Company mission

JD leads company strategy, business and corporate development, and operations efforts at Anonyome Labs. He’s an expert in scaling software as a service business models with over 12 years building, selling, and deploying software solutions for global brand owners. Previously, JD was part of Blue Coat Systems cloud operations team, helping drive their transition to cloud services for large enterprises. Prior to Blue Coat, JD spent over 7 years at e2open, Inc. in roles spanning product, marketing, and sales. He was the top revenue-producing business development executive during their rapid growth to IPO. He also worked on dozens of successful global supply chain software and business solution deployments for Fortune 500 companies and their trading partners in the US, Asia Pacific, and Europe. JD has held roles in engineering, product management, marketing, professional services, and business development.

JD has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Lehigh University and an MBA from Santa Clara University. He’s always had an entrepreneurial spirit, starting in high school with construction, and later in college when he started and operated a storefront smoothie bar.

Stephen is the General Manager of Anonyome Labs in Gold Coast, Australia and leads the TechOps and QA teams. Previously, Stephen was Lab Manager and Manager of Software Engineering for the IBM Security Systems development laboratory. He has over 25 years of experience in a broad range of information technology roles. He joined IBM in 2000 via the acquisition of DASCOM, a web security company, and held multiple senior management positions across their identity and access management product portfolio. Prior to DASCOM, Stephen worked in various formative software development roles, primarily in the financial services sector and later for local government in IT management. Stephen earned his BS in experimental physics and microelectronics.

A pilot for 25 years, Stephen enjoys flying his light airplane to weekend fly-ins and on long-distance adventures.

Flora leads marketing for Anonyome Labs, including user acquisition, user lifecycle messaging, branding, PR, events, communications, and social media strategy. She has over 17 years’ experience in brand strategy, business development, sales, media planning, and advertising leadership in both startup and corporate environments. Prior to Anonyome, Flora was the cofounder and CMO at GREAT.LY (now Onda.com), a curated, home décor global online marketplace. Before GREAT.LY, Flora was VP of business development and publisher services at Federated Media, where she managed publisher relationships while strategically driving revenue via partnerships and key client management. Previously, she worked for Gap Inc. in Consumer Insights as a market research analyst across all online properties. She was part of the founding team for piperlime.com, leading traffic-driving and acquisition efforts.

Flora earned a BA in international studies from American University in Washington, D.C. She lives in San Francisco, where she chases after her tireless 2-year-old Isabella. People are surprised to learn her first language is French.

Paul leads worldwide user support teams across Salt Lake City and Gold Coast, Australia. Having been with Anonyome Labs since inception, Paul has played numerous product development leadership roles in growing the company. He has over 25 years’ experience in software development, with the last 20 dedicated to security technologies, specifically access management, identity management, privacy, and mobile security. Before joining Anonyome, Paul worked for IBM in senior management roles across product development, support, services, customer advocacy, and special projects. During his IBM tenure, Paul was instrumental in the establishment and growth of the first security R&D center outside the US, located in Queensland. Prior to that, Paul was a cofounder and director at DASCOM, a security startup headquartered in Santa Cruz. He’s also held engineering roles in government, academic, and commercial organizations.

Paul holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics, and patents in transactional authorization. He has worked and lived in numerous locations around the world, including Australia, Japan, and the US. An avid surfer, Paul loves to take advantage of the Gold Coast office “board” room for lunchtime surf breaks.

Cristal has over 20 years of experience in finance, operations, customer support, and human resources with start-up companies including roles at Smile Reminder, C7 Data Centers, Smart Bomb Interactive, Helius, PointeCast, Traxess, and Solera Networks. She has been with Anonyome Labs since its inception in June of 2014 and is currently Head of People, leading recruiting, human resources and cross site business operations. Most recently, she was brought over as the Senior Director of Business Process Management at Blue Coat Systems in the acquisition of Solera Networks. She was the VP of Human Resources at Solera Networks for a year and a half prior to acquisition and was the Controller there for the five years prior to that. Before joining Solera, she spent 10 years consulting as a Controller for over twenty companies in the high tech, security, real estate and medical verticals.

Cristal earned a BS in finance from Southern Utah University. Having learned to play at age 3, Cristal is an accomplished pianist and former teacher. Her favorite composer is Bach.

Paul is an expert in security and privacy technologies with more than 25 years of information security experience. He’s worked in software product development, providing architectural leadership across a range of security products for mobile, cloud, and enterprise environments. He specializes in identity and access management, privacy management, and mobile security. He has also led large enterprise security projects in the US, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

During his 15 years at IBM, Paul provided architecture leadership to the Security Systems division. This included product management, key client projects, product architecture, patent disclosures, acquisitions, presentations, and university lectures. He was recognized at IBM as a Senior Technical Staff Member, Member of the IBM Academy of Technology, and Master Inventor.

Paul has extensive experience in IP protection and has 25 patents. He’s authored books and technical papers related to information security and privacy. Paul’s degrees are in electronics engineering and computer science, with a PhD in information security. He is CISSP-certified and a senior member of the IEEE.

As the Chief Technical Officer at Anonyome Labs, Paul’s responsibilities include company strategy, investor relationships, security and application architecture, emerging technologies, IP protection, and technical partnerships.

Paul is an avid runner, which has earned him the nickname “The Marathon Man.” He has three children: Melanie, 16, Amelia, 14, and Chris, 8. His endurance comes in handy as their chauffeur to school, sports, music, and part-time jobs.

Neil has led the company’s security and compliance program since the company was founded in 2014 achieving key milestones including PCI DSS Level 1 compliance, EU GDPR readiness and working with Anonyome’s partners to ensure compliance with their stringent requirements.

Prior to Anonyome Labs, Neil worked at IBM in its Security and Cloud divisions, most recently leading a global team as Chief Security Architect for IBM’s Managed Cloud Services. Neil’s technical leadership was recognized as a Senior Technical Staff Member, Member of the IBM Academy of Technology and IBM’s first Master Inventor in Australia.

Neil has been granted over 30 patents worldwide for his inventions in the areas of security, privacy and compliance.

Neil is a member and former Chair of the University of Queensland School of IT Electrical Engineering’s Industry Advisory Board, which helps to shape the strategic direction of the school.