About Tehama
Tehama is the fastest, easiest, most secure way to deploy a virtual workforce. With our next-generation DaaS platform, enterprises can create cloud-based virtual offices, workrooms, and desktops anywhere in the world.
Tehama's Origin Story
Tehama was born inside Pythian, a managed services business focused on high-value revenue generating systems in media, technology and e-commerce. Originally known as Adminiscope, Tehama was the technology that permitted Pythian’s workforce, mostly working from home in 36 countries, to provide privileged services to compliance-sensitive customer data and systems using their own devices.
In an era of frequent headlines and rising concerns about data breaches, we identified a need to provide better cybersecurity and compliance measures to customers.
Pythian developed groundbreaking tools that enabled teams to work and interact seamlessly with sensitive systems while working from home, eliminating the need to ship laptops all over the world. These tools evolved to become Tehama.
As demand for the platform surged in its first year of availability, Tehama spun out from Pythian as a totally separate, standalone company in 2019.
Our remote work vision for Tehama has been dramatically accelerated as a result of the global pandemic. Enterprises are rethinking their way of working and urgently need to adopt tools that enable the secure exchange of work over the internet.
Tehama Leadership Team
Paul Vallée is the founder and CEO of Tehama and a serial entrepreneur who has spent his career at the forefront of cutting-edge technologies that enable the exchange of work over the internet.
When founding Pythian in 1997, Paul envisioned a future that allows anyone to work from anywhere. Perceiving an opportunity for the Internet and related technologies to unlock human potential, he set out to apply and invent technology that could securely connect global workforces to enterprise IT systems.
Paul was a pioneer in remote connectivity technology and lays claim to the first application of IPSEC VPN technology to enable enterprises to consume services over the internet. Paul founded Pythian as a data-centric services business with a focus on remote work, and under his leadership, the company developed groundbreaking tools that enable teams to work and interact seamlessly and securely even when dispersed across multiple continents. It is at Pythian that Tehama was born, then launched to the public in 2018, and now spun out to develop its opportunity to help global enterprises seeking to secure their services supply chain.
With Tehama now independent, Paul has redoubled his commitment to the future of work. Tehama’s Virtual Office as a Service technology makes it easy for enterprises to manage, onboard and audit third-party vendors, remote teams, and freelancers by providing compliant, secure, cloud-based virtual desktops available on-demand globally.
Paul is a sought-after speaker who was named 2016’s Diversity Champion by Canada’s Women in Com
In addition to his role as CFO at Tehama, Rob is an adviser to and investor in start-up technology firms, with over 20 years of experience in software industry finance, operations and M&A. Previously, he led M&A for IBM’s analytics business after having led the post-merger integration of Cognos into IBM. Rob started his software career with Object Technology International where he served as CFO and COO. He has accreditations as a CPA, CA and CMA and has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa.
Kevin Haaland is a proven leader with over 20 years of leadership experience. He is results oriented with a track record of leading agile teams from concept though to delivery and adoption of software solutions.He has significant experience as a development leader in multi-national, globally distributed organizations as well as emerging startups.Kevin has lead teams responsible for the Eclipse open source platform, IBM Cognos business intelligence teams and was 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.Kevin is an internationally recognized software professional, having received the ACM Software System award in 2011.
Mick has a proven history of building, coaching and leading channels and direct sales teams in the US and Internationally with an equally successful track record of developing and executing impactful strategies to build Partner ecosystems, accelerate Sales transformation and developing new markets to drive top line growth.
Board of Directors
Paul Vallée
Founder and CEO
Paul Vallée is the founder and CEO of Tehama and a serial entrepreneur who has spent his career at the forefront of cutting-edge technologies that enable the exchange of work over the internet.
Paul Vallée is the founder and CEO of Tehama and a serial entrepreneur who has spent his career at the forefront of cutting-edge technologies that enable the exchange of work over the internet.
When founding Pythian in 1997, Paul envisioned a future that allows anyone to work from anywhere. Perceiving an opportunity for the Internet and related technologies to unlock human potential, he set out to apply and invent technology that could securely connect global workforces to enterprise IT systems.
Paul was a pioneer in remote connectivity technology and lays claim to the first application of IPSEC VPN technology to enable enterprises to consume services over the internet.
Shawn Chance
Partner, OMERS Ventures
In his role as Venture Partner, Shawn is focused on driving investments in enterprise computing technologies, including virtualization, cybersecurity, and voice.
In his role as Venture Partner, Shawn is focused on driving investments in enterprise computing technologies, including virtualization, cybersecurity, and voice. Shawn also oversees and provides strategic direction to the global operations team. Shawn has over 15 years of product, sales and marketing leadership. Prior to joining OMERS Ventures in 2019, Shawn worked at various startups, leading GTM strategy. Previously, Shawn spent five years in global product management at Spin Master, as well as five years at Microsoft during the launch of the first and second generation Xbox consoles. Shawn lives in Toronto, Canada and holds a psychology degree from Ottawa University. Shawn is a passionate motorcycle racer, rider and builder.
Mike Aiello
Chief Technology Officer, SecureWorks
As Chief Technology Officer, Mike Aiello leads Secureworks’ long-term technology vision to define the next horizon, fuel innovation, and champion customers’ needs to effectively protect their organizations.
As Chief Technology Officer, Mike Aiello leads Secureworks’ long-term technology vision to define the next horizon, fuel innovation, and champion customers’ needs to effectively protect their organizations.
Mike has more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry with a focus in cloud security, privacy, risk management, large scale infrastructure security, machine learning and fraud protection. Prior to Secureworks, Mike was Chief Product Officer for HUMAN Security, where he helped to double the company’s growth rate in 2021. Previously, Mike served as CEO of AppGate, as Director of Product Management for Google Cloud Security, and as Chief Information Security Officer at Goldman Sachs. Mike earned an MBA from the University of Oxford and a M.S. and B.S. Computer Science, with a focus on Information Assurance, from New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. He serves on several cybersecurity, technology and investment company boards in the US and Canada, and has authored numerous patents related to cybersecurity and privacy.
Centrally Manage All Devices
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