Vincent Schiavone
 Vincent J. Schiavone is the Managing Partner at The Acentio Group. A 25-year technology industry veteran, Vincent brings extensive operating, technology strategy, business development and marketing experience to his clients in the commercial technology, internet commerce, privacy, security and healthcare sectors. The Acentio Group provides executive Business Technology consulting, research, advisory services and M&A support to both established enterprise organizations and emerging Web 2.0 companies.
Prior to co-founding The Acentio Group, Vincent founded the ePrivacy Group, LLC, a privacy consulting and services company and trusted email technology incubator. At ePrivacy Group Vincent lead the development of the framework and technology for the Trusted Sender program, and TEOS (Trusted Email Open Standard) as well as SpamSquelcher, (which became the TurnTide Anti-Spam Router).
Prior to ePrivacy Group Vincent co-founded InfoSec Labs, a boutique security consulting and training company serving global 2000 clients. InfoSec Labs was an early player in the security space providing assessments, penetration testing and strategy for its clients. InfoSec Labs pioneered practices still in use today and was acquired by SafeNet (SFNT). Consulting Clients at InfoSec Labs included American Express, the NYSE, Merck Medco, Xerox and ATTWireless.
As founder, Board Member and the Chief Strategy Officer at TurnTide Vincent drove the acquisition by Symantec ( SYMC). Vincent holds a US Patent for his work at ePrivacy Group and TurnTide. Consulting clients at ePrivacy Group included the Federal Trade Commission, Microsoft, EarthLink, Comcast, Aventis, and Pfizer.
Vincent is a serial entrepreneur and investor. Investment activities include:
- Prioratus, LLC - Incubation, Seed and Early Stage Private Equity, Managing Partner www.prioratus.com
- eStudio Space – B2B and B2C incubators, Managing Partner
- L.O.R.E. - Philadelphia's oldest Angel Invest group, Member www.loreassociates.com
- MAG II Fund – member managed seed and early stage fund, Investor www.magfund.com
- LLR III fund – Private Equity Investments, Investor www.llrpartners.com
- Robin Hood Ventures - Seed and Early Stage Angel Investment Group, Member www.robinhoodventures.com
- Ben Franklin Tevchnology Partners SEP, Information Technology Investment Advisory Committee, Member www.sep.benfranklin.org security
Current active investments include:
- Apptastics - Co-founder & Chariman - nextgen social applications company - www.apptastics.com
- Mediagistics - Managing Partner, on-line marketing company - www.mediagistics.com
- FountainHead Studios - Managing Partner, - Internet Video Studio - www.fountainheadstudios.tv Prioratus, LLC - Incubation, Seed and Early Stage Private Equity, Managing Partner www.prioratus.com
- CyberPatrol - Board of Directors - providor of parental control software - www.cyberpatrol.com
- Preclick - Board of Directors, Lifetime photo software company- www.preclick.com
- EZPrints – Investor, back-end infrastructure and photofinishing - www.ezprints.com
- DataMotion – Investor & Advisor, secure intelligent information transport – bridging people and processes - www.datamotion.com
- New Penn Financial – Investor, Mortgage Banker and approved FHA lender - www.newpennfinancial.com
- Glucolight – Investor, Non-invasive Photonic glocuse monitoring - www.glucolight.com
- Paradigm Spine – Investor, Non-fusion spine implants – www.paradigmspine.com
- International Battery – Investor, environmental friendly, large format rechargeable lithium ion batteries and management technology – www.internationalbatteryinc.com
- Carnegie Speech – Investor, Speech training technology – www.carnegiespeech.com
Successful Exits:
- Exploit Prevention Labs – Investor & Advisory Board – acquired by GrisSoft
- TurnTide – Founder, Chief Strategy Officer, Board – Acquired by Symantec (symc)
- InfoSec Labs – Founder, Partner – Acquired by SafeNet (SFNT)
- Victor Voice Chart – Founder, CEO – Acquired by Professional Dental Technologies
Industry Activities:
- IAPP - The International Association of Privacy Professionals - Founding Board Member (past)
- Trusted Email Open Standard (TEOS) - co-author - presented US Federal Trade Commission Spam Conference
- ISPCON - ISP industry conference - Advisory Board Member (past)
- InBox - email industry conference - Advisory Board Member (past)
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