Our Team

Creating authentication solutions without limits.

Marc Potash

Founder & CEO

As Founder and CEO, Marc Potash helps drive the innovation and direction of Auth^x. Coming from a software background as the founder of the successful payment platform SecureNet, Marc is no stranger to disrupting industries through technology. His focus on creating technology to move the world forward through user-friendly and innovative technology making him the perfect partner because it ensures your technology investment is continuously innovating. His drive for disrupting industry likely stems from the many years of martial arts training, discipline, and competition . When he is not focused on running Auth^x, it is likely to catch Marc on the slopes or watching his kids play hockey.

Timothy Goodwin

Vice President

A graduate of Sacred Heart University, Auth^x’s Vice President Tim Goodwin will be one of the main facilitators on your project. Built upon a foundation in athletics from playing Division 1 college football and working for the International Olympic Committee and the New Jersey Devils, he has developed a strong foundation in team management. This experience helps him organize skill sets across a project and across an enterprise, making his leadership essential to effective project. Essentially, he bridges the gap between the business teams and operations/development teams to help ensure that all your needs as a client are met through effective project timeline strategy and team skills management. In his free time, Tim enjoys fishing to relax and snowboarding.

Preetham Gowda

Chief Technology Officer

IT veteran Preetham Gowda has been at Auth^x for 6 years as the Chief Technology Officer. Focused on architecture and development of products, strategy, IT, and projects he takes a very hands-on approach to drive the direction of project execution and innovation. As the former CIO of merchant acquirer and payment processor SecureNet, he gained 10 years of technology enterprise leadership experience while building and maintaining a gateway platform that processed over a billion dollars every month. His expertise and technological skill give partners a unique trust in Preetham’s leadership to give you the peace of mind that with him behind your project, success is the only outcome for your company. When he doesn’t have his mind buried in code, he enjoys travel and family time.

Jacob Saji

Chief Operations Officer

Auth^x COO Jacob Saji’s focus involves the implementation of day to day software development operations. Equipped with over 18 years of IT experience, Jacob has built a robust skill set that helps drive the success of Auth^x software including software engineering technical program management, budget and deliverable management, risks and issue management, software deployment, customer support, and many other skills all supported by a Bachelors of Engineering. All these focus on helping improve your Auth^x software experience. Outside of these Jacob enjoys playing racket sports to relax and unwind while feeding his competitive spirit.

James Gorman

CISO and VP of Infrastructure

Auth^x CISO and VP of infrastructure James Gorman is a solutions-driven, results-focused technologist and entrepreneur with experience securing, designing, building, deploying, and maintain large-scale, mission-critical application and networks. He runs the DataCetners, Network, and is responsible to the CEO from SOC and security operations and compliance to help guarantee that your Auth^x products are always secure and running at peak performance.; With previous leadership experience as Senior Director of Network Operations & Engineering, CTO, VP of Operations, Founder & Principal Consultant, Vice President and CEO at companies such as GE, Epoch Internet, NETel, Cable and Wireless, SecureNet, and Transaction Network Services he delivers a level of unmatched skill and experience that any partner wants in their technology solutions provider.

Preet Mann

VP of Product Deployment

Auth^x VP of Product Development Preet Mann helps lead the development of the products that you as a client use every day. With a Master’s in Computer Applications, his understanding of software creation is built upon a solid foundation that helps him lead the Auth^x team in ensuring products meet standards while driving research and development. With over 15 year5s of IT experience in design, development, and maintenance of client-servers, mobile applications and web-based .NET applications as a software developer his skill helps ensure that as a client the product you are delivered is consistently effective and operates beyond standards. Outside of his software development focuses Preet enjoys playing Volleyball in his free time