Alberto Yépez – Managing Director at Trident Capital, Chairman of the Hispanic IT Executive Council (HITEC)

* Alberto Yépez
Managing Director at Trident Capital, Chairman of the Hispanic IT Executive Council (HITEC)

Alberto Yépez, a Perú native, has built successful global businesses in enterprise security and infrastructure software for over 20 years. He is currently a Venture Partner for Trident Capital focusing on Enterprise Software and IT Security. He is also the Chairman of the Hispanic IT Executive Council that includes executives leading Fortune 500 corporations on both the U.S. and abroad as well as some of the largest Hispanic owned IT firms in the United States.

Alberto has held various senior positions including Vice President of Identity Management and Security Strategy at Oracle and Chairman, President and CEO of Thor Technologies, leading it from the pre-revenue stage to rapid growth and global expansion, with a customer base that included many of the premier companies in financial services, telecommunications and manufacturing markets. Alberto was co-CEO and a member of the board of directors of Entrust, Inc., a leading provider of information security solutions, which he joined after the successful merger of enCommerce, Inc., a leading provider of access management solutions. Alberto co-founded and was chairman and CEO of enCommerce from its inception. In addition, he held senior management positions at Apple Computer and several other Silicon Valley-based start-ups.

Alberto attended the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and holds a B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Electronic Physics from the University of San Francisco. He also attended the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in Lima, Perú.