Mance is a skilled technology executive and entrepreneur with more than twenty years of strategic management, revel in multi-national companies, government organizations, and high-tech startups, and is Co-founder and CEO of Hedera.
His earlier experience consists of serving as the head of structure and Labs at Ping Identity, Founder and CEO of two tech startups, the senior executive for product security at a $1.7B revenue corporation, and program manager for a completely-large scale software program for the Missile defense company, the Course Director for Cybersecurity at the United States Air Force Academy, and research scientist in machine mastering at Wright Laboratory.
Mance acquired an MS in computer technology from the University of Massachusetts and a BS in computer science from Mississippi State University.