Todd Merrill is an experienced software executive who typically assists clients as a fractional or interim CTO and CISO.
He has served in a series of companies as a C-Level executive focused on leveraging the Cloud to bring SaaS offerings to market. As an entrepreneur, turn-around expert, technology and product leader and mentor, Todd has held full corporate P&L and product development responsibilities and directed diverse international teams of Engineering Managers, Mobile Architects, Developers, Dev Ops, QA, and Customer Success professionals.
Relevant Experience
CTO
Todd has served in a number of companies as the CTO including Startup, Venture Backed and Private Equity backed companies. Most recently, he has been the CTO of AirWorks (ML/Computer Vision), Engel & Voelkers Americas (Real Estate), Cforia (Payments), Trifin (healthcare), genrae (crypto/web3/Real Estate), Cavallo (Supply Chain Analytics), Kitces (Wealth Management). Key skills for these positions include building teams, outsourcing development where appropriate, building Intellectual Property Portfolios, establishing security & compliance policies and budgeting & planning for high growth or restructuring. Board Reporting is also a part of every CTO position.
COO/Managing Partner
As a seasoned Operations Executive with a broad range of experiences Todd has leveraged solid operational processes to fuel growth. In 1998 he co-founded Alpha Property Holdings, a Residential Real Estate acquisition company that operates a fleet of Single Family Rental Houses. His ‘dot-com’ era position was as Managing Partner for Performance IT (sold to Private Equity in 2005) and his most recent operating position was as COO of Organic Payments Network.
Founder & CEO
As founder, Todd established Global Crypto Systems to deliver cryptographic security for Web applications used to authenticate users, digitally sign documents, protect online content, prevent the sharing of seat licenses and eliminate the need to maintain multiple passwords. He was responsible for the Strategic Growth of the company, had full P&L responsibility and raised two rounds of outside capital. In 1998 Todd Founded Alpha Property Holdings to buy, rehab and rent Single Family Residential Real Estate. He served as the acquisition and rehab partner for two decades and has participated in hundreds of transactions personally. Most recently, Todd co-founded and served as CEO of Chapter2 Dating.
