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Bob Waldie, Chairman and CEO
Bob Waldie has a track record of successful entrepreneurship with open source
ventures. Prior to co-founding Opengear, Bob served as CEO then Chairman of
SnapGear, a leading developer of embedded Linux security appliances. In 2003
SnapGear was acquired by CyberGuard (NASDQ: CGFW). Before this Bob was CEO of
Moreton Bay Ventures, a company he founded in 1996 which developed Internet
messaging products. In 2000, Moreton Bay was acquired by Lineo Inc, where Bob
served as COO. Prior to Moreton Bay, Bob was Managing Director of Stallion
Technologies, a pioneering remote connectivity company he co-founded in 1985.
Bob has participated in a host of other start ups, and served on the board of a
number of private and public technology companies, and government industry
bodies.
E-mail: bob.waldie@opengear.com
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Tony Merenda, Director and Vice President Engineering
A 20-year veteran in the computer industry, Tony spent the major part of his
career as Chief Technology Officer with Stallion Technologies, a company he
co-founded in 1985. There Tony and his team developed innovative data
communications and remote access hardware adapters and network appliances.
These products all operated in Linux, Open/FreeBSD and Windows environments.
Subsequently Tony led the R&D team at ePipe which
developed a suite of patented data compression and encryption technologies.
Tony was also a co-founder of SnapGear, and worked there
as VP Product Marketing, driving managed network security appliance projects
based on embedded open source operating systems such as OpenBSD and uCLinux.
E-mail: tony.merenda@opengear.com
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Todd Rychecky, VP Sales & Marketing North America
Todd Rychecky, VP Sales & Marketing of North America , has over 17 years of sales and sales management experience. He is responsible for managing the sales and marketing strategies for Opengear in North America. He excels at working with system integrators, global key accounts, OEM partnerships and implementing product marketing strategies. Prior to working at Opengear, Todd worked for Whitmire Distribution/Cardinal Health (1991-1996) and sold the industries first pharmacy management system that connected buyers, suppliers and distributors. Todd also worked for Datex-Engstrom (1996-1999) selling patient monitoring solutions and the industries first electronic medical record for the perioperative process. He most recently worked at Perle Systems (1999-2008) where he was a Senior Sales Manager where he was the top sales producer at Perle Systems for the past decade. Todd holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Nebraska Wesleyan University.
E-mail: todd.rychecky@opengear.com
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Leanne Ramsay, VP Sales & Marketing APAC
Leanne Ramsay, VP Sales & Marketing APAC, has more than 26 years’ experience in the IT industry, initially commencing her career as an electronics engineer prior to moving into pre- and post-sales engineering and subsequently into marketing and sales management. For most of the last 20 years, she has led product and services sales teams in the areas of data and voice integration, communications and secure infrastructure management. Most recently, Ramsay was Managing Director - Australia and New Zealand for IT infrastructure management vendor, Avocent Corporation. During her four years with the organisation she developed and then managed the regional go to market strategy for the Cyclades range of remote infrastructure management solutions and was responsible for the company’s entire local sales, marketing, finance and technical support team.
E-mail: leanne.ramsay@opengear.com.au
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