Sourcefire's management is a proven team with a track record of technology-industry
success. The team includes:
John Burris, CEO
Martin
Roesch, CTO
Tom
McDonough, President and COO
Todd
Headley, CFO
Douglas McNitt, General Counsel
Leslie Pendergrast, Chief People Officer
Tom Ashoff, SVP, Engineering and Customer Support
John Czupak, SVP, International Sales and Business Development
Greg Fitzgerald, SVP, Marketing
John Negron, SVP, North American Sales and Services
Chris Peterson, VP, Worldwide Channel Sales
 John Burris joined Sourcefire in July 2008 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Previously, John was a key contributor to the decade of growth achieved by Citrix Systems, Inc., a publicly traded information technology (Nasdaq:CTXS) company specializing in application delivery infrastructure. John served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Services at Citrix from January 2001 until July 2008 when he joined Sourcefire, during which time the company's annual revenues increased from $470 million to $1.4 billion, and before that, as Senior Vice President, Services from July 1999. John's leadership of Citrix's global sales and services organization, which grew to include approximately 2,500 Citrix professionals and 4,500 channel and distribution partners worldwide, was marked by the implementation of an innovative sales strategy which rewards value-added selling; the creation of a team of Enterprise Relationship Managers who support large accounts; the strengthening and realignment of Citrix's channel organization; and Citrix's aggressive expansion into high-growth markets across the globe. Additionally, John played a key role in managing many of the acquisition integrations at Citrix.
Prior to joining Citrix, Mr. Burris was employed by Lucent Technologies, a publicly traded communications networks company, from 1994 to 1999 as Vice President and General Manager of the Gulf States region. Prior to 1994, Mr. Burris was employed in various sales and customer service capacities for AT&T Corp., including terms as a managing director for AT&T's Australia (Sydney), Asia/Pacific (Hong Kong) as well as Europe (London) operations.
Mr. Burris holds a B.S. in management from Marshall University and an AT&T executive MBA. |
 Martin Roesch founded Sourcefire in 2001 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. A respected authority on intrusion prevention and detection technology and forensics, he is responsible for the technical direction and product development efforts. Martin, who has 17 years industry experience in network security and embedded systems engineering, is also the author and lead developer of the Snort® Intrusion Prevention and Detection System (www.snort.org) that forms the foundation for the Sourcefire 3D System.
Over the past 10 years, Martin has developed various network security tools and technologies, including intrusion prevention and detection systems, honeypots, network scanners, and policy enforcement systems for organizations such as GTE Internetworking, Stanford Telecommunications, Inc., and the Department of Defense. He has applied his knowledge of network security to penetration testing and network forensics for numerous government and large corporate customers. Martin has been interviewed as an industry expert in multiple technology publications, as well as print and online news services such as MSNBC, Wall Street Journal, CNET, ZDNet, and numerous books. Snort has been featured in Scientific American, on A&E's Secret Places: Inside the FBI, and in several books, such as Network Intrusion Detection: An Analysts Handbook, Intrusion Signatures and Analysis, Maximum Security, Hacking Exposed, and others.
In 2006, Martin was named as one of InformationWeek's 18 "Innovators and Influencers" and one of the Tech Council of Maryland's "Most Influential CTOs in Maryland." Martin has also been the recipient of the 2004 InfoWorld IT Heroes Innovator Award as well as winning the 2004 "40 Under 40" award from the Baltimore Business Journal.
Martin holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Clarkson University. ^ top |
 Tom McDonough joined Sourcefire in September of 2002 and serves as its
President and Chief Operating Officer. Tom is responsible for day-to-day
operations of Sourcefire.
Before joining Sourcefire, Tom was the Chief Executive Officer
of Mountain Wave, Inc., an early stage information security company based in
Northern Virginia. The company was acquired by Symantec Corporation in July
of 2002. Prior to Mountain Wave, Tom was Senior Vice President of Worldwide
Sales for Riverbed Technologies, a leader in mobile and wireless computing.
He subsequently became the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales
for Aether Systems, Inc., a leader in the wireless data market after Aether
acquired Riverbed in 2000. As a senior member of the Aether management team,
Tom was responsible for developing the company's sales strategy as well
as achieving revenue and market share objectives.
Previously, Tom spent six years with Axent Technologies, Inc.,
one of the first network security companies where he was an original member
of the management team and Vice President of North American Sales and
Professional Services. Tom built and managed both the direct and indirect sales
organizations as well as the company's Professional Services organization
which grew from $0 in 1994 to over $100 Million in 1999. The company's
rapid growth led to an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in April of 1996. The
company was acquired by Symantec Corporation in December of 2000
for $960 Million.
Tom holds a B.A. in Economics and an MBA from the University of
Notre Dame. ^ top |
 Todd Headley joined Sourcefire in April of 2003 and serves as its
Chief Financial Officer. He is responsible for financial, investor relations, IT, logistics, risk management, and administrative matters for the company.
Prior to joining Sourcefire, Todd held similar positions
at privately held companies in the Washington, D.C. area. He was
CFO for BNX, a network access management company from 2000-2003; CFO of Riverbed
Technologies, an enterprise wireless applications company from 1999-2000, VP & Controller
at Roadshow International, a supply chain execution company and
Controller at POMS Corporation, a manufacturing supply chain execution
company. Additionally, he served as CFO for FBR Technology
Venture Partners, a Virginia-based venture capital firm. He
has helped build and guide companies from their early stages through
significant growth periods, and has handled several M&A transactions.
Todd has extensive international operations experience
and began his career at Arthur Andersen in 1985 as an auditor in
their Emerging Technology Practice Group. He is a CPA and holds a bachelor's degree from Virginia Tech. ^ top |
 Douglas McNitt joined Sourcefire in September of 2007 and serves as our General Counsel and Secretary.
Douglas joins Sourcefire after serving as 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, Douglas 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, Douglas 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.
Douglas 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. ^ top |
 Leslie Pendergrast joined Sourcefire in February of 2009 as Chief People Officer. In this role she is responsible for human resources strategy and programs on a global basis.
Leslie brings almost 20 years of experience in human resources including management roles at American Express, Certified Vacations/Alamo, and Citrix Systems, Inc. During her nearly decade-long tenure at Citrix, Leslie held a similar role and was responsible for developing and leading a human resources infrastructure to support the company's growth from an 80-person company to a global organization of approximately 2,500 employees. In 2005 she left Citrix to build a fitness and wellness studio and later to form a consulting company focused on human resource practice improvement.
Leslie holds a bachelor's degree from Florida Atlantic University and an MBA from Nova Southeastern University. ^ top |
 Tom
Ashoff joined Sourcefire in April of 2003, and serves as Senior Vice President, Engineering and Customer Support. Tom is responsible for the company's engineering
infrastructure and processes as well as executing Sourcefire's
aggressive product development roadmap.
Prior to joining Sourcefire, Tom was Vice President, Strategic
Product Engineering at Network Associates Laboratories, Network
Associates (McAfee)' Technology Research Division, where he directed
strategic research efforts for the company. He was formerly the
Vice President of Engineering for the PGP Security Business Unit
of Network Associates, where he managed the development life cycle
of four product lines: Desktop Privacy (PGP), Server Privacy (PGP),
Vulnerability Assessment Products (CyberCop), and Network Privacy
(Gauntlet). His responsibilities encompassed strategic and tactical
Product planning, Product Engineering, Quality Assurance, Technical
Publications, Configuration Management, and Release Engineering.
Tom joined Network Associates through the acquisition of Trusted
Information Systems (TIS) in 1998. At TIS, Tom was the Senior Development
Manager for the Gauntlet Firewall and VPN products. Prior to TIS,
Tom developed software for GTE Spacenet, Contel ASC, HRB Singer,
and the National Security Agency.
Tom holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh. ^ top |
 John
Czupak joined Sourcefire in October of 2002 and serves as
Senor Vice President, International Sales and Business Development.
John is responsible for the growth and management of Sourcefire's
strategic partnerships and alliances. John is also responsible
for Sourcefire's international offices and affiliated revenue.
Before joining Sourcefire, John was the Senior Vice President
of Worldwide Sales for Mountain Wave, Inc., which was acquired
by Symantec Corporation in July of 2002. Prior to Mountain Wave,
John was the Vice President of Worldwide Channels for Riverbed
Technologies, a leader in mobile and wireless computing. He subsequently
became the General Manager, EMEA for Aether Systems, Inc., a
leader in the wireless data market after Aether acquired Riverbed
in 2000. John was responsible for developing the company's European
business and sales strategy as well as achieving P&L and
market share objectives.
Previously, John spent six years with Axent Technologies, Inc.,
an Internet security company where he was an original member
of the management team and Vice President of Asia Pacific & Latin
America. John established and managed subsidiary operations throughout
the Asia Pacific & Latin America regions and was responsible
for developing and executing the company's sales and business
strategy throughout these regions. The company grew to over $100
million in revenue from 1994 - 1999, which led to an Initial
Public Offering (IPO) in April of 1996 and the later acquisition
by Symantec in December of 2000 for $960 Million.
John holds a B.S. in Marketing from Towson State University and
an MBA from the University of Maryland. ^ top |
 Greg Fitzgerald joined Sourcefire in November 2009 as Senior Vice President, Marketing, overseeing the company's worldwide positioning, product delivery and go-to-market strategies. He brings a wealth of experience implementing global marketing strategies to build brands and support aggressive sales goals as the company expands its presence in existing and new regions.
Greg is a 18-year marketing veteran in the security, networking, wireless and systems management arenas. He joins Sourcefire from DisplayPoints, a privately held new media company, where he was CEO and sold it for a profit in September 2009. Prior to DisplayPoints, Greg was Global Vice President of Marketing, Channels and Inside Sales at TippingPoint, a division of 3Com, during that company's period of accelerated growth. Previously, Greg was Vice President of Marketing for a growth-stage venture, Traq-wireless, in wireless management software and services. Before Traq, he was the Director of Worldwide Solutions Marketing at BMC Software, a leading provider of enterprise management solutions.
Greg holds a BBA in Marketing and Finance from Emory University, a MBA in Product Marketing from the University of Colorado, and a MIM in International Marketing Strategy from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management. ^ top |
 John Negron joined Sourcefire in July of 2002 and serves as Senior Vice President, North American Sales and Services, responsible for customer acquisition and revenue generation
in North America.
Before joining Sourcefire, John had extensive sales management experience at four technology start-ups, including Riverbed Technologies, AXENT Technologies, and EDP Security (SunGard) – in which he was instrumental in enabling two acquisitions and an Initial Public Offering (IPO).
Throughout his sales and sales management career of 20+ years, John has built direct and indirect selling teams to penetrate the U.S. Government, Enterprise, SMB, and International markets.
John holds a B.S. from Bentley College. ^ top |
Chris Peterson joined Sourcefire in July, 2009 as Vice President of Worldwide Channel Sales. In this position he has overall responsibility for Sourcefire’s worldwide channel strategy, programs and the introduction of new initiatives to further drive channel sales.
Chris has more than 20 years of experience in sales management, channel marketing, professional services and customer support. He has successfully designed and executed worldwide channel strategies and partner programs for security companies, contributing to significant organizational growth. Most recently, Chris worked as the Vice President of Worldwide Alliance and Channel Sales at ArcSight (Nasdaq: ARST) where he directed all aspects of the global channels and alliances, and helped ArcSight grow from a $60M privately held organization in 2006 to a multi-hundred million dollar public company. A proven channel leader, Chris was recognized earlier this year as a 2009 Channel Chief by Everything Channel magazine for his significant accomplishments in the high-tech channel sales arena.
For the five years prior to joining ArcSight, Chris was Vice President of Global Channel and OEM Sales at Secure Computing (now McAfee, NYSE: MFE). Before that he served as Vice President of Global Channels for Network Associates. Chris has also held senior executive positions in alliances, channel sales and marketing, and business development with companies including Radius, Inc., Sun Microsystems and Compaq Computer. ^ top |
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Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq:FIRE)
Founded: 2001
Headquarters: Columbia, MD
Business: Network security
Industries: Leading financial, health care, manufacturing, technology and educational organizations throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America. All branches of the military, the largest civilian agencies and domestic, internal and military intelligence organizations.
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