Smarsh competitors

David J. Wagner joined Zix as President and Chief Executive Officer in January 2016 and also serves as a member of Zix’s Board of Directors. Prior to joining Zix, Dave held leadership roles at Entrust for 20 years. Most recently he served as President of Entrust from 2013 through 2015, where he led the successful integration of Entrust after its acquisition by Datacard. Dave delivered revenue growth and led the re-investment strategy to move Entrust solutions to the cloud. He also served as Chief Financial Officer of Entrust from 2003 to 2013. Before joining Entrust, Dave held various finance and accounting positions at Nortel Networks and at Raytheon Systems. He is a graduate of The Pennsylvania State University where he received both an undergraduate degree in accounting and a master of business administration (MBA) degree.

Kris Hagerman joined Sophos in 2012 as CEO. He is responsible for all aspects of Sophos’ strategic direction and business operations. Prior to Sophos, Kris was CEO of Corel Corporation. Previously, Kris served as group president, data center management at Symantec, where he led a business of more than $1.5 billion that represented nearly 30 percent of Symantec’s global revenue. Prior to Symantec, Kris was executive vice president and GM, storage and server management at Veritas Software where during his tenure, the company grew from $1.0 billion in revenue to more than $2.0 billion, prior to its acquisition by Symantec. Earlier in his career, Kris was founder and CEO of BigBook, an online yellow pages service and founder and CEO of Affinia, an online contextual advertising network. Kris also held positions at Silicon Graphics and McKinsey & Company.

Halvor Bekkevold is a CEO at MAKEMUSIC, INC. and is based in Hamar, North Dakota. He has worked as CEO at Media Partner AS, Software Development Manager at Landax, and Education Manager at Mjøsakademiet AS. Halvor studied at Hedmark University College (HH) between 1995 and 1996.

Gil Shwed is the founder and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Shwed is considered the inventor of the modern firewall and authored several patents, such as the company’s Stateful Inspection technology

Kevin Ogrodnik is a Chief Executive Officer, President & Board Member at Sherpa Software and is based in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania.

Over 20 years of senior executive and technology management experience in the financial services industry. With decades of senior executive-level experience managing complex technology-enabled initiatives and compliance programs within the financial services industry, Carlos Guillen founded BasisCode Compliance in 2011. Prior to forming BasisCode Compliance, Carlos served as Chief Operating Officer at TCP Global Investment Management. There, he developed and implemented the entire Registered Investment Advisor operational and technology platform. Prior to TCP, Carlos held various senior executive roles, including Vice President, Chief of Staff and Vice President, Information Technology with ING Investment Management. Carlos has extensive experience integrating multiple operational and technical environments crossing organizational and geographical boundaries as well as the realignment of investment teams, investment workflow and technology solutions. Carlos holds an MBA from the University of Georgia, Terry College of Business.