VersaBank on April 15, 2020, announced that it has strengthened its board of directors with the appointment of Avery Pennarun. Mr. Pennarun is co-founder and CEO of Tailscale Inc., which helps remote teams securely access the services they need, without the long setup times of traditional VPNs, and is also a director of VersaBank. Mr. Pennarun joins the current members of the DRT Cyber board: former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge (Chairman), Chairman of Ridge Global LLC and the first U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security; Barbara C. Chaffee, President & CEO of the Tom Ridge Environmental Center Foundation; and David Taylor, President & CEO, VersaBank and DRT Cyber. Mr. Pennarun was previously Senior Software Engineer at X Inc., Google Fiber, and Google Inc., three Alphabet companies, and was in the top 3% of Google employees, reporting directly to Alphabet’s co-founder and board of directors. Mr. Pennarun has had an extensive career in both software development and software engineering and is regarded as one of Canada’s best and brightest in his field.