Douglas McNitt, General Counsel

Douglas McNitt serves as its General Counsel and Secretary at Sourcefire. He joined the company in September 2007 with 15 years of in-house legal experience with leading technology companies.

Prior to Sourcefire, McNitt held the position of General Counsel, Secretary, and Executive Vice President at webMethods, Inc. In this position, he was charged with recruiting, growing, and managing a full-service in-house legal function across geographically diverse operations in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. While at webMethods, McNitt was the lead executive responsible for sourcing, negotiating, and acquiring six privately-held businesses. In addition, he managed the sale of webMethods to Software AG. Previously, McNitt was an Associate General Counsel at America Online, Inc., where he gained significant experience in evaluating, structuring, negotiating, drafting, and closing a variety of mergers, acquisitions, direct investments, and other significant equity transactions both domestically and abroad.

McNitt received his J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School, an A.B. from Stanford University, and studied Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia.