One Mission: Protect Data

President of Active Cypher’s founding executive team, Greg Morrell oversees the execution of various milestones related to sales, marketing, product development, and team formation. He also administers all the financial aspects of the company.

By leveraging on his expertise from his successful career stints in diverse industries, Greg positively and competently solidifies Active Cypher’s success trajectory right from the product planning stage to customer experience.

Dan is the chief architect and product developer of Active Cypher’s file-level security solution.
His special skills are in bringing elegant solutions to complex problems. His focus is building scalable business automation offerings that converge business goals with technology to provide optimum workflow, resource productivity, product quality, risk control and enhanced security.

Dan’s special expertise lies in all Microsoft products and programs, with a focus on financial companies, data design & analysis and process improvement. Dan has worked with a wide array of companies for development and consultation.

Caspian leads Active Cypher’s operations, strategic development and finance. He previously worked in private equity, closely collaborating with a number of holdings in the banking, insurance, and oil/gas industries.

Previously, as GM/VP for the Enterprise Cybersecurity Group (ECG) in Microsoft’s Enterprise & Partner Group (EPG), Mike’s team provided technical selling expertise and a central vision. The group partnered closely with key stakeholders at Microsoft, including Public Sector, Enterprise Partners, Specialist Sales, Global Accounts, Legal, and Research & Development. Mike’s team had responsibility for responding to customer challenges and opportunities around Cybersecurity.

Prior to Microsoft, Mike served as a Senior VP with Cisco, where he was responsible for Cybersecurity, Risk and Incident Management, Disaster Management, and guiding engineering and architectures for Enterprise scale hybrid cloud and data center design.

Mike served in the United States Marine Corps and with the Central Intelligence Agency. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Masters in International Studies from George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs.

Steve is a sales and business professional that brings over 20 years of experience focused specifically on the security software sector. He is a serial entrepreneur and sales leader with a passion for fast-paced, startup-type environments that require a variety of cross-functional business and technical skills.

Steve has experience founding and growing software and IT services companies, building and managing sales teams, and providing strategic advisory services. He has expertise in a wide range of technologies including cyber security, cloud computing and identity management, and has lead sales and sales operations teams in a variety of business models.

Senior business development executive with extensive experience attaining and retaining strategic customers with both domestic and international footprints. A demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry and proven entrepreneurship professional skilled in Operations Management, Sales, IT Strategy, Management, and Project Portfolio Management.

Doug Simmons brings more than 35 years of experience in IT security and identity and access management (IAM). He has performed hundreds of engagements as the subject matter expert, and for the past several years has led a team of senior consultants focused solely on IT security, risk management and IAM. In this long-standing role, Doug consults with Global 1000 organizations to assess, strategize and design extensible IT security infrastructure, policies and processes.

Doug also continually researches and writes about emerging IT security-related initiatives, such as blockchain, authentication approaches, data privacy and other relevant topics to develop research reports that are then used within customer environments to develop the business case, technical strategy and migration plan to incorporate such initiatives.

Doug is a frequent public speaker at IT security and identity management events to share good practices, lessons learned and research findings.

John Johnson is the Co-Founder and Corporate Secretary of Active Cypher and has over 35 years of experience in management, sales, marketing and operations in the telecommunications, satellite communications, hardware, software and in systems development and deployment.
Johnson brings an extensive background to the company he co-founded. Career accomplishments include serving as the Marketing Director for AT&T/PTT for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, a five and a half year, $60M project from which he launched PacTel Cellular (later to become Verizon Wireless) to market and for use in the Games. He started a consulting practice which continued until he and Greg Morrell created Active Cypher, Inc. He contracted with the ‘88 Seoul Olympics and the ‘90 Italian World Cup and later, engaged with On Call Communications, a transportable satellite company, to furnish communications to the USMC/USAF for Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm and for several of GHW Bush’s White House trips overseas. Johnson served on the Board of Directors of Methodist Hospital of Southern California. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy.