Alberto Yépez

J. Alberto Yépez joined Trident as a Venture Partner in 2007 and will be a Managing Director in Fund VII focusing on Enterprise Software and IT Security. Prior to Joining Trident, Alberto was Vice President of Identity Management and Security Strategy at Oracle. He joined Oracle through the acquisition of Thor Technologies, Inc. a Trident portfolio company that was a leading provider of identity management solutions. Mr. Yépez served as Chairman, President and CEO of Thor Technologies, leading it from the pre-revenue stage to rapid growth and global expansion, with a customer base that included many of the premier companies in financial services, telecommunications and manufacturing markets.

Prior to Thor Technologies, in his more than 20-year career building successful global businesses in enterprise security and infrastructure software, Alberto was entrepreneur-in-residence at Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm.

Alberto was co-CEO and a member of the board of directors of Entrust, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENTU), a leading provider of information security solutions, which he joined after the successful merger of enCommerce, Inc., a leading provider of access management and portal infrastructure solutions. Alberto co-founded and was chairman and CEO of enCommerce from its inception. In addition, he held senior management positions at Apple Computer and several other Silicon Valley-based start-ups.

Alberto currently serves on the board of Trident following portfolio companies HyTrust (a virtualization security and compliance company) and AirTight Networks (wireless security). In addition, he actively works with other companies in the portfolio as an advisor to management, including Arxan, TriCipher and Voltage.

Alberto attended the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and holds a B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Electronic Physics from the University of San Francisco. He also attended the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in Lima, Perú.

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