Henry Ancona

Henry Ancona has over 30 years of management experience with large and small global technology-based companies. He currently serves as executive advisor, board chair/member, and angel investor to technology companies. Henry brings strategic, operational and leadership development experience to his advisory and board service. He was President at Pegasystems, and CEO at Evidian, a cybersecurity software company which he founded. Earlier, Henry held senior management positions both in Europe and in the US at Digital Equipment (now HP). As Executive Advisor, Henry teams with CEOs and Boards on a broad range of strategic, operational, people, financing and board issues to achieve growth and profitability. His clients include companies in healthcare, AI and software businesses. Henry is a venture partner at Companyon Ventures, and is an angel investor in software and software-enabled businesses such as HubSpot and Carbonite. Henry holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and BS and MS degrees from MIT in Computer Science. Henry is fluent in French and Italian, and has lived in several European countries and in the Middle East.