Driving secure mobile access innovation
At Hypori, our leadership team and board members are united by our shared vision: to revolutionize the way people access information from anywhere. Guided by our core values, we steer the company toward a future that empowers work from anywhere without compromise.
Featured Thought Leaders
Jared N. Shepard
Chief Executive Officer, Board Member
Jared is an experienced and innovative industry leader with over twenty years of information technology, federal services, and sales experience. He is a U.S. Army veteran who, following his time in uniform, became the Lead Technical Planner for III Corps, U.S. Army. Jared deployed from 2003-2005 with CJTF-7 and MNC-I, where he helped architect the U.S.-built DoD (restoring to the DoW) Iraqi network infrastructure. In 2006, he founded Intelligent Waves to support a critical need of the Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO). He personally deployed to build the first Counter-IED Operational Intelligence Center (COIC) into MNC-I, then building COIC capability into every Major Command in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jared grew Intelligent Waves around tactical and strategic needs of the Warfighter. He established Hypori as a spinoff company in 2021 and is a member of the Hypori Board of Directors.
Jared is the Founder and Chair of Warriors Ethos, a veteran-focused 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Jared and Hypori have won numerous awards, including the 2020 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Mid-Atlantic Region), George C. Marshall International Center 2021 Innovation Leadership award, two 2021 Gold Cybersecurity Excellence awards, sixth place in the Security category as a Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company 2021, and Monster.com and Military.com “Top 10 National Company for Veterans” from 2016-2020.
Jared is an experienced and innovative industry leader with over twenty years of information technology, federal services, and sales experience. He is a U.S. Army veteran who, following his time in uniform, became the Lead Technical Planner for III Corps, U.S. Army. Jared deployed from 2003-2005 with CJTF-7 and MNC-I, where he helped architect the U.S.-built DoD (restoring to the DoW) Iraqi network infrastructure. In 2006, he founded Intelligent Waves to support a critical need of the Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO). He personally deployed to build the first Counter-IED Operational Intelligence Center (COIC) into MNC-I, then building COIC capability into every Major Command in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jared grew Intelligent Waves around tactical and strategic needs of the Warfighter. He established Hypori as a spinoff company in 2021 and is a member of the Hypori Board of Directors.
Jared is the Founder and Chair of Warriors Ethos, a veteran-focused 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Jared and Hypori have won numerous awards, including the 2020 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Mid-Atlantic Region), George C. Marshall International Center 2021 Innovation Leadership award, two 2021 Gold Cybersecurity Excellence awards, sixth place in the Security category as a Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company 2021, and Monster.com and Military.com “Top 10 National Company for Veterans” from 2016-2020.
Jim Cushman
President, Board Member
As President of Commercial Markets and Chief Product Officer, Jim Cushman brings to Hypori 3 decades of entrepreneurial grit, strategic product development, and proven high growth experience. In his role at Hypori, Cushman assembles and leads Hypori’s mission of enabling secure, edge access from any device, everywhere. In addition, as Hypori’s Chief Product Officer, he oversees product strategy, management, engineering, and operations. He is also a member of the Hypori Board of Directors.
Cushman’s highly-accomplished career has focused on massively scaling and growing mission-critical product-centric technology companies. Before joining Hypori, Cushman served as CPO at Collibra, where he successfully established a market-leading product strategy and vision for Data Intelligence, built an A-team of practitioners, and substantially helped grow the company.
Before Collibra, Cushman served as SVP and GM for Veeva Systems, where he helped expand the company’s public market cap by nearly 500% in 3 years. Before that, Cushman served as president of commercial & products at Novetta, an advanced analytics company.
Cushman is a coveted and influential speaker at national technology and growth conferences, holds eight technology patents and pending patents, and serves as a Strategic Advisor to numerous software startups. He has a BS in Management and Finance from Purdue University.
As President of Commercial Markets and Chief Product Officer, Jim Cushman brings to Hypori 3 decades of entrepreneurial grit, strategic product development, and proven high growth experience. In his role at Hypori, Cushman assembles and leads Hypori’s mission of enabling secure, edge access from any device, everywhere. In addition, as Hypori’s Chief Product Officer, he oversees product strategy, management, engineering, and operations. He is also a member of the Hypori Board of Directors.
Cushman’s highly-accomplished career has focused on massively scaling and growing mission-critical product-centric technology companies. Before joining Hypori, Cushman served as CPO at Collibra, where he successfully established a market-leading product strategy and vision for Data Intelligence, built an A-team of practitioners, and substantially helped grow the company.
Before Collibra, Cushman served as SVP and GM for Veeva Systems, where he helped expand the company’s public market cap by nearly 500% in 3 years. Before that, Cushman served as president of commercial & products at Novetta, an advanced analytics company.
Cushman is a coveted and influential speaker at national technology and growth conferences, holds eight technology patents and pending patents, and serves as a Strategic Advisor to numerous software startups. He has a BS in Management and Finance from Purdue University.
Matthew Stern
Chief Security Officer
Matt is an experienced cybersecurity executive leader in both the private and public sectors. Matt led professional services for a premier cyber threat intelligence company and the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) contract team. He was also the Program Director for system engineering, design, and deployment of the National Cyber Protection System (EINSTEIN) and the Deputy CIO for the largest ever deployed military communication system supporting 150,000 Operation Iraqi Freedom II soldiers.
Matt is a retired and decorated twenty-two-year U.S. Army combat veteran whose service culminated in command of the Army Computer Emergency Response Team (ACERT). He holds a Master’s Degree in Information Systems and Computer Resource Management from Webster University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Northern Illinois University.
Matt is an experienced cybersecurity executive leader in both the private and public sectors. Matt led professional services for a premier cyber threat intelligence company and the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) contract team. He was also the Program Director for system engineering, design, and deployment of the National Cyber Protection System (EINSTEIN) and the Deputy CIO for the largest ever deployed military communication system supporting 150,000 Operation Iraqi Freedom II soldiers.
Matt is a retired and decorated twenty-two-year U.S. Army combat veteran whose service culminated in command of the Army Computer Emergency Response Team (ACERT). He holds a Master’s Degree in Information Systems and Computer Resource Management from Webster University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Northern Illinois University.
Our Leadership Team
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Jerry Raphael
Chief Financial Officer
As the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Hypori, Jerry Raphael oversees finance, business and legal affairs, human resources, recruiting, and facilities management. With more than 25 years of experience in strategic financial operations, Raphael has a proven record of driving technology companies to succeed through financial scalability, operational excellence, and a people-first culture.
Prior to joining Hypori, Raphael most recently served as the Chief Financial Officer of Securonix, where he was focused on rapidly scaling the security information and event management (SIEM) provider’s profitably. Raphael also held the CFO position at Axonius, a leader in cybersecurity asset management, where he facilitated multiple funding rounds, and led the team through hypergrowth including international expansion. Additionally, he has also held leadership roles at Stack Overflow, Vibrant Media, and WWE, and spent 10 years at Grant Thornton advising clients on SEC regulations as they took their companies public.
Raphael attended Saint John's University’s Peter J. Tobin College of Business and he currently resides in New York.
Eric Wang
Senior Vice President of Product and Engineering
Eric Wang has over twenty years of global experience delivering technology-differentiated solutions to both private and public organizations. He has worked with various businesses ranging from early-stage start-ups to established enterprise businesses, where he built extensive private and public cloud technology platforms. Eric has significant expertise and years of experience in managing Engineering, Cloud Operations, Customer Success, IT, and Infosec teams. He also manages all facets of SaaS public and private cloud applications and infrastructure solutions with a track record of achieving and maintaining 99.99 availability.
Alan Hon
Vice President of Business Operations
As the Vice President of Business Operations at Hypori, Alan Hon leads the company's Marketing, Business Development, Revenue Operations, and Executive Operations functions. With a career defined by building high-performing teams and scaling go-to-market motions at leading SaaS companies, Alan brings a blend of strategic vision and operational discipline to Hypori's growth.
Prior to joining Hypori, Alan held leadership roles across some of the most recognized names in technology, including Payscale, UserTesting, Lyft, and Zuora — gaining deep expertise in revenue operations, business development, and scaling enterprise functions in fast-moving environments.
Alan holds a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree from the University of Washington, as well as an Executive MBA from Loyola Marymount University's College of Business and currently resides in Los Angeles.
Brian Vetter
Chief Virtual Mobile Infrastructure Architect
Brian has over twenty-five years of enterprise software experience and has held leadership positions at Hypori, BlueSpace (now Sterling Computers), Motive, Inc. (now Nokia), and Tivoli (now IBM). He is an expert in mobile software and management, distributed systems management, distributed object technology, networking, nested transaction technologies, and UNIX and Linux operating systems. Brian also contributed to standards for device management at the DLS Forum, CableLabs, and DMTF organizations and for distributed technologies at the Object Management Group (OMG). He is an inventor on twenty-nine patents across five different companies, including at Hypori.
Brian has a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from the University of Texas, Austin.
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