Overview

DataDivider has been a certified Level 1 PCI DSS Service Provider for the past decade helping organizations reduce their PCI DSS compliance risks and costs for telephone, fax, mail order and chat payment transactions. A pioneer in the industry introducing the technique of Data Capture Cloaking to facilitate the secure entry of cardholder data without exposing this data to endpoint devices. DataDivider’s innovative solutions ensure the minimal impact to businesses as they achieve their compliance goals.

Simplicity is achieved by adapting existing applications without the necessity of any systems integration. Privacy data is simply replaced with format preserved tokens which are injected directly into existing user interfaces by DataDivider. This ensures clients can achieve compliance in weeks rather than months.

From its background in PCI DSS DataDivider has evolved to helping organizations meet their other privacy data compliance requirements such as HIPAA and GDPR. With its wealth of expertise in effectively and efficiency securing card account data it is now helping organizations benefit from the countless lessons learned with PCI DSS for all data compliance needs.

Our Leadership

Over 30 years of sales and marketing experience much of this in early technology startups. Graham leads the charge in DataDivider’s sales and marketing effort embracing the early adopters of DataDivider’s innovative solutions.

Management Team

John D Clark

John D. Clark, CEO

John Clark brings over 30 years of management experience in the high technology business to the team. He has held executive management positions in sales and marketing in the Information Technology industry and his experiences cover consulting services, IT security services, hardware and software. Prior to joining DataDivider he had been a Management and Marketing Consultant working primarily with high technology start-up businesses in the software, security services and professional services market places.

John became a consultant following 11 years with Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), the last 5 of which as as an Executive Vice President, having been promoted to that position after 6 years with HDS as European Vice President of Marketing based in London. During his tenure as EVP, he initiated and then led the company’s first major move into the open systems and solutions business as head of their New Business Unit.

Prior to joining HDS, John spent 22 years with IBM where he worked in a variety of management positions in systems engineering, sales and marketing in both in the UK and in IBM’s European headquarters in Paris.

John holds a BSc Hons Degree from Hull University in England.

Graham

Graham Thompson, VP Sales and Marketing

Graham brings over 30 years of sales and marketing experience much of this in early technology startups. Graham leads the charge in DataDivider’s sales and marketing effort embracing the early adopters of DataDivider’s innovative solutions.

For the past 15 years Graham has focused his career in early stage startups tackling compliance for both PCI DSS and Sarbanes Oxley (SOX). At DataDivider he has helped the company transition from PCI DSS into managing Privacy Data for both GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act). Graham has been an active speaker throughout his career which has not only focused on compliance but on data
management too. This combination gives great insight on how businesses manage privacy data today and the opportunities for managing this data in the future.

Many of the startups Graham initiated continue to thrive today including Semafone, ClusterSeven and Gaine Solutions. Other companies were acquired where their products still generate considerable revenues and were leaders within the respective Gartner magic quadrants including Rochade now at ASG and MDM at Informatica.

Dale Lindly

Dale Lindly , CFO

Dale brings over 30 years of executive finance experience to the team. Most recently Dale was VP of Global Settlement and Accounting Operations for Blackhawk Network. His first four of six total years with Blackhawk were spent building the International Accounting and Finance teams to support significant growth in the business. Dale has lead several M&A transactions during his career with over 20 of those in the last six years. He has experience in Venture, Private Equity and Public companies ranging in size from startup to over $5 billion in revenue.

Dale has raised over $100M in financing for private and public business as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently Dale was CFO at Oxford Semiconductor and held the CFO position at ESS Technology and S3 earlier in his career.

Dale earned a BSBA in Accounting from San Jose State University

Advisors

Adviser

Andrew Nash

Andrew Nash is CTO of Trulioo, an identity services company, and previously was Head of Identity at Google and PayPal. Previously he managed the security architecture and operations groups at PayPal. He is Technical Advisor to HotPlate, Apani and Provilla (acquired by Trend Micro).

Formerly the CTO for Sonoa Systems and Reactivity(acquired by Cisco), Andrew was awarded as one of the “InfoWorld Top 25 Most Influential CTO’s of 2006″.

At RSA Security, Andrew was Director of Technologies in the Office of the CTO developing trust models and security technology. Within the framework of the Liberty Alliance Strong Authentication Expert Group, Andrew led the creation of an open model for user authentication systems. He is a known leader in PKI and Web-Services security markets and the co-author of numerous Web Services specifications including Web Services Security, WS-Trust, WS-Federation, WS-SecureConversation and WS-SecurityPolicy. Andrew is an author of a book on Public Key Infrastructure.

During his tenure at Digital Equipment Corporation, Andrew developed products including Alta Vista Search, Network Computers, Micro Cash Payment systems and customer systems for online trading at the Australian Stock Exchange and the Systems Architecture for Optus.Andrew graduated from the University of Adelaide, Australia and holds a post graduate degree in Software Engineering from the University of Technology, Sydney

Andrew Henwood

Andrew Henwood is a seasoned executive and information security entrepreneur. He is active in evangelising and recommending information security best practices through hands-on, managerial experience garnered from over 24 years of work in the industry. He has built and led global, industry-leading consulting teams, believing in principles of teamwork and trust.

He has deep exposure to innovative product development and cyber-related incident response, having being directly involved with many of the world’s largest data breaches in assisting in rapid triage, root cause analysis and communication to the board and regulatory authorities. Subsequent work included building out sustainable information and cyber risk frameworks to mitigate further risk by baking in security and resulting in tangible risk reduction through measurable and understandable metrics.

Andrew is a frequent public speaker, is a specialist in regulatory information security frameworks, payment security & compliance and has global relationships within the payment card industry, including card brands, banks, payment service providers and regulators and associated participants.

A founder and investor, Andrew has acute business acumen obtained through bootstrapping many business to rapid scale, worked through mergers and acquisitions and is acutely aware of associated high-growth challenges.

Adviser

Colin L. Macnab

Colin has more than 25 years of experience in the semiconductor and systems market related to the wireless communications industry. Colin was CEO of Artimi and was V.P. marketing and business development at Atheros, where he was part of the team that took the company public in 2004.

Colin has also been CEO of Morphics Technology, Inc. & BMA Communications and earlier in his career Colin held engineering and management positions at Xircom, GEC Plessey, Linear Technology and Analog Devices.Colin holds a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering from the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

Ruth Xovox

Ruth Xovox

A seasoned executive with over 30 years’ experience building global security, compliance and privacy programs for Fintech startups, Ruth has established herself as a vision-driven, results-focused leader. Ruth has built a distinct record of achievement in leading global compliance and privacy functions across Europe, the United States, and the Caribbean.

 

During her tenure as Director of Information Risk Management at PayPal, Ruth represented PayPal on the inaugural PCI Security Standards Organization Board of Advisors.  She subsequently co-founded DataDivider and spent 7 years working directly with DataDivider products and customers.  Today Ruth continues to build innovative programs and develop teams in the Fintech space.  Ruth has acquired a large number of industry certifications and is a member of ISC2, IAPP and the PCI Communities.

Our Clients