Gary Fish
Chief Executive Officer
Gary Fish is founder and CEO of FireMon LLC., headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas,
and of FishNet Security Inc., headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. With over
two decades of experience in the information technology field he is regarded as
a pioneer in the information security industry. Fish has a successful track record
in creating prosperous companies with the founding of FishNet Security Inc. in 1996
and FireMon in 2004. Under Fish's leadership, FishNet Security has become the largest
and most successful Information Security Solutions Provider in the United States.
Fish has demonstrated his strengths as an entrepreneur and leader through organic
growth, acquisitions, and fundraising activities. Fish has successfully acquired
multiple competitors within the information security market and has successfully
integrated them into FishNet Security. An industry recognized leader, Fish successfully
raised $112 million dollars in private placements from two private equity firms.
Fish actively serves on the boards for numerous national and global technology companies
and actively participates as an Angel Investor and advisor to growth stage entrepreneurial
companies. In 1999, he was named as one of the Top 25 Executives for the new millennium
in computer-related fields. In 2001, Ernst & Young honored him as the Technology
Entrepreneur of the Year and in 2010 Fish was named a Security Superstar by CRN.
Fish holds a degree in electronics from DeVry University and is certified in many
areas of technology and business. He also served in the Army and National Guard.
Jody Brazil
President and Chief Technology Officer
As Founder and CTO of FireMon, Jody Brazil is a seasoned entrepreneur with more
than two decades of executive management experience and deep domain expertise in
all aspects of networking, including network security design, network security assessment,
and security product implementation.
Before joining FireMon in 2004, Brazil spent eight years at FishNet Security, serving
as their Chief Technology Officer, where he was responsible for providing direction
for solutions to their customers. Previously, he was president and founder of Beta
Technologies, a Network Services and Internet Application Development company. A
few of Brazil's major accomplishments include his implementation of the first load
balanced deployment of Check Point firewall software in 1997. A year later he engineered
the security solution that allowed, for the first time, the transfer of criminal
history data over the Internet as approved by the FBI. Brazil then released the
first ever graphical firewall policy change view in 2001 and the first ever firewall
rule usage analysis application in 2004.
Brazil holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Kansas State University.
Matt Dean
Chief Operating Officer
Matt Dean, chief operating officer, has broad industry experience in network security,
firewall operations and network management. Matt has spent six years at FireMon
working with enterprise customers to build and refine firewall management processes,
and speaking on industry best practices for firewall management and compliance.
Prior to joining FireMon, Matt served as a Communications Officer in the US Air
Force with an emphasis on operational network management.
Matt holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the US Air Force
Academy.
Alin Srivastava
Vice President, Worldwide Sales
Alin Srivastava holds deep domain expertise in IT security analysis and compliance
solutions, experience in building high performance sales teams and a proven track
record of generating positive revenue growth. He brings nearly two decades of security
industry sales experience to FireMon.
Before joining FireMon, Srivastava directed strategic accounts at Crossbeam Systems,
a company that provides enterprise and carrier-class unified threat management solutions.
There he was responsible for increasing strategic account revenue with consistent
sales growth. Prior to that he served at Nokia for six years where he was accountable
for all business activities in the central United States region as well as Mexico.
Before that he was channel manager at several leading security organizations and
computer networking firms including RSA Security/Security Dynamics, Trusted Information
Systems, Lantronix and Emulex.
Srivastava holds a Management Information Systems Degree and minors in Business
Administration and Computer Science from Oklahoma State University.
Tim Woods
Vice President, Customer Technology Services
Tim Woods has more than two decades of experience
in information security and data technology. With a proven track record of leading
sales teams to success and deep domain expertise in security and technology he is
a driving force of many thriving companies.
Before joining FireMon, Woods spent three years at Crossbeam Systems Inc., a company
that transforms the way enterprises, service providers, and government agencies
architect and deliver security service. There he was responsible for technical recruitment,
and developing a top notch sales engineering team. Previously, Woods was the Security
Engineer manager for Nokia Enterprise Solutions, where he managed the pre-sales
technical resources and led a team of sales engineers supporting security and mobile
enterprise sales. He spent ten years at Intrusion.com where he managed and supervised
all aspects of technical personnel selection and department administration. Woods
enjoys educating people on new and emerging technologies and has been a technical
presenter and corporate speaker for seminars, technology conferences and sponsored
events.
Woods proudly served 8 years in the Naval Intelligence community and attended the
University of Maryland majoring in Information Systems.
F. Ward Holloway III
Vice President, Business Development
Ward Holloway brings more than 14 years of business development, sales engineering
and consulting experience to FireMon from some of the leading information security
and data technology companies in the world. With a proven track record of consistent
revenue growth through strategic partnerships and effective sales execution, Holloway
is responsible for managing and expanding FireMon's current technology partners,
as well as identifying future strategic partnerships and initiatives.
Holloway joined FireMon from Crossbeam Systems, where he served as Director Global
Partner Alliances. In that role, he was responsible for Crossbeam's strategic partnerships,
and grew the OEM with Check Point Software to more than $30 million in revenue in
the first year after the agreement was signed. Holloway joined Crossbeam in 2006
and served in executive assignments that included Director Systems Engineering Americas.
Prior to joining Crossbeam, Holloway served at Check Point Software Technologies
for eight years in key contributor roles including Named Accounts Senior Systems
Engineer and International Technical Consultant. Holloway began his career in information
security as a consultant at Global Integrity/Predictive Systems.
Holloway attended Hope College majoring in Communications.
Todd DeBell
Vice President, North American Channel Sales
Todd DeBell has a proven track record in emerging technology leading sales and channel
sales teams to new markets, and developing IT channels. He brings nearly two decades
of emerging IT channels business industry sales experience to FireMon.
Before joining FireMon, Todd led a North American channels team focused on security
and enterprise storage at GE Access (now Avnet, Inc.), a software channel team at
Arrow Electronics and held regional sales and distribution roles for Motorola Solutions
and Verizon.
DeBell graduated with a BA in Management from the University of Phoenix and attended
executive course work at the University of Chicago business school.
Steve Martinez
Vice President, International Sales
Steve Martinez leads Strategic and International Accounts management for FireMon
and has been a key contributor to the company's overall strategy and direction since
2002.
With a successful track record in technology sales throughout the U.S. and EMEA
markets, Martinez brings 15 years of experience in large account management and
business development.
Before joining FireMon, Martinez was a managing partner at RazorLine Technologies,
a Value Added Reseller (VAR) that provided best-of-breed technologies and services
to businesses throughout the Midwest for three years. As a security entrepreneur,
he was responsible for all customer-facing activities including sales, and pre-
and post-sales support. Prior to RazorLine, he served at IntelliMark for more than
four years, where his tenure was marked with double- and triple-digit annual revenue
gains and profit achievement.
Martinez holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas.