Ken Miller, CEO
Mr. Miller joined Anchor Intelligence in December 2006 as CEO. Prior to joining Anchor Intelligence, Mr. Miller spent the previous seven years with PayPal, Inc. where he was Vice President of Risk Management. Mr. Miller was the first anti-fraud employee hired by PayPal and is responsible for building the world class systems and global organization the company enjoys today. During his time at PayPal, Mr. Miller also served on PayPal's senior executive team, which was responsible for the financial health and strategic vision of the company. Mr. Miller has been interviewed numerous times by various technical and general news analysts and media, and is considered an expert in the field of online fraud and payments risk.
Prior to joining PayPal, Mr. Miller worked for a variety of banking institutions, most recently with First Bank & Trust, where he had fraud and operations responsibilities for over 30 retail banking offices. Mr. Miller serves as an advisor to several companies including TradeVibes.com, and is also a managing partner in a privately held thoroughbred ownership group established with the intent of using mathematics and data analysis to guide operating decisions.
Marc Brown, CTO and Co-Founder
Prior to co-founding Anchor Intelligence with Jim and Ron, Mr. Brown was CTO at Vendavo, where he led the overall design of the Vendavo system, an enterprise-class J2EE application for price management. Before that, Mr. Brown was the Architect of the Ariba client, an N-tier Java system. Prior to his work at Ariba, Mr. Brown was a research scientist at Digital's Systems Research Center for a decade, where he was a world-renowned researcher in software visualization, user interfaces, and browsing the web. Mr. Brown also serves as a Director of the American Computer Science League, a non-profit organization that run computer contests for high school students.
Mr. Brown received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University in 1987. His thesis, Algorithm Animation, was honored with the prestigious ACM Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation award and was published by the MIT Press. Dr. Brown is also the co-author of Software Visualization published by MIT Press.
Tobin Trevarthen, VP Business Development
Mr. Trevarthen joined Anchor Intelligence in May 2008 as the VP of Business Development. Prior to joining Anchor Intelligence, Mr. Trevarthen was the founder of Spatial Shift, a strategic advisory firm specializing in revenue creation for several start ups in mobile and ecommerce. Prior to Spatial Shift, Mr. Trevarthen spent seven years at AOL in various senior management roles in both Business Development and Sales, most recently as Regional Vice President for AOL Media Networks.
Mr. Trevarthen brings to Anchor Intelligence 25 years of media and business development experience with a track record of developing deep relationships with ad agencies, online advertisers, publishers, and traditional media. Mr. Trevarthen worked for Time Warner twice over a 14-year period, running the West Coast Integrated Sales for Time Inc as well as for AOL. Prior to AOL, Mr. Trevarthen was Vice President of Business Development for Alladvantage.com.
Mr. Trevarthen has also worked at Meredith Corporation, Gannett Corporation and started his career in the advertising agency business at Young & Rubicam. Mr. Trevarthen graduated with BA in Advertising from Michigan State University (1983). He also sits on the board of Sonoma Coast Vineyards, a Sonoma based winery.
Jim Pitkow, Chairman and Co-Founder
Most recently, Mr. Pitkow was CEO and Chairman of Moreover Technologies, where he successfully restructured the company through acquisition by VeriSign in October of 2005. Before Moreover, Mr. Pitkow was the President and Chairman of Outride Inc., a spinout from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), which was acquired by Google. Prior to his work at Outride, Mr. Pitkow was a research scientist at Xerox PARC and Chair of the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Characterization Activity.
Mr. Pitkow received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1997. He graduated Cum Laude in Psychology from the University of Colorado in 1993.
Ron Conway, Co-Founder
Mr. Conway was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005). He now invests independently as an angel investor and was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top "dealmakers" in 2006.
Mr. Conway worked with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions (1973-1979), Altos Computer Systems, as a co-founder, President and CEO, (1979-1990) and Personal Training Systems (PTS) as CEO (1991-1995). PTS was acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft (Nasdaq SKIL).
Mr. Conway has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Facebook, Plaxo, Photobucket, Digg.com, Ask Jeeves, Napster, SNOCAP (co-founder), Soleil Securities, Zappos, and Stumble Upon.
He is actively involved in numerous philanthropic causes including Vice Chairman of UCSF Medical Foundation in San Francisco, Development committee of UCLA, and Ronald McDonald House at Stanford and the Benefit Committee of the Tiger Woods Foundation.
