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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.

Experienced senior executive and general manager with a proven track record of success in the IT industry, spanning hardware, software, and services. Professional ‘signature’ is the achievement of strategic, transformational change in businesses at scale.Stephen has a BSc (Hons) in Physics and is married with four daughters.

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.

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

Roy Olivier is a Board Member at ARI NETWORK SERVICES INC /WI, Independent Director at RESEARCH SOLUTIONS INC, and Board Member at RESEARCH SOLUTIONS INC and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has experience at AT&T and has worked as VP:Sales & Marketing/Founder at Proquest Media Solutions; Regional Vice President, North West at PacTel InfoSystems; and President/CEO/Acting Secretary at ARI NETWORK SERVICES INC /WI. Roy studied at Gamma Beta Phi Society and UNT.

Brian Pierce is a software technology industry veteran who has led and repeatedly built rapidly scaling businesses through dynamic, hands-on management through both organic and inorganic growth. An experienced software executive with more than 30 years of technical, sales and operational experience across all aspects of company operations in the business, including CEO, COO and President positions, in both software infrastructure and enterprise applications. I currently sit on the boards of Jitterbit Software and Wolfepak Software and am a Sr. Advisor at Sixth Street Partners. Brian has served as CEO of Rogue Wave Software from 2008 - 2019. Brian lead Rogue Wave through two Private equity holds and exits with Rogue Wave. Under Battery Ventures ownership 2008 - 2012, Rogue Wave grew revenue almost 65% while more than doubling EBITDA through four acquisitions. Under Audax ownership, 2012 - 2019, Rogue Wave grew revenue by almost 300% and EBITDA grew 250% through six acquisitions. Both exits achieved higher than industry average returns for our owners. Prior to Rogue Wave, Brian served as a Senior Vice President at Infor Global Solutions where he had responsibility for five independently operating business units with over $90M in revenue generating $65M in EBITDA. He also served as President and Chief Operating Officer of TriSyn Group, 2003 - 2008, an enterprise-class applications software company focused on the top 100 banks in the U.S. TriSyn became part of Infor in 2007. At TIBCO, 1999 - 2003, Brian carried many different operational executive roles and ended his tenure as Senior Vice President of Customer Satisfaction and Support, where he implemented a world-class global professional service and 24x7 support organization for a rapidly growing business. Brian also built a world class professional services organization globally at TIBCO. He was Vice President of Field Operations at InConcert, Inc., a Xerox Technology Venture company acquired by TIBCO in 1999. Brian started his career at Xerox where he spent 13 years in various technical, sales and management positions. Brian's passion is working with high performance teams to deliver maximum value for customers, employees and stakeholders.