About
We are a pioneering Privacy Enhancing Technology company protecting Data in Use to enable secure and private data usage, collaboration, monetization, and Secure AI. Our software solutions change the paradigm of how and where organizations can leverage data to unlock value.
Defining the transformative category of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs), our award-winning ZeroReveal® solutions protect the content of the search, analytic, or AI/ML model while it's being used or processed. Customers can extract insights, cross-match, search, analyze, and leverage AI across boundaries and silos at scale without exposing their interests and intent or compromising the security or ownership of the underlying data. A World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Gartner Cool Vendor, and the first NIAP Common Criteria and CSfC-certified Data in Use security company, Enveil is deployed and operational today, revolutionizing data usage in the global marketplace.
Founded in 2016 by U.S. Intelligence Community alumni with backgrounds in mathematics, algorithmics, and machine learning, Enveil is engineering trust to empower organizations to successfully navigate the global digital economy. Our groundbreaking use of homomorphic encryption and secure multiparty computation, key pillars of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies category, allows data to be leveraged at scale and in-place, with processing times that ensure minimal impact on user experience.
The market for these business-enabling capabilities has never been greater: Gartner analysts predict that “by 2025, 60% of large organizations will use privacy-enhancing computation techniques to protect privacy in untrusted environments or for analytics purposes” (Gartner “Innovation Insight for Federated Machine Learning,” March 2022). Enveil is already delivering on this promise. These capabilities are delivering operational efficiencies and unprecedented speed to insight for customers today. Our innovative COTS solutions allow users to stop moving data and start using it — securely.
By facilitating a decentralized, in-place approach to secure data usage, we allow participating entities to retain granular control and ownership of their sensitive assets. We remove the need to move or pool sensitive assets, enabling organizations to securely and privately search and leverage third-party, PAI, and commercial data without increasing risk. Enveil’s core technology has been implemented at scale in the most sensitive of environments, where analysts work under the ‘Zero Trust’ assumption that the system has already been compromised.
Headquartered in the Washington, D.C. metro area, our world-class team is harnessing the power of Privacy Enhancing Technologies to make entirely new things possible for use cases across verticals including financial services, healthcare, and the public sector.
Our Leadership
CEO
Ellison Anne Williams
Chief Technology Officer
Ryan Carr
Chief of Customer Success
Steve Cameron
Chief Marketing Officer
Lisa Bader
Vice President, Sales
Chris Tallent
Board of Directors
Ellison Anne Williams
Tim Eades
Bob Ackerman
Paco Rivera
CEO & Founder
Dr. Ellison Anne Williams is the Founder and CEO of Enveil, the pioneering Privacy Enhancing Technology company protecting Data in Use. Building on experience leading avant-garde efforts in the areas of large-scale analytics, information security, and machine learning, Ellison Anne founded the startup in 2016 to transform how and where data can be securely and privately leveraged to unlock value. Enveil’s award-winning ZeroReveal® solutions are deployed and operational at scale helping global organizations securely utilize data across silos and organizational, jurisdictional, and security boundaries.
A mathematician by training, Ellison Anne leverages her deep technical background to advocate for the impact and advancement of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs). She has raised $40M in venture funding to cultivate and deliver Enveil’s capabilities for use cases ranging from cross-jurisdictional data usage to Secure AI. In addition to her ongoing contributions as a thought leader and mentor, Ellison Anne has been honored as a Business Insider Cybersecurity Leader, SC Media Reboot Leadership Innovator, EY Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, and a Cyberscoop Leet List Honoree. She started her career in the U.S. Intelligence Community and holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics (Algebraic Combinatorics), a M.S. in Mathematics (Set Theoretic Topology), and a M.S. in Computer Science (Machine Learning).
Chief Technology Officer
With experience in leading engineering efforts at institutions such as the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Ryan Carr’s fields of expertise include large scale analytic systems, distributed algorithms, artificial intelligence, game theory, and social learning, and applying cloud computing techniques to simulate and analyze complex interactions among large numbers of autonomous agents. His research in these areas has been published in highly competitive venues such as Proceedings of the Royal Society, AAAI, and AAMAS. Ryan holds a PhD/BS in Computer Science.
Chief Marketing Officer
With a background in strategic communications and emerging media, Lisa Bader is passionate about telling technology stories in a way that connects, engages, and inspires action. Lisa previously served as Senior Vice President of External Affairs at In-Q-Tel where she led communication strategy and outreach to IQT’s key audiences in the government, venture capital, and startup communities. Prior to IQT, Lisa worked in crisis communications where she was responsible for helping Fortune 500 clients respond to media coverage, interpret opinion research, and understand the impact of pop culture on consumer trends.
Vice President, Sales
Chris Tallent serves as Enveil’s Vice President of Sales, leading all efforts relating to the company’s DoD, FedCiv, and Intelligence business. He oversees the Sales team and is responsible for business strategy, revenue generation, and successful execution of growth.
Chris joined Enveil in May 2023 from L3Harris where he most recently served as Program Director and General Manager of the USSOCOM business with Broadband Communications Systems. In this role, he advanced business strategy and financial performance while executing growth and driving product development through the voice of the customer. Chris led a diverse group of program managers and business developers charged with overseeing a portfolio focused on resilient communications, ISR products, and development programs.
Chris’s experience also includes managing DoD, Commercial, and International Sales teams with Cubic Corporation’s Rugged IoT business where he was focused on delivering baseband communication systems across the DoD and foreign military organizations, as well as radio gateway solutions in the state and federal spaces.
Chris started his career with eight years in the U.S. Air Force where he served as a communicator supporting joint special operations around the globe. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from American Military University and an MBA from the Haslam College of Business.
Chief of Customer Success
As Chief of Customer Success, Steve leads the post-sales delivery efforts across Enveil's global customer base and is responsible for product deployment as well as ongoing engagement with our diverse collection of end users. He believes in a consultative approach to customer success; his goal is to work collaboratively with Enveil's customers to ensure our business and mission-enabling capabilities meaningfully solve their greatest challenges. Leaning on his deep technical and program management background, Steve helps ensure that Enveil’s ZeroReveal technologies are optimized to best address the customer’s specific needs relating to use case, data source, and deployment environment.
Steve joined Enveil in 2020, initially leading efforts primarily supporting U.S. Intelligence Community and Department of Defense customers. He transitioned into his current role in early 2023. Prior to joining Enveil, Steve spent more than a decade consulting to the U.S. Government, working in the areas of advanced technology research, cyber, and intelligence.
Tim Eades
With over 20 years of leadership experience in sales, marketing, and executive management at the CEO level, Tim Eades has deep expertise in driving high growth for computing, security, and enterprise software companies. Tim joined vArmour as CEO in October, 2013. Prior to that, he was the CEO at Silver Tail Systems from March, 2010 until the company was acquired by RSA, the security division of EMC in late 2012. Prior to leading Silver Tail Systems, Tim was CEO of Everyone.net, an SMB focused SaaS company that was acquired by Proofpoint. Tim has also held sales and marketing executive leadership positions at BEA Systems, Sana Security, Phoenix Technologies, and IBM. Tim holds advanced degrees in business, international marketing, and financial analysis, primarily from Solent University in England.
Bob Ackerman
Bob founded Allegis Capital in 1996 after a successful career as a serial entrepreneur. In founding Allegis, Bob’s mission was to build a seed and early-stage venture firm that would combine operational experience with an entrepreneurial spirit and a focus on forging true partnerships with portfolio companies to build successful and sustainable cyber-technology companies. Bob has been recognized as a Fortune 100 cybersecurity executive and also as one of “CyberSecurity’s Money Men”. As an entrepreneur, Bob was the President and CEO of UniSoft Systems, a global leading UNIX Systems House, and the Founder and Chairman of InfoGear Technology Corporation, a pioneer in the original integration of web and telephony technology and creator of the original iPhone. Outside of Allegis, Bob teaches New Venture Finance in the MBA program at the University of California, co-manages his family’s small Napa Valley winery – Ackerman Family Vineyards, and enjoys fly fishing.
Paco Rivera
Paco Rivera is Assistant Vice President, Corporate Development at USAA. He executes and oversees venture capital investments in support of USAA Bank and enterprise efforts and leads due diligence for acquisitions and divestitures. Paco currently serves as a board member for Enveil and Gridspace and as a board observer for ID.me. He previously served as a board member for Robin (acquired by Rakuten), Narrative Science (acquired by Salesforce), board observer for MindMeld (acquired by Cisco), ObserveIT (acquired by Proofpoint), and ClickSWITCH (acquired by Q2 Holdings) where USAA realized successful exits. He currently holds the NACD (National Association of Corporate Directors) Directorship Certification.
Paco has led financial planning and analysis teams in Corporate Finance and USAA Bank since joining in 2011. He previously held corporate finance and strategy roles at Verizon, Merck & Co., Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, and Bank of America. Key efforts include support for the 2011 Terremark ($1.4B) and 2007 Cybertrust ($450M) acquisitions, and for the launch of the Verizon Digital Media Services business unit. Paco began his career as an analyst covering Telecommunications for Bank of America Securities. He held the Series 7 and 63 licenses.
He holds a bachelor's degree in Finance from the University of Puerto Rico and an MBA from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.