Directors
Jason Eaglestone
Non-executive
Jason is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and currently is the Chief Financial Officer of Reinet Investment Advisors and Chief Investment Officer of Columbus Venture Capital. He serves on the board of several of Richemont and Reinet’s subsidiary and investment companies. Prior to joining Richemont, Jason worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers in an audit & advisory capacity in various offices around the world including the USA, Middle East and South Africa. In 2004, he joined Richemont in Geneva, Switzerland as an Operations Manager. He moved to the UK in 2005 to served as Chief Operating Officer of James Purdey & Sons before assuming his current responsibilities.
Jason holds a Bachelor of Accounting degree and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa and he holds an MBA from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Jenny Dugmore
CEO
With years of experience in the software industry I am able to say with absolute conviction, that FireID is the most exciting product I have had the privilege to present to the market. It is a truly elegant solution to the universal problem – security. It arrives perfectly positioned at a time of global economic turbulence in which both company and individual security is being violated daily.
Jenny has extensive experience in the software industry in senior management positions and has represented companies such as Dimension Data, SPL, Software Futures and Sybase.
Malan Joubert
CTO
FireID is the result of an unlikely marriage between a group of slightly unstable, highly motivated, students and a brilliantly mad entrepreneur with a penchant for super cars. Many sleepless nights and a number of super cars later, what had started as an oddly appealing idea had been turned into a great product by a gargantuan effort from a great number of unsung heroes.
Laurence (Laurie) Olivier
Advisor
Laurence (Laurie) Olivier is a partner of Veritas Venture Partners, Israel's first venture capital firm and manages its Atlanta office. He sits on the boards of a number of technology-related industry forums, including the American Israel Chamber of Commerce (Southeast) and the Atlanta Venture Forum. In South Africa, Laurie serves as a commercialization advisor of the University of Pretoria and as a member of the Silicon Cape Steering Committee. He is currently also a member of the boards of a couple of technology companies in the USA, including ClickFox Inc, Asankya Networks Inc, and Yola Inc, and acts as an advisor to 4DI Capital in South Africa.
He has been involved in venture capital since 1990. As SVP Private Equity at Anglo American, a leading global mining concern, he represented its interests on the boards of a number of venture funds, including an Israeli based AAV fund managed by Veritas, MCPEPA (an East Asian private equity fund), and MCA (a South African VC fund). He served on the boards of various AAV portfolio companies in Israel and the USA.
At Anglo American, he also pioneered the establishment of new technology-driven businesses, and served on the boards of a variety of publicly traded and privately held businesses, including Anglo American Industrial Corporation Ltd and some of its joint venture companies with major East Asian corporations, including Mitsubishi, Temasek, and the Daewoo Group.
Laurie holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics) degree from the University of Pretoria, and a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) degree with a Diploma in Datametrics from the University of South Africa
Erik van Vlaanderen
Non-executive
Coming from a distant professional and more recent corporate business background, it is a privilege to find myself so closely involved in the amazing progress of FireID as it enters the market, both locally in South Africa and abroad. Youthful and agile entrepreneurial thinking and cutting edge IT development are the cornerstones of the potential success that deservedly awaits the company and all the people associated with the evolutionary development of FireID.
Justin Stanford
Non-executive
Justin Stanford is well known and established young entrepreneur from Cape Town, South Africa, who specialises in technology and other areas where innovative thinking can be applied to form successful commercial ventures. Justin is viewed as a leader and pioneer among young and upcoming entrepreneurs, and has already captured the attention of business leaders such as Johann Rupert, with whom a business partnership has subsequently been established for the development of new investments in SA.
“FireID was incubated by our group some years ago and has subsequently become one of the brightest shining stars in our portfolio, with plans now in place for a global rollout. We are extremely excited about the massively positive reception that it is getting wherever the FireID team go, both locally and internationally, which clearly confirms the demand for a new simple solution to the world’s increasingly growing authentication needs. To this end we have committed substantial investment for the company going forward with our partners and we look forward to a bright future for FireID.”
