strong authentication mid-session.

Mitigator is a plug-in orientated architecture that allows for integration and real-time action with your existing infrastructure including web servers, network devices such as firewalls and load balancers, case management systems, SIEM and more."

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People Responsible

Board Members

  • * Timothy Eades, CEO


  • Pete Sinclair,

Managing Director Leapfrog Ventures

Mr. Pete Sinclair is a Director at Leapfrog Ventures. He founded Leapfrog Ventures in 1999. Mr. Sinclair has over 20 years of senior operating and venture capital experience. At the firm, Mr. Sinclair has invested in 12 companies, had four exits with an IRR in excess of 30%, and has only had one of his companies fail. He has been the Chief Executive Officer of and successfully sold companies to Microsoft, Novell, and Adobe Systems and has participated in two IPOs.

Mr. Sinclair started his career with Hewlett-Packard and joined Apple Computer. He has raised money from and worked for some of the top venture capital firms.

Mr. Sinclair served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Intrinsa Corporation. He was recruited by the venture capitalists to turn around this three-year-old venture that had spent $16 million in venture funds but was far from meeting expectations. In less than a year, Mr. Sinclair successfully turned it around and sold it to Microsoft for a significant gain for all of the venture investors.

Prior to this, he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Smart Valley. Mr. Sinclair’s major accomplishments at Smart Valley include raising $110 million, increasing the percentage of networked Silicon Valley classrooms from 17 percent to 82 percent in less than a year, procuring and distributing 9,000 Internet ready PCs to selected visionary teachers and worked with local businesses and governments to develop showcase Internet applications such as on-line voter guides and electronic building permitting.

Before Smart Valley, he arranged and negotiated the sale of Mastersoft to Frame/Adobe for more than double the founder’s financial objective. Previously,

Mr. Sinclair served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Software Transformation, Inc., which he successfully sold to Novell. He also worked as a Venture Capitalist for Burt McMurtry at Technology Venture Investors (TVI) and held senior marketing and sales executive management positions at Software Publishing Corporation, Apple Computer and Hewlett-Packard.

He has been a Director of Contactual, Inc. since April 2006. He serves as a Director of Global Analytics, Inc., iVentster, Inc., Leapfrog Ventures, Leapfrog Ventures Fund I, L.P., Leapfrog Ventures II, L.P., Vast.com, Inc., Certive Corporation, Ace Metrix, Inc., Cloud9 Analytics, Inc., Like.com, RedSeal Networks, Inc., Peanut Labs, Redseal Systems, Inc., IronKey, Inc., Krillion, Inc. and Silver Tail Systems, Inc.

Mr. Scinclair served as a Director at FastScale Technology Inc., Striva Corporation, Compass AI Inc. and Interactual Technologies Inc.

He served as a Director of Compassoft Corporation.

He served as Member of Investor Advisory Board at Golden Capital Network.

He is just finished a second term as a Mayor and is twice elected member of the Town Council.

Mr. Scinclair received a B.S. in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he completed his studies in three years and graduated in the top 10 percent of his class. He is also a Graduate of Stanford Business School’s Executive Program for Small Company President.


  • Thomas "Tom" McNeight, Consultant, Software and Security Industries

Mr. M. Thomas McNeight, Tom serves as Consultant of Software and Security Industries. Mr. McNeight serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of GuardedNet, Inc. He served as Vice President, Field Operations of Internet Security Systems, Inc. (ISS) from July 1996 to February 2001, where he was responsible for building the field operations. Prior to ISS, he served as Vice President of Sales at TSW International, Inc. Prior to TSW, he served as Vice President of Sales and then President and Chief Executive Officer of Aurum Software Inc. He is a software and security technology veteran. He held executive and sales management positions at Management Science America, Dun & Bradstreet Software, John Harland Company and CNA Insurance. He was employed for more than 30 years in various sales, sales management and executive management positions with technology and service companies, including Principal in the Complex Sale from December 1995 to August 1996. He has been a Director of Trusted Network Technologies Inc. since January 23, 2007. He served as a Director of Firstwave Technologies Inc. He serves as a Director of vmSight. He serves as Director of Silver Tail Systems, Inc. He serves on the boards of SecureWorks, Inc. He served as a Director of VistaScape Security Systems Corp. and Extreme Logic, Inc. He served as a Director of ForeScout Technologies, Inc. since March 2002. He served as a Member of Advisory Board of SPI Dynamics Incorporated. He was a Commissioned Officer in the United States Army serving in Europe and Southeast Asia. Mr. McNeight holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Oklahoma State University and an M.S. in Management Information Sciences from Texas Christian University.


  • Scott Weiss, General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Mr. Scott Weiss is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Mr. Weiss is also a Venture Advisor at Allegis Capital. He served as the Vice President and General Manager of Security & Technology Business Unit at Cisco. Mr. Weiss served as the Chief Executive Officer, Vice President and General Manager at IronPort Systems, Inc., co-founded it in 2000 and serves as a Director at the firm. As the Chief Executive Officer, he established the company as the leader in email security and directed the company through its successful acquisition by Cisco. After the acquisition, Mr. Weiss advanced inside Cisco to lead Cisco's Security Technology Business Unit, developing the vision and strategy for integrating reputation-based security into existing products. He was one of the early team members at Hotmail. At the company, Mr. Weiss was responsible for all partnership and revenue generating business development efforts. It was this experience at the company that helped him identify the emerging business opportunity that would later evolve into IronPort Systems. After Hotmail's acquisition by Microsoft, Mr. Weiss led a business development team at Microsoft with the MSN division. He left Microsoft to pursue new start-up opportunities. Mr. Weiss developed a concept in the e-commerce space, and pulled together the core team to incubate the idea. In the process of seeking funding for the concept, he met with leaders of the Venture Capital industry, and ultimately resulted in Mr. Weiss joining idealab! as a Managing Director and Entrepreneur in Residence. At the firm, he met Mr. Scott Banister, and their combined experience germinated into IronPort. Previously, Mr. Weiss had been a consultant at McKinsey & Co. Mr. Weiss also served at EDS as a Group Manager. He has been a Director of Bluebox since June 19, 2012. He is a Director of Quirky, Inc., Silver Tail Systems, Inc., Jumio Inc., Platfora, Inc., and has been a Director of Solera Networks, Inc., since September 1, 2009. Mr. Weiss holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, a B.A. from the University of Florida, both with Honors and graduated of the EDS management training program.


  • Tim Dick, General Partner, Startup Capital Ventures (Board Observer)

Mr. Timothy W. Dick is a General Partner at Startup Capital Ventures. He is the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Adama Materials Inc and Interim Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of Dali Wireless (Beijing) Co., Ltd. A serial entrepreneur, Mr. Dick was the Founder, President, and Director of Grassroots, co-founding Grassroots.com in 1999. He founded WorldPages.com in 1995 and served as a Founding Chief Executive Officer at the firm. Previously Mr. Dick served as a Principal of Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where he led Chief Executive Officer-level strategy consulting work on a global basis with significant work in transportation, oil and gas, nuclear generation and electric utility industries along with key groups like the Electric Power Research Institute and also led client engagements on a global basis including the transportation industry. Before joining BCG, Mr. Dick worked with Booz Allen Hamilton in San Francisco and London. He served as a Senior Engineer for Beckman Instruments, where he developed systems, software, and custom integrated-circuit technology for medical electronics. Mr. Dick also developed first electronic speech synthesizer for use in hospital intensive care units and the world's first medical and scientific instrument-on-a-chip. As such, he is a Director or Advisor to several of the firm's investments including Silvertail Systems, RadioTime, TagArray, and Suturenetics. Mr. Dick serves or has served as Chairman, Board Member or Advisor to numerous companies including TRUSTe, Accept.com, Affinity Engines, and WorldPages. He served as a Vice Chairman of Hawaii Superferry, Inc. Mr. Dick founded Hawaii Superferry in 2001. A believer in social responsibility, he has an energy conservation foundation - usehalf.org. Mr. Dick is an Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Hawaii. He is a Founding Board Member of Reef Check Hawaii and an active Member of the Hawaii Venture Capital Association. Mr. Dick also co-founded TRUSTe.org. He holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California where he founded the UCI Cycling Team.


  • Mike Eynon, Co-Founder and CTO (shared seat)

Mike Eynon Co-founded Silver Tail Systems, Inc. and serves as its President and Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Eynon served as the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering at Silver Tail Systems, Inc. Mr. Eynon has substantial experience in building fraud detection and prevention tools for some of the highest traffic and fraud targeted websites on the internet. Prior to Silver Tail Systems, he served as a Senior Risk Manager at PayPal and a Senior Engineer of Trust and Safety at eBay. His roles at PayPal and eBay put him in the technology center of fighting electronic crimes of phishing, pharming and spoofing. Mr. Eynon also spent time in the business units making decisions about how fraud negatively affects the business and where simple adjustments in the page flow can prevent bad behavior. Prior to eBay, he worked in engineering roles at Brio, SAS, and IBM and ran his own consulting company. He serves as Director of Silver Tail Systems, Inc. Mr. Eynon graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obisbo (CalPoly). He is a licensed pilot.


  • Laura Mather, Ph.D., Co-Founder & Chief Visionary

Ms. Laura Mather, Ph.D is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer of Silver Tail Systems, Inc. Ms. Mather serves as Senior Scientist of MarkMonitor, Inc. She serves as Managing Director of Operational Policy for the Anti-Phishing Working Group, where she drives internet policy to fight electronic crimes of phishing, pharming and spoofing. Ms. Mather served as Vice President of Product Marketing/Product Strategy of Silver Tail Systems, Inc. She spent three years in fraud prevention and anti-phishing at eBay, one of the brands most targeted by fraudsters on the internet. She served as Director of Research and Analysis for the online division of Encyclopedia Britannica, and a research analyst for the National Security Agency (NSA). She is a worldwide expert in combating internet fraud and a sought after speaker, published author and expert witness on the topic. She serves as Director of Silver Tail Systems, Inc. She has spoken at IRS and Federal Trade Commission events in addition to many security conferences and events. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics, both from the University of Colorado.


  • Srivats Sampath, Director

Mr. Srivats Sampath serves as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director at Grokr Inc. Mr. Srivats Sampath is an Executive-in-Residence U.S. Venture Partners. He is based at the firm’s Menlo Park office. Mr. Sampath is also employed at IdeaToaster. Mr. Sampath is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor who brings over 20 years of management, investment and technical experience. An experienced leader, he has run large corporations and organizations, as well as conceiving, funding and building successful start-up companies. He uses his sabbatical to conduct independent research into the cognitive web. Most recently, Mr. Sampath was the Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer at Mercora Inc. He previously served as Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer at McAfee.com. Mr. Sampath built the company into one of the largest and most successful subscription-based SaaS security services for consumers and small-to-medium sized businesses. He orchestrated a successful initial public offering in December 1999 as well as the successful merger of McAfee.com with Network Associates, which has now become McAfee Inc. in October 2002. Prior to McAfee, Mr. Sampath was the Vice President of Product Marketing at Netscape Communications, and was the Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer at Discussions Corporations. He also served in executive-level capacities for Central Point Software and as the Chief Architect of Intel's LAN Enhancement Operations. Mr. Sampath started his professional career by co-founding Mecon which was subsequently acquired by GE. He is also an active investor and Director. Mr. Sampath currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Voltage Security. His past and current investments and Directorships include, Web Trends, Source Next, Cadabra, Covalent, Tripwire, Determina, and Real Image. Mr. Sampath holds a number of patents (9 issued and 3 pending) in areas of information security, the delivery of software-as-a-service, and contextual Internet advertising. He has delivered keynote addresses at world-leading financial forums and industry events such as COMDEX and Networld+Interop, and has appeared as a regular guest on major television networks such as CNN, CNBC, CNN|fn and Bloomberg. Mr. Sampath received his B.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from Madras University, India.


Management Team

  • Timothy Eades, CEO

With over 17 years of leadership experience in sales, marketing, and general management, Timothy Eades has deep expertise in driving high growth for computing, security and enterprise software companies. Prior to leading Silver Tail Systems in its current stage of hyper-growth, he was CEO of Everyone.net (acquired by Proofpoint) where he led the company to record growth and profitability.

Tim has also held sales and marketing executive leadership positions at BEA Systems, Sana Security, Phoenix Technologies and IBM. Timothy holds advanced degrees in business, international marketing, and financial analysis, primarily from Solent University in England.

  • Paul Farmer, CFO

Paul Farmer is responsible for financial planning, accounting, treasury, legal and infrastructure. He has over 30 years of experience working with growth-oriented companies, Wall Street and the venture capital and PEG communities.

Prior to joining Silver Tail Systems, Paul was CFO for Narus, Inc., which was acquired by The Boeing Company. He has served as CFO in the software, services, internet and telecommunications industries. Paul is accomplished in conducting extensive negotiations with large international companies in the U.S., Europe, Canada, India, the Middle East and Japan.

Paul began his career as a CPA with Price Waterhouse where he was a Senior Audit Manager with the emerging technology group.

He received his MBA from the University of Chicago and his Accounting degree from the University of Illinois. He enjoys spending time with his family, volleyball, fishing and being a referee for youth soccer in Danville, CA.


  • Laura Mather, Ph.D, Co-founder & Chief Visionary

Laura Mather, Ph.D. is a worldwide expert in combating Internet fraud and a sought after speaker, published author and expert witness on the topic. She has spoken at IRS, Federal Trade Commission and Merchant Risk Council events in addition to many security industry conferences and summits. Following the work she's done with Silver Tail Systems since the company's inception in 2008, Fast Company ranked Dr. Mather #16 on their annual list of "The 100 Most Creative People in Business" for 2012 and Business Insider named her one of the "25 Powerful Women Engineers in Tech". She is also the Managing Director of Operational Policy for the Anti-Phishing Working Group, where she drives Internet policy to fight electronic crimes of phishing, pharming and spoofing.

Prior to co-founding Silver Tail Systems, she spent three years in fraud prevention and anti-phishing at eBay, was a Director of Research and Analysis for the online division of Encyclopedia Britannica, and also spent time as a research analyst for the National Security Agency (NSA).

Laura holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics, both from the University of Colorado.


  • Mike Eynon,Co-Founder and CTO

Mike Eynon brings substantial experience in building fraud detection and prevention tools for some of the highest traffic and fraud-targeted websites on the internet.

Before co-founding Silver Tail Systems, Mike managed payment risk at PayPal, as well as fraud policy at eBay. Prior to these roles, Mike worked as an engineer for Trust and Safety at eBay where he built some of the industry's very first real-time fraud fighting tools for websites.

Prior to eBay, Mike worked in engineering roles for Brio, SAS, and IBM and ran his own consulting company.

Mike has a B.S. in Computer Science from California Polytechnic State University. Mike is a licensed pilot and enjoys anything that involves adrenaline.


  • Nick Edwards, VP Markets and Products

An industry veteran with considerable security, networking and SaaS expertise, Nick Edwards is responsible for marketing and product management initiatives across Silver Tail Systems.

As the former Director of Product Management and Marketing at Cisco Systems, Edwards led the team responsible for the IronPort Email Security product line, cloud security services, intrusion prevention systems as well as technical publications and training. He arrived at Cisco via the acquisition of IronPort Systems, where he served as Product Manager for the industry leading Email Security Appliance from product launch to a $300 million dollar run-rate.

Edwards formerly served as a submarine officer on Los Angeles Class submarines in the US Navy.

He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Systems Engineering from the United States Naval Academy.


  • Paul Gacek, VP of Engineering

Is a leader with an extensive track record of success and delivery in the security and networking space, Paul Gacek brings over 30 years of insight, lessons and drive to Silver Tail Systems.

Since 2006, Paul led the successful growth of the Juniper's NetScreen products along with leading the software engineering teams to deliver the groundbreaking Juniper SRX product family. His career includes leading teams to deliver BorderManager, Novell's first firewall, proxy cache and VPN solution, internet Commerce solutions at VeriFone and as leader of Canon's US R&D center established amongst many things, the application of security to imaging products as a new product differentiator for Canon.

Raised in the UK and with a BSc in Computer Science from Newcastle University, Paul's interests are varied and wide including travel, photography, hiking, history and amateur radio.


  • Eric Newman,VP of Business Development and International Operations

Eric serves as Silver Tail System's Vice President of Business Development and International Operations where he is responsible for expanding into new markets, both geographically and by industry segment. With more than 15 years of leadership experience in sales, market development and general management, Eric brings deep expertise in driving high growth.

Before Silver Tail Systems, Eric spent several years at Phoenix Technologies where he was General Manager and Vice President Sales for Americas and EMEA. Throughout this role, Eric was successful in bringing innovative security technologies to the global Enterprise and consumer markets through the world's largest PC and handset manufacturers. Additionally, Eric has led the global sales efforts for both private and public companies such as TrustedID and BDMetrics in such areas as security, wireless, business analytics, and core system software, including his own company, LawConnect, Inc., which was acquired in 2000 by Sinar Mas Group.

Eric holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Francisco and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona. Eric is a member of the State Bar of California.


Investors

Total of $22.1 million in venture capital to the company, prior to being sold to EMC for between $300 million and $400 million.

" In-Q-Tel has also invested in Silver Tail Systems, a security firm that identifies suspicious behavior online. Silver Tail co-founder Laura Mather, a former research analyst for the National Security Agency, says In-Q-Tel gives her company the CIA's seal of approval and helps her sell to federal customers."

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