Agiliance Management Team

 

	Patrick J. Conte President and Chief Executive Officer

As Chief Executive Officer, Patrick Conte is responsible for driving the company’s overall vision, executing on its strategy, overseeing all business operations and working closely with customers and partners to grow the business. Mr. Conte joined Agiliance from a series of successful early stage startups.

At Teneros, the leader in Application Continuity Appliances, he was EVP and General Manager of Field Operations responsible for the company's go-to-market strategy and execution, field sales, channels, support, NOC operations, and marketing. Prior to Teneros, as VP Worldwide Field Operations, he led Topspin to the number one spot in the InfiniBand switching market, and drove the OEM and Enterprise sales strategies that led to a $250M acquisition by Cisco Systems in May 2005. Prior to Topspin, he was VP of Sales and Marketing at Cobalt Networks during its IPO, the third largest in 1999, for this pioneer in Server Appliances which was then acquired by Sun Microsystems for $3.4B. Prior to Cobalt, he was VP of Sales and Channels at Dynamic Pictures, a leader in high performance 3d graphics that was acquired by 3dlabs, Inc. in July 1998.

Mr. Conte has also held positions at Wyse Technology, where as VP Sales he led the go-to-market of the industry's first network appliance, Winterm, and at Netscaler, where as EVP Sales & Marketing his teams delivered the industry's leading Web Traffic Management and Secure Applications appliances. Mr. Conte holds a BS in Political Science and History from James Madison University, and an MS in International Relations from Northern Illinois University

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	Pravin Kothari Founder and Chief Technology Officer

As Chief Technology Officer of Agiliance, Pravin Kothari is responsible for product vision, product strategy and engineering.

Prior to founding Agiliance, Mr. Kothari was the founding VP of Engineering at ArcSight, a leading security information management software company, where he led the product development for five years from inception to market dominance. Prior to ArcSight, Mr. Kothari was the founding Chief Architect at Impresse Corporation. Previously, he held technical leadership positions at Verity, Attachmate and Tata Consultancy Services. Mr. Kothari has over twenty years of successfully bringing new products to market in information security, compliance, enterprise software, SaaS services, and large-scale software infrastructure.

Mr. Kothari holds an MS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay. He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and Charter Member of TiE, a global organization dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship.

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	Sara Gates Vice President of Marketing

As Vice-President of Marketing Sara is responsible for driving the company’s vision, strategy and marketing.

Prior to Agiliance, Sara was Vice-President of Identity Management at Sun Microsystems. Under her leadership, Sun achieved market leadership in the fast-growing identity management market. Sara came to Sun through the acquisition of Waveset Technologies, where she was responsible for driving product direction and strategy. Sara has previously held marketing and strategy positions at Transpoint (a Microsoft funded start-up) and Deloitte. She also serves as an advisor to early stage companies, including Securent (acquired by Cisco) and DreamJobs, Inc.

Sara holds a BBA from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Vanderbilt University, where she recently served as the President of the Board of Directors.

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	Bob Horn Vice President Sales

Bob Horn serves as Agiliance's Vice President of Worldwide Sales. In this role he is responsible for all of the company’s sales functions including its direct and inside sales force, and sales operations.

Bob joins Agiliance from Sun Microsystems where he led Sun's US Software Sales and Identity Management Sales teams. Under Bob's leadership, the combined Identity Management and Enterprise Web Services teams experienced triple digit annual growth establishing Sun as the revenue and market share leader in the IdM market. Bob has also held various sales management roles at Sun within the Sun|/Netscape Alliance, iPlanet and SunONE software organizations, where he led significant customer growth in the Central and Southern areas. Prior to Sun, Bob held management positions at AMR Corporation (American Airlines and Sabre Inc.),and The Boeing Company.

Mr. Horn holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Arizona State University.

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	Raj Krishnan Chief Financial Officer

Raj Krishnan leads corporate finance at Agiliance with the mission of guiding the company through its next growth phase.

In this key position Raj will benefit from his eighteen plus years of finance and business related experience at established and emerging technology companies. Before joining Agiliance he served as the Chief Financial Officer of Proactive Net, a Business Management Software company. Raj led finance, business operations, legal and human resources. He played a critical role in Proactive Net's growth, helping secure four rounds of funding from blue chip VC firms, and he was instrumental in its successful sale to BMC Software, Inc. Prior to ProactiveNet, Raj was President of Solutron Inc., a database publishing company. Prior to Solutron, Raj held progressive finance related positions at PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Apple Computer and Digital Equipment Corporation.

Raj holds an MBA from the Darden Business School, University of Virginia and a BS in Economics from the London School of Economics, London, U.K.

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