Rich Mason

Former CSO and CISO - Honeywell | Investor | Inventor | Advisor | Provocateur | Survivor

📍 Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2020
VC🌍 United States
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Strategic Advisory Board Member & Investor
Jan 2020
**WHAT WE DO:** TrustMAPP provides continuous, real-time visibility into an organization’s cybersecurity performance, offering a comprehensive view of cybersecurity controls, investments, and an actionable improvement roadmap. **WHO WE WORK WITH:** We partner with financial institutions, healthcare providers, life sciences companies, and manufacturers. We work directly with CISOs, CIOs, CFOs, Directors, and Security Officers to help manage and optimize their cybersecurity strategy. **WHY IT WORKS:** TrustMAPP was designed by cybersecurity professionals to deliver a continuous process, to improve cybersecurity stature. TrustMAPP combines a standardized methodology with customizable controls, aligning control with risks and business objectives. TrustMAPP provides unparalleled transparency into your organization’s cybersecurity risk while enabling continuous improvement through our integrated improvement and project management interfaces. **WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT:** TrustMAPP offers information security leaders a real-time, unified view of cybersecurity performance across the organization. It shows where you are, where you’re heading, and exactly what actions are needed to improve. Leveraging our recommendation engine, customers plan and drive improvement toward their risk criteria. TrustMAPP enables organizations to treat cybersecurity as a business function, helping to measure risks, quantify investment with remediation efforts, and measure the cost-effectiveness of security improvements.
CISO Investor
Aug 2019
Silicon Valley CISO Investments (“SVCI”) is a group of Chief Information Security Officers (“CISO”) that operate as an angel investor syndicate. Founded in 2019, SVCI is already successfully pursuing its mission of fuelling the next generation of cybersecurity innovation. The group identifies promising startups, invests in them and leverages its members’ unmatched industry expertise to help the companies thrive.
Strategic Advisor | Investor
Apr 2019
Shipz.com - We are the worlds newest freight and shipment booking marketplace! We transform the experience of shippers + BCOs by reducing the complexity of the shipment booking process. Service providers - freight forwarders, 3PLs and NVOCCs - can grow their businesses by increasing efficiency and conversions, and offer new services to new customers!
Experience · 7 entries
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Investments (4)
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2025
Co-Founder and Chairman
Jan 2025
A content engagement platform in stealth mode. AltStream Sports coming soon.
2022
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Aug 2022
The Maritime Accelerator for Resilience (“MAR”) is a U.S.-based maritime organization, operating as a Maritime Policy Accelerator, at the forefront of innovation and industry leadership. Collaborating with influential figures in shipping, ocean policy, and innovation, MAR aims to catalyze transformative change within the United States, and across the world. The MAR Team are skillful, passionate, apolitical, and globally-recognized. Our vision is to motivate the U.S. maritime industry to global competitiveness, navigating challenges and embracing opportunities in the next decade. The MAR Team collaboratively wrote ZERO POINT FOUR as a way to communicate their vision to the world.
2021
Technology & Innovation Council Member & Advisor
Jan 2021
Graham Partners is a private investment firm focused on investing in technology-driven companies that are spurring innovation in advanced manufacturing, resulting in product substitutions, raw materials conversions, and disruptions to traditional end markets. Graham Partners targets companies with EBITDA between $5 million and $50 million, and will invest in smaller companies to the extent they complement one or more of its other holdings.
2020
Strategic Advisory Board Member & Investor
Jan 2020
**WHAT WE DO:** TrustMAPP provides continuous, real-time visibility into an organization’s cybersecurity performance, offering a comprehensive view of cybersecurity controls, investments, and an actionable improvement roadmap. **WHO WE WORK WITH:** We partner with financial institutions, healthcare providers, life sciences companies, and manufacturers. We work directly with CISOs, CIOs, CFOs, Directors, and Security Officers to help manage and optimize their cybersecurity strategy. **WHY IT WORKS:** TrustMAPP was designed by cybersecurity professionals to deliver a continuous process, to improve cybersecurity stature. TrustMAPP combines a standardized methodology with customizable controls, aligning control with risks and business objectives. TrustMAPP provides unparalleled transparency into your organization’s cybersecurity risk while enabling continuous improvement through our integrated improvement and project management interfaces. **WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT:** TrustMAPP offers information security leaders a real-time, unified view of cybersecurity performance across the organization. It shows where you are, where you’re heading, and exactly what actions are needed to improve. Leveraging our recommendation engine, customers plan and drive improvement toward their risk criteria. TrustMAPP enables organizations to treat cybersecurity as a business function, helping to measure risks, quantify investment with remediation efforts, and measure the cost-effectiveness of security improvements.
2019
CISO Investor
Aug 2019
Silicon Valley CISO Investments (“SVCI”) is a group of Chief Information Security Officers (“CISO”) that operate as an angel investor syndicate. Founded in 2019, SVCI is already successfully pursuing its mission of fuelling the next generation of cybersecurity innovation. The group identifies promising startups, invests in them and leverages its members’ unmatched industry expertise to help the companies thrive.
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