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Corporate Headquarters
Awareness Technologies
4640 Admiralty Way
Suite 1010
Los Angeles, CA 90292
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About Us
Awareness Technologies is a privately-held security software company based in Los Angeles, CA. It was founded in 2002, originally to provide software tools for national intelligence agencies, but shifted its focus five years ago to building the most practical and powerful security software for businesses and consumers. Awareness Technologies has developed and owns InterGuard, WebWatcher, and Laptop Cop, each a leader in its segment, and each making use of Awareness Technologies’ patented technology.
Awareness Technologies was recently named a 2008 winner of Deloitte’s Fast 500 award, given to the fastest-growing technology and life sciences companies in North America. To better serve its customers, Awareness Technologies remains a private company, 100% owned and run by its management. Our customers include Cabinet-level agencies in the USA, leading corporations worldwide, along with schools, law enforcement, hospitals. For all customers, we deliver the highest-level of performance and innovation, at highly competitive prices.
Product information available at: www.interguardsoftware.com, a leading desktop-based data loss prevention and web-filtering software; www.laptopcopsoftware.com, the most complete laptop theft protection software; www.webwatchernow.com,, the number one internet-based parental monitoring software in the industry.
Senior Management
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Brad Miller
CEO
Brad Miller joined Awareness Technologies in March 2010 as CEO and Chairman. Prior to that, he was the CEO of Perimeter eSecurity where he pioneered Security-in-the-Cloud. Brad grew Perimeter from under $1MM to $60MM in revenues for a compound annual growth rate of over 600%. This outstanding growth rate earned Perimeter numerous awards including Deloitte Fast 50 and 500 5 years in a row. Leveraging these accomplishments Brad secured over $100MM in capital for Perimeter from Goldman Sachs, Bessemer Venture Partners and others.
Prior to his time at Perimeter, Brad was COO of Production Resource Group, which he grew from $30mm to $350mm in 2 years via the acquisition of 24 companies. During that time, Brad raised over $275mm in capital for PRG.
Brad has won several personal awards including Innovator of the Year and was an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. Finally, he and his business accomplishments have been featured in several books including The Business of Software by renowned MIT Sloane Business School professor Michael Cusumano.
Brad started his career at Schroders, an international investment bank, where he focused on Mergers and Acquisitions and founded the Financial Sponsors Group. Prior to that, he received his MBA from Columbia University where he is now a Mentor in the Entrepreneurship Institute helping current students advance their business plans. Brad has served or currently serves on the Boards of Palomar Technologies, Production Resource Group, Perimeter eSecurity and Awareness Technologies.
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Ron Penna
Chief Strategy Officer
Ron Penna is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Awareness Technologies, Inc. Ron has over nineteen years as an entrepreneur and senior executive, having built and sold several companies in that time.
Prior to starting Awareness Technologies, Ron co-founded and sold Search Engine Performance Group, a highly sophisticated Search Engine Optimization company which counted many of the world's largest and most high profile companies as its clients. Ron was able to use his strong team building skills and broad knowledge of technology to organize a group of highly diverse individuals and galvanize them into a cohesive group that grew from zero to almost $30 million in sales in less than two years. Search Engine Performance Group was ultimately acquired because of its innovative technology and high EBITDA by 24/7 Media (TFSM) in August of 2000.
After the SEPG exit, Ron began consulting with several intelligence agencies to help them address using sophisticated monitoring software to address the growing terrorist threat. Ron realized that his experience in hunting the ultimate prey - terrorists - had given him the knowledge with which to create the ultimate enterprise internal threat security software - InterGuard.
With that in mind, and recognizing the need of all organizations to monitor computer use and communications, Ron co-founded Awareness Technologies.
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Mike Osborn
Chief Operations Officer
Mike Osborn is COO of Awareness Technologies, Inc. With over eighteen years of entrepreneurial and senior executive experience and over twelve years in software development, Mike has overseen the operations of every facet of business. As one of the founders of Awareness Technologies, Mike was able to use his years of experience starting and running highly profitable technology businesses to take Awareness Technologies to profitability very quickly.
Prior to starting Awareness Technologies, Mike had co-founded and sold Search Engine Performance Group, a highly sophisticated Search Engine Optimization company which counted many of the world's largest and most high-profile companies as its clients. Mike was able to take Search Engine Performance Group from a two-man startup to a highly successful technology company with very high EBITDA in less than two years. Search Engine Performance Group was ultimately acquired because of its innovative technology and high EBITDA by 24/7 Media (TFSM) in August of 2000.
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Tom Bilyeu
Chief Marketing Officer
Tom Bilyeu is Awareness Technologies’ Chief Marketing Officer. Tom joined the company soon after its founding, in 2003. From the beginning, he has played a formative role in both developing the features and functions of our software, and leading our sales and marketing activities. Tom is responsible for delivering our high levels of customer satisfaction and guiding the strategic direction of Awareness Technologies' marketing initiatives. He also oversees our relationships with partner-resellers in retail and the VAR channel. Tom is a graduate of University of Southern California.
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Jason Fitch
Chief Technology Officer
Jason Fitch is our Chief Technology Officer. He has been with the company since its inception in 2002, and now oversees our programming team based in our Los Angeles headquarters. Jason previously was CTO of a successful internet software business that was sold to a publicly-traded company in the US. Jason has extensive experience designing and managing the development of our enterprise software suite, both our patent-protected client agent and our SaaS-based infrastructure.
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