Leadership

Executive team

• Damon Pruett

  Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

  Damon co-founded Tellwright in 2011 and has led it since. Before Tellwright he spent nine years as an intelligence analyst and then a program manager supporting federal law enforcement, where he learned how much time investigators spend looking for information their own organizations already hold. He studied economics and served in the U.S. Army Reserve.

• Neal Sorley

  Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

  Neal leads Tellwright’s engineering, product and research teams. He designed the first version of Concord and the entity resolution methods that became Kinship. Before Tellwright he built search and data integration systems for a national laboratory and a defense contractor. He holds a doctorate in computer science.

• Dale Hockney

  Chief Financial Officer

  Dale joined Tellwright in 2019 from a government services company, where he was chief financial officer of its federal civilian business. He is responsible for finance, contracts, trade compliance and Tellwright’s security programs.

• Maren Holt

  General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

  Maren leads Tellwright’s legal team. She was previously a federal prosecutor and then a partner in the national security practice of a Washington law firm. She sits on the Responsible Use Council.

• Celia Rourke

  Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer

  Celia joined Tellwright in 2020 as its first Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer and chairs the Responsible Use Council. She was previously a privacy officer at a state attorney general’s office and taught information privacy law.

• Kendra Duchesne

  President, Tellwright International

  Kendra leads Tellwright’s work outside the United States from London. She joined Tellwright in 2013 to build its federal programs, after twelve years in government, including postings with allied governments.

• Corbin Esterly

  President, Public Safety

  Corbin leads Tellwright’s public safety business, which serves police and sheriffs’ departments, fusion centers and the communities that use Kerbside. He served 22 years with a large metropolitan police department, retiring as deputy chief of its investigations bureau.

• Annika Strohm

  President, National Security

  Annika leads Tellwright’s work with defense, intelligence and homeland security agencies, including the Lawful Access Program. She spent sixteen years in the intelligence community before joining Tellwright in 2017.

• Marisa Quint

  Senior Vice President, Communications

  Marisa leads communications, public affairs and community engagement. She previously ran communications for a state public safety department and for a technology company in Denver.

Tellwright Systems, Inc. is privately held. Its board of directors includes its co-founders, representatives of its investors and an independent director, Selwyn Paget, a former deputy secretary of a federal department.