HOME/ ABOUT/ COMPANY/ LEADERSHIP Leadership Company Platform Careers Leadership Governance Sustainability Copyrights History Leadership Team Board of Directors Charles Beck Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Robert P. Chamness Executive Vice President, Sustainability & Governance, Chief Legal Officer, and Secretary Cindy Marple Vice President, Human Resources, Diversity & Inclusion Riley McCormack President & Chief Executive Officer Joel Meyer Executive Vice President, Innovation, Specifications & Standards George Rieck Vice President, Government Programs Tony Rodriguez Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer Mignon Senuta Vice President, ESG Engagement & Corporate Communications Ken Sickles Chief Product Officer Charles Beck - Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Charles Beck is responsible for the financial strategy and goals of the company, including maintaining compliance with regulatory and securities reporting requirements. Charles also oversees the Finance, Facilities and IT functions and sales operations in Japan, as well as the company's relationship with the financial and shareholder communities. He has been recognized with numerous awards, including the “Forty Under 40” award from the Portland Business Journal (PBJ) for outstanding Oregon executives under forty, as well as being named one of PBJ’s “CFOs of the Year” for his expertise in financial management. Before joining Digimarc, Charles was a Senior Manager at KPMG LLP, which provides audit, tax and advisory services, where he served in various management roles within in the firm’s technology practice. Charles is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. and a B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Portland. Robert P. Chamness - Executive Vice President, Sustainability & Governance, Chief Legal Officer, and Secretary Robert Chamness leads our recycling and sustainability initiatives. Under his leadership, the HolyGrail project selected Digimarc as the data carrier for improving plastic sorting and speeding up a transition to a circular economy. Bob is also is responsible for legal affairs of the company, leads Government Relations, and is the Corporate Secretary. He has been instrumental in educating lawmakers, industry and academics on how the Digimarc Platform can help with plastics sorting and recycling and mitigating Deepfakes. He also serves as Compliance Officer and Privacy Officer for the company. Prior to joining Digimarc, Bob was President, Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Concentrex, Inc., a software and services provider to the financial services industry. Bob holds an A.B. cum laude from Wabash College and a J.D. summa cum laude from the Indiana University School of Law. Cindy Marple - Vice President, Human Resources, Diversity & Inclusion Cindy Marple is responsible for Human Resources at Digimarc. She is responsible for people management strategy, talent acquisition, legal compliance, employment contract negotiation and training and development. Cindy incorporates diversity and inclusion in all HR management programs, and she strives to partner with leadership teams and employees to support overall talent management and objectives. Cindy heads the “Green Team,” Digimarc’s employee team to promote sustainability, and carries out Digimarc’s company-wide sustainability efforts with both large and small initiatives, such as instituting a paperless HR program. Prior to joining Digimarc, she was a Marketing Events Programs Manager at Merant. She is Everything DiSC and Crucial Conversation certified, and continued her professional excellence through the PSU Human Resources and the Stanford Business Executive Education programs. Riley McCormack - President & Chief Executive Officer Mr. McCormack is the founder of TCM|Strategic, a fund that recently invested $53.5 million in the Company. Previously Mr. McCormack was the founder, CEO and PM of Tracer Capital Management, a $1.5 billion New York-based global Technology, Media and Telecommunication Hedge Fund. Prior to Tracer, he was a partner at Coatue Capital and a high-yield research analyst at Morgan Stanley, covering media and telecom companies. Joel Meyer - Executive Vice President, Innovation, Specifications & Standards Joel Meyer leads Digimarc’s specifications and industry guidelines, working to define and outline the capabilities of the Digimarc Platform in the Automatic Identification & Data Capture (AIDC). Joel manages Digimarc’s participation in AIDC-related work groups of standard setting organizations ISO, AIM and GS1. He oversees the Digimarc Quality Management System and manages the company’s intellectual property portfolio, which consistently ranks among leaders in the computer software category of IEEE Spectrum’s Patent Power scorecard. In 2020 Joel was elected to AIM North America’s Board of Directors for a two-year term. Prior to joining Digimarc, Joel was a partner at the law firm of Klarquist Sparkman, where his practice focused on advising high-tech companies on the protection and enforcement of their intellectual property rights. Joel received a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin with highest distinction, and a J.D. with honors from the University of Wisconsin Law School. George Rieck - Vice President, Government Programs George Rieck manages Digimarc’s business with a consortium of central banks to deter unauthorized reproduction of banknotes. George has held a number of positions of increasing responsibility over the years at Digimarc, including Program Leader for the former Digimarc ID Systems, supplier of issuance systems for most American states prior to divestiture in 2008. Prior to joining Digimarc, George was an engineer at Hewlett-Packard where he worked on integrated circuits and ink jet cartridges. He has a B.S. from the University of Vermont and M.S. from the University of Wisconsin. Tony Rodriguez - Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer Tony Rodriguez oversees engineering, research and development and product management. His background is in image processing, human perception and color theory with an application focus on the creation and addition of Digital Identities to all forms of media. He is a recognized industry thought leader, who has been quoted in such publications as Forbes and Oregon Business. Tony played an integral role in the early development of Digimarc Platform solutions for identifying and tracking digital images and later in the development of a system to deter counterfeiting of banknotes. Prior to joining Digimarc, Tony worked at the Intel Architecture Lab as a Senior Software Engineer and held a variety of software development and engineering positions at Raytheon, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and IBM. Tony is the inventor on 67 issued U.S. patents and 109 pending patents. He holds a B.S. from the University of Washington and completed the AeA/Stanford Executive Institute program from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Mignon Senuta - Vice President, ESG Engagement & Corporate Communications Mignon Senuta leads Digimarc’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategy and oversees all corporate communications, including media relations, investor relations, government and public affairs, and executive and internal communications. Mignon is focused on helping Digimarc adapt to a rapidly changing business environment by prioritizing transparency, engaging with key stakeholders, and addressing ESG risks and opportunities. Prior to Digimarc, Mignon held roles in ESG strategy, corporate communications, and international public affairs at McDonald’s Corporation and spent more than a decade building public-private partnerships to advance key social impact and sustainability initiatives. Mignon holds an M.B.A. from the Baumhart Center for Social Enterprise and Responsibility at Loyola University Chicago’s Quinlan School of Business. Ken Sickles - Chief Product Officer Ken Sickles is responsible for developing, delivering and supporting Digimarc’s world-class global technology platform that advances the reach and effectiveness of automatic identification of media across multiple industries. Can has built his expertise with product, technology and marketing over the twenty-five years building software-as-a-service (SaaS) products in both the B2B and B2C space. He has helped define, build, and bring multi-sided platforms to market from the ground up, as well as extend platforms currently in the market. He has a passion for using his experience to enable technology to make our world a better place. Ken joined Digimarc from ThinkTank, where he was Chief Technology Officer/Chief Product Officer from 2017 through 2021 and was a key contributor in the acquisition of the company by Accenture in May 2021. His previous experience includes product leadership positions for companies like 1WorldSync (then a GS1 subsidiary), Dow Jones, and Cognos. COMPANY About Us Careers Leadership History Governance Press Releases News Blog Events Newsletter INVESTORS Overview Presentations Quarterly Earnings Analyst Coverage INNOVATION Digimarc Lab History of Packaging INTERNATIONAL Germany | Japan ABOUT | CONTACT | RESOURCES | SUPPORT Copyright © 2021 Digimarc Corporation | Terms of Use | Privacy