AlienVault Team

Team

Barmak Meftah, President & CEO

Barmak 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 a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in AlienVault to combine a tight-knit team of world-class technology managers with an amazing group of entrepreneurs. Read more»

Julio Casal, Co-Founder & General Manager, MSSP Business Unit

Known for his pioneering work in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Julio 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»

Roger Thornton, Chief Technical Officer

Roger’s career has been dedicated to the development of technology and new business ventures based on technical innovation. Over 25 years in the Silicon Valley and abroad, he has driven the formation and growth of dozens of new companies and hundreds of products, and has served in a wide range of roles from engineering, marketing, and management, to investor/advisor. In 2002, Roger founded Fortify Software… Read more»

Dominique Karg, Co-Founder & Chief Hacking Officer

Dominique started fiddling with computers when his father gave him his first Atari 2600 and Commodore 64, followed shortly thereafter by his first IBM PC in 1990. An avid gamer and true hacker, he had more fun “creating” extra ammo, getting more units and constructing different appearances than he did actually playing the games. Very early on, he was hooked on hacking and programming, which led to a passion for computer languages… Read more»

Jim Yares, Executive Vice President, Field Operations

Jim loves technology and the promise it holds for people and organizations, and his career has been about helping companies use technology to achieve their goals. His work has led him to roles in nearly every aspect of the technology business — sales, marketing, consulting, finance, operations and development – and each time, the common link has been about working with great people on challenging problems and delivering exceptional results. Read more»

Richard Kirk, Senior Vice President, International Sales

Richard joins AlienVault with over 30 years’ experience across the software industry, with a particular focus on enterprise software, security and mission critical systems for the banking, finance and telecommunications industries. Richard has gained extensive experience and expertise in a number of high profile international sales, marketing, consulting and technical positions over the course of a highly successful and dedicated career. Read more»

Javier Lopez-Tello, General Manager, Spain & LATAM

Javier Lopez-Tello is a serial entrepreneur with a track record of success in the information security sector. Previously, Javier co-founded several companies, including Neutralbit, Grupo ADD and S21sec. He also provided strategic business practice leadership to companies including Aitsec Information Technology Security, ACTING and Sentryware Security Technologies.  Read more»

Juan Manuel Lorenzo Sarría, Vice President, Engineering

Juanma Lorenzo has been with the AlienVault team since the earliest days of the AlienVault Open Source SIEM (OSSIM) project. Juanma developed and delivered the initial training for the OSSIM prior to the founding of the company, and has traveled the world overseeing a dedicated engineering team and maintaining the most comprehensive information security training in the industry.  Read more»

John Richardson, Vice President, Finance and Administration

John has over 20 years experience working in both private and public technology companies in Silicon Valley. John comes from HP Fortify where, as VP Finance, he drove fiscal discipline, overseeing the company’s global financial initiatives, as well as the finance and operations of the company, including accounting, HR, Legal, and IT. Read more»

Jack Marshall, Vice President Customer Success

Jack brings more than 20 years of technology experience and a long history working with enterprise customers in demanding environments. Jack was VP of Customer Success at Fortify from the early pre-revenue days through its sale to HP in September 2010. Under Jack’s guidance and care, Fortify established the highest customer loyalty and satisfaction results possible with customer renewals and ready-reference rates routinely above 95%. Read more»

Gail Boddy, Vice President, Human Resources

Gail brings more than 20 years of experience in Human Resources to AlienVault, with 10 of those being in the enterprise security space. Gail comes from HP ArcSight, having joined HP in October 2010 as part of the acquisition of ArcSight. As Vice President of Human Resources at ArcSight, Gail was a key member of the executive team during eight years of rapid growth and expansion. Read more»

Russell Spitler, VP Product Management

Russell Spitler comes to AlienVault with a strong desire to help the world build more secure systems. After spending years helping to secure the largest financial, military, and commercial organizations, Russ is now working with AlienVault to help bring those same security products to the rest of us. He started his career as a programmer at Fortify Software. Read more»