Shinya has held executive and CEO positions in several high tech companies having worked most recently in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) space.
Currently, Shinya serves on the board of directors of both Core Security and Innotas and was a board member of LiveCapital (acquired by D&B) and Postini. Most recently, Shinya co-founded and served for five years as chief executive officer of Postini, one of the world's largest and most profitable e-mail security firms. Postini pioneered e-mail security as an on-demand service and was awarded fundamental patents covering the e-mail security managed service business model.
Previously in his career, Shinya was a consultant with McKinsey & Company and also held vice president and general management positions at Cygnus Solutions (acquired by RHAT) and other high-tech companies. Shinya is the inventor of ten patents and was honored in 2004 with an Outstanding Inventor award by Stanford University. He was previously recognized by NTT in 1994 for the best research within NTT Worldwide.
Shinya earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. |