Management

The success of Verimatrix is very much a function of the quality and diversity of the team that has been assembled to address this fast paced global market.

Tom Munro, Chief Executive Officer

Tom Munro has more than 22 years of experience in both finance and technology. Most recently, he was President of Wireless Facilities, Inc. (WFI) a global leader in the design, deployment, and management of wireless mobility and broadband wireless networks. He also served as CFO of WFI from 1997 to 2000, through the company's successful IPO, and as President from September of 2000 until his retirement in January, 2003. Prior to joining WFI, Tom was founder and CEO of @Market, a retail sporting goods website. Tom holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and an MBA from the University of Washington. He has co-authored two college level text books on computer programming. Tom sits on the board of Pac-West Telecom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PACW), a provider of integrated communications services to service providers and business customers in the western U.S., as well as a number of other high-tech companies.

Bob Kulakowski, Chief Technology Officer

Bob Kulakowski is a cofounder of Verimatrix, a market leading IPTV Security Company. Bob’s inventions and approach to security has positioned Verimatrix as one of the most innovative security technology company in pay-TV security.

Bob contributed significantly to the early development of the company, was involved with all the fund raising activities, and help recruit a world-class management team that is now the security leader in IPTV. In the early days of Verimatrix he served as both VP of Engineering and CTO and established the engineering processes that later resulted in ISO 9000 certification. Bob lead a collaborative engineering team software development effort that resulted in the impressively scalable and deployable Verimatrix security system that now includes an ecosystem of over 80 significant partners in various areas of the pay Television industry, and as of late 2007 has been deployed at over 100 customer sites.

Prior to Verimatrix Bob was co-founder and CTO of Internet Magic a fax over Internetover company whose technology was exclusively licensed by the Dialogic group of Intel. In the late 1990’s Bob sold a microTCP stack to Conexant Systems that became the basis of their embedded TCP products. Other products developed by Bob have been sold or licensed to IBM, AT&T, NCR, Western Digital, TDK, Silicon Systems, Yamaha, and others. Bob has 26 years of leading edge computer, communications, and security product design experience, 7 issued patents and 14 pending patents, extensive intellectual property related experience and has been founder or co-founder of venture backed companies that have raised over $28 million in venture capital.

Steve Oetegenn, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer

Steve Oetegenn's career in the Information Technology industry spans 25 years. He has a wide range of experience in international business, having launched numerous high tech products to the global marketplace. He began his career with Burroughs Corporation (now UNISYS) as a specialist for Optical Character Recognition Systems. He has specialized in Digital Security and Anti-Piracy since 1998, working with Government agencies, Fortune 500 companies and Major Hollywood studios. Prior to joining Verimatrix, he was COO of MediaSec Technologies LLC, a pioneer and leader in the field of digital watermarking, COO of Argus Systems Group, a leading provider of Internet server security software, and CEO of DCE Communication Ltd, a world-wide provider of business messaging systems. Mr. Oetegenn has spoken at numerous global digital security conferences and he also speaks fluent German.

Tim Driscoll, Chief Finance Officer

Tim Driscoll has 15 years of experience in financial and operations management at technology-focused organizations. Prior to Verimatrix, he consulted with clients in the areas of corporate finance and marketing, including TelASIC, a semiconductor and radio systems company, DispenseSource, a logistics technology company, and the Engineering School at the University of California, San Diego. Previously, Mr. Driscoll was at Mission Ventures, a $500M venture capital partnership, where he managed direct investments and provided operational support to early stage communications technology companies. Prior to Mission Ventures, he served as a Captain in the U.S. Army's Aviation branch, where he was involved in managing development and deployment of new technologies. Mr. Driscoll has a BS in Computer Science from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and an MBA from UCLA's Anderson School of Management.

Mike Beatty, Vice President of Technology

Mike Beatty is the chief architect of the VCAS product line and has worked in the software development industry for almost 25 years. He has been involved with a number of startup software companies and has a wide range of previous experience. Prior to joining Verimatrix, Mr. Beatty was the chief architect and developer for American Grocer, which included the creation of an online grocery store consisting of multiple integrated systems for ordering, scheduling, delivering and replenishing groceries over the Internet. As a founder of Nicheware Systems, Inc., Mr. Beatty created helpdesk software applications that provided remote control and helpdesk tracking systems. He has worked with a number of Southern California companies, including Peregrine Systems, American Grocer, North American Advanced Technology (NAT), and Candle Corporation.

Subrata Datta, Vice President of Engineering

Subrata Datta has more than 20 years of development and management experience within the data communications, cable, and telecommunications industries. Most recently, he was the CTO of Sorrento Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FIBR), where he helped to build one of the leading companies in developing metropolitan Optical Networking products focusing on DWDM and CWDM transport technology. He arrived at Sorrento Networks through the acquisition of DSI, Inc. where, as a founder and VP. of Engineering, he helped develop Gigabit Ethernet switches and adapters as well as ANSI FDDI and FDDI-II software, network components, and systems. He was an active member of the IEEE Gigabit Ethernet standards committee, helped to develop the FDDI and FDDI-II protocols within the FDDI standards committee, and has co-authored a book on the FDDI protocol. Prior to DSI, he has had extensive design experience at AT&T Bell Laboratories and IBM Research at Yorktown Heights. He has a BS and an MSEE from the Cooper Union School of Engineering and post-graduate work at the University of Wisconsin.

Neerav Shah, Vice President of Business Development

Neerav Shah has over 15 years experience in the high-tech software and semiconductor industries. Prior to joining Verimatrix, Neerav led Intel’s corporate IPTV Strategy and Content Protection efforts, interacting frequently with major Hollywood studios, broadcasters, CE manufacturers and regulatory and standards bodies. In addition, Neerav served as President of DCP, LLC, where he grew the HDCP (High Bandwidth Content Protection) technology into an industry-leading standard while improving operations and management of the organization to meet industry demands. Neerav also has held strategic management positions within Intel’s Communications and New Business Initiatives Groups. At Xerox Corporation, Neerav helped drive new business growth for its Channels group and advised the company on its $950MM acquisition of Tektronics’s printer division. In addition, he has held engineering and management positions at Adobe, Blue Cross and Xerox. Neerav graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and has an MBA in Strategy & Marketing from Yale University’s School of Management. In his spare time, he enjoys golfing and coaching his two sons’ soccer teams.

Steve Christian, Vice President of Marketing

Steve Christian is a seasoned marketing executive with a wealth of experience in the digital media and Internet technology spaces. Prior to joining Verimatrix Mr. Christian was VP, Marketing at Nine Systems, Inc - a world class provider of streaming media services. He has also run his own technology marketing consultancy, contributing "virtual VP" expertise to a variety of software, wireless and security organizations that successfully sharpened their marketing strategy, positioning and go to market programs. He lead the marketing team at Wind River Services (initially Doctor Design, Inc.) where he helped shape a premium value strategy and the growth of the professional services organization to a peak of $40m annually. His extensive marketing experience also includes driving technology development and international product management at ST Microelectronics, Raytheon and Scicon in the UK. Mr. Christian has a 1st class degree in Physics from the University of Bristol and an MBA from the Open University in the UK.