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Mr. Gregory McNulty brings to Hifn over 20 years of executive sales, marketing and management experience. Prior to joining Hifn, Mr. McNulty was founder and CEO of Cranite Systems, a leading provider of encryption based software products that gives business users easy access to their applications from anywhere on the Internet. Before founding Cranite Systems, Mr. McNulty led strategic and Business Development for Microsoft. He also expanded his embedded markets knowledge while director of major accounts at Wind River, Rugged Digital Systems and ROLM Corporation. A graduate of Santa Clara University with a B.S. Degree, Mr. McNulty also attended the University of Southern California, Systems Management Masters Program. He is a frequent lecturer at Stanford University, Santa Clara and UC Berkeley Graduate Schools of Business. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of The First Tee Organization and Santa Clara University's Athletic Department's capital campaign board.
Mr. Steven Yang brings to Hifn 17 years of executive sales, marketing and management experience. Mr. Yang was most recently with Phoenix Technologies where his executive leadership was responsible for significant financial growth and market expansion during his tenure as Vice President of Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Phoenix Technologies, Mr. Yang led strategic and OEM sales for Brocade Communications. Additionally, he has managed the North Asian territory for Network Associates and OEM and Channel sales for Microsoft. Mr. Yang has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from Villanova University and is fluent in five languages.
Albert E. Sisto, recently appointed Hifn's Chairman and CEO, has served on the company's board since 1998. Mr. Sisto brings over 35 years of experience in the high-tech industry including a seven year tenure as President and CEO of Phoenix Technologies, a provider of Internet platform-enabling software. Mr. Sisto came to Phoenix from RSA Data Security, Inc., where he served as Chief Operating Officer, beginning in 1997. Prior to RSA, he served as President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DocuMagix, Inc., a computer software company specializing in Internet content management, which merged with JetFax to become eFAX.com. Mr. Sisto has also held executive positions at PixelCraft, Inc, MIPS Technologies, Intel and Honeywell. In addition to Hifn, Mr. Sisto also serves on the Board of Directors for Digital Signal Corporation and Validity Sensors, Inc., a provider of high performance fingerprint sensors. Mr. Sisto earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology.
William R. Walker has served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since November 1997. He was the Company's Acting Chief Executive Officer and Acting President from July 1998 through October 1998. From 1996 to 1997, Mr. Walker was Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary at MMC Networks, Inc., a networking company. From 1984 to 1996, Mr. Walker held the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Zilog, Inc., a semiconductor supplier. Mr. Walker holds BS in Economics from University of Wisconsin and an MBA from University of Maryland, and he is a certified public accountant.
Russell Dietz brings more than 20 years of technology experience in the data communications, data management, security and embedded systems industries to his role as CTO. Prior to joining Hifn, Mr. Dietz was Apptitude's Chief Technical Officer. In this role, he was responsible for driving the vision, strategy and architecture of the application and flow classification solutions MeterFlow and MeterWorks. Before joining Apptitude, Mr. Dietz was a founder and VP of Engineering for Technically Elite, a communications software company. He previously held various management and technical positions at Magnavox Electronic Systems and Digital Equipment Corporation. Mr. Dietz is an active member of the Internet and Engineering Task Force (IETF), IEEE, Optical Internetworking Forum. Mr. Dietz has 10 patents issue and 10 pending to date, all in the field of networking, traffic analysis, application behavior and security.
Mike Goldgof has over 17 years in the high-tech industry. Prior to joining Hifn, Mr. Goldgof was Senior Vice President of Marketing with Phoenix Technologies. While at Phoenix, he launched several new product lines that repositioned the company into a global leader in endpoint security. Prior to Phoenix, Mr. Goldgof was with VeriSign as Director of International Marketing for the security services business. At VeriSign, he led a team that created and executed a global expansion strategy for managed PKI services. Before joining Verisign, Mr. Goldgof spent over 10 years at Lucent Technologies in various senior leadership positions in sales and marketing. Mr. Goldgof holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA in Marketing from Columbia University.
Dr. Wang, recently promoted to Vice President of Worldwide Engineering and General Manager of Hifn's China Product Operations, joined Hifn in 2004. Dr. Wang earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Nevada, and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. Dr. Wang has held technical positions with Nishan Systems, Philips and Toshiba. Before joining Hifn, Dr. Wang was a founder and CTO of Hangzhou C-Sky Microsystems, where he led the development of a high performance 32-bit embedded CPU. Dr. Wang has extensive technical experiences in the area of networking, security and embedded systems.
Douglas L. Whiting, Ph.D., Chief Scientist, previously served as Chief Technology Officer of the Company since October 1997 and as a director of the Company since November 1996. He also has served as Vice President of Technology of Stac since 1985 and has served as a director of Stac since 1983. He was President of Stac from 1984 to 1986. Dr. Whiting received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology.
John Matze previously was the founder and CEO of Siafu Software (acquired by Hifn in 2007), where his mission was to develop storage appliances that offer enterprise-level functionality and encryption for small to medium sized companies. Matze, one of CRN Magazine's 2003 Top 25 Innovators, is also one of the original authors of the iSCSI protocol. He has over 15 years of storage software experience including: vice president & CTO, Overland Storage; director of software, Veritas Software; and principal architect, STAC. Matze has also been the creator of many successful products including: Overland Storage REO products, Okapi ipXcelerator, STAC Replica for NetWare and APC PowerChute UPS Monitoring Software.
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