Dr. Parveen Jain
President and CEO
Dr. Parveen Jain is a seasoned corporate executive and entrepreneur. Most recently, he served
as co-founder and CEO of Jovian DATA, subsequently acquired by MarketShare Partners. Dr. Jain previously held multiple senior executive roles at McAfee, serving as Executive Vice President for Corporate Development and Strategy, and also as Chief Marketing Officer & Executive Vice President of Marketing. Prior to joining McAfee, Dr. Jain was co-founder & CEO of IntruVert Networks, a pioneer in the intrusion detection and prevention market before being acquired by
the security giant in May 2003. He has five granted and several pending patents and has authored more than 50 business and professional papers. Dr. Jain holds a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering
from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Jain is an active angel investor and serves on the boards of multiple startup companies. He is a dedicated philanthropist and an advisor for a number of non-profit organizations including American Foundation for the Blind, South Asian Heart Center, AANA, and Jain Center of Northern California.
Dr. Mike Lloyd, PhD
Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Mike Lloyd has more than 25 years of experience in the modeling and control of fast-moving, complex systems. He has been granted 20 patents on security, network assessment, and dynamic network control. Before joining RedSeal Networks, Dr. Lloyd was Chief Technology Officer at RouteScience Technologies (acquired by Avaya), where he pioneered self-optimizing networks.
Dr. Lloyd was previously principal architect at Cisco on the technology used to overlay MPLS VPN services across service provider backbones. He joined Cisco through the acquisition of Netsys Technologies, where he was the senior network modeling engineer. He holds a degree in mathematics from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and a PhD in stochastic epidemic modeling
from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Vincent (Vince) A. McCord
Chief Financial Officer
Vince McCord brings more than 30 years of experience in financial management of IT security, semiconductor, computer storage, and systems providers to his position as Chief Financial Officer
of RedSeal Networks. Prior to joining RedSeal, McCord served as CFO of Zenverge, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, and prior to that was a partner in FLG Partners LLC, acting as CFO to several high-technology client companies on a consulting basis. He has also served as CFO of several startup companies, including IntruVert Networks (acquired by McAfee), and SDL, Inc.,
a public telecommunications component company. He also served as corporate controller of LSI Logic, and held various positions in financial management with Conner Peripherals and IBM. McCord received his MBA from the Harvard Business School, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from Georgia Tech.
Allan Thompson
Executive Vice President of Sales and Business Development
As Executive Vice President of Sales and Business Development for RedSeal Networks, Allan Thompson is responsible for building strategic partnerships to expand RedSeal’s global sales channels and establish a network of RedSeal service providers, worldwide. Prior to joining RedSeal, Thompson served as Executive Vice President, Operations, for Dataguise, Inc., an early stage security start-up company offering Data Security Intelligence & Protection and Gartner “Thought Leader” in the Application Security space. Before Dataguise, he served in a number of executive leadership roles at companies including Reconnex, acquired by McAfee, as the Vice President of Business Development; at Tenebril, acquired by Process Software, as the Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development, at Senforce Technologies, acquired by Novell, as the President and CEO; at IntruVert Networks, acquired by McAfee, as Vice President of Business Development, and at Trend Micro, pre-and-post IPO, as the Senior Vice President of Global Alliances & Marketing. Thompson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Pepperdine University.
Robbie Forkish
Executive Vice President of Products
Robbie Forkish is a seasoned expert with an extensive track record in networking, security, access controls, and high-availability platforms. Prior to joining RedSeal Networks, Forkish was Vice President of Engineering at Autonomic Networks, where he was responsible for customer service and sales engineering, as well as the development of Autonomic’s access audit solution. He also served previously as Vice President of Business Development at SOMA Networks, and Vice President of Marketing at Sentient Networks. Earlier in his career, Forkish was co-founder and CTO of Network Equipment Technologies (N.E.T.), which grew from zero to over 1,000 employees and became the industry leader in multi-service networking.
Datta Subrahmanya
Vice President & Managing Director, RedSeal India
Datta Subrahmanya brings substantial wealth of network security engineering and development experience to his role of Vice President & Managing Director, RedSeal India. Prior to joining the company, he served as Senior Director of Engineering at NetApp, after leading Cisco’s Global Services Practice, where he focused on growing the organization’s scale, productivity, quality and innovation. Subrahmanya also previously held leadership roles in Global Delivery for Telecom at HP Services, the Competency Center for Wireless Systems at Lucent Bell Labs, and Software Development at NEC’s Public Networks Group. His profile also includes Software Engineering
stints at Unisys and Wipro. Subrahmanya received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics Engineering from University Vishweswariah College of Engineering, Bangalore, and Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University.