Leadership and Board

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 President and Chief Executive Officer, Board Member

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 N. Shepard President and Chief Executive Officer, Board Member
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.

Jim Cushman Chief Product Officer and President, Commercial, Board Member

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.

Jim Cushman Chief Product Officer and President, Commercial, Board Member
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.

Matthew Stern Chief Security Officer

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.

Matthew Stern Chief Security Officer
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.

Our Leadership Team

Jerry Raphael Chief Financial Officer

Jerry Raphael

Chief Financial Officer

Jerry Raphael Chief Financial Officer
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, Software Engineering and Development

Eric Wang

Senior Vice President of Product and Engineering

Eric Wang Senior Vice President, Software Engineering and Development
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.

Hit Kang

Senior Vice President of Customer Success

Hit Kang
Senior Vice President of Customer Success

Hit Kang is a Senior Vice President of Customer Success at Hypori, where he leads the company's customer success strategy and organization. A seasoned technology executive, Hit has extensive experience building and scaling global customer success organizations driving customer adoption, retention, and growth across enterprise and public sector markets. He is passionate about creating customer centric cultures that connect technology to measurable business outcomes and build lasting customer partnerships.

John Seaman

Vice President of Sales, Commercial Sector

John Seaman
Vice President of Sales, Commercial Sector

John Seaman is Vice President of Sales, Commercial  Sector at Hypori, where he leads the company’s commercial go-to-market strategy and is building its commercial sales organization, extending Hypori’s reach beyond its government base into the Defense Industrial Base and regulated industries.

John brings ten years of SaaS sales experience in DevOps and cybersecurity, having worked his way up from individual contributor to VP. Along the way, he has worked at companies including Axonius, Liquibase, CrowdStrike, JASK, and Bazaarvoice. John joined Axonius as an early employee, when the company had less than $3 million in revenue, and over five years helped grow the business and build out its sales organization in several different roles. When he left, Axonius was at roughly $130 million in ARR with more than 600 employees.

John has built BDR, SDR, and AE teams from the ground up, along with the processes that let them scale, and leads from the front with a focus on ownership and speed. He is based in Texas, having recently returned to the US after almost two years in Europe.

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Brian Vetter Chief Virtual Mobile Infrastructure Architect

Brian Vetter

Chief Virtual Mobile Infrastructure Architect

Brian Vetter Chief Virtual Mobile Infrastructure Architect
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.

Thomas Walheim

Vice President of Engineering Operations

Thomas Walheim
Vice President of Engineering Operations

As Vice President of Engineering Operations at Hypori, Tom Walheim leads the engineering operations that maintain and support Hypori’s SaaS-based virtual mobile platform for government and commercial customers. Tom joined the company in 2022 as Director of Cybersecurity and Deputy Chief Security Officer, where he led the security and compliance efforts to achieve and maintain its DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) and FedRAMP High authorizations. He also served as Director of Strategic Programs, managing operations, support, and customer satisfaction for Hypori’s federal customers. Before joining Hypori, Tom spent more than 25 years in engineering and leadership roles in network security, encryption, and information systems at L3 Technologies, General Dynamics, 3Com, and others, protecting classified and unclassified government data. He holds a BSEE from Villanova University and has been an active CISSP since 2003.

Alan Hon

Vice President of Business Operations

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.

Board Members

Bill Conroy Board Member and Investor

Bill Conroy

Board Member and Investor

Bill Conroy Board Member and Investor
Bill Conroy
Board Member and Investor
Martin M. Hale, Jr. Board Member

Martin M. Hale, Jr.

Board Member

Martin M. Hale, Jr. Board Member
Martin M. Hale, Jr.
Board Member
Ray Lane Board Member and Investor

Ray Lane

Board Member and Investor

Ray Lane Board Member and Investor
Ray Lane
Board Member and Investor
General John Mike Murray (ret.)

General John Mike Murray (ret.)

Board Member

General John Mike Murray (ret.)
General John Mike Murray (ret.)
Board Member

Rich Sawchak

Board Member

Rich Sawchak
Board Member

Executive Board of Advisors

Richard D. Clarke General (Retired)

Richard D. Clarke

General (Retired)

Richard D. Clarke General (Retired)
Richard D. Clarke
General (Retired)
Dana Deasy Honorable

Dana Deasy

Honorable

Dana Deasy Honorable
Dana Deasy
Honorable
James “Hondo” Geurts Honorable

James “Hondo” Geurts

Honorable

James “Hondo” Geurts Honorable
James “Hondo” Geurts
Honorable
Sir Timothy Buchan Radford

Sir Timothy Buchan Radford

General (Retired)

Sir Timothy Buchan Radford
Sir Timothy Buchan Radford
General (Retired)

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