Our experienced team is focused on making the Web safer. With executives and advisors from Cascadia Labs, Amazon.com, Aventail, F5, and PC Magazine working together to solve today's most challenging threats on the Web, you can feel confident in our solutions.

Rob Lipschutz
Chief Executive Officer

As a co-founder and CEO for SiteScout, Rob oversees company strategy, sales, and execution. Immediately prior, he worked at Cascadia Labs. He served as director of technology at Viant, CTO and founder at Meca Communications, and president and CTO of Thing 7. And between 1992 and 1996, Robert directed networking testing and analysis at PC Magazine. An expert with more than 15 years experience evaluating and building technology products for consumers and enterprises, his consulting clients have included Kinko's, Bank of America, JP Morgan, and Microsoft. Robert has in-depth experience with anti-virus, anti-spyware, host intrusion prevention, firewall, and Web filtering technologies. He holds a B.S. in Chemistry with Honors from the University of California, Berkeley.


John Clyman
Chief Technology Officer

In his role as CTO, John leads development of SiteScout's system for performing scalable, automated website contamination assessment. Immediately prior to co-founding SiteScout, he worked with Robert at Cascadia Labs, where he built internal tools used for building malware and URL filtering databases and for assessing websites. These technologies were transferred to SiteScout at its inception. For over 14 years, John has performed and overseen critical product assessments for leading technology companies, venture-capital firms, publications, and e-commerce operations. Since 2004, he has intensively examined malware mitigation techniques and products. He holds a B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University.


John Blackburn
VP of Business Development

With 21 years of successful sales and business development experience, John will drive SiteScout's business relationships with key software, hardware, and services vendors. Most recently, John managed technology alliances at Aventail Corporation where he negotiated OEM contracts and established key technology partnerships with companies such as Motorola, Palm, Microsoft, Symantec, and Phoenix Technologies. Prior to Aventail, John drove OEM licensing activity and managed partner relationships at Widevine Technologies and F5 Networks. John also held senior asset management positions with various national real estate development and management firms where he conducted over $200 million worth of transactions. He holds an MBA from the University of Southern California and a B.S. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.