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 has served as Bit9's CMO since 2006 and was named CxO of the year in 2007 by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council. Murphy brings world-class marketing and information technology expertise to Bit9, leading the company's marketing strategy. Murphy comes to Bit9 from Symantec via the acquisition of Relicore where he was Vice President of Marketing. Prior to Symantec, Murphy was at Veritas Software via the acquisition of Precise Software Solutions where he helped deliver a successful IPO. He has also worked for BMC Software via the acquisition of BGS Systems. Murphy built the foundation for his career at GTE Government Systems where he was responsible for architecting and securing a world-class IT infrastructure. Mr. Murphy holds a master of science degree in Computer Information Systems from Northeastern University. He also holds a bachelor of science degree with a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics from Westfield State College.
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.
Jim Clemens
Vice President of Sales
Jim brings 20 years of technology sales experience to Bit9, where he is focused on revenue growth and expansion. Before joining Bit9, Jim was the vice president of sales with OATSystems (acquired by Checkpoint Systems), where he built direct and partner sales in industrial, manufacturing and retail segments. Before OATSystems, Jim led sales for Frictionless Commerce, driving revenue growth leading up to the sale of the company to SAP in 2006. Jim previously led direct sales for Macromedia, building sales activity with major customers and driving rapid expansion of Breeze, a significant contributor to company growth. Earlier in his career, Jim spent 10 years at Silicon Graphics, where he led Eastern U.S. sales. Jim is a cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College.
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.
Adam Liberman
Vice President of Engineering
Adam Liberman has an extensive track record as a leader within the software development and security industry and brings over 20 years of experience in engineering development and management to his role at Bit9. He has served in a variety of leadership roles while at Ounce Labs, IBM, Rational Software and SQA (Software Quality Automation). Previously, he was the Vice President of Engineering at Ounce Labs, where he oversaw all research and development. Prior to that, he was responsible for ClearQuest product development within IBM-Rational. While at SQA, Adam served as the Product Engineering Lead and architect of the Defect Tracking and Test Management solutions. While at Rational, he served in several roles including the Director of Engineering for the SQA Business Unit. Adam holds both a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).
