Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) |
Position |
| Bruce A. Kelley |
Vice President, Chief Technology Officer |
| Bruce A. Kelly |
CTO & Vice President |
| David P. Sommers |
Senior Vice President, General Operations and Chief Financial Officer |
| Jeffrey R. Wakely |
Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer |
| Ken Boyd |
Chief Information Officer, Senior Vice President, Services |
| Michael Szabados |
Chief Operating Officer |
| Ashwani Singhal |
Senior Vice President, Research & Development |
| John Downing |
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales Operations |
| Alan Fink |
Vice President, Corporate Development and Channels |
| Bruce Sweet |
Vice President, Business Development |
| James E. Frey |
Vice President, Marketing |
| Jeff Levinson |
Vice President |
| Patrick Bolger |
Vice President, It |
| Steven Shalita |
Vice President, Marketing |
| Tracy Steele |
Vice President, Manufacturing and Business Operations |
| Victor Becker |
Vice President, Human Resources |
| Catherine Taylor |
Director of Investor Relations |
| June Nugent |
Director, Knowledge Resources |
| Christine Johansen |
Manager, Pr |
| Leslie Miller |
Product Marketing Manager |
| Chris Johansen |
|
| Jim Metzler |
|
| John R. Egan |
* |
| Narendra V. Popat |
Director |
Board of Directors
Anil K. Singhal co-founded the Corporation in June 1984 and has served as the Corporation's President, Chief Executive Officer, Treasurer and Director since January 2001. Prior to this, Mr. Singhal had served as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Treasurer from July 1993 to December 2000. From the Corporation's inception until July 1993, Mr. Singhal was President of the Corporation. Mr. Singhal has served as a director of the Corporation since its inception. Prior to founding the Corporation, he was a Senior Architect and Project Manager at Wang Laboratories, a provider of computer systems, from 1979 until June 1984.
Bruce Kelley, Jr. co-founded NextPoint Networks, Inc. in November 1996 and served as a Director and as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Since the acquisition of NextPoint by NetScout in July 2000, Mr. Kelley had served as Vice President, Engineering, Service Level Management of NetScout from July 2000 to December 2000. In January 2001, Mr. Kelley assumed the position of NetScout’s Chief Technology Officer. Prior to founding NextPoint, he held various engineering positions at Digital Equipment Corporation from 1982 to 1996, including Consultant Software Engineer and Network Management Technical Director within Digital’s Network Management Engineering Group.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Netscout Systems, Inc. |
Vice President, Chief Technology Officer |
Current |
| Performance Zone |
|
Current |
| Next Point LLC |
Founder |
Former |
| NexTone Communications, Inc. |
Co-Founder |
Former |
David P. Sommers has served as NetScout’s Senior Vice President, General Operations and Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary since April 2007. Before this, Mr. Sommers served as Senior Vice President, General Operations and Chief Financial Officer for over five years. From April 2000 to December 2000 he was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to NetScout he served as Chief Financial Officer at FlexiInternational Software, Inc., a publicly-held developer of financial accounting software (1998-2000), Merger and Acquisition Consultant to the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Lotus Development Corporation, an IBM subsidiary, (1998), Chief Financial Officer at SystemSoft Corporation, a publicly-held developer of system level firmware (1996-1997), and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Advanced Media, Inc., a publicly-held developer of interactive multimedia systems (1993-1996). Mr. Sommers holds a BS in Physics from Harvard University and an MBA from New York University.
Ken Boyd is CIO for NetScout and is responsible for Worldwide Customer / Technical Support. He has over 28 years of experience in Information Technology. Prior to the acquisition of Network General by NetScout, Mr. Boyd was responsible for Information Technology, R&D and Product Operations. Prior to joining Network General, Mr. Boyd served as a senior executive at Remedy over a period of 5+ years, where he held various key roles, including CIO, Vice President of Product Operations and Vice President, Product Management/Product Marketing. Prior to joining Remedy, Mr. Boyd held numerous senior roles at Adobe Systems where he was strategic in architecting client server solutions and evolving Adobe's intranet with Web and Adobe technologies. Previously, Boyd held roles of CIO at Read-Rite Corporation and Group Information Technology Director for Unisys Corporation, supporting a $2 billion business unit.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Netscout Systems, Inc. |
Chief Information Officer, Senior Vice President, Services |
Current |
Michael Szabados is Chief Operating Officer and has been with NetScout for more than ten years. Prior to this he was Senior Vice President, Product Operations overseeing product development, manufacturing, customer support, and marketing since January 2001. Before that, he was VP, Marketing since he joined in August 1997. A veteran of the enterprise networking industry, Michael held product and marketing management positions at a number of industry leaders, and has developed a close working relationship with many of the world's leading IT/network organizations. Prior to NetScout, he served as VP of Product Management at UB Networks (1994-97), Director Product Marketing at SynOptics/Bay Networks (1991-1994), and Marketing Director, Networking at MIPS Corporation (1989-1991). Michael holds a BSEE from UC Irvine and an MBA from Santa Clara University.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Netscout Systems, Inc. |
Chief Operating Officer |
Current |
| Netscout Systems, Inc. |
Senior Vice President, Prod Operations |
Former |
| UB Networks |
Vice President of Product Management |
Former |
| The Mips |
Marketing Director |
Former |
| University of California, Irvine |
Bsee |
Former |
Ashwani Singhal has served as Vice President, Engineering and Product Development since January 2001. Mr. Singhal joined NetScout in 1987 and served as a Senior Software Engineer and Project Manager from 1987 until February 1997, as Director of Engineering from February 1997 until October 1998 and as Vice President, Engineering from October 1998 through December 2000. Prior to joining NetScout, he was a Senior Software Engineer at Symmetrix, an artificial intelligence systems company, from 1982 until 1987. Mr. Singhal is the brother of Anil Singhal, NetScout's President, Chief Executive Officer, Treasurer and Director.
John Downing has served as NetScout’s Vice President, Sales Operations since September 2000, when he joined the Corporation. Prior to joining NetScout, he was Vice President of Sales at Genrad Corporation, a manufacturer of electronic testing equipment and production solutions, from April 1998 until September 2000 and was Vice President of North American Sales from January 1996 until March 1998.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Netscout Systems, Inc. |
Vice President, Corporate Development and Channels |
Current |
Bruce Sweet co-founded NextPoint Networks, Inc. in December 1996 and served as a Director and as Vice President of Engineering and Product Development. Since the acquisition of NextPoint by NetScout in July 2000, Mr. Sweet had served as Vice President, Engineering, Capacity Management, from July 2000 to December 2000. In January 2001, Mr. Sweet assumed the position of Vice President, Engineering Services and Customer Satisfaction. Currently, he serves as Vice President, Business Development. Prior to founding NextPoint, he was the Director of Network Management within Digital Equipment Corporation’s Network Business Unit from 1995 to 1996. Mr. Sweet held various engineering positions of increasing responsibility within Digital Equipment Corporation beginning in 1983.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Netscout Systems, Inc. |
Vice President, Business Development |
Current |
| Capacity Management |
Vice President, Engineering |
Former |
| Next Point LLC |
Founder |
Former |
| NexTone Communications, Inc. |
Co-Founder |
Former |
Jeff Levinson is NetScout's Vice President and General Counsel, responsible for global legal strategy and legal operations. Mr. Levinson brings over 15 years of legal and strategic experience to NetScout. Before joining the company in 2005, he served four years as corporate counsel at Nuance (formerly Scansoft and Speechworks). Before that he was General Counsel at an internet startup and a division counsel at a global publishing company. Mr. Levinson holds degrees from Harvard and Boston University School of Law and an MBA from Babson.
Steven is Vice President, Marketing, and leads our global marketing activities. He is an experienced marketing strategist with more than 20 years of technology marketing leadership experience in the voice and data networking and telecommunications industries. He has a proven track record of delivering results and growing revenues by connecting technology with business needs to deliver customer value. Mr. Shalita returned to NetScout in July of 2008, and was previously Director, Product Marketing at NetScout from 1997 through 1999. During his time away, he held marketing leadership positions at Alcatel-Lucent, Redback Networks, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems. At Alcatel-Lucent, he led the product marketing and strategy efforts for the company’s $1.2 Billion service provider router and network management portfolio. At Redback Networks, he led product and technical marketing activities, including the introduction of the company’s entrance into the metro Ethernet market. During his nearly six years at Cisco Systems, he served in a series of increasingly strategic assignments, including leading enterprise networking marketing efforts across Europe, Middle East and Africa and leading worldwide strategy and marketing activities for Cisco’s $9 billion LAN switching portfolio where he was a driving force in establishing Cisco’s global leadership position in the Enterprise network market. He has extensive global experience in a broad range of networking, and network management technologies for Enterprise, SMB and Service Provider segments.
Tracy Steele has served as Vice President, Manufacturing and Business Operations since January 2001. Mr. Steele joined NetScout in November 1995 and served as Director of Manufacturing from November 1995 until May 1997, and as Vice President, Manufacturing from May 1997 to December 2000. Prior to joining NetScout, he served as Director of Manufacturing for Scope Communications, a developer of hand-held network tools from 1993 to November 1995. He also served in various manufacturing and management positions at NBase-Xyplex, Inc., a computer networking company, from 1985 to February 1993.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Netscout Systems, Inc. |
Vice President, Manufacturing and Business Operations |
Current |
| Scope Communications |
Director of Manufacturing |
Former |
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Phase Forward Incorporated |
Vice President, HR |
Current |
| Netscout Systems, Inc. |
Vice President, Human Resources |
Current |
| Authoria, Inc. |
Vice President of Human Resources |
Former |
| InaCom Corporation |
Director of Human Resources |
Former |
| Entex Information Services |
Director of Human Resources |
Former |
| Data General Corporation |
Human Resources Manager |
Former |
| Phase, Inc |
|
Former |
| Providence College |
Bachelor of Science Degree In Business Administration and Management |
Former |
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Netscout Systems, Inc. |
|
Current |
| The Business Forum Online |
|
Current |
| Telco, Ltd. |
Engineering Manager |
Former |
| Boston University |
Ph.D. In Numerical Analysis |
Former |
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Egan-Managed Capital |
Founding Managing Partner |
Current |
| Netscout Systems, Inc. |
* |
Current |
| Egan, Flanagan and Cohen |
|
Current |
| EMC Corporation |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Netscout Systems, Inc. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Monetrics, Inc. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Epicon |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| HighGround Systems, Inc. |
Board Member |
Current |
| Centerstone Software, Inc. |
Director |
Current |
| Platform Computing, Inc |
Director |
Current |
| Highroads |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Antec, Inc. |
CEO |
Former |
| EMC Corporation |
Executive Vice President, Products and Offerings |
Former |
| EMC Corporation |
Executive Vice President, Operations |
Former |
| EMC Corporation |
Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing |
Former |
| Egan-Managed Capital |
Co-founder |
Former |
| Western New England College School of Law |
|
Former |
| Boston College |
B.S. degree in Economics |
Former |
| Boston College |
degree in marketing and computer science |
Former |
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Plumchoice, Inc. |
Managing Director of Main Street Partners |
Current |
| MIT Sloan School of Management |
Senior Lecturer |
Current |
| Netscout Systems, Inc. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| The MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge, Inc |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| National Association of Corporate Directors |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Sullivan & Worcester Llp |
Partner |
Former |
| Harvard Law School |
Jd |
Former |
| MIT Sloan School of Management |
Masters of Science In Management |
Former |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Masters of Science in Management |
Former |
| The MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge, Inc |
Sb |
Former |
| Harvard University |
Degree |
Former |
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Emerson Hospital |
Principal |
Current |
| CommonAngels |
Principal |
Current |
| Openairboston.Net |
|
Current |
| Netscout Systems, Inc. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| C4RJ |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Sereniti, Inc. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Emerson Hospital |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Intrusic, Inc. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Cyras Systems |
CEO |
Former |
| Bay Networks |
Executive Vice President |
Former |
| tw telecom inc. |
Senior Vice President of Engineering |
Former |
| Bay Networks |
General Manager |
Former |
| MIT Sloan School of Management |
MBA |
Former |
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| The Stone Store |
|
Current |
| The Mitre Corporation |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Netscout Systems, Inc. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Verint Systems, Inc. |
Director |
Current |
| Gvi Security Solutions, Inc. |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| The Nro |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Massachusetts Business Roundtable |
Board Member |
Current |
| The Mitre Corporation |
Chief Executive Officer |
Current |
| Department of Transportation |
Presidential Executive |
Former |
| The Mitre Corporation |
Executive Vice President |
Former |
| The Mitre Corporation |
General Manager |
Former |
| United States Air Force |
Lieutenant |
Former |
| Gl.Com |
design engineer |
Former |
| Towne Park Ltd |
Employee |
Former |
| Hanscom Air Force Base |
|
Former |
| Internal Revenue Service |
|
Former |
| National Reconnaissance Office |
|
Former |
| Federal Aviation Administration |
|
Former |
| Northeastern University |
Master of Science Degree In Electrical Engineering |
Former |
| The Pennsylvania State University |
Bachelor of Science Degree In Aeronautical Engineering |
Former |
Vincent J. Mullarkey has been a director of the Corporation since November 2000. Mr. Mullarkey was the Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Digital Equipment Corporation from 1994 until his retirement in September 1998. From 1971 until 1994, Mr. Mullarkey held various positions within Digital Equipment Corporation, including Vice President, Corporate Controller. Since leaving Digital Equipment Corporation, Mr. Mullarkey has also been involved with several companies in the real estate industry.
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