CloudPassage CEO and leadership

Carson Sweet is the chairman and chief executive officer of CloudPassage. His information security career has spanned nearly two decades and includes a broad range of entrepreneurial, management and hands-on technology experience.In his early career as an information security strategy and technology consultant, Carson created and implemented groundbreaking security solutions across a range of industries and public sectors. Prior to co-founding CloudPassage he served as RSA's principal solutions architect for the financial services sector, where he specifically focused on virtualization & cloud security, Internet application controls, data protection and anti-fraud.Carson formerly served as founding CSO for GlobalNetXchange (now Agentrics) and CTO for the Investor Responsibility Research Center (now the RiskMetrics Group). He also founded security consulting and managed services lines of business for RPM Consulting (acquired by Computer Horizons Corporation), TimeBridge Technologies (acquired by Dimension Data) and Security Methods.Prior to his technology career Carson served in the U.S. military as a heavy anti-armor weapons specialist and later as a career firefighter-paramedic. He studied emergency health sciences at the Jefferson College for Health Sciences, pre-medical neuropsychology at Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia and information technology at the University of Massachusetts.

Rich is an accomplished senior marketing leader with over 20 years of developing and implementing innovative marketing solutions that strategically position technology organizations for sustainable success. For the past 10 years, Rich as specialized in Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Big Data products. Prior to joining Transera, Rich was vice president of marketing for Karmasphere, a leading Big Data Analytics company offering SQL access to Apache Hadoop. Before that, Rich was vice president of the Open Source Strategy Group for Actuate, where he successfully spearheaded efforts to redefine the Business Intelligence (BI) company’s go-to-market strategy from a proprietary enterprise software company to the leading open source BI company. Prior to Actuate, he held senior executive marketing positions at Sendmail, Apple, and NeXT software. Rich has a BS degree in Public Affairs from Indiana University.

Mike Barsotti is a VP:Finance at Avistar Communications and Chief Financial Officer at CloudPassage. He has experience at ALUMAX LLC, ASK Computer Systems, and INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP and has worked as Chief Financial Officer at Apexon, Chief Financial Officer at Redwood Microsystems, and Controller at ASK Computer Systems. Mike attended University of California Berkeley.

Carson Sweet is the chairman and chief executive officer of CloudPassage. His information security career has spanned nearly two decades and includes a broad range of entrepreneurial, management and hands-on technology experience.In his early career as an information security strategy and technology consultant, Carson created and implemented groundbreaking security solutions across a range of industries and public sectors. Prior to co-founding CloudPassage he served as RSA's principal solutions architect for the financial services sector, where he specifically focused on virtualization & cloud security, Internet application controls, data protection and anti-fraud.Carson formerly served as founding CSO for GlobalNetXchange (now Agentrics) and CTO for the Investor Responsibility Research Center (now the RiskMetrics Group). He also founded security consulting and managed services lines of business for RPM Consulting (acquired by Computer Horizons Corporation), TimeBridge Technologies (acquired by Dimension Data) and Security Methods.Prior to his technology career Carson served in the U.S. military as a heavy anti-armor weapons specialist and later as a career firefighter-paramedic. He studied emergency health sciences at the Jefferson College for Health Sciences, pre-medical neuropsychology at Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia and information technology at the University of Massachusetts.

Rich is an accomplished senior marketing leader with over 20 years of developing and implementing innovative marketing solutions that strategically position technology organizations for sustainable success. For the past 10 years, Rich as specialized in Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Big Data products. Prior to joining Transera, Rich was vice president of marketing for Karmasphere, a leading Big Data Analytics company offering SQL access to Apache Hadoop. Before that, Rich was vice president of the Open Source Strategy Group for Actuate, where he successfully spearheaded efforts to redefine the Business Intelligence (BI) company’s go-to-market strategy from a proprietary enterprise software company to the leading open source BI company. Prior to Actuate, he held senior executive marketing positions at Sendmail, Apple, and NeXT software. Rich has a BS degree in Public Affairs from Indiana University.

Mike Barsotti is a VP:Finance at Avistar Communications and Chief Financial Officer at CloudPassage. He has experience at ALUMAX LLC, ASK Computer Systems, and INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP and has worked as Chief Financial Officer at Apexon, Chief Financial Officer at Redwood Microsystems, and Controller at ASK Computer Systems. Mike attended University of California Berkeley.

Carson Sweet is the chairman and chief executive officer of CloudPassage. His information security career has spanned nearly two decades and includes a broad range of entrepreneurial, management and hands-on technology experience.In his early career as an information security strategy and technology consultant, Carson created and implemented groundbreaking security solutions across a range of industries and public sectors. Prior to co-founding CloudPassage he served as RSA's principal solutions architect for the financial services sector, where he specifically focused on virtualization & cloud security, Internet application controls, data protection and anti-fraud.Carson formerly served as founding CSO for GlobalNetXchange (now Agentrics) and CTO for the Investor Responsibility Research Center (now the RiskMetrics Group). He also founded security consulting and managed services lines of business for RPM Consulting (acquired by Computer Horizons Corporation), TimeBridge Technologies (acquired by Dimension Data) and Security Methods.Prior to his technology career Carson served in the U.S. military as a heavy anti-armor weapons specialist and later as a career firefighter-paramedic. He studied emergency health sciences at the Jefferson College for Health Sciences, pre-medical neuropsychology at Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia and information technology at the University of Massachusetts.