BankVaultOnline.com appoints Silicon Valley veteran Karl Mattson in San Francisco as VP of Growth

Graeme Speak

Company Name: BankVault

Announcement Date: 16/10/2015
Announcement Category: Investment, Product launch/update, Team Update
Announcement Content:

BankVaultOnline.com, a division of GoPC Pty Ltd, has secured Silicon Valley growth-hacking veteran Karl Mattson to the team. In his previous role as 2IC of Maxthon he devised and executed strategies which grew the user base from 100,000 to 24,000,000 users/month.

Karl joined the BankVault team because the technology and business opportunity have all the hallmarks to become a $Billion company. "I see massive opportunity here. The timing for this product in the market is perfect. We have a unique technology, strong driving pain point, a clear value proposition and virtual no direct competitor. It really is a multi-billion dollar market and a greenfield opportunity for me to apply all of my expertise. I believe BankVault is a unicorn opportunity".

CEO Graeme Speak said he was thrilled with the appointment. He had met Karl 18 months earlier through a high level introduction by Charles River Ventures Bill Tai when he was connecting Maxthon with GoPC.net. "Karl had some incredibly deep insites into tapping the market which I had never considered and really opened my eyes while we were exploring collaboration with Maxthon. Then a few months ago I spent a day with Adeo Ressi on what SV investors look for when selecting a unicorn opporutnity. I knew we ticked almost every single box but we lacked someone with a track record of growing tens of millions of users. I went searching and reached out to Karl again. He loved the high value proposition and open market opportunity because in comparison his previous roles were in highly competitive markets with identical product offerings".

Karl is appointed VP of Growth and is based in San Francisco. He is currently overseeing the re-design of the marketing strategies for BankVaultOnline.com to target SME business owners in North America and Australia.

BankVault is a product division of GoPC Pty Ltd with offices in Perth Australia and San Francisco USA.


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About BankVault:

Bankvault stops bank account hacking
- Make every online transaction invisible and out-of-reach from hackers.
- Secure. Anonymous. Untraceable.

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Graeme Speak

Graeme is a technology entrepreneur and "cloud computing" pioneer. He lives in San Francisco USA and Perth Western Australia. Graeme built one of Australia's most successful ASP's (Application Service Providers) with Central Data Pty Ltd launch in 1995 running POPs in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth. Surviving the dot.com crash he was able to continued innovating cloud technology and in 2005 launched GoPC which he drove from concept to commercialisation against mainstream thinking of the time. The company raised capital and established a San Francisco office in Dec 2007 and was at the centre of the cloud computing revolution in Siliocn Valley. In 2009 GoPC was recognised as one of the leading cloud startups of Silicon Valley by Silicom Ventures Investment Summit at Stanford University. In 2013 the company released a ground breaking new innovation codenamed "Rainmaker", A patent was registered in August, the technology recognised by Rackspace in September, Graeme was interviewed by Robert Scoble in San Francisco for his video show in October and in March 2014 he closed another investment round to fund expansion. In other interests Graeme is a committee member of LESANZ where he created and leads the Innovators Pitch Night, a Dragons den/Shark tank event run in front of a live audience. He co-founded and co-hosts Silicon Beach Perth, was the Secretary and is a long term committee member of eGroup.org.au. He is also an active mentor in the Western Australian startup community. After a serious kitesurfing accident he became Secretary of WAKSA (Western Australian Kitesurfing Association) to promote safe kiting. He co-founded Kitestock.com and was Secretary from 2005-2007 when it was the largest kitesurfing event in the southern hemisphere. Graeme studied Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science and part of an MBA at the University of Western Australia. He enjoys fundamental thinking, philosophy and has a strong interest in people, social evolution and big history.

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