20 year veteran of technology marketing, business development and product management. 2011 Mobile Marketing Woman to Watch honoree by Mobile Marketer magazine. Experience includes: VP, Marketing at Omek Interactive, product line management at Motorola, Product Marketing Director & Head at BigFix, Efficient Networks/Siemens, and Velti (NASDAQ). Began career at Accenture. Undergraduate from DePaul University, Doctoral coursework, Univ. of Illinois.

Historian turned technology architect & inventor, self-taught hardware and software developer of complex systems, platform architecture and optimization; patent awardee and Open Source contributor. Created the operating system that runs all Barracuda appliances. Instrumental in building number of key Barracuda products, and in helping Barracuda scale to enterprise level. Undergraduate from UC, Berkeley, Doctorate ABD, University of Pennsylvania.