About Tehama
Tehama is the fastest, easiest, most secure way to deploy a virtual workforce. With our unique cybersecurity platform, enterprises can safely create cloud-based virtual offices, enclaves, and desktops anywhere in the world.
Tehama's Origin Story
How a global security challenge sparked the creation of modern Enclave-as-a-Service
Tehama began as a real-world solution to a real-world problem. Before becoming its own company, Tehama was an idea born inside Pythian, a global remote systems and data operations firm whose engineers supported hundreds of highly regulated customers around the world.
Between 2006 and 2016, Pythian’s teams accessed systems governed by nearly every major compliance regime: NERC CIP, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, PIPEDA, SOX, FINRA, and more. As customer requirements grew stronger, and increasingly contradictory, one truth became clear:  No single security posture on a service provider’s local device could ever satisfy every customer’s compliance needs.
Some customers required specific endpoint threat detection software, privileged management software, security configurations or operating system patch levels. Seen together, customers demanded completely incompatible configurations. It became unmanageable. The answer wasn’t more tools—it was isolation into data enclaves.
The First Breakthrough: Adminiscope
To solve this, Pythian built Adminiscope: an early secure-access platform that created isolated virtual machines and networking for each customer, complete with session recording and supervisory controls to reduce insider risk. It was award-winning and allowed Pythian to meet the most stringent requirements of highly regulated clients.
Adminiscope worked. Well enough that it drew the attention of major enterprises, including Arm, where only Pythian had ever earned remote access to that point, and only because of Adminiscope. Arm wanted to use Adminiscope to secure its entire supplier ecosystem. But Adminiscope was built for the opposite direction: a supplier accessing many enterprises, not enterprises securing many suppliers.
Supporting Arm’s request would require a complete architectural redesign. And it needed to be cloud-native.
The Birth of Tehama
In 2016, we began rewriting the platform from the ground up. This time, for enterprises that needed to secure third parties, contractors, and distributed teams at scale. We built governed virtual desktops, automated policy controls, multi-cloud capabilities, and forensic auditability into a single architecture.
In 2018, Tehama officially launched in New York City at an event keynoted by Bruce Schneier himself.
It was the first platform of its kind:Â a fully cloud-native Enclave-as-a-Service platform designed to isolate systems and data, secure the supply chain, and enforce Zero-Trust principles globally.
Founding customers included Arm, Pythian, Upwork, and others across technology, financial services, and regulated industries who needed a better way to control access and protect sensitive data.
A Head Start the Industry Is Only Catching Up To
While “enclaves” have recently emerged as a new category, especially within CMMC and federal markets, Tehama has been building, scaling, and refining cloud enclaves for nearly a decade. Tehama hosts well over 100 enclaves in production.
This maturity is one of Tehama’s greatest differentiators: our platform is not a reaction to today’s compliance trends—it is the result of ten years of solving tomorrow’s problems ahead of time.
Independence and the Next Chapter
After several years of venture-backed growth, Tehama’s management team acquired the company in 2023. Today, Tehama operates as a profitable independent business with a clear mission: to provide the most secure, efficient, and compliant way for enterprises to create and manage enclaves anywhere in the world.
From its roots in solving a practical operational challenge to becoming the leading Enclave-as-a-Service platform, Tehama remains focused on one purpose:
helping organizations control access, isolate data, and secure their supply chain, simply, effectively, and at a global scale.
Tehama Board of Directors
Paul VallĂ©e is the founder and CEO of Ottawa-based Tehama Technologies. Widely regarded as a visionary, he is known for his ability to identify market opportunities and translate complex technical concepts into practical, business-oriented solutions.Â
Paul’s experience and expertise in the areas of AI and data governance, cybersecurity, and cloud computing, have contributed to Tehama becoming an industry-leading cybersecurity platform for the delivery of secure hybrid and remote work. Under his leadership, Tehama has helped many organizations increase operational efficiency, reduce security risks, and enhance overall competitiveness.
Paul is a Centre for International Governance Innovation Senior Fellow and is active in the Council of Canadian Innovators. He is also a member of the Digital Governance Council (formerly the CIO Strategy Council of Canada), which works through its members across the public and private sectors to strengthen trust in Canada’s digital economy by collaboratively identifying, prioritizing, and acting on digital governance opportunities and challenges. Paul currently serves on the Digital Governance Council’s advisory body on AI ethics and is involved in shaping the CAN/CIOSC 100-1 Data Protection of Digital Assets standard.Â
Paul is also recognized for his ability to assemble and lead high-performing teams and his commitment to fostering positive and dynamic company cultures. In 2016 he was named Diversity Champion by Women in Communications and Technology.Â
Rob White is a technology executive and strategic advisor who has spent the last 25 years working with start-ups and established companies across the Canadian tech industry. Since 2019, he has served as Chief Financial Officer for Tehama Technologies, where he has played a key role in establishing Tehama as a leader in providing solutions for safely onboarding global staff, managing secure access to sensitive data, and delivering work immediately.
In addition to his role at Tehama Technologies, Rob serves as a Strategic Advisor for MindBridge Ai, a company that uses artificial intelligence to help auditors detect financial anomalies and errors. He is also Executive Chair of L-Spark, a Canadian technology accelerator that helps early-stage companies grow and succeed through mentorship, funding, and other resources. His extensive experience in the technology industry and his track record of success in marketing, sales and business operations has made him a valuable resource for the companies in the L-Spark program. Rob is also an executive board member at Cliniconex,
a Canadian healthtech company that provides patient communication solutions to healthcare providers.
Prior to joining Tehama, Rob was CFO for You.i TV, a company that builds products that help media and entertainment companies deliver the best experiences for their customers on every screen. Prior to that, he spearheaded M&A for IBM’s analytics business after having led the post-merger integration of Cognos into IBM. Rob began his software career with Object Technology International where he served as CFO and COO.
Rob has accreditations as a CPA, CA and CMA and earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa.
Kevin Haaland brings to Tehama Technologies more than 20 years of leadership experience in the technology sector where he has spearheaded software development programs within multi-national, globally distributed organizations, as well as emerging startups.
A results-oriented leader with a proven track record for guiding agile teams from concept to delivery and adoption of software solutions, Kevin’s experience includes the Eclipse open source platform and IBM Cognos business intelligence teams. He was also the director responsible for the creation and launch of IBM Watson Analytics, a SaaS offering which delivered breakthrough innovations as a data discovery tool and predictive analytics solution. As an internationally recognized software professional, Kevin received the ACM Software System award in 2011.
Prior to joining Tehama, Kevin served as Vice President of Sales for North America at GFI Software, a provider of network security and email messaging software solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. He is also an Executive Fellow with Mistral Ventures, a private venture capital firm based in Canada that invests in technology startups and provides support to help these companies grow and scale.
Kevin holds Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) and Master of Computer Science (MCS) degrees from Carleton University.
Mick Miralis is an accomplished technology executive with more than three decades of experience in the IT infrastructure, end-user computing, and cybersecurity sectors. He has a proven track record of devising and implementing effective strategies that foster partner ecosystems, drive sales transformation, and expand into new markets globally, spanning APAC, the Americas, and EMEA.
As Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) of Tehama Technologies, Mick spearheads the company’s go-to-market strategy, which relies exclusively on its channel partners. He is responsible for introducing Tehama’s innovative and secure hybrid and remote work platform to the marketplace, nurturing a partner-centric ecosystem, and driving growth across the world.
Prior to joining Tehama, Mick held various leadership positions at CA Technologies for 17 years, including launching new products, driving market development, and sales in APAC, EMEA and emerging markets. Subsequently, he spent seven years at Citrix establishing its CSP business in the Americas and expanding it into the mid-market and enterprise. He also spent two years at Star2Star, a Sangoma Company, developing their pre-IPO channel growth strategy for the mid-market and enterprise and launched new remote work and DaaS service offerings.
