About
Founded by the thought leaders behind Cisco’s IronPort solutions, the Agari platform revolutionizes email security.
It provides global brands with the tools needed to proactively guard brand reputation, eliminate email threats, protect customers, and prevent the loss of sensitive data. We are dedicated to the promise that email once held and will hold again.
Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, Agari is backed by Alloy Ventures, Battery Ventures, First Round Capital, and Greylock Partners.
Executive Team
Our management team represents some of the most experienced technology professionals in the email, security and cloud industries.
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Patrick Peterson
CEO & Founder
Pat is Agari’s visionary leader and a pioneer in the email business. Pat joined IronPort Systems in 2000 and defined IronPort’s email security appliances. He invented IronPort’s SenderBase, the industry’s first reputation service. In 2008, after Cisco’s acquisition of IronPort, Peterson became one of 13 Cisco Fellows. In 2009, Peterson spun-out email security technologies he developed at IronPort/Cisco into a company he founded, Agari, which secures the email channel. He is currently CEO at Agari, formerly Authentication Metrics, Inc. (AMI), and consults for Cisco as a Cisco Fellow. Peterson chairs the technical committee for the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) and holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
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Daniel Raskin
Vice President of Marketing
Daniel’s mandate is creating and marketing great products. Prior to joining Agari, Daniel held the role of Chief Identity Strategist at Sun Microsystems and was responsible for the vision and direction of Sun’s security portfolio. Prior to that, he led Sun’s Access Management, Federation, and Web Services Security business, as well as driving the Identity Management business unit’s next-generation Identity Services platform. Daniel has held key roles at McGraw-Hill, Barnes & Noble, NComputing, and Rightcenter.com. Daniel holds an International MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management and an MS in Publishing from Pace University.
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David Oller
Vice President of Sales
David’s mandate is exceeding customer expectations. David has more than 25 years of enterprise sales and business development experience and leadership. Over the past 12 years, David has worked with four different security organizations where he grew sales 138% year-over-year on average and was influential in getting all four acquired by organizations like Symantec, McAfee, and Microsoft. Prior to this work, David worked as a sales director at IBM Global Services.
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Kolya Klimenko
Vice President of Engineering
Kolya’s mandate is building innovative high-quality software products. Kolya has more than 20 years of software engineering and leadership experience in banks and successful startups. Prior joining Agari, Kolya lead Platform Engineering at Clairmail Inc., where his team built a mobile banking product that is now deployed in the world’s biggest financial institutions, including eight of the top 10 US banks.
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John Wilson
Director of Sales Engineering
John’s mandate is customer delivery. Prior to joining Agari in September 2010, John held CTO positions at several Silicon Valley startups, including Brandmail Solutions, Concuro, and 365 Media. Before committing to the startup lifestyle, John spent 6 1/2 years at German software giant SAP, where he held a variety of senior engineering posts. As part of his work with SAP, John co-authored two patents in the area of user interface design and data visualization. John holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT.
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Mike Jones
Director of Product Mgmt. & Receiver Services
Mike’s mandate is creating great products and services. Prior to Agari, Mike managed AOL’s Network Operations Center from 1997 – 2004. In 2005, Jones took responsibility for directing AOL’s Anti-Spam Operations and Postmaster. From 2005 – 2010, he helped drive the adoption of email authentication and reputation technologies at AOL and across the industry. Jones has represented AOL as a member of the Board of Directors for the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) and other cross industry initiatives.
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Tim Draegen
Director of Technical Strategy
Tim’s mandate is technical innovation and evangelism. As a software engineer, Tim developed numerous email security technologies including the implementation of the SPF, DKIM and TLS protocols in the IronPort email security appliance product line. Tim was the technology architect and product manager for the development of Cisco’s “Who’s Spoofing” tool, providing visibility and deployment aid related to SPF, DKIM and TLS technologies. Tim works closely with numerous financial institutions, ISPs, and enterprises to design, develop, and adopt the technologies that enable secure, authentication-based email channels. He also co-Chairs the OTA Email Authentication Committee, advocating and educating the larger online ecosystem around the increasing benefits of authenticated email.
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Investors
We are backed by some of the most successful investors in the world.
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Alloy Ventures
Based in Palo Alto, California, the partners of Alloy Ventures have been providing venture capital funding to entrepreneurs since 1977. With over $1 billion under management, Alloy’s focus is on the next generation of ground-breaking Life Science, Information Technology and Cleantech companies. Our current portfolio includes companies like Barrx, Mavenir, Molecular Imprints, NuGen, Optimedica, Pacific Biosciences, Teradici, ViVotech, and YouSendIt which are poised to become the next global leaders. Additional information is available on our website at www.alloyventures.com
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Battery Ventures
Since 1983, Battery has been investing in technology and innovation worldwide. The firm partners with entrepreneurs and management teams across technology sectors, geographies and stages of a company’s life, from start-up and expansion financing, to growth equity and buyouts.
Battery has supported many breakthrough companies around the world, including: Airespace (acquired by Cisco), Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), BladeLogic (acquired by BMC Software), Cbeyond (NASDAQ: CBEY), ITA Software (acquired by Google), LIFFE (acquired by Euronext), MetroPCS (NYSE: PCS), Neoteris (acquired by Netscreen), Omniture (acquired by Adobe), and Skullcandy (NASDAQ-GM: SKUL).
Battery’s current enterprise IT and infrastructure portfolio includes companies such as ActivePath, Calxeda, Opscode, XtremIO, Viddy, VSS Monitoring and Zerto.
From offices in Boston, Silicon Valley and Israel, Battery manages $4B in committed capital, including its current fund of $750M. For more information visit their website or the firm’s infrastructure IT blog. Follow Battery on Twitter at @BatteryVentures.
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First Round Capital
First Round Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm dedicated to helping talented entrepreneurs build great companies. As seed-stage investors, we often provide a company’s first outside capital – and are not afraid of funding pre-revenue companies. First Round Capital’s portfolio is a community of web-enabled businesses led by entrepreneurs, guided by an active partnership and connected through a technology platform designed to support companies throughout their growth. The firm’s current portfolio includes companies like StumbleUpon, OneKingsLane, Bazaarvoice, Modcloth, RockMelt, Uber and Square. First Round Capital invests nationally with offices in San Francisco, New York and Philadelphia.
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Greylock Partners
Greylock partners with entrepreneurs to help them build market-leading businesses. Over the past 45 years the firm has worked with hundreds of companies, 150 of which have gone on to IPOs and 100 of which have gone on to profitable M&A events. Such companies include Ascend Communications, CheckFree, Constant Contact, Continental Cable, Decru, Data Domain, DoubleClick, Internet Security Systems, Legato, Media Metrix, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Openwave, Open Market, OutlookSoft, Polyserve, Red Hat, RightNow Technologies, Success Factors, Tellabs, Trilogy and Wily Technology. Current Greylock portfolio companies include Apptio, Cloudera, Coupons.com, Data Robotics, Facebook, Groupon, Imperva, LinkedIn, One Kings Lane, Palo Alto Networks, Pandora, Picarro, Redfin, Tumblr, Workday and ZipCar.
For more information about Greylock Partners, visit our website or blog or follow us on Facebook or Twitter (@greylockvc).
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Scott Banister
Scott is an entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.
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Job Opportunities
We’re looking for fast thinking, “A” players to join our team. If you want to work at an incredible place that celebrates innovation, leadership and creativity and rewards accomplishment every day, contact us. Please email all applications to jobs@agari.com.
