Chris Newton, President & CEO

As President & CEO, Chris leads the Securus team in creating the vision and execution plans to ensure that Securus’ products and services become the leader in their markets. Prior to Securus, Chris led venture-backed Intervolve, Inc. as Chairman & CEO through 6 years of high growth in the web and mobile (wireless) supply chain industry.
 
Chris is an award-winning CEO with deep entrepreneurial and early stage high growth experience. He continuously creates winning teams and companies through his leadership, communication, and motivation skills. Chris evangelizes customer-centric products and creates a “can do” company culture, resulting in strong customer referrals and a significant industry footprint.
 
Prior to Intervolve, Chris co-invented a biomechanical oily water separator to be used in the maritime industry to prevent water pollution from bilge water. His invention is integral to the shipping industry and is in many ships including cruise ships. Chris contributes his expertise at local universities by guest lecturing, business coaching, business plan judging and more.

Chris graduated from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, with an MBA, with concentrations in Technology Commercialization and Management Information Systems. His B.S. is from the United Stated Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, New York. 

Elena Amboyan del Valle, Vice President of Research and Development and Product Delivery

Elena is responsible for product management and development at Securus. She has over twenty five years experience in high tech product management and software design and development, including international trade and development programs.  

Prior to joining Securus, Elena has helped to grow several early stage companies as well as mature corporate turnarounds. She founded Secant, Inc., which provides business and technology consulting services to consumer package goods manufacturers and distributors.  Elena grew the Secant as CEO through its acquisition by Information Resources, Inc. in 2006.

Elena has a degree in International business from Western Illinois University.  She has done business on every continent, speaks English as a native, Spanish and Portuguese fluently and has working knowledge in Mandarin.

 

Peter L. Muldoon, Vice President of Sales

Peter Muldoon is responsible for Sales at Securus.

Peter has over 20 years experience in sales and management with hi-tech companies. During his career he established sales distribution networks in consumer electronics, OEM and B to B markets. Prior to joining Securus Inc., Peter was the Vice President of Sales for 4 1/2 years with Zoombak, a manufacturer of personal GPS devices. At Zoombak, Peter successfully established a network of independent rep firms, distributors and major retailers such as Best Buy, RadioShack and Target which resulted in Zoombak’s presence in over 10,000 retail outlets.

In his career, Peter has held senior sales positions with Canon USA, Seiko Instruments and Archos. He holds a BS degree in Marketing from San Diego State University.