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| Management Team |
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| Tom Arthur |
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| Joel
Evanier |
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| Alain Mayer |
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| Brian Laing
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| Mike Lloyd |
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| Steve Garritano |
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| Matt Foster |
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| Rodney Smith |
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| Board Of
Directors |
| Investors |
| Technical Advisory Board |
| Careers |
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Tom Arthur
President and CEO
Tom has over 20 years experience helping startups and fortune 500 companies build successful businesses. Most recently, Tom was CEO of PhoneSpots, an early innovator and international provider of mobile local search content and advertising solutions for Yellow Page and Directory Assistance (411) operators. Prior to PhoneSpots, Mr. Arthur served as President and CEO of Arbor Networks, a leading network security company focused on detecting, tracing and mitigating denial-of-service and worm attacks against service provider and large enterprise infrastructure. Prior to Arbor Networks, Mr. Arthur was President of ActivCard Inc., where he grew the company from $3m annual revenues to over $34m culminating in a successful IPO. From 1988 to 1998, Tom served in various sales, marketing and general management roles for Novell Inc. His last position was VP and GM of Novell's Internet Infrastructure Division. Tom holds a BS from the University of California at Davis.
Joel Evanier
Co-Chairman and Executive Vice President of Business Development Strategy
Joel's 25-year career includes leadership roles spanning network computing,
networking and security. Prior to joining RedSeal Systems, Joel was co-founder
and Vice President of Sales and Business Development at RouteScience, a route
optimization company acquired by Avaya. Prior to that, Joel was Director of
Sales at Cisco Systems, where he built and managed a national overlay
organization for security and network management products. Before Cisco, Joel
was Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Business Development at NETSYS
Technologies (acquired by Cisco), and spent 10 years at Sun Microsystems in
national and worldwide sales management roles.
Alain Mayer, PhD
Chief Technology Officer
Alain Mayer, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer for RedSeal Systems, has over 20 years experience in computer science (CS) research and software development. After graduating with a Masters in CS from Brown University, Alain joined IBM's T.J Watson, Research Center where he worked on the design of network protocols. He left IBM for Columbia University, where he received his PhD and wrote his thesis on fault tolerant models for network protocols. In 1995, he joined an early stage startup, SMARTS, as an engineer, working on root cause analysis for network management. In 1996, he joined Bell Labs-Lucent, where he helped start a new security research group. During his time at the Labs, he worked on web privacy, web security, and firewall security management, publishing over 20 papers in these areas. Alain left the Labs to join Centerrun in 2001, where, as CTO, he was at the forefront of innovation in data center automation, developing new technologies that unified the management of large server farms. In 2003, the company was successfully acquired by Sun Microsystems. After the acquisition, Alain began developing new technology around his patent for policy-based network management. His new approach looked at network management from a business policy point of view, instead of the traditional device point of view. In 2004, Alain combined his emerging business venture and patent with Brian Laing's company, Blade Software, to form RedSeal Systems, a well-funded started up, having attracted money from leading investors such as Venrock and Sutter Hill Ventures. At RedSeal, Alain was responsible for the original architecture and algorithms of the RedSeal product, and, as CTO, remains deeply involved in the company's product innovation and technology evolution. During his career, Alain has written over 35 research papers and is author of 8 granted US Patents.
Brian Laing
Chief Security Officer
Brian Laing, co-founder and Chief Security Officer for RedSeal, has over 18 years experience in IT security, holding roles in network IT security, security consulting and security product development. While at Applied Materials, Brian was responsible for network security for a system that spanned 5 buildings, supporting over 2000 end users. In 1995, he left to join a network security consulting firm, where his clients included McAfee, Sega and Sony. He helped McAfee build its first secure, web-based, online credit card order system. During this time, he developed the first distributed vulnerability scanner using ISS as the core scanning engine. In 1998, he joined ISS, which developed the industry's first commercial vulnerability scanner. While at ISS, his consulting clients included London International Financial Futures Exchange, Deutsche Bank, ARAMCO, ING Barings, European Bank of Reconstruction, British Telecom and British Petroleum. In 2002, he founded a security products company, Blade Software, delivering the industry's first commercial IPS firewall testing tool. Combining his company, with Alain Mayers' new business venture, they emerged as RedSeal in 2004, a well-funded started up, having attracted money from leading investors such as Venrock and Sutter Hill Ventures. At RedSeal, Brian is driving the security aspects of the RedSeal product vision and design.
Mike Lloyd, PhD
Chief Scientist
Mike Lloyd, Chief Scientist for RedSeal Systems, has more than 20 years experience in the modeling and simulation of dynamic systems. He holds a degree in mathematics from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and a PhD in epidemic modeling from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1992, he relocated to the U.S. and taught statistics at New York University Stern School of Business. In 1993, he moved to California to join MasPar, a massively parallel supercomputer company, as a member of technical staff. In 1995, he joined startup Netsys Technology as a network modeling specialist. Netsys was acquired by Cisco in 1996, where Mike served as principal architect for the MPLS VPN provisioning system. In 1999 he joined early-stage startup RouteScience as CTO. While there, he led pioneering work in self-optimizing networks and authored four patents on dynamic network control. RouteScience was acquired by Avaya in 2004, where Mike continued to develop high-speed measurement and control systems for VoIP networking. In 2006, Mike joined RedSeal Systems, where he is deeply involved with the product's security analysis engine and network modeling capabilities.
Steve Garritano
Vice President of Engineering
Steve brings more than 20 years of experience in engineering management of
complex networking and security systems. Prior to joining RedSeal, Steve was
Vice President of Engineering at Applied Identity, as well as Vice President of
Engineering and Operations at RouteScience, which was acquired by Avaya.
Previous positions include Director of Engineering at Netsys (acquired by
Cisco), and Director of Development at Kalpana (acquired by Cisco) among
others.
Matt Foster
Vice President of Sales
Matt's 12-year career spans entrepreneurship and sales leadership in security
and networking, worldwide. Prior to joining RedSeal Systems, Matt was
co-founder and Vice President of Sales for Blade Software and Informer, a suite
of products for testing in-line networking and security devices. Prior to Blade
Software, Matt led sales for the financial services vertical at Internet
Security Systems (ISS), garnering over 80 percent market share for the
Company's vulnerability assessment and intrusion detection solutions. Matt was
also co-founder of Blue Star Networks, a leading UK security and networking
reseller.
Rodney Smith
Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Finance and Administration
Rodney has over 25 years of experience as a Senior Financial Executive responsible for managing all aspects of finance and administration, with extensive international experience, for both private and publicly held tech and non-tech companies. Most recently Mr. Smith was Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Finance and Administration for Ace Parking, Inc., a $500M in revenue, 6,000 workforce privately held company. Prior to Ace Parking, Mr. Smith was CFO NewRoads – Western Addition, a direct response industry fulfillment company, where he significantly improved all financial systems. Prior to NewRoads, Mr. Smith held the position as Assistant Corporate Controller for Excite@Home and senior level finance positions at Sun Microsystems, where he successfully lead several company-wide initiatives, as well as Zilog, Memorex, Hewlett-Packard and CFO/VP Finance and Administration roles for various software startup companies.
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