COMPANY INFO
Management Team
Paul Brady, Chief Executive Officer
Glenn Brewer, Vice President of Engineering
Larry Christofori, Chief Financial Officer
Kevin Conklin, Vice President of Marketing
Joe Gately, Vice President of North American Sales and Alliances
Charles Kaplan, Chief Technology Strategist
Eddie Kohler, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder
Max Poletto, Technology Strategist and Co-Founder
Paul Brady, Chief Executive Officer
Paul Brady has more than twenty years of experience in the general management and strategic development of high-growth businesses in the technology industry. Brady has a track record of leadership and success in establishing, developing, growing and operating solutions-oriented technology companies. As chief executive officer of Mazu Networks, Brady is responsible for revenue growth, customer acquisition, customer retention and business operations. Most recently, Brady was president and chief operating officer of Guardent, a leading Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) that was acquired by Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) in February of 2004.
Prior to joining Guardent, Brady was the senior vice president of services at Exodus Communications (NASDAQ: EXDS).Previously, Brady was president of Cohesive Technology Solutions, where he helped direct the merger of Cohesive into Exodus Communications in 1999.
Prior to that, Paul was founder and chief executive officer of Business Technologies Consulting Group, an IT services firm ranked as a "Fast 50" company in 1998 by Deloitte & Touche. His firm was distinguished as the eighth fasting growing technology company in New England and the 60th fastest growing company in the U.S. in 1998. Brady began his career at Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) as consultant in the financial services technology practice.
Brady received a bachelor's degree in computer science from Hofstra University and a MBA from the Sloan Business School at MIT where he was an Alfred P. Sloan fellow.
Glenn Brewer, Vice President of Engineering
With more than 20 years of experience in product development and leading engineering organizations, Glenn Brewer brings to Mazu key experience in scaling world class engineering organizations. Glenn is responsible for setting the company's software engineering strategy and managing the product development team. Glenn's primary duties include growing Mazu's technology team in order to accelerate development of new products and enhancements to existing offerings.
Prior to joining Mazu, Glenn was the vice president of engineering at the Rational Software division of IBM, where he led a team of several hundred software engineers working from multiple sites. Previously, Brewer served as engineering director at Claris Corporation.
Larry Christofori, Chief Financial Officer
To his position as Chief Financial Officer of Mazu Networks, Larry Christofori brings more than 15 years of financial management experience. As CFO, he oversees all of Mazu's finance, human resources, legal, and administrative functions. His professional experience includes working in organizations of all sizes, ranging from large money-center banks to small start-up companies. During his career, Larry has successfully managed most financial management functions, including corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, the development and implementation of financial systems and processes, financial planning and analysis, capital budgeting, and accounting.
Prior to joining Mazu, Larry was CFO of Emperative, Inc., a venture-backed communications software company that was acquired by AT&T in 2003. Prior to Emperative, he was a partner in a corporate financial advisory firm and was a member of the senior finance team at Continental Cablevision, where he had direct responsibility for structuring, negotiating and executing complex financial transactions, including domestic and international bank financings, public and private debt and equity issuances, and mergers and acquisitions. Larry holds a BA in Economics from Wesleyan University and an MBA from Duke University.
Kevin Conklin , Vice President of Marketing
With a compelling track record of success in high technology marketing, Kevin Conklin brings more than 30 years of experience to Mazu Networks. In his role as vice president of marketing, Conklin leads the team responsible for marketing programs, communications, product marketing and management and lead generation. His career is heavily focused on global marketing strategy and execution, product marketing and business development.
Drawing from more than 15 years of executive management experience, Conklin has played an instrumental role in the success of various high technology companies. He was formerly the chief marketing officer for SMARTS, a leader in IT fault analysis software, where he was responsible for a major overhaul of product pricing and spearheaded the effort to develop a standardized sales process. Conklin also served as executive vice president of marketing at Concord Communications, a network hardware company, where he was part of the executive team that led the company’s successful IPO by creating a new market niche for network health reporting. Prior to Concord, Conklin was vice president of product development and marketing at Artel Communications.
Most recently, Conklin founded Supercell Consulting Group, LLC, which provides executive level marketing, sales and business development strategic consulting and implementation to growing technology companies.
Joe Gately, Vice President of North American Sales and Alliances
Joe Gately has a distinguished track record of driving success in high-growth technology companies. In his role as vice president of North American sales and alliances at Mazu Networks, Gately is responsible for overseeing the company’s sales function as well as developing and managing strategic alliances and federal government business. Since joining Mazu Networks in February 2005, Gately established the company’s channel, alliance and federal programs and managed the strategic development of each initiative.
Prior to joining Mazu Networks, Gately held senior management roles at several technology companies. Most recently, he served as president at Gryphon Networks where he successfully transitioned the company from a single compliance solution vendor to a leader in customized, compliance-based sales and marketing productivity solutions. Previously, Gately was president of QC2, a provider of communication infrastructure services. As the senior vice president at GiantLoop Network, Gately was responsible for marketing and all U.S. and EMEA channel sales. Additionally, as the vice president of North American sales at EMC, a global leader in enterprise storage systems and storage, Gately led the company’s direct sales efforts which included managing the Western U.S. region. Gately spent more than eight years with EMC, holding senior sales and marketing roles with the company, which grew from five to 500 million in sales during his tenure.
Gately holds a bachelor’s degree in management information systems and in marketing from the University of Rhode Island.
Charles Kaplan, Chief Technology Strategist
As chief technology strategist at Mazu Networks, Charles Kaplan provides strategic guidance and support for the company’s engineering, marketing and sales teams. Drawing from 15 years of information security experience, and participation in developing the security programs at more than 1000 companies, Kaplan is a recognized expert at architecting, implementing, maintaining and managing effective and balanced security programs.
Previously, Kaplan was the chief information security officer for VeriSign Managed Security Services (MSS), where he served as a thought leader, strategist and evangelist for the organization. In his role, Kaplan provided subject matter expertise and direction internally as well as customer facing security guidance to the company’s top MSS clients. Considered a visionary in the company, he was the principal lead, transforming technical innovation into industry-leading best practices. As part of his responsibilities at VeriSign, Kaplan and his team served as an extension to the IT teams of many Future 1000 enterprises, helping them to develop long term information security strategies and the metrics by which to measure their success.
Prior to joining VeriSign, Kaplan founded Cenetrix, developers of network threat prevention systems. Using proprietary and disruptive technology Kaplan helped to develop, the Cenetrix offering had been strategically aligned to fill voids in the enterprise security space. Before founding Cenetrix, Kaplan founded and led norSEC, a highly successful pioneer in the now established Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) space. Servicing in excess of 450 devices at more than 150 companies, including NaviSite and CMGI, Compaq, KPMG, Polaroid, SUN Microsystems and others, norSEC helped frame the landscape that VeriSign, Symantec, ISS, Counterpane and others now dominate.
In 1996, envisioning a new paradigm in computing, Kaplan co-founded and served as CTO for Xevo, a fast-growing Internet software company devoted to the Application Service Provider industry. As the founder and lead consultant at Ingress, he serviced numerous Fortune firms and government agencies, including DuPont, Marconi, Prudential Securities, The Bureau of Prisons, and The Department of Health and Human Services. In parallel to his consulting efforts, he grew the communications division of Ingress into one of New York City’s premiere Internet Service Providers.
Kaplan has been frequently quoted in the press and a noted speaker for numerous events and audiences, including IS Associates, Community Jewish Philanthropists, TechTarget, UNIX Expo, Internet Expo, Internet World, the Pentagon, the FBI and universities. He has also served as a content editor for O’Reilly & Associates, and had work published by IDG books. Kaplan’s frequent speeches and articles focus on Internet and network security, threat definition and protection, firewalls and security by design.
Eddie Kohler, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder
Eddie Kohler is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and continues to actively contribute to the design of Mazu Network's products.
Prior to co-founding Mazu, Kohler received his post doctorate degree in Computer Science from MIT for the extensible, fast-packet processor that has evolved into the Mazu platform. His research has focused on making networking systems flexible, programmable, understandable and quick. Kohler brings to Mazu in-depth knowledge of network protocols, packet processor design and user interfaces.
Max Poletto, Technology Strategist and Co-Founder
Prior to co-founding Mazu, Max was a postdoctoral associate at the MIT Lab for Computer Science, where he collaborated on the modular packet processing architecture that has since evolved into the Mazu platform.
Max received a Ph.D. from MIT in 1999 for research on improving the performance of computer programs by allowing them to automatically adapt to changing run-time conditions. His work on compiler algorithms has been adopted by groups at Microsoft and IBM.
Immediately prior to Mazu, Max bicycled over five thousand miles from continental Europe's northernmost point to its southernmost point.