About Bit9
Executive Team
Patrick Morley
President and Chief Executive Officer
Patrick Morley serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Bit9, Inc. Mr. Morley is an industry veteran with a well-proven track record of driving companies large and small to revenue growth and market leadership. Throughout his career, he has distinguished himself as an executive dedicated to guiding organizations to success, specializing in building and accelerating the growth of small companies into industry-leading enterprises. Serving in senior leadership roles, Mr. Morley has worked on six venture-backed software companies and three successful IPO's. Morley most recently served as Chief Operating Officer of Corel, where he led the company's global sales, marketing, and operations functions for the Americas, EMEA, and Asia. He joined Corel in 2005, playing a significant leadership role in the company's turnaround, acquisition strategy and eventual IPO. Throughout his tenure at Corel, Morley established partnerships with a vast network of IT manufacturers, retailers and resellers, relationships he continues to leverage in his ongoing management roles. Prior to Corel, Morley served as Chief Executive Officer of Massachusetts-based security company Imprivata Corporation, where he led the company from initial funding to its first product and its very first customer-win. By the time Morley left Imprivata, the company had more than 100 customers and over $10 million in revenue. As the Vice President of the Americas at Allaire Corporation, Morley grew the revenue of the company from $1M to over $100M in four years. Morley has also held management positions at Macromedia, Rational Software, SQA and IBM. He received a B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Providence College.
Dr. Todd Brennan
Chairman and Founder
Dr. Brennan brings both an entrepreneurial spirit and deep technical background to his founding role at Bit9. Previously, Dr. Brennan founded Okena (acquired by Cisco in 2003), where he devised new techniques to defend against emerging computing threats. There he was also responsible for creating the company's technical and market vision, assembling the management team, and raising capital. Prior to Okena, he was a research staff member of the Satellite Communications Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Earlier, he was a software engineer in the VLSI Advanced Methodology group at Digital Equipment Corp. Dr. Brennan received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, where he won numerous teaching awards. He holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.
Tom Murphy
Chief Marketing Officer
Tom Murphy brings decades of world-class marketing expertise to Bit9 as its Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President of Products and Services, leading the company's worldwide marketing strategy around application control and desktop security. Murphy comes from Relicore, recently acquired by Symantec, where he was Vice President of Marketing. At Relicore, Murphy was responsible for customer segmentation, marketing communications including innovative demand generation programs to meet sales demand, as well as growing channel sales. Prior to Relicore/Symantec, Murphy was a product marketing executive with Veritas Software, where he generated $25 million in pipeline opportunity per quarter. He came to Veritas via the acquisition of Precise Software Solutions, where he was Director of Product Management and Marketing. Murphy helped grow Precise from $11 million to $76 million in worldwide revenue and deliver a successful IPO. He has also worked with BMC Software and GTE Government Systems Corporation. Murphy was named CxO of the year in 2007 by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council. Murphy received a bachelor of science degree in Computer and Information Systems and Mathematics from Westfield State College in Massachusetts in 1984 as well as a master of science degree in Information Systems from Northeastern University in 1989.
Harry Sverdlove
Chief Technology Officer
Harry Sverdlove, Bit9's Chief Technology Officer, draws from nearly two decades of application design and analysis with industry-leading IT enterprises, adding a new layer of technical expertise and strategic vision to Bit9's portfolio of endpoint security solutions. Most recently, Sverdlove served as Principal Research Scientist for McAfee, Inc., where he supervised the overall architecture of crawlers, spam detectors and link analyzers. Sverdlove joined McAfee through its 2006 acquisition of SiteAdvisor Inc., where he worked as Chief Scientist to develop systems for testing, detecting and analyzing any Windows-based application. Prior to joining SiteAdvisor, Harry ran his own consulting company specializing in Windows automation and spam detection. Before that he was Director of Engineering at Compuware Corporation (formerly NuMega Technologies). Prior to NuMega, Harry was Principal Architect for Rational Software, where he designed the core automation engine behind Rational Robot. Harry has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from MIT.
Doug Cahill
Vice President of Corporate Development and Product Management
Doug Cahill brings over two decades of business development, product management, and technology leadership experience to Bit9 as its Vice President of Corporate Development and Product Management. Cahill manages Bit9's strategic partnering initiatives as well as the company's strategic product direction. Cahill comes to Bit9 from AppIQ (acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2005) where, as Vice President of Business Development and Strategy, he lead the company's market positioning and go-to-market activities by executing a highly successful OEM distribution strategy. Prior to AppIQ, he served as Vice President of Product Management at HighGround Systems, which pioneered the storage resource management market, and was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2001. He has also held senior positions at Sun Microsystems, Shiva Corporation and Progress Software, and holds a double major in Economics and Communications from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Gordon Pothier
Vice President of Finance
Gordon Pothier is vice president of finance at Bit9, overseeing finance, administration, legal, human resources, and facility operations. With over 15 years of financial management experience, he brings proven financial expertise, operational skills, and strategic planning leadership to the Bit9 executive management team. Before joining Bit9, Mr. Pothier served as senior director at Corel, where he focused on global sales operations, improving the company's overall back office systems. He played a critical lead role during the company's mergers and acquisitions, integrating WinZip and Intervideo into the company's go to market model. Prior to Corel, Mr. Pothier held senior financial management positions at Macromedia, after joining that company through its acquisition of Allaire Corporation. Mr. Pothier helped transition the company from a primarily packaged software vendor to an enterprise sales company before its acquisition by Adobe. He earlier served as business unit controller at Bay Networks and he started his career at Sybase. Mr. Pothier received a B.S. in Accountancy and an MBA in Finance from Bentley College.
Mario Vuksan
Director of Research
Mario Vuksan is the Director of Research at Bit9, where he has helped create the world's largest collection of actionable intelligence about software, the Bit9 Global Software Registry. He represents Bit9 at industry events and currently works on company’s next generation of products and technologies. Before Bit9, Vuksan was Program Manager and Consulting Engineer at Groove Networks (acquired by Microsoft), working on Web based solutions, P2P management, and integration servers. Before Groove Networks, Vuksan developed one of the first Web 2.0 applications at 1414c, a spin-off from PictureTel. He holds a BA from Swarthmore College and an MA from Boston University. In 2007, he spoke at CEIC, Black Hat, Defcon, AV Testing Workshop, Virus Bulletin and AVAR Conferences.
