David Krall , President & CEO
David Krall has recently joined QSecure as our President and CEO, and member of our Board of Directors. Prior to joining QSecure, David served for seven years as President and CEO of Avid Technology, Inc., a leading tools provider to the media and entertainment industries, based in Tewksbury Massachusetts. Under David’s leadership, Avid doubled its revenues to just under $1 Billion annually, introduced groundbreaking new products in its core businesses, and expanded into new markets through organic growth and strategic acquisitions.
David brings broad experience to QSecure in the areas of new product development, integration of complex software and hardware solutions, strategy formation, and general management. David has experience working in companies ranging from small startups to public companies with thousands of employees serving worldwide marketplaces.
David holds bachelor of science and master of electrical engineering degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a master of business administration degree, with distinction, from the Harvard Business School.
Kerry Brown, Founder & CTO
Kerry Brown is applying his skills and knowledge of the card-based payment industry acquired as the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of ViVOtech. He is an inventor with more than 10 financial transaction-based patents filed for ViVOtech, in addition to other patents at QSecure. Mr. Brown's ViVOtech contributions have won the Electronics Transaction Association Innovative Technology Award in March 2005, and the Frost and Sullivan Electronic Payment Enabling Technology Award in May 2005.
Prior to founding ViVOtech, Mr. Brown was Founder and CTO of I-Borg, an augmented reality wearable computer systems company. Prior to I-Borg, he was Vice President and Co-Founder of TEMAC, a $4 million joint-venture elemental analysis laboratory with Kawasaki. Prior to co-founding TEMAC, Mr. Brown was Vice President of Hana Microelectronics and Co-Founder of the engineering and marketing division.
Mr. Brown worked as a member of research staff at Xerox-PARC from 1982 to 1988, receiving the Special Achievement Award. Mr. Brown attended educational programs at Stanford University with graduate studies at the University of San Francisco.
Daniel Chatelain, Vice President Operations and Strategic Alliances
Daniel Chatelain started his career more than twenty years ago as a pioneer of the Minitel, focusing on banking, telecommunication and media services. He is a serial entrepreneur and has launched several technology ventures within the EADS Group (Airbus, Ariane Espace, Eurocopter) and the Lagardere Group (Elle, Woman's Day, Car & Driver, Hachette, Canal Satellite).
Mr. Chatelain graduated in 1982 from the University of France with master's degrees in physics and mathematics, and a specialty in semiconductors. He is on the advisory boards of several start-ups in the Silicon Valley and Europe. He is also a founder of BayPay, a Silicon Valley networking group specializing in payments.
Jeffrey Hatch, Vice President Software Engineering
Jeffrey Hatch brings to QSecure nearly 20 years of software engineering experience in large scale, transaction processing and computer systems. He has extensive experience in the banking and card payment and transaction industry as well as in-depth knowledge and expertise in large scale, high volume, database systems and applications development and design. Most recently Mr. Hatch was Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President at Planet Payment, a processor of bank card transactions. In addition Mr. Hatch was a co-Founder and Vice President Engineering of EBalance, providing web based financial management application services.
Mr. Hatch holds an M.S. in Engineering and a B.S. in Electronics Engineering from California Polytechnical State University.
Steven Ray , Vice President Hardware Engineering
Steven Ray brings 20 years of broad hardware engineering and system integration experience to QSecure. His professional experience covers all phases of product development from ‘concepts’ to volume manufacturing. He also possesses a good understanding of IP business models, which was learned from his 10 years of management experience at Rambus. There he led the formation and development of a Systems Engineering organization that supported major OEM partners with their technology adoption and product integration for high-volume manufacturing. Earlier experience includes 8 years at Apple Computer working on hardware engineering & product development for the Macintosh product line.
Mr. Ray earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, and B.S. in Computer Science from the California State Polytechnic University in Pomona.