SignaCert Management Team

Wyatt Starnes
Founder and CEO

Wyatt Starnes has spent more than 30 years in high technology, with eight different startups. He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SignaCert, Inc., a software company focusing on integrity verification for commercial and government enterprises. In addition, he is the Cofounder of RAINS (Regional Alliances for Infrastructure and Network Security), a nonprofit public/private alliance formed to accelerate development, deployment and adoption of innovative technology for homeland security.

Prior to SignaCert, he was the Founder, President and CEO of Tripwire, Inc, the world's leading provider of change auditing software. Starnes has also held executive and director positions for Infinite Pictures, Eclipse Technologies, Trisys, Megatest, Data General Corporation, Monolithic Memories and Maruman Integrated Circuits.

Mr. Starnes is a former member of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Visiting Committee on Advanced Technologies (VCAT) and a member of the Oregon Executive Council of the American Electronics Association (AeA). He also sits on the board of Comprehensive Intelligence Technology Training Corporation (CINTT) of Annapolis, Maryland and the Advisory Board of Applied Identity, San Francisco, California.

Amal Chaudhuri
President, Chief Operating Officer

Amal Chaudhuri has a deep understanding of the intersection between technology, asset management, and finance on a global scale. Mr. Chaudhuri is the former CIO of Citigroup and Managing Director of Global Systems and Architecture at JP Morgan. Heis widely regarded as a corporate IT visionary and served as an advisor to SignaCert prior to joining the executive team.

While at Citigroup and JP Morgan, Mr. Chaudhuri was responsible for development and implementation of technology strategy, enterprise application development and infrastructure, and overseeing a large global organization. In addition to executive roles at Citigroup and JP Morgan, Mr. Chaudhuri was a Managing Director at Bankers Trust and a Division Manager at Teknekron Software Systems.

Mr. Chaudhuri holds advisory and board roles with a number of startups and their associated venture capital firms. He graduated from Vassar College with a degree in BioPhysics and Computer Science.

Paul Nadeau
CFO, VP of Operations

Paul Nadeau has over 25 years' experience and has held management positions in companies ranging in size from Fortune 50 to start-up. Nadeau has worked as a CFO-to-go for over seven years for various start-up companies, including Tripwire Security Systems, Inovise Medical, Step Technology, Infinite Pictures (aka iMove), Learning.com, and others. During this time, he has managed all aspects of a finance group. Nadeau has also worked for W.R. Grace, Computervision, and Sequent Computer Systems in planning, budgeting, and corporate finance positions.

Mr. Nadeau has a BS Degree in Accounting from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and was awarded an MBA degree from Babson College. He also has held adjunct faculty positions in graduate programs at Portland State University, and Marylhurst University.

Frank Tycksen
VP of Engineering

Frank Tycksen has more than 21 years of experience in software development and management. Mr. Tycksen was most recently at Intel Corporation where he was Research Engineering Manager in the Trusted Platforms Lab, which led Intel's research efforts in the areas of trust and security.

Before joining Intel, Tycksen was CTO of Swan Island Networks and the Security Architect for the associated non-profit organization, RAINS. Prior to Swan Island, Mr. Tycksen founded and was CTO of Portland Software, which later merged and became Preview Systems. Mr. Tycksen was involved from its pre-financing stage to its emergence as a public corporation listed on the NASDAQ exchange. .

Mr. Tycksen was also instrumental in the success of several other companies, such as Second Nature Software. And, before that, Mr. Tycksen was one of the creators of Central Point Software's PC Tools product line.