Meet Our Leadership Team

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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.

Tom Benton
Tom Benton

Executive Vice President, Chief Revenue Officer

Tom Benton, executive vice president and chief revenue officer at Digimarc, is responsible for driving top-line revenue growth and facilitating an inflection point in the adoption of product digitization by the world’s leading brands. He brings 30 years of world-class sales leadership and hands-on experience helping large enterprises harness the power of transformational technologies. Tom also fosters collaboration with channel partners to drive critical market growth.

Prior to joining Digimarc in 2023, Tom served in sales leadership roles at Oracle and Salesforce. Later, he served as chief revenue officer at Workmarket, an ADP company, where he delivered a 53 percent CAGR. Most recently, Tom was CRO at HireVue, doubling annual recurring revenue in three years and securing over half the Fortune 100 as clients.

Tom has bachelor’s degrees in commerce and marketing from Santa Clara University. He is active in his community serving as a commissioner on New Canaan’s Planning and Zoning Board and the Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD) subcommittee. He volunteers with educational STEM programs and has served on several boards.

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Jennah Jevning

Vice President, Marketing

Jennah Jevning leads Digimarc’s marketing team, including digital marketing and demand generation, brand and content strategy, graphic design, creative services, and events. Jennah is focused on sales enablement and go-to-market strategy, execution, and measurement.

Prior to joining Digimarc, Jennah held several leadership roles in marketing and operations in collegiate sports and the financial industry. Jennah holds a B.A. from Linfield University.

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George Karamanos

Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary

George Karamanos, executive vice president, chief legal officer (CLO), and corporate secretary of Digimarc, manages the company’s global legal affairs with a focus on corporate governance and go-to-market acceleration. As CLO, George and his legal team partner with cross-company go-to-market teams to drive deal velocity at scale with a maniacal focus on strategic growth.

George brings nearly two decades of business-to-business, software-as-a-service legal experience to Digimarc. Building on CLO and General Counsel roles at DataRobot, Inc. and AppDynamics, respectively. George most recently served as CLO at ZipHQ where he optimized the legal function for deal velocity and go-to-market acceleration. As General Counsel at AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco in March 2017), George helped grow the company from $40M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) to nearly $800M in ARR over five years.

When not advising on legal issues and driving growth, George enjoys spending time with his family – balancing sports, Lego-building, and global adventures. George holds an LLM in Comparative Competition and IP Law from University College, London, a J.D. from New York University School of Law, and a B.A. in Ancient History from the University of Virginia.

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Riley McCormack

President & Chief Executive Officer

Riley McCormack is the president and CEO of Digimarc, the world's leading product digitization company and the globally recognized pioneer in digital watermarking. Riley is passionate about harnessing the power of this world-changing technology to promote a prosperous, safer, and more sustainable planet.   

Riley’s talent for identifying and investing in transformational technology and media companies led him to launch Tracer Capital Management at the age of 28, a New York-based investment firm that grew into one of the world's largest dedicated global technology, media, and telecom hedge funds. Prior to Tracer, Riley was a partner at Coatue Capital. Today, Riley is leading a team at Digimarc that is curious, courageous, and collaborative – on a mission to effect positive change in the world. He is energized by the possibilities created by technology and the opportunity to collaborate with leaders worldwide. 

When not focused on ever-accelerating technological advancements, Riley enjoys exploring the world with his family. He is an avid reader and always takes advantage of the opportunity to run or ski when visiting a new city.  Riley graduated summa cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar and a Joseph Wharton Scholar. 

Carle Quinn
Carle Quinn

Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer

Carle Quinn is Digimarc's executive vice president and chief people officer (CPO). Leading all aspects of the human resources function globally, Carle's 20 years of experience are marked by a people-first strategy that infuses human elements into every business facet. Her leadership fosters an environment ripe for innovation and collaborative success and ignites a passion for empowering people.

Carle's prior role as CPO at Workato saw her significantly contributing to the company's rapid growth. Her comprehensive background, enriched by key positions at SAP and experience gained at leading companies like Citrix, GE, IBM, and QVC, further solidifies her insight into leadership and talent development in the tech industry.

Carle enjoys the outdoors and serving in the community alongside her husband and three daughters. She received a Bachelor of Global Business Administration degree from Arizona State University with a specialization in Human Resources Management.

Carle embodies the synthesis of strategic acumen and genuine passion for empowering people, charting a course for success in the ever-evolving tech landscape.

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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.

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Tony Rodriguez

Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer

Tony Rodriguez is the Chief Technology Officer of Digimarc, the world's leading product digitization company and the globally recognized pioneer in digital watermarking. Tony has spent his career at the intersection of media, technology, and security – focusing on building teams, technologies, and platforms on a global scale.

The inventor of over 350 issued U.S. patents, Tony’s passion for driving leading-edge image processing technology began at Intel Research Labs, where he developed pragmatic delivery strategies on the Intel Silicon Architecture. After much success at Intel, Tony’s thirst for innovation led him to Digimarc and digital watermarking technology, where he's had the opportunity to introduce a human element to solve real-world problems. Tony’s early work at Digimarc contributed to the company’s successful IPO in 1999. Before Intel, Tony held engineering positions at IBM, Raytheon, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

Tony’s passion for driving and delivering innovation is reflected in the culture of Digimarc’s incredibly diverse and accomplished research team. Beyond brilliance, the team is compassionate and committed to solving the world’s most pressing problems.

When not in the innovation lab, Tony finds inspiration in the beauty of the Northwest, biking, kayaking, or hiking with his family. Tony is a frequent speaker on topics related to product digitization, including digital watermarking. Tony graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Electrical Engineering and completed the AeA/Stanford Executive Institute program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Ken Sickles

Executive Vice President, 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. Ken 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.

Meet Our Board of Directors

LaShonda Anderson-Williams
LaShonda Anderson-Williams

LaShonda is the Chief Customer & Commercial Officer of Salesforce Industries. With her, she brings over 27 years of experience creating and delivering successful revenue-generation strategies within Fortune 200 organizations. 

LaShonda is known as a results-driven leader who has led multiple organizations to achieve double-digit revenue growth and increased profitability through enhanced strategic planning and exceptional execution, all while building diverse high-performing teams. 

In her current role, LaShonda leads the commercialization for Salesforce’s Industry Clouds, focused on the realization of deep, tangible value of Industries products. LaShonda is focused on driving customer success and lifetime value that directly impacts customer opportunities and challenges. 

Her success is driven by decades of deep executive experience which enables her to deliver strong performance. This is due largely in part to her strong collaboration skills leading cross-functional teams with Sales, Technology & Product, Enablement, Marketing, Customer Success Groups, as well as Alliances & Channels. LaShonda is a seasoned business executive with a proven track record of driving customer acquisition and retention across multiple business segments including SMB, Channels & Alliances, Business Applications, and more. 

As a successful leader, LaShonda understands the importance of setting the right culture to drive success in an all-digital world. Her leadership philosophy emphasizes the importance of leadership development, employee engagement, and growth. Her inspirational leadership style has created world-class team cultures through balanced coaching and clarity on expectations and results. As a result, LaShonda has attracted top talent to join her teams across the largest technology companies such as IBM, Microsoft, and Salesforce. 

LaShonda currently serves on the board of Digimarc (DMRC) where she is Chair of the Compensation and Talent Management Committee, and a member of the Governance, Nominating & Sustainability Committee, and she serves on the board of Medical Informatics Corp. She also serves as an advisory board member for the UofH College of College of Technology & Engineering Board, as well as FlockJay. 

She has been honored among the 2024 Most Influential Executives in Corporate America by Savoy Network, named as one of the 2021 Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology by the National Diversity Leadership Conference, as well as one of the 2021 Top 25 Women Leaders by The Healthcare Technology Report.

 

Sheila Cheston
Sheila Cheston

Sheila Cheston is an accomplished legal and business leader with over 30 years of experience across multinational corporations and the U.S. government. Most recently, she served as Corporate Vice President and General Counsel of Northrop Grumman Corporation, a global security leader, where she retired in December 2023 after 13 years of service. In this role, Sheila was responsible for overseeing the law department, and the offices of the Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer, while also advising on key areas such as global strategy, capital allocation, mergers and acquisitions, human capital management, investor relations, and government relations. During her tenure, she helped Northrop Grumman achieve substantial growth, delivering long-term value to shareholders with returns more than three times that of the S&P Index. 

Prior to joining Northrop Grumman, Sheila held senior positions at BAE Systems, Inc., including Executive Vice President and Board Director, where she led critical functions such as finance, strategy, and legal matters. She also has extensive government experience, having served as General Counsel of the U.S. Air Force, acting Undersecretary of the Air Force, and Special Associate Counsel to the President of the United States. 

Sheila is actively involved in nonprofit and professional boards, including the Board of Directors of Digimarc, serving as a member of the Audit, Governance, Nominating, and Sustainability, and Compensation and Talent Management Committees. She serves on the boards of Grameen Foundation, the National Partnership for Women and Families, and the Legal Aid Society. She also teaches at Columbia University School of Law and Middlebury College.  A graduate of Dartmouth College and Columbia Law School, she has been recognized for her leadership and mentorship, receiving numerous awards throughout her career, including Burton’s Legends in the Law Award. Sheila continues to be a respected leader in both the corporate and legal communities. 

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Sandeep Dadlani

Sandeep Dadlani was elected to our Board in March of 2021. Mr. Dadlani serves as a member of the Audit Committee. Mr. Dadlani was named EVP, Chief Digital and Technology Officer for UnitedHealth Group in September 2022. He is responsible for leading technology and digital strategies across the enterprise to drive innovation and deliver exceptional experiences in health care. In his role, he leads Optum Technology, a leading technology delivery division of Optum, serving the Optum and UnitedHealthcare customer base. Prior to UnitedHealth Group, Mr. Dadlani was the Global Chief Digital Officer at Mars, Incorporated, a $40 billion global conglomerate in the pet care, food and confectionary businesses, where part of his responsibilities focused on the digitalization of the supply chain. He worked with Mars’ global business segments to drive their digital growth, while delivering effectiveness and efficiency to existing business and technology platforms. Earlier in his career, Mr. Dadlani was with Infosys (NYSE: INFY) from 2001 to 2017, where he last held the position of President, Head of Americas and Global Head of Infosys’s Manufacturing, Retail, Consumer Packaged Goods, and Logistic Practices. He co-founded, and eventually ran as Chairman, Infosys Edgeverve, a new artificial intelligence company for Infosys, and Skava, a mobile commerce company. Prior to his employment with Infosys, he began his career in investment banking at Citibank. Mr. Dadlani has won several awards, including CIO of the Year in 2019 by Consumer Goods Technology, one of the top 150 business transformation leaders globally by Constellation Research, and Blue Yonder’s 50 most prominent AI thought leaders in 2021. Mr. Dadlani earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from M.S. University, Baroda, India and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from JBIMS, Mumbai University, India.

Mr. Dadlani brings product management, operations, digital and technology platforms, data management, artificial intelligence, mobile commerce, e-commerce, platform automation, supply chain digitalization, and international experience to Digimarc. Mr. Dadlani is accomplished across many disciplines with extraordinary leadership qualities. He has more than 25 years of experience in operations, consulting, business development and product management. He has been a contributor to the Harvard Business Review and Forbes and is a regular keynote speaker at industry forums. He has co-authored the UN Global report on supply chain sustainability. Additionally, he is on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Consumption and has participated for several years in the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. His experience is particularly germane to Digimarc initiatives to drive digital transformation through product digitization, improve operational efficiencies, and achieve scale across global and industry business segments.

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Katie Kool

Board Chair

Katie Kool was elected to our Board in March of 2022. She began Board service on July 1, upon her retirement from Procter & Gamble, contingent on her election by the shareholders. She was elected as Board Chair in June 2024. Ms. Kool also serves as Chair of the Audit Committee and is a member of the Compensation and Talent Management Committee, and the Governance, Nominating, and Sustainability Committee. Ms. Kool is a seasoned finance executive, who began her career with Procter & Gamble in 1995 and successfully transitioned to general management as a divisional CEO, with a proven history of delivering superior results across both Consumer Products and Services business models. She brings executive, financial, international, innovation, and investor relations experience to Digimarc’s Board of Directors. Starting in January of 2019, she served as the CEO of Tide Cleaners, a wholly owned subsidiary of Procter & Gamble, which is a service-based retailer providing out of home dry cleaning and laundry services through franchise and corporate stores, lockers, home delivery, and college campuses. For the three and a half years prior to her CEO experience, Ms. Kool was the CFO for North America Fabric Care, which includes the Tide, Gain, Downy, and Bounce brands and has over $8 billion in retail sales. She was also CFO for the Global Procter & Gamble Professional business, where she developed a 5-year strategic plan, including a more focused operating model, profit and loss, and cash investments to deliver sustainable Operating Total Shareholder Return. In addition to her extensive business leadership experience, Katie was a key member of Procter & Gamble’s award-winning Investor Relations team for 5.5 years, during which she partnered with 3 CEO’s and led communications for the strategy renewal that spanned two $10 billion productivity programs and a more focused portfolio of strategic brands. Ms. Kool is also a Board Member at Aspen Aerogels (ASPN) and serves as Chair of the Audit Committee and is a member of the Nominating, Governance, and Sustainability Committee.  In her personal time, Ms. Kool was Co-Founder & CEO of KW CrossFit. She is a Founder and President of Impact100 Genesee County, a nonprofit organization that empowers women to pool their funds and award significant grants to transform lives in their community.  Ms. Kool is a Board Member and CFO for Sonje Ayiti, a nonprofit organization focused on providing tools for Haitians to help themselves via education, economic development, and health promotion, and she co-led the creation of the Cima School of Hope in Haiti, a government-licensed school with over 300 students in Pre-K through 11th grade and over 30 employees.  Ms. Kool holds a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from Kalamazoo College and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis.

Ms. Kool’s experience is particularly germane to Digimarc’s initiatives to increase diversity and inclusion at all levels of the Company, improve the Company’s finance oversight and operations, and help oversee the Company’s investor relations program, and business innovation and business process reengineering areas. She is accomplished across many disciplines with extraordinary leadership qualities and financial and analytical skills, including business analysis and value creation, financial controls and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and talent recruitment, development and retention. She has successfully navigated a business through the COVID pandemic, introduced and managed disruptive business innovation activities, and led the acquisition, integration, and expansion of two start-ups. She has successfully managed investor relations challenges, and has strong controllership skills, leading the General Ledger Accounting organization for the Americas from the San Jose Costa Rica Service Center during the integration of the Gillette acquisition.

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Riley McCormack

Riley McCormack is the president and CEO of Digimarc, the world's leading product digitization company and the globally recognized pioneer in digital watermarking. Riley is passionate about harnessing the power of this world-changing technology to promote a prosperous, safer, and more sustainable planet.   

Riley’s talent for identifying and investing in transformational technology and media companies led him to launch Tracer Capital Management at the age of 28, a New York-based investment firm that grew into one of the world's largest dedicated global technology, media, and telecom hedge funds. Prior to Tracer, Riley was a partner at Coatue Capital. Today, Riley is leading a team at Digimarc that is curious, courageous, and collaborative – on a mission to effect positive change in the world. He is energized by the possibilities created by technology and the opportunity to collaborate with leaders worldwide. 

When not focused on ever-accelerating technological advancements, Riley enjoys exploring the world with his family. He is an avid reader and always takes advantage of the opportunity to run or ski when visiting a new city.  Riley graduated summa cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar and a Joseph Wharton Scholar.

Dana Mcilwain
Dana Mcilwain

Dana Mcilwain is a seasoned executive with a proven track record of driving P&L growth and revenue expansion and leading successful technology transformations. As the former Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and Network Operations Leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Dana oversaw a global network generating $52B+ in revenue, managing a $3B+ budget across 152 countries. He played a key role in guiding the firm through complex operational matters and large-scale technology transformations.

Before his CAO role, Dana was PwC’s Vice Chairman and U.S. Services Leader, managing the U.S. profit and loss center across all U.S. service lines. His leadership in scaling the U.S. Advisory practice led to a remarkable triple revenue growth, including the successful execution of 12 acquisitions.

Dana's leadership at PwC was marked by his strategic vision and expertise in managing critical operations, finance, investments, human capital, and digital transformation initiatives. He also chaired key management and governance committees.

Recently retired from PwC after more than 35 years, Dana is on the Board of Directors of Digimarc serving as a member of the Audit and Governance, Nominating, and Sustainability Committees. He previously served on the Board of Directors of the American Red Cross of Greater New York.  Dana is a Certified Public Accountant with a Bachelor of Science in Management from Tulane University. Today, Dana resides in Naples, Florida.

Michael Park
Michael Park

Michael Park is SVP and Global Head of AI Go-To-Market, steering the company’s AI growth by helping customers understand, adopt and realize the value of ServiceNow’s AI solutions.  Michael was formerly CMO of ServiceNow where he revitalized ServiceNow’s marketing approach across the full marketing stack with a strong brand movement (The World Works with ServiceNow) and a data driven, solutions oriented approach addressing customer’s most pressing digital transformation challenges.  During his tenure as CMO, Forbes honored Michael as one of the world’s “50 Top Entrepreneurial CMOs.” 

As a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion, Michael serves as Executive Sponsor of the Asian and Pacific Islanders Group at ServiceNow and as a member of Gold House, a non-profit organization dedicated to enabling more authentic multi-cultural representation and societal equity.  

Prior to ServiceNow, Michael led growth and transformation for over 25 years at the intersection of pivotal technology transitions, serving in key leadership positions across product, sales, and marketing roles at Microsoft, Oracle (Siebel) EagleView, HP, and SAP.  Michael is also on the Board of Directors of Digimarc serving as Chair of the Governance, Nominating, and Sustainability Committee, and a member of the Board’s Compensation and Talent Management Committee. He began his career at Procter & Gamble and holds a Masters Degree from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Rochester.

A Balance of Director Skills, Qualifications, and Experience

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Finance / Accounting   
 
Human Capital / Talent Development
 
Technology, Data / Cyber Security  
 
Government Affairs / Public Policy 
  
  
Sustainability / Environmental & Social 
   
Industry Knowledge
 
 
  
Culture / Diversity & Inclusion
 
  
Sales / Marketing
    

Members of the Board Committees

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LaShonda Anderson-Williams 
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Katie Kool
Dana Mcilwain
 
Michael Park 

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