RaySecur Team
World-class & Growing fast

Eric Giroux
Founder, COO
Eric is an expert in terahertz applications for mailroom security. He is a serial entrepreneur with an extensive background in X-ray and gamma-ray imaging as well as medical technetium production.

Alex Sappok
CEO

John Vaillancourt
CFO
John has served as CFO for several high-growth technology companies and has extensive experience scaling companies for growth, raising equity and debt, taking companies public, and completing merger and acquisitions.

Nancy Elkas
CXO
Prior to joining RaySecur, Nancy held management positions at Fortune 500 companies. She leverages her background in corporate training to lead client support and systems integration with customers’ existing mail and security operations.

Will Plummer
Chief Security Officer
Will is 25-year veteran of the US Army, where he earned a Bronze Star with Valor as a Master Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technician, and commanded multiple Special Operations units with multiple combat deployments.

Stuart Nixdorff
VP of Sales
Stuart joins RaySecur with 20+ years of success as a skilled market maker building global organizations in highly differentiated, fast growth markets.

Richard Shatilla
VP of Business Development
Richard joins RaySecur with over 15 years of leadership roles in the security and technology space. Most recently accelerating growth at VOTI Detection by 2,000% before helping take the company public.

Volodymyr Kyrytsya
Lead THz Scientist

Nick Nagel
Director of Software & AI
Nick leads our software and artificial intelligence team. He has a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science is a full-stack developer and has a background as a professor in the design and development of information systems for the Internet.

Noah Loren
Director of Engineering
Noah leads our manufacturing and engineering. He is an experienced leader, with a background in tech startups and high-volume manufacturing. Noah brings concepts into production and manages mature products through value engineering and redesign.

Cody Martin
Director of Mail Security
Experienced professional in the areas of brand protection, physical security, dangerous mail, prohibited mailings, executive protection, site security, travel risk planning, and surveillance, as well as internal and external investigations.

TJ Kelly
Director of Marketing
TJ leads our marketing strategy and execution. He joins RaySecur with 15 years experience in digital marketing & web development experience, with specialties in SEO, inbound marketing, content writing & UX design.

David Pena
Asst. Director of Threat Management
After serving in the US Army as a Senior EOD Technician, David brings his military experience and expertise in threat detection and mitigation to RaySecur. David supports MailSecur threat detection and production and engineering development.

Luc Lapenta
Software Engineer
Luc is a full-stack developer who brings multi-disciplinary engineering knowledge to the team. He has extensive experience developing connected hardware and software applications to accelerate product growth.
Advisors

Louis Gudema
Marketing
Louis has 30 years of experience helping companies from IBM to MIT startups use marketing to grow faster. He is the author of Bullseye Marketing and host of the Software Channel Partner Podcast.

Pierre Villeneuve
Advisor
Pierre is a General Partner at Equity Management Partners, a private equity firm. He was formerly CEO of three high-tech startups and is currently an active board member and advisor to a number of technology companies as a volunteer mentor at MIT.

Roger Noel
Advisor

Amy Villeneuve
Advisor