Leadership Team

Rick joined ClearDATA in 2022, bringing decades of high-growth, transformational leadership experience across the tech market. His time at formidable market leaders like Rackspace, Dell, Oracle and Earthlink gave him an opportunity to cut his teeth in high-impact organizations among an elite set of peers.

Rick’s laser-focus on optimization and efficiency, coupled with a driven pursuit of revenue acceleration and profitability, position him as an ideal leader for this stage of ClearDATA’s growth. His passion and years of experience as Chief Revenue Officer make him a staunch customer advocate and trusted partner in the pursuit of a secure, modern tech infrastructure.

Rick earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Principia College and a Master of Business Administration at Washington University in St. Louis’ Olin Business School. He lives in New York City, where he and his wife enjoy a vibrant urban culture within walking distance of his two adult daughters.

Chris is Founder and Chief Information Security Officer at ClearDATA. He leads ClearDATA’s internal privacy, security and compliance strategies as well as advises on the security and privacy risks faced by customers, which include global healthcare organizations, health insurance companies, providers, life science companies, and market leading innovators from Asia Pacific, North America, and Europe. Mr. Bowen also leads ClearDATA’s international security risk consulting practice and has provided counsel to some of the world’s largest healthcare organizations.

He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT) from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Cloud Security Professional from (ISC)2. As one of the leading experts on patient privacy and health data security, Chris has authored dozens of articles and is a frequent speaker at national healthcare industry events.

Jim leads ClearDATA’s Engineering, Product Management, and IT teams. He has more than 25 years leading product organizations in the identity, integrated risk, and fraud management markets. Prior to joining ClearDATA, Jim served as Chief Operating Officer of Outseer, an RSA Company, where he served over 10 years in executive leadership roles. Prior to RSA in 2012, he served in executive leadership roles for Aveksa, CA and Netegrity. Ducharme frequently speaks at industry events and regularly contributes articles to trade publications.

Jim also holds several patents and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree from the University of New Hampshire. He and his wife live in Maine in their dream log home, which was featured in Log and Timber Home Living magazine.

Charles leads ClearDATA’s Managed Services, Professional Services, and Customer Support teams responsible for optimizing service technology and operations for profit margin, customer retention, and revenue growth. He brings more than 20 years of experience in tech enterprise business transformation, growth strategies, and customer relationship management through operations, continuous improvement, and developing organizations to reach their full potential. Charles has led technology-focused organizations across Travel, Healthcare, and a core information technology provider. Most recently, he was the Vice President of Global Service Operations & Customer Success at Sabre; before Sabre, he led Philips’ Health Informatics Customer Success & Managed Services, where he supported 4% YOY growth, achieving 99% key account retention by revamping service delivery and customer success management and maintained ownership of product installation-to-support-to-renewal for over 700 customers representing $1B in annual revenues. Prior to Philips, Charles spent 13 years in progressive roles at Dell Technologies.

Charles is an Advisory Council Member and Mentor at the University of Houston, C.T. Bauer College of Business. He performed his undergraduate studies at Middle Tennessee State University and has completed executive development through Harvard Business School and the Center for Creative Leadership. Outside of work, Charles spends time as his two boys’ football team photographer, learning to play a few cords of Samba with his wife, and volunteering at the local animal shelter.

Andy is responsible for leading the company’s growth, revenue, and sales programs for both new and existing ClearDATA customers. He brings more than 20 years of experience growing revenue for software, cloud and healthcare solutions. He is passionate about leading high performance teams, storytelling, and building cross functional alignment centered on creating “raving fans” as clients.

Prior to joining ClearDATA, Andy held several executive growth strategist roles with broad experience in multiplying revenue. He has delivered exponential growth for tech companies with complex enterprise solutions (SaaS, public cloud, analytics), specializing in expanding healthcare, data and analytics. Andy has had the unique opportunity to work for Gartner and Teradata for more than 12 years each. He is currently on the Board of Directors for Hidden Acers Camp in Kaufman, TX.

Andy earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Ohio University. He, his wife, and two daughters live in Frisco, TX and enjoy skiing, boating, and sports. Andy is a true Bengals and Buckeyes fan and enjoys competing in triathlons.

Drew leads ClearDATA’s finance strategy and functions as a highly accomplished, results-driven executive with deep experience in dynamic, emerging technology companies. His leadership providing oversight for financial operations, cash management, and legal and corporate matters to VC-backed SaaS companies has allowed him to implement structured process improvements that deliver increased financial controls, revenue growth and profitability. He yields extensive financial management experience, including funding, cash forecasting and management, internal control systems, compliance, and insurance programs.

Drew earned a Bachelor’s in Accounting from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.

Mary joined ClearDATA in 2023 and is responsible for leading the company’s marketing operations, programs, and branding. She brings more than 20 years of experience across a range of marketing capabilities at high-growth cybersecurity, data protection, and cloud technology companies. She is passionate about demand generation, revenue marketing, brand, and leading high-performing teams.

Prior to joining ClearDATA, Mary was responsible for all go-to-market motions as the VP of Marketing for Cybrary, a cybersecurity professional development platform. Previously, she was VP of Digital & Demand Marketing at Ellucian, where she modernized the company’s demand engine, and Head of Marketing at Virtru, a DC-based security startup. Before moving to the DC area, she was responsible for Digital and Brand Marketing at Forcepoint in Austin. Past roles include Demand Generation, Campaign Management, Web Marketing, eCommerce, Public Relations, and Project Management at Rackspace and Dell.

Mary earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. She and her husband now live in Arlington, VA, and enjoy traveling, cooking, and visiting wineries and breweries. She is a diehard Philadelphia Eagles fan and a Peloton addict.

Clarissa has had a robust, impressive HR career, spinning up “start-up”HR teams at lightning speed during a decade at Microsoft. During that time, she launched over 125 of those organizations – responsible for building culture as well as recruiting, growing and rewarding teams! As though that experience wouldn’t stand on its own, Clarissa has an extensive background in Executive Human Resource Management. Aside from Microsoft, her former employers include Rite of Passage and Care.com. Clarissa is a certified professional in Learning and Performance from the Association of Talent Development and carries three certifications in Human Resources.

Despite her extensive HR responsibilities, Clarissa finds spare time to volunteer at the food bank, revels in Friday nights at local football games and enjoys the Texas Hill Country with her daughters and two dogs. Clarissa and her family live just outside Austin, in Dripping Springs, Texas.