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Board

Alberto Yépez, Managing Director, Trident Capital – Chairman of the Board

Alberto Yépez is Managing Director at Trident Capital focusing on software, information security and mobile investments. Prior to Joining Trident, Alberto was a serial entrepreneur with a successful track record in building global businesses and leading them to successful exits. He was founder & CEO of enCommerce (acquired by Entrust in 2000), co-CEO & President of Entrust, Chairman & CEO of Thor Technologies (acquired by Oracle in 2005) and has held senior management positions at Oracle and Apple.  
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General Peter Pace, Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, United States Armed Forces

General Peter Pace, USMC (Ret.) served as the 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the most senior position in the United States Armed Forces, from October 2005 to October 2007. In his capacity as chairman, he served as advisor to the President, Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council. Pace served as the Vice Chairman from 2001 to 2005. Read more »

Kenneth Goldman, Senior Vice President & CFO Fortinet, Inc.

Kenneth Goldman serves as the senior vice president and chief financial officer of Fortinet, Inc., a provider of unified threat management solutions. From November 2006 to August 2007, Mr. Goldman served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Dexterra, Inc., a provider of mobile enterprise software. He served as senior vice president, finance and administration, and chief financial officer of Siebel Systems, Inc., a provider of customer software solutions and services (which was acquired by Oracle Corporation in January 2006), from August 2000 to March 2006. Read more »

John M. Jack

John M. Jack (JJ) has over 30 years of sales, marketing, and executive management experience in the software industry. JJ was CEO at Fortify Software which was sold to Hewlett Packard and is now part of the the HP Enterprise Security Products Division. At Fortify Software, JJ was hand-picked by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers to lead the company which ultimately became the undisputed market leader in the software security space. Read more »

Barmak Meftah, President & CEO

Barmak Meftah is a veteran of the technology industry with a passion for building and leading great teams. Over his 20 years of experience in enterprise software, he has assembled an incredible track record for delivering amazing products. Barmak saw in AlienVault a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to combine a tight-knit team of world-class technology managers with an amazing group of entrepreneurs. Read more »

Julio Casal, Co-Founder & GM MSSP Business Unit

Known for his pioneering work in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Julio Casal has been on the front-lines of the cyberwar long before it was given a name. He started his security career in the early days of the commercial Internet as a CISO for several ISP’s in Spain in the early 1990’s. Back then he was helping business customers and telcos like Telefonica understand the long term implications of cyber security threats. Read more »

Alberto Gomez, Managing Partner, Adara

Alberto Gomez draws together experience in investment banking, corporate management and venture capital. Previously, he has worked at Telefónica (MD of its $400m Corporate Venture Capital unit), Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Alberto has been making venture capital investments since 2000 and brings 20 years of international experience in direct investment and financial transactions to Adara. He was Managing Director of Telefónica’s Corporate Venture Capital unit, responsible for $400m of investment in the information and communications technology sector. Read more »

Mike Biggee, Principal, Trident Capital

Michael Biggee joined Trident Capital in 2005 and is a Principal in the Palo Alto, CA office, focused on IT Security, Business Services and CleanTech Sectors. Prior to Trident, Michael worked with Dolphin Equity Partners, a venture capital firm specializing in technology, media and communications investments. Before Dolphin, Michael worked in the global technology investment banking group at Merrill Lynch focusing on initial public offerings within the Internet, communications and semiconductor industries. Prior to Merrill Lynch, Michael worked as a Chemical Engineer for Procter & Gamble and General Mills, Inc. Read more »

Koldo Barrena, Serial Entrepreneur

Koldo Barrena is a serial entrepreneur. He graduated from the University of Deusto in 1987 with a PhD in Computer Science and founded Kyat, a system integration company with 1000 employees that was sold to Thomson. He was recognized with the Best Young Entrepreneur in Basque Country award and went on to start BCS, an employment agency with 3000 employees that was sold to Ranstand in 1994. Koldo later founded DYCSA, a billing system platform for mobile operators in use at Bell South, a broadband telephony company, Qarana,the first Spanish banking systems integration company for online marketing and IT Deusto which acquired a dozen other system integration companies to become the second largest Spanish system integrator.