Solera Networks Management
Steve Shillingford
President and CEO
Steve has more than 15 years of experience in sales, operations and management in technology companies. He joined Solera Networks in early 2007 from Oracle Corporation, where he was responsible for some of the largest deals in the company during his tenure, all in the Rocky Mountain region. Steve was named top salesperson within Oracle in 2005 as a result of his success in growing the company's presence in the region and his consistently strong performance in meeting revenue objectives. Prior to joining Oracle in 2000, Steve held several sales and operational management positions at Novell. Steve holds a B.S. with honors in Psychology from Brigham Young University and has an MBA from Columbia Business School and University of California at Berkeley.
Joe Levy
CTO
Joe is a recognized expert in networking and network security and has over 15 years of experience in the industry. He is known for guiding SonicWALL through many company-defining moments in his role as CTO. He has participated in various industry certification and design consortiums, including the ICSA and IETF, and, along with his development teams, has authored a number of networking and security patents. Prior to SonicWALL, Joe spent six years with OneNet, Inc., where he served as VP of Technology Services, directing the Professional and Managed Services teams. Levy has authored his first book with several colleagues on the topic of wireless network security, covering many of the proprietary wireless enhancements designed by himself and the SonicWALL architectural team, as well as industry standards best practices. Levy's well-known "Worth a Glance" blog covers his views on a broad range of network security news, issues and trends, and can be found at blog.illurity.com.
Pete Schlampp
Vice President, Marketing and Product Management
Pete brings a keen understanding of the network security and infrastructure industries with more than a decade of product development and marketing expertise in the enterprise, government and education markets. Prior to joining Solera Networks, he led product management for the most successful network security startup in the past decade at IronPort Systems. IronPort established the appliance-based enterprise anti-spam and anti-virus market and was purchased by Cisco in June 2007. At Cisco, he was promoted to General Manager of the Security Technology Business Unit (STBU) in India and was also responsible for global development centers in Ukraine, China and Costa Rica. Pete holds a degree in computer science and molecular biology from Boston College.
Paul Kraus
Vice President, Engineering
Paul Kraus brings nearly 20 years of experience in IT product engineering at global IT companies. Prior to joining Solera Networks, he led product engineering for Omniture Inc., an Adobe company and a leader in online business optimization software. At Omniture, Kraus was responsible for the company's industry leading data analytics technologies, a strength that led to Omniture's $1.8B sale to Adobe in 2009. Previously, he served as Senior Director of Engineering at Symantec Corporation, and was responsible for solidifying engineering process for the company's flagship email and file system archiving product. Kraus has also led engineering teams at other global companies, including Veritas Software, Microsoft and Fidelity Investments.
Alex Seton
Vice President, Sales and Business Development
Alex has over 18 years of sales, business development, and sales management experience with startup and leading high tech infrastructure and security companies. He previously led strategic business development efforts at Solera Networks where his team was responsible for company defining partnerships including ArcSight, Sourcefire, Palo Alto Networks, NetApp, and EMC. Alex's successful past also includes progressive sales and business development roles at Cisco Systems, LANDesk, Novell, AST Research, and NEC Technologies. He has extensive knowledge and experience in developing and leading successful enterprise and channel sales teams in achieving sales objectives and ensuring high customer satisfaction. Alex holds a degree in business commerce with an emphasis in marketing from Santa Clara University.
Fumiya Minagawa
President, Solera Networks, Japan
Fumiya began his relationship with Solera Networks as a distributor in 2004 and later was named President of Solera Networks Japan. He has over 20 years of experience in engineering consulting, technology sales, product development and corporate IT management, including 5 years as CIO. His sales experience includes two years of receiving top sales honors for over $10 million a year in sales. Fumiya served as Senior Education Manager for 4 years at Sun Microsystems, where he received the President's Award in 2002. He has also held senior manager positions at Bearing Point and received the coveted Grand Prix award from Nikkei Business Publications for his very successful SAP deployment. Fumiya holds a degree in economics from Seijo University.
