Our Team

Jordan Rackie is the chief executive officer at Keyfactor. In this role, Jordan is responsible for setting the company vision, driving both top and bottom line results, and managing Board relations.

Jordan is an expert in developing and leading modern go-to-market teams and strategy, having led multiple companies through large-scale growth. Jordan’s previous experience includes SVP of global revenue at Tricentis, a globally recognized leader in software test automation and software quality assurance solutions, and chief revenue officer for QASymphony (merged with Tricentis), ranked by Inc. magazine as the 8th fastest growing software business in the U.S. in 2017. He was also a sales leader and executive for Pardot (acquired by Salesforce).

Personal Highlights: Jordan was born, raised, and still resides in Atlanta, GA along with his wife, Amy, and their mini labradoodle, Charles. Jordan is a graduate of Georgia Tech, with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management. In 2020, Jordan earned the prestigious honor of being named a member of the Georgia Tech Alumni 40 Under 40. He enjoys sports and competition of all kind, growing up playing baseball, basketball, tennis, and golf. He is still active in tennis (and golf – time permitting), recently winning the USTA Georgia State Tennis Championship in 2018 with his fellow teammates out of a metro-Atlanta health club.

Ellen Kindley is the change agent for growth at Keyfactor — specializing in all things strategy, process, data management & analytics, and internal technologies. At its core, the business transformation team is tasked with advancing the value creation agenda of Keyfactor by converting strategy into measurable plans and well-executed implementation.

Ellen is passionate about laying the foundation on which SaaS startups can scale and grow – always striving to be the driving force for productivity improvement. Every step is data-driven as she sets initiatives and priorities, evaluates gaps and executes improvements.

Ellen previously operated as the head of Business Operations at QASymphony where she helped successfully set the stage for hyper-growth which included multiple rounds of funding and eventually a merger with industry leader Tricentis.

Ellen holds a B.S. in Accounting and Legal Studies from the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC.

Jim DeBlasio is EVP of operations and chief financial officer at Keyfactor. In this role, Jim is responsible for driving a repeatable revenue growth strategy and enhancing functional processes to encourage speed, accuracy and scale.

Most recently the CFO and VP of Operations at Prevalent, Jim brings more than twenty years of experience in the mobility, optical, software and internet technology services industries, having held numerous executive leadership roles including CEO, COO, and CFO. Some of his key areas of accomplishment include setting a vision and driving a strategic plan for success, profitable revenue growth, new product introduction, achieving shareholder value, sales leadership, operational excellence, portfolio management and sustained financial performance. He holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance and Financial Portfolio Analysis from Seton Hall University and a Bachelor of Science in Operations Management from Villanova University.

Personal Highlights: Jim and his wife Lisa reside in New Jersey. They have three children. Jim enjoys spending time with family and friends along with an occasional round of golf.

Ted Shorter is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder at Keyfactor. Responsible for Keyfactor’s Intellectual Property development efforts, Ted helps align Keyfactor’s focus with the changing security landscape, ensuring our clients understand the importance of crypto-agility.

Ted has worked in the security arena for over 25 years, in the fields of cryptography, Public Key Infrastructure, authentication and authorization, and software vulnerability analysis. His past experience includes 10 years at the National Security Agency, a master’s degree in computer science from The Johns Hopkins University, and an active CISSP certification.

Personal Highlights – Ted lives in Akron, Ohio with his wife Marcie and two sons Christopher and Caleb. Ted is an accomplished musician and played in a rock band for a number of years in Baltimore, MD. He is a passionate sports fan, and actively follows baseball, football and various forms of auto racing. Ted has held notable speaking engagements at RSA 2005 – San Francisco, RSA Power Days – Chicago & New York, and FDIC Threat Briefing – Washington, DC.

Chris Hickman is the chief security officer at Keyfactor. As a member of the senior management team, Chris is responsible for establishing & maintaining Keyfactor’s leadership position as a world-class, technical organization with deep security industry expertise. He leads client success initiatives and helps integrate the voice of the customer directly into Keyfactor’s platform and capability set.

Prior to joining Keyfactor, Chris was Director of Technical Services at Alacris, an Ottawa based smartcard and certificate management company, which was sold to Microsoft and is now part of the Microsoft Identity Manager product suite. Chris has worked on PKI projects for organizations and firms including NATO, both the U.S. and Canadian Departments of Defense, Fortune 100 banks and financial institutions, manufacturers, insurance companies, telecommunication providers and retailers. He continues to be a trusted resource for enterprises looking to leverage digital certificates within existing portfolios and new product development.

Personal Highlights – Chris lives in Ottawa, Canada and enjoys traveling with his family, working on classic cars, and photography.

Dan Michael is the senior vice president of sales at Keyfactor focusing on driving revenue growth across North America. In this role, he is responsible for supporting Keyfactor’s enterprise field sales engine, facilitating a benefit-oriented selling motion aimed at solving the critical challenges plaguing today’s markets.

His most recent infrastructure software sales experience includes HashiCorp and Hortonworks. As a former entrepreneur, Dan always prioritizes the best interests of the companies with whom he does business.

Personal Highlights

Dan resides in Atlanta, GA with his wife and four children.

Jamie Walker is the senior vice president of marketing at Keyfactor. In this role, she leads the digital, design, ABX, field marketing and channel marketing teams to develop revenue-generating campaigns that support Keyfactor’s growth plan. She specializes in developing high-impact integrated marketing campaigns that optimize the flow of qualified leads to sales and thrives on the metrics and processes of B2B marketing.

Before joining Keyfactor, Jamie held various marketing roles at high-growth start-ups leading all aspects of demand marketing, including client up-sell, digital, testing optimization, account-based marketing, field marketing and channel marketing.

Jamie holds a B.A. in Psychology from the Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

As the senior vice president of product management at Keyfactor, Mark is responsible for strategic management of the company’s product portfolio and market adoption.

Prior to Keyfactor, Mark was Sr. Director of New Product Introduction for Aclara Technologies, and the product manager for Aclara’s Metrum line of LTE products. He was at Aclara since 1998 where he developed the STAR network product line and developed and ran product marketing for several wireless communication solutions for gas, water, and electric utilities. Mark founded the Wi-Fi Alliance Smart Grid Task Group, which is responsible for the certification program for Smart Energy Profile 2.0 running on Wi-Fi devices. Mark is the former chair the group and member of the ZigBee Smart Energy and Consortium for SEP Interoperability. Mark also founded the IEEE 802.11ah standards group devoted to the development of Sub-GHz Wi-Fi for Smart Grid and sensor networks, and was its first chair. Mark was a voting member of the NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Panel and is a past member of the Board of Directors of the UTC’s Smart Networks Council.

Brandon Tubandt is the senior vice president of operations and customer success at Keyfactor. In this role, he is responsible for driving repeatable and scalable process improvements that deliver value to our clients.

Brandon is an Industrial Engineer by trade and was most recently a senior leader at PowerPlan. Responsible for ensuring overall customer success, he leveraged his years of technical and consulting experience in a complex software environment to develop successful customer-based programs while also maintaining a strong focus on building effective teams, particularly through periods of rapid growth and change.

Personal Highlights: Brandon was born, raised and still resides in Atlanta, GA with his wife Kathryn and daughters Caroline and Elizabeth. He is a graduate of Georgia Tech with highest honors and enjoys running, golf, following Atlanta sports, and spending time outdoors with his family.

Earl Siedlecki is SVP, Cloud Operations and Compliance at Keyfactor. In this role, Earl is responsible for internal security and corporate compliance related to internal polices, industry best practices and international standards. Earl and his teams’ policy and process approach, along with a focus on education, contributes to overall business efficiency while ensuring Keyfactor remains both secure and compliant.

Personal Highlights: Earl is a father to a rambunctious 4-year old boy named Bryce. When not working he enjoys hiking and shooting archery. Earl is passionate about wildlife conservation and belongs to several groups dedicated to protecting native animals and their habitat.

As VP of Field Engineering, Eric helps security and operations teams to create cryptography best practices with a focus on PKI, Secure IoT and Digital Signing.  He brings over 25 years of software development, big data, DevOps and leadership experience with in organizations like Terracotta, Hortonworks, and OverOps.

Eric lives in Apex, NC with his wife and two children. He enjoys working out and being outside boating, fishing and wakesurfing/wakeboarding.

Ellen leads the product strategy and go to market approach for the Keyfactor Control platform, focusing around digital identity security solutions for the IoT device manufacturer market.  Ellen is passionate about IoT and helping customers establish strong security implementations for the lifecycle of their overall IoT systems.

Ellen has 15+ years experience leading new product development with a focus on IoT and connected products in Lighting controls, Smart Cities, Connected buildings and Smart Home technology.  Ellen has held leadership roles in Product & Engineering at General Electric and Sky Technologies over her career.

Personal Highlights: Ellen lives in Cleveland, OH along with her husband Rich and children Edward & Emma.  Ellen has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology, and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and  Master of Business Administration from Case Western Reserve University.  Ellen enjoys fitness, yoga, swimming, and outdoor activities around Cleveland with her family and friends.

Daniel Rodríguez is the general manager at Redtrust, Keyfactor’s Spain-based company. In this role, he is responsible for leading, managing and expanding both the Redtrust team and the product.

Daniel began his career at Redtrust in a technical role focused on cybersecurity and cryptography, growing into one of the company’s first product creators. Redtrust delivers a digital identity tool that provides centralized management for certificates and digital signatures. Daniel has many years of experience as a developer in the banking and public administration sectors. His technical background provides the business with a very strategic point of view which guarantees the development of the business while being on the top of technology.
Personal Highlights: Daniel was born and bred in Barcelona. He has two children: Candela and Cosme and he loves cooking for both of them as they are his most honest food critics. He is a fan of teamwork, skating, snowboarding and astronomy, but thinking about how he could challenge cybersecurity is what he probably likes the most.

Ryan Yackel is the vice president of product marketing and content at Keyfactor. In this role, Ryan is responsible for the overall direction of content creation, and the messaging and positioning of Keyfactor products.

Ryan specializes in bringing sales, marketing, and product together with a cohesive content strategy. He did this most recently as the Global Director of Product Marketing at Tricentis, a globally recognized leader in software test automation and software quality assurance solutions. Ryan previously operated as a Senior Solutions Engineer for QASymphony (merged with Tricentis), ranked by Inc. magazine as the 8th fastest growing software business in the U.S. in 2017. He also was an IT and software consultant for Macy’s and CGI. Keyfactor represents the third business in which Ryan has worked with Insight Partners portfolio, Keyfactor’s lead investor.

Personal Highlights: Ryan lives in Atlanta, GA along with his wife, Meredith, and their two girls, Rosalie and Winnie. Ryan is a graduate of Covenant College, with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Finance. He enjoys specialty coffee, reading good science fiction, chasing his girls around the house, and beating his CEO in duck bowling.

Mary Michael is the people leader at Keyfactor specializing in all aspects of human resources such as recruiting, on-boarding/off-boarding, benefits, payroll, employee engagement, employee issues, administration & office management. Mary is passionate about interacting and helping add value to Keyfactor employees so that they can be the most successful professionals while at Keyfactor. Another main priority of Mary’s includes contributing to the ethical success of the business.

Responsibilities geared towards business operations are carried out in addition to create the highest level of efficiency possible within the organization.

Mary has a strong background in talent acquisition and employee engagement.

Personal Highlights: Mary lives on the West side of Cleveland and is a huge Cleveland sports fan. She graduated with her Bachelors in Business from Miami University. She enjoys working out/staying active, gardening and being surrounded by family and friends.

B.J. Ferguson is the vice president of global channel sales and operations at Keyfactor. In this role, he is responsible for expanding Keyfactor’s Partner Network, driving industry-leading interactions and streamlined purchasing options for our customers via Solution Providers, Systems Integrators, and Consultants. BJ is passionate about building and maintaining partner relationships to increase market awareness, opportunity generation, and revenue.

BJ has had many years of experience in SaaS sales, Business Development, Sales Enablement, and Partner Program development, most recently with Bromium, where he built and ran the global channel program in both the private and public sectors.

Personal Highlights: BJ resides just outside of Salt Lake City, UT with his wife and two daughters. His interests include spending time with his family camping and exploring the beautiful mountains of Utah in ATVs.  BJ is an avid sports enthusiast having played baseball through college. He was selected by the Chicago Cubs in the 2005 MLB First Year Player Draft as a pitcher.  He enjoys watching baseball, football, and basketball in his spare time.