Our Team

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

Jordan has led Keyfactor as CEO since May of 2019, directly following Insight Partner’s initial investment of $77 million into the business. During this time, Keyfactor has experienced award-winning hyper-growth and cultural achievement accolades. Jordan has championed and integrated multiple businesses into Keyfactor through M&A, including Sweden-based PrimeKey and Spain-based RedTrust. Jordan holds a keen interest in the joint-value creation between employee and employer, understanding that a great organizational culture and environment creates a force multiple for business success. Jordan is an expert in developing and leading modern go-to-market teams and strategy. His previous experience includes serving as senior vice president of global revenue at Tricentis, a globally recognized leader in software test automation and software quality assurance solutions, and chief revenue officer for QASymphony (which 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).

Jordan was born, raised, and currently resides in Atlanta, along with his wife Amy, their son William, and their mini labradoodle, Charles. Jordan graduated from Georgia Tech with a Bachelor of Science in business management. In 2020, he earned the honor of being named a member of the Georgia Tech Alumni 40 Under 40. Outside of work, Jordan enjoys staying active (golf, tennis, boxing) and spending time with his family (traveling, day trips to the Georgia aquarium, time at the pool and lake), and leads by example as it relates to having a healthy work-life balance.

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.

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.

Gail is a global HR executive and strategic thinker with proven experience transforming people organizations and developing Human Resources & Employee Experience strategies aligned with business goals.

Gail’s focus at Keyfactor will be tapping into her 20+ years of human resources experiences to translate Keyfactor’s vision and business strategy into HR initiatives that support the hiring, onboarding, cultural well-being, talent optimization, and management of our rapidly expanding global organization.

Gail holds a bachelor’s degree in interpersonal communications with an emphasis on organizational behavior and business administration.

Outside of work:

Aside from enjoying time with family and friends, Gail is passionate about giving back to her surrounding communities.  She currently resides on the Board at House of Champions, a non-profit organization here in Cleveland, Ohio.

Tomas Gustavsson has a MSc from KTH in Stockholm and has been researching and implementing PKI systems since 1994. He is the founder and developer of the open source enterprise PKI project EJBCA, a contributor to numerous open source projects, and a member of the board of Open Source Sweden. As a co-founder of PrimeKey, Tomas is passionate about helping users worldwide find the best possible PKI and digital signature solutions.

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.

Magnus Svenningson has extensive experience from leading positions in the IT, telecom and identity management industries. He has a degree in Engineering from Lund University.

Jim DeBlasio is the chief financial officer and EVP of operations 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.

Dan Michael is the executive vice president of sales at Keyfactor focusing on driving revenue growth globally. In this role, he is responsible for supporting Keyfactor’s enterprise field sales engine, which includes sales, sales engineering, and sales development.  He facilitates 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.

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.

Admir Abdurahmanovic started working with applied cryptography as a mathematics student in 1989, in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Moving to Sweden, Admir continued working with implementations of crypto algorithms and protocols, specializing in applied PKI (Public Key Infrastructure). A co-founder of PrimeKey, Admir serves as VP at PrimeKey in charge of strategy and business development.

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.

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.

Harry Haramis has more than 30 years of experience in the field of Information Technologies with extensive experience designing and developing state-of-the-art security technology solutions for the most complex and sensitive information systems.  He has worked on projects of all sizes and in all areas of Network & Security infrastructure.  As a proven leader, Harry has led teams of technical engineers to the successful conclusion of countless projects.  He has published several white papers as well as hosted several seminars and presentations.  He holds some of the industry’s highest certifications including CCIE #6772, CCNP, CCNA, CCSE, CISSP, CNE, VCP, and MCSE+I.

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.

Sybil McCormack is In-House Counsel and Director of Contracts at Keyfactor. A co-Director of the Legal Department, Sybil works strategically and collaboratively alongside Len Riepe, In-House Counsel and Director of Contracts/M&A, in support of the company’s growth and expansion interests. Sybil drafts, reviews and negotiates a variety of contracts with customers, vendors and partners on behalf of the company. She also counsels and/or advises Keyfactor leadership and management personnel on topics as diverse as privacy/data protection, risk and regulatory compliance, employment matters and others. Sybil is a member of the State Bar of Georgia and is licensed to practice before the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Georgia Supreme Court.

Personal Highlights:

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Sybil resides in Greater Atlanta, GA, with her pastor husband and young adult daughter and son. Sybil is a graduate of Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She also holds a Juris Doctor from the law school at Texas Southern University where she was an Articles Editor on the Thurgood Marshall Law Review. Sybil possesses two privacy certifications from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (“IAPP”)—Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM). Sybil also holds the designation In-House Counsel Certified from the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC ICC). An avid reader, Sybil enjoys binge-watching British detective shows, studying foreign languages and attending, speaking and singing at local church events in her “down time.”

Earl Siedlecki is the SVP of 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.

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.

Zack Cook is the Senior Vice President of Finance at Keyfactor. In this role, Zack is responsible for leading financial reporting & analysis, securing the necessary funding/resources to deliver on target KPIs, and driving efficient scalable growth and enterprise value.

Zack is experienced in developing, leading, and growing the financial and operational function of high growth software companies. A licensed CPA, Zack’s previous experience includes starting his career in public accounting at EY before joining Rigor, an advanced SaaS synthetic performance monitoring and optimization company also recognized on the Inc. 500 fastest growing companies list in 2017 and on the Pacesetter’s 100 Fasted Growing Companies in Atlanta from 2015-2018. As VP of Finance and Operations at Rigor, Zack was instrumental in driving the performance and value that led to an acquisition by Fortune 1000 company, Splunk, a globally recognized leader in big data intelligence software. Zack helped spearhead the post-merger integration efforts at Splunk before joining Keyfactor.

Personal Highlights:

Zack was born, raised, and currently lives in Atlanta, GA. Zack is a Dean’s Scholar and graduate of Georgia Tech, with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration concentrating in accounting and certifying in law and ethics. In 2019, Zack was selected to the invite-only Forbes Finance Council where he has been published in over 15 panel-based articles related to various financial topics including key KPIs, fintech trends, and cost control. Zack is driven by being in a fast-paced, collaborative, and innovative environment. Outside of work, he enjoys time with friends and family, movies, trivia, fantasy football as well as staying active playing racquetball and striving for new Fitbit step badges.

Magnus Andrén holds a MSc in Computer Science and Engineering from Linköping University. He joined PrimeKey in 2016 with a background in Telecom. Magnus has previously worked in different management roles close to software development at companies like Tilgin, Ericsson, Basware and Enea Software.

Personal Highlights:

Outside of work Magnus is an enthusiastic cyclist, mostly mountain biking, and skier. Interests he shares with the rest of his family including his wife and two sons.

David has been working on Cryptography APIs and secure protocols since the mid-1990s and in IT and open-source since the mid-1980s. He is a founder and still active committer of the Legion of the Bouncy Castle Cryptography project which began in the year 2000 and provides APIs in Java, C#, and Kotlin. David founded Crypto Workshop, now part of Keyfactor, in 2012 in order to better support the Bouncy Castle APIs and its user community. His deep interest is in providing tools to simplify the development of solutions that make use of cryptography and secure protocols, with an emphasis on standards-based approaches. He is based in Melbourne, Australia.