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Management Team

ThreatSTOP has assembled a core management team of seasoned veterans with demonstrable successes in the security, Internet and data communications industries. Many of us have worked together in the past, share the entrepreneurial ethos, and are all committed to build this Company into a great success that solves a major problem for our customers.

Tomás Byrnes - Founder and CEO
Tom has held a variety of engineering, sales and support leadership positions in both private industry and the military, including: US Army Signal Corps, Radware and Datatech. In the mid 1990s, he was CTO of an ISP and e-commerce hosting company ADNC.com. In the early 2000s, he was Senior VP of Technology at Zero Gravity Internet Group, a venture capital fund that provided the initial financing to Oingo, which you know today as Google Adwords/Adsense. Tom has been involved in the Internet and related technologies since he first logged on to ESANET in 1981.

Boris Veksler - Chief Operating Officer
Boris has over 20 years of experience in project management, software development and consulting engineering. Boris comes to ThreatSTOP from Betria Systems where he built complex software such as a web application firewall for Windows IIS, a super fast neural networks cluster running 4,000 stream cores, and SaaS offerings products for youth sports market and others. Prior to Betria, Boris served as VP of Engineering and IT for TradeBeam and was responsible for building and operating global trade management systems for clients including Johnson Controls, Neiman Marcus and Tyco. He received his M.B.A. from the Anderson School at UCLA, and an M.S. and B.S. in Structural Analysis and Mathematics from St. Petersburg Technical University.

David Daugherty - VP Customer Experience
After working on seminal projects in e-commerce @ Virtual Dreams and ADN, David ran QA for IPivot (acquired by Intel) and then Intel Network Products Division. Subsequently David was MIS Director for MAS, where he was responsible for a widely dispersed network that managed multi-million dollar properties.

Francis Turner - VP Product Management
Francis Turner has worked for over 20 years in the IT and data communication industries, starting with a stint at IBM in the mid 1980s before reading Computer Science at Cambridge University. Subsequently he worked for Madge Networks and Bay Networks. After the latter merged with Nortel, he became the European Product Manager for their enterprise switching division. In 2001 he left Nortel Networks to be CIO at a small biotech company that was seminal in the use of computation in the analysis and creation of new enzymatic processes. Most recently he worked at a consultancy firm assisting ICT companies with their multinational product marketing and business development.

Steve Sirkin -AVP Sales
Steve Sirkin is a seasoned sales and marketing executive who has worked for various local and national Value Added Resellers (VARs). His background included the sales and design of local & wide area networks, wireless, voice & security. Sales certified in Juniper, Cisco, Sun, VMware & Oracle. A native to Los Angeles, California. Steve is also a USSF Referee

Lance Elliott - Director of Marketing
Lance Elliott fell in love with marketing and design at an early age. His first exposure was on an Apple Lisa. As the years went by he dived into the programs like Graficraft for the Commodore Amiga 1000. This did not distract him from the good old analog approach to design; nothing beats a pencil and paper. His most notable achievement was serving as Creative Director for Hunter Industries for 5 years. His mission was to transform a tired brand into a modern, fresh look. While serving as Creative Director, Lance ventured into Industrial Design and holds 4 design patents. A new love was born recently when he began exploring photography and film making. When he is not in front of his computer you will find him in local clubs behind a microphone and synthesizer. He has never escaped the 80's...