AGILEBITS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Accel Partner
Arun Mathew joined Accel in 2009 and leads growth investments in the enterprise, security, and infrastructure markets.
Arun works closely with 1Password, BetterCloud, Code42, Dealer.com, ForgeRock, G2, PagerDuty, Qualtrics, ServiceChannel, Squarespace, Tenable, Webflow, XebiaLabs, and Yapstone. Arun also leads Accel's Tech Council initiatives and spends time in India, where he is active with the firm's investments in Flipkart, BookMyShow, Ola, and Freshworks.
Arun is from Nashville, Tennessee, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Founder
- Member of the Board of Directors
Dave Teare is a co-founder of AgileBits alongside Roustem Karimov, Natalia Karimov, and Sara Teare. When he started 1Password in 2005, freedom from commuting and being able to spend more time with family were at the forefront of his mind.
He's incredibly proud of the environment he's helped create since those startup days - one that allows ideas to blossom and grow into successful products and processes. This culture encourages the implementation of new and better ideas so 1Password is always working toward a better future.
Dave is also committed to a flexible approach to the customer experience. It allows the team to be inventive with how they delight 1Password users. Dave's happy place is working with customers one-on-one to understand their needs and then creating solutions, whether that means teaching them about existing features or writing a new line of code to make improvements.
When he's not being a jack of all trades at 1Password or hanging out on X (formerly Twitter), Dave loves to relax with his kids, friends, and family in Ontario, Canada, while playing board and card games, or catching them all with Pokémon Go.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Team
- 1Password As President and Chief Operating Officer
- Co - CEO
David Faugno joined 1Password as President and Chief Operating Officer in 2023, bringing more than 30 years of global financial and business operations experience.
David was most recently a Venture Partner at Accel. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President, both as Chief Financial Officer and in the Office of the CEO, at Qualtrics, the leader in experience management. Before joining Qualtrics, he served as the CFO of Barracuda Networks, Senior Director of Corporate Finance - M&A at Cisco Systems, and held sales and finance roles at AT&T, including CFO of AT&T EMEA.
David's extensive experience has earned him significant recognition, including Francisco Partners' Portfolio CFO of the Year in 2012 and Silicon Valley Business Journal's CFO of the Year in 2013. He is a graduate of Rutgers University and holds an MBA from Duke University. David and his wife live in Los Gatos, California, and spend time in Utah and on the East Coast.
Erin Zipes - Chief Legal Officer
Job Titles:
- Chief Legal Officer
- Member of the Executive Team
Erin Zipes joined 1Password in 2022 to lead the company's legal function. Previously, she served as Vice President, Assistant General Counsel at Shopify from pre-IPO in 2014 until December 2021. Before that, she was Assistant General Counsel at Nordion and started her legal career at Stikeman Elliott.
Erin was a Founding Partner at Backbone Angels, an investor collective of women in tech focused on empowering women and non-binary founders who are often overlooked. Erin and Backbone Angels were a part of 1Password's Series C funding in early 2022.
Erin lives in Ottawa with her husband, two teenagers, and their dog. She is an aspiring runner (in reality a jogger) and enjoys cooking, baking, and spending time with her family.
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the Executive Team
- Chief Financial Officer ( CFO ) at 1Password
Jeannie De Guzman is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at 1Password. With over a decade of experience working in senior financial roles at some of the most recognizable names in Canadian technology, Jeannie's expertise sees her steering the financial direction at 1Password.
She joined the company shortly after its Series A funding round and built many of the back office functions and operations from the ground up. Jeannie was part of 1Password's Series B funding round, which doubled the company's valuation, as well as its Series C round, which, at $620 million USD, marked the largest funding round in Canadian history.
Before joining 1Password, Jeannie worked at OpenText, Canada's largest publicly traded software company, where she oversaw all treasury functions as Senior Manager of Corporate Finance. She then moved on to the software company BlueCat Networks as VP of Finance, where she scaled the finance team and oversaw sales operations. BlueCat was acquired by private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners in 2017 for $400 million CAD.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Executive Team
- Co - CEO
- Co - CEO of 1Password
Jeff Shiner is the co-CEO of 1Password, a leader in identity security and extended access management. Since joining in 2012, Jeff has grown 1Password from a 20-person team into a global organization of 1,300 employees valued at $6.8 billion. Today, 1Password enables millions of individuals to navigate the digital world securely and over 150,000 businesses to protect their modern workplace by securing every sign-in to every app on every device-whether managed or unmanaged. Under Jeff's leadership, 1Password has earned recognition on the Forbes Cloud 100, Fortune Cyber 60, and Canada's Top 100 Employers lists and has received Fast Company's Innovation by Design and Brands That Matter awards.
Prior to joining 1Password, Jeff held leadership roles at IBM Canada and Rosetta and has a demonstrated history of growing technology companies. Jeff also currently serves on the Board of Directors of GenomOncology, a company that provides the healthcare community with data-driven insights to improve cancer care.
Jeff is a noted speaker at global industry events like Web Summit, Collision, and the C100, and regularly provides commentary in publications like Bloomberg, Fast Company, Forbes, The Globe and Mail, Dark Reading, and TechCrunch, among others.
When he's not busy being a CEO, Jeff enjoys watching the 49ers, spending time on his tractor, and adding to his LEGO collection with his son - he's the proud owner of more than 1,000 pounds of bricks!
Job Titles:
- Chief Revenue Officer
- Member of the Executive Team
Before joining 1Password in 2020, Julian Teixeira served as the Senior Vice President of Global Sales at Lightspeed, a company he helped scale from startup to IPO and through over 10 company acquisitions. Before Lightspeed, Julian held several roles in sales and marketing at Bell Canada and Consumer Impact Marketing (CIM).
Julian joined 1Password because of its customer-centric culture and the love customers have for 1Password products. In his current role, Julian leads the teams responsible for growth and overall customer health of the companies and users that 1Password supports.
Through Julian's team, 1Password gains vital insights into what the market expects from a security partner and how 1Password can continue to meet customer needs as they evolve. When Julian's not working on shaping the customer journey, he loves cycling outdoors.
Job Titles:
- Chief People Officer
- Member of the Executive Team
- Chief People Officer at 1Password
- Member of the Ordre
Katya Laviolette is the Chief People Officer at 1Password, where she doubled the fully remote workforce to nearly 900 employees across five countries in 2022 and hit a record 83% offer-to-acceptance rate.
Katya believes that HR programs must be strategically aligned with business priorities and does so with a global mindset. She's passionate about creating a positive work culture and has been recognized for her ability to influence and drive business innovation through both talent and organizational development.
Before joining 1Password, Katya held executive positions at SSENSE, TC Transcontinental, CBC/Radio-Canada, Rio Tinto, Bombardier Aerospace, and Canadian National Railway. She's also a board director with Sanimax and Laps, two global organizations focused on the circular economy.
Katya is a member of the Ordre des conseillers en ressources humaines agréés (ORHRI), as well as a certified coach with Integral Coaching Canada. Katya is actively involved in her community, having served many years on the board of Pour 3 Points (P3P), as well as mentoring women leaders through the Governance au Féminin organization.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President of Revenue at Cloudflare
Mark Anderson is the President of Revenue at Cloudflare and a key member of its executive leadership team. From 2019 to early 2024, Mark also served on Cloudflare's board of directors.
Before joining Cloudflare, Mark served as CEO of Alteryx, where he successfully expanded the company's market presence and drove significant revenue growth. Prior to that, he was the President of Palo Alto Networks, playing a pivotal role in scaling the company from less than $200 million to over $2.5 billion in revenue. As CRO at F5, Mark oversaw dramatic growth from less than $200 million to over $1.5 billion. Mark also held leadership positions at Cisco Systems and Lucent Technologies, where he led enterprise sales and strategic business development initiatives.
Mark earned a Bachelor's degree in Business and Economics from York University, and he is widely recognized for his expertise in scaling organizations and driving sustained growth.
Job Titles:
- Chief Marketing Officer
- Chief Marketing Officer ( CMO ) at 1Password
Melton Littlepage is the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at 1Password, with a track record of more than 20 years of innovation, category creation, and growth acceleration at innovative technology companies.
Melton was previously the CMO at Outreach, the leading sales execution platform helping individual sales reps and whole revenue organizations create more pipeline and close more deals. At Outreach, Melton led the global teams responsible for strategic communications, brand, demand generation, customer expansion, product marketing, community, and sales development.
He joined Outreach from Tenable, where he led marketing for one of the most respected and innovative brands in cybersecurity and helped the company evolve from consumer and small and medium-sized business (SMB) markets into enterprise. Before Tenable, he served as Senior Vice President of Marketing at New Relic and as CMO at Schoology, the edtech leader acquired by PowerSchool. He also held a succession of marketing leadership roles for more than 10 years at Concur, a multibillion-dollar global B2B SaaS leader.
Melton, his wife, and their three Labrador Retrievers live in the suburbs of Washington, DC.
Natalia is a co-founder of AgileBits alongside Dave Teare, Roustem Karimov, and Sara Teare. She's proud of how quickly 1Password has been able to grow and adapt to continuously improve. One of Natalia's favorite memories is seeing her husband, Roustem, present at an Apple conference right after Steve Jobs.
In her spare time, Natalia loves binge-watching TV shows with Roustem. She's also an avid reader and once read every book on The New York Times Best Seller list of that year.
Job Titles:
- Chief Technology Officer
- Member of the Executive Team
- Chief Technology Officer ( CTO ) at 1Password
- Vice President of Engineering for Security and Privacy at Facebook
Pedro Canahuati is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at 1Password. Before joining the company, Pedro spent 12 years at Facebook (now Meta), where he held a number of roles committed to scaling its global infrastructure and ensuring 24/7 availability by developing a new industry standard for operations at scale named Production Engineering.
In his role as Vice President of Engineering for Security and Privacy at Facebook, Pedro focused on protecting users and their data. Before Facebook, he led geographically dispersed teams, scaling complex web operations for companies like Buzz Media, Qloud, NameMedia, and Verio (NTT).
Pedro holds degrees in Computer Science and Information Systems from the University of Maryland and American InterContinental University.
At 1Password, Pedro applies his experience scaling teams and technology for one of the largest tech companies in the world, ensuring 1Password remains a leader in privacy and security. He drives product and infrastructure development for the company's production environments, client apps, data systems, and IT. He ensures 1Password is building robust, reliable products and services that serve families and businesses.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Founder
- Member of the Board of Directors
Roustem Karimov is a co-founder of AgileBits alongside Dave Teare, Natalia Karimov, and Sara Teare.
Roustem and Dave started 1Password as a quick side project to solve the annoyance of needing to remember so many passwords when signing in to different websites and apps.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Member of the Board of Directors
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- ICONIQ Partner