Management team
Michael Fertik
Founder and
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Fertik founded Reputation.com with the belief that people and businesses have the right to control and protect their online reputation and privacy. Credited with pioneering the field of online reputation management (ORM), Fertik is lauded as the world's leading cyberthinker in digital privacy and reputation.
He is a member of the World Economic Forum Agenda Council on Internet Security and recipient of the World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer 2011 Award. Fertik is an industry commentator with guest columns in Harvard Business Review, The Huffington Post, Reuters and Newsweek. He is also co-author of the bestselling book, "Wild West 2.0." Fertik founded his first Internet company while at Harvard College. He received his JD from Harvard Law School.
Owen Tripp
Co-Founder and
Chief Operating Officer
A Silicon Valley insider and Web enthusiast, co-founder Owen Tripp has helped build Reputation.com into the world's leading resource on online reputation management and digital privacy. He’s responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of the global organization, including sales, business development, corporate development
and company operations.
Prior to Reputation.com, Tripp spent much of his career conceiving and building award-winning systems for operational improvement, including the innovative User Behavior Intelligence team at eBay and large-scale, international operations centers at Accenture. Tripp holds a BA with honors in Spanish literature from Trinity College and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Shrey Bhatia
President
Shrey Bhatia is responsible for Reputation.com’s Sales, Marketing and Product organizations globally. He comes to the position with more than twenty years experience in building and managing world-class teams in the enterprise software, storage and cloud computing space.
Most recently, Bhatia served as senior vice president, worldwide field operations at Zscaler, the world’s largest stand-alone cloud security provider. There, he built field organizations across the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America. Prior to that, Bhatia grew IronPort’s international revenues from 0 to a $250 million run-rate by building and managing operations across 40 countries. Bhatia has held executive and strategic roles at Cisco Systems, IronPort Systems (acquired by Cisco) and Veritas Software (acquired by Symantec), GE and GE Capital.
Bhatia earned his MBA at Harvard University and his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Rutgers University.
Howard Bragman
Vice Chairman
Howard Bragman is a renowned public relations expert and industry forecaster. Bragman has a multifaceted role at Reputation.com, where he uses his image-crafting and crisis management expertise to raise awareness about the importance of managing one’s online image. He also serves as a consultant on the development of the company's
reputation-building solutions.
Bragman founded the LA-based PR agency, Fifteen Minutes, which he continues to be involved in as chairman. Prior to founding Fifteen Minutes, he started Bragman, Nyman, Cafarelli, now PMK/BNC, which he and his partners sold to Interpublic Group. Earlier, he was a vice president at industry giant Burson-Marsteller.
Paul Kirincich
Chief Financial Officer
Paul Kirincich comes to Reputation.com with a deep background in analytics and consumer subscription business models. Most recognizably, Kirincich built the forecast and analytical team at Netflix, which provides the company its core competitive advantage and the system that it relies on today when making
key business decisions.
Previously, as CFO at Extend Health, Inc., a retiree health insurance sales and service company serving Fortune 1000 companies and government entities, Kirincich led the generation of more than 2X revenue growth within a year. He also has experience as an independent strategy consultant focusing on high-tech startup turnarounds with companies including Tandem Computers, Octel Communications Corp. and Lucent Technologies.
Kirincich holds a BA from Wesleyan University in math and economics, and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Tom Dignan
Vice President of Research
Tom Dignan leads Reputation.com’s technical research. Prior to joining the company, Dignan was vice president of engineering at Hands-on Mobile, where he managed a cross-functional international team responsible for building infrastructure and applications for mobile devices.
Dignan has also led engineering teams at Yahoo!, Earthlink and Excite@Home, and has proven expertise in architecting large-scale consumer Internet systems. A graduate of San Francisco State University, Dignan received his PhD in high-energy physics from Harvard University and spent time at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center as a postdoctoral scholar.
Brent Franson
Senior Director of
Advanced Client Solutions
Brent Franson is a recognized search engine-marketing authority with a proven track record of creating powerful online search marketing strategies. Before coming to Reputation.com, he founded and built a successful global full-service search engine marketing firm with offices in Mountain View, Denver, Philadelphia, Bangalore and
India.
In his current role as senior director of our ReputationDefender Client Solutions, he uses his decade of experience in search marketing strategy and deep search algorithm expertise to manage and maintain our clients' online reputations.
Sachin Kansal
Vice President of
Product Management
Sachin Kansal, who comes to us with more than a decade of high-tech product management experience, is responsible for setting and executing the global product and design strategy at Reputation.com. Most recently, he was director of product management at Palm (now a division of Hewlett Packard). In his various product management roles there,
he launched more than 20 high-profile products worldwide, including the webOS operating system, the Palm Pre smartphone and the recent HP Touchpad tablet.
Kansal’s passion lies in simplifying consumers’ lives by creating elegant solutions to their problems. He’s authored several patents in the fields of mobile communication, location technologies and media, and is a regular guest lecturer at Stanford University. Kansal graduated with a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Gujarat University, India, and a master’s in management sciences and engineering from Stanford University.
Sonny Aulakh
Vice President of
Customer Success
Sonny Aulakh focuses on all elements of customer satisfaction at Reputation.com, including retaining and growing existing customer base, identifying new product opportunities and customer strategies. Under Aulakh’s leadership, teams focus on the critically important value of customer success, ensuring that each customer gets
the maximum value from Reputation.com’s products and services.
Aulakh has more than 15 years of experience in business and technology leadership roles. Prior to joining Reputation.com, Aulakh managed Zscaler's Support and Channel sales organization. Before his tenure at Zscaler, Aulakh was instrumental in growing IronPort's international sales engineering and services team, which spanned across 40 countries. Aulakh has held executive and strategic roles at Cisco Systems, IronPort (acquired by Cisco), Rainfinity (acquired by EMC) and Adept Technology. Aulakh holds an MBA from UC Davis and a bachelor's degree in engineering from California State University, Sacramento.
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