About Us

Our Mission

We’re making digital safety accessible for everyone.
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We are compassionate.

We understand how scared, frustrated, and isolated online harassment can make you feel. We see you and support you.

We are knowledgeable.

Fostering digital safety requires expertise in information security, inclusion, and sociology. We stay ahead of the trends so that you can be confident in your safety online.

We are trustworthy.

We are personally invested in the fight against online harassment and intrusion. Your well-being, safety, and privacy are our highest priorities.

We are ethical.

We understand the failings and foibles of today’s technology, and we strive to epitomize the change we want to see. From our corporate policies to the way we use data, our company is designed to embody our values and keep you safe.

Meet Our Team

Our team has decades of incident response and cybersecurity experience. We have the tech muscle, industry experience, and empathy-based drive to power up a new standard of online security.

Leigh Honeywell

Leigh Honeywell

CEO and Co-Founder
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Leigh has more than a decade of experience in computer security incident response. Prior to co-founding Tall Poppy, she was a Technology Fellow at the ACLU's Project on Speech, Privacy, and Technology. Her industry career included running security incident response at Slack, protecting infrastructure running a million apps at Salesforce.com, shipping patches for billions of computers on a monthly basis at Microsoft, and analyzing malware at Symantec. Leigh has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto where she majored in Computer Science and Equity Studies, and is a frequent keynote speaker at security and software conferences around the world.

Erica Kwan

Erica Kwan

CTO and Co-Founder
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Erica has been a software engineer at a variety of companies and organizations. She was an early employee at Square and one of the first engineers on staff at Code for America. She has worked on projects for the Veterans Affairs department and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid services as a senior engineer at Nuna. Erica is focused on building tools that have a meaningful impact. She has a computer science degree from the University of Victoria.

Danielle Schneider

Danielle Schneider

Senior Security Analyst
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Marie Kalb

Marie Kalb

Security Analyst Lead
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Samantha Gamble

Samantha Gamble

Security Analyst
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John Moon

John Moon

Director of Sales
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Alex McKendry

Alex McKendry

Junior Software Engineer

Natasha Tremblay

Operations Manager
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Chelsea Pinero

Chelsea Piñeiro

Customer Success Manager
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Investors & Advisors

Our product development and business development are guided by top experts with decades of experience in promoting digital security and fighting online abuse.

Stephan Somogyi

Product Lead, Android
Platform Security at Google

Mikki Kendall

Writer, Diversity Consultant

Satnam Narang

Staff Research Engineer,
Security Response at Tenable

Kat Lo

Trust and Safety Expert

Liz Lee

Founder, OnlineSOS

Zoë Quinn

Game Designer, Writer
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