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Marc Boroditsky

President CEO and Director

Marc Boroditsky is the president, CEO and a co-founder of Passlogix. Mr. Boroditsky also serves on the company's Board of Directors. He oversees the company's overall operations, direction and strategy.

Over the past 15 years, Mr. Boroditsky has led organizations that have developed enterprise computing and commercial software products in the financial services and healthcare markets. Prior to co-founding Passlogix, Mr. Boroditsky was the president of Numera Inc. where he directed the development of products dealing with the management of personal identification numbers, passwords and security codes for related telecommunications and financial service products.

Prior to Numera, Mr. Boroditsky was a founder, president and CEO of Novus Technologies, Inc., a medical informatics company. He directed all stages of product development, marketing, sales and financing to bring the first-ever FDA authorized PC-based medical image archive and distribution system to market.

Before founding Novus, Mr. Boroditsky was an Officer and Senior Strategic Planner with ICA, a $12 billion financial services company. His initial responsibilities included implementing integrated real time profit/loss reporting systems across all business units in a highly heterogeneous computing environment, resulting in responsibility for all business planning activity.

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Marc B. Manza

Chief Technology Officer

Marc Manza is one of Passlogix's co-founders and serves as the Chief Technology Officer where he is responsible for driving the software engineering, quality assurance, R&D, release management and information technology groups. Mr. Manza is the chief architect for the Passlogix products and services.

Prior to joining Passlogix, Mr. Manza was Director of Technology for the Advanced Software Kinetics Lab at Polytechnic University, where he was responsible for directing the contract commercial software development initiatives as well as the R&D, training/seminars, and web design and development efforts. Mr. Manza also architected Polytechnic's web infrastructure which supports multi-departmental requirements and serves as a dynamic hub for interaction and information. During his tenure as Director of Technology, the Lab's revenue grew to $3 million/year.

Mr. Manza was Division Manager for the Center for Applied Large-Scale Computing at Polytechnic University, where he also held several senior programming, design and development positions. He successfully led commercial projects for Citibank, NASA, NYNEX, as well as several Internet start-ups.

Mr. Manza has extensive software development, design, and experience with multi-platform, multi-tiered solutions, component-based architectures, API and protocol designs, networking, human factors and authentication processes. He received his B.S. in Computer Sciences from Polytechnic University.

 

Scott Bonnell

VP of Technical Services

As the Vice President of Technical Services for Passlogix, Mr. Bonnell is responsible for driving customer success and satisfaction by managing the pre-sales engineering, implementation services, training and customer support teams. Mr. Bonnell has helped to integrate and align these teams to optimally manage and ensure continuity for customers through all phases of their solution evaluation and deployment cycles.

Formerly, Mr. Bonnell was the Vice President of Business Development for Passlogix, where he was responsible for developing and implementing partner strategies. Mr. Bonnell joined Passlogix in early 2000 to manage a technology OEM relationship. Since then, he has helped Passlogix ink technology license deals with category leading vendors in the secure access, strong authentication and identity management space and built and oversaw management of a global channel partner program that has made significant revenue contributions and broadened Passlogix market coverage.

Prior to joining Passlogix, Mr. Bonnell was a Business Development manager at Biscom, Inc. where he managed partnerships with Novell, Microsoft and other leading vendors in the document management space.

Mr. Bonnell graduated with distinction from St Andrew's College in Canada and holds a B.A. from Colby College.

 

Michele Favaro

Vice President of Marketing

As Vice President of Marketing for Passlogix, Ms. Favaro is responsible for worldwide corporate marketing, corporate communications and public relations, including media relations, analyst relations, managing the company's overall marketing strategy and corporate branding. Ms. Favaro joined Passlogix in 2001 as Director of Public Relations to manage all press and analyst relationships and PR campaigns. In 2002 she took on responsibility for the marketing department and all marketing related activities.

Prior to joining Passlogix, Ms. Favaro was the Director of Public Relations for Vigilante where she managed a worldwide public relations organization. Ms. Favaro also worked as a Senior Public Relations Representative for Computer Associates and as Administrative Lab Director for Computer Reseller News.

Ms. Favaro holds a B.A. from Hofstra University.

 

Stephane Fymat

VP of Strategy and Product Management

As the Vice President of Strategy and Product Management for Passlogix, Mr. Fymat is responsible for setting the corporate, product and technology strategy of the company and managing its entire product line. In his current role, he leads the organization that is responsible for the conceptualization, design and overall direction of the Passlogix product line. He is also responsible for the company's strong authentication initiative, product marketing, corporate positioning and evangelism activities. Mr. Fymat joined Passlogix in 1998 to manage sales and business development. Mr. Fymat helped define the products when they were still in prototype stage, sold the products to Passlogix's first enterprise customer, and went on to build a sales organization that has established many enterprise customers, resellers and OEM partnerships since then. He then took on the role of Vice President of Sales Operations and Product Management for Passlogix, where he built the pre-sales engineering, consulting services, training and product management departments on a global basis for the company.

Prior to joining Passlogix, Mr. Fymat held numerous roles at Eastman Software, the document imaging and workflow software business of Eastman Kodak, Inc. and its predecessor Wang Laboratories. Among his roles, Mr. Fymat was the Manager of Latin America Software Sales, where he established direct sales presence and distribution channels throughout Latin America that closed large enterprise customers in all of the major countries. He was also the Manager of Strategic Alliances, where he established and managed partnerships with Andersen Consulting, Deloitte & Touche, KPMG, SAIC and other leading system integrators.

Mr. Fymat graduated with honors from UCLA with a Bachelors of Science in Engineering and Computer Science and from Columbia Graduate School of Business with an MBA in Finance and Marketing with honors.

 

Mark Gillespie

Vice President of Sales-Americas

Mr. Gillespie is responsible for all Passlogix sales in North and South America, including both direct and channel sales of the company's v-GO Sign-On Platform. He joined Passlogix in 2004 as a sales manager with over 20 years of experience. He has led the company in Americas sales each year and secured v-GO adoptions with blue-chip customers in all industry sectors. His success as a sales manager led to his promotion to Vice President of Sales-Americas in 2007.

Prior to his Passlogix tenure, Mark spent over 10 years selling identity management solutions with companies such as enCommerce and Thor Technologies. He was also a partner in GreatPeople, the successful technology recruiting firm focusing on technology start-ups. His previous experience included sales positions in software firms including Borland, UVS and CamData Systems.

 

John Handelaar

Vice President of Sales- EMEA

John Handelaar joined Passlogix in April 2005. Over his tenure, his efforts spurred dramatic growth in Passlogix's EMEA presence from a few enterprise customers to more than 200. As the Vice President of Sales- EMEA he is responsible for both direct and channel sales in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Mr. Handelaar has spent over three decades in technology-related positions, with nine years in identity management that included work with Thor Technologies immediately before joining Passlogix. He also worked at Access360 when it was a startup and launched an EMEA-based user provisioning company called Waveset that was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2003.

His background also includes various technical and management IT roles at Prudential Assurance Company, Shell and Standard Chartered Bank, a sales engineering position at hardware vendor Amdahl, a division manager post at disk storage provider, Encore and several sales and sales management positions at Sequel and BMC Software in the late 1990s.

Mr. Handelaar is based in East Hanningfield, UK.

 

Sean Harris

VP of Global Sales

Sean Harris is responsible for all Passlogix sales and business development worldwide, including direct and channel sales, and other strategic partnerships. He has responsibility for all revenue focused departments and oversees the hundreds of VARs in the company’s global partner network, and coordinates all sales and business development programs to spread adoption of Passlogix’s v-GO technology.

Harris joined Passlogix in 2006 to manage and develop the field sales strategy to support the company’s worldwide OEM relationships. His success in that position led to his 2008 promotion as Vice President of Business Development, which involved building and managing the company’s global network of channel and technology partners.  Harris  assumed the Global Sales role in  January 2010.

Before joining Passlogix, Harris spent 10 years specializing in identity management at IBM, Access360 and BMC Software, specifically in the areas of provisioning, password management and authentication. He held a variety of management positions associated with the sale of identity management products, planning of identity management projects, and a broad spectrum of related activities.

Harris graduated with honors from Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Michigan, with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology.

 

Roy Rezac

Vice President of Engineering

Roy Rezac joined Passlogix after more than 20 years of senior software engineering management experience for a variety of enterprise software companies focused on security and information availability as well as sign-on technology. At Passlogix he supervises the product development team responsible for delivering new and enhanced products for the v-GO suite.

Immediately before joining Passlogix, Mr. Rezac served as Engineering Director of RSA, The Security Division of EMC. There he led an engineering organization responsible for RSA Sign-On Manager - based on Passlogix technology - and several other desktop products. Mr. Rezac led the evaluation of single sign-on technology, chose Passlogix as the leader in the field, and integrated and delivered the RSA-branded solution to more than 250 customers worldwide.

Mr. Rezac's previous experience includes serving as Vice President of Product Development for Healthvision, a firm providing secure access to medical data for hospitals, doctors and patients; Vice President of Product Development for MarketMAX, a retail analytics firm specializing in organizing and analyzing large volumes of retail sales data to determine the most profitable retail assortments; and Vice President, Development for Seagate Software, where he was responsible for developing Windows network management software for large enterprises. Several of the products he managed won industry awards for providing superior software capability and he has a track record for implementing product and product development process innovations.

 

 

Donald R. Goeser

Director of Corporate Development

As Director of Corporate Development, Donald Goeser provides guidance and direction in all contractual negotiations undertaken by Passlogix, Inc. Mr. Goeser helps contractually define and manage all partnerships with integrators, channel partners, and customers. Mr. Goeser assists in managing the international operations of Passlogix, Inc. Additionally, he actively contributes to business development efforts related to company growth and expansion including, business model analysis, research, plan development, due diligence, vendor selection and project start-up.

Prior to joining Passlogix, Inc., Mr. Goeser co-created and launched Bear Stearns' Strategic Sourcing Technology Group. During his five plus year tenure at Bear Stearns', Mr. Goeser led the firm through numerous multi-vendor sourcing projects across all major technology platforms cumulatively totaling in excess of $300M. Prior to his engagement at Bear Stearns', Mr. Goeser led Credit Suisse First Boston through numerous technology sourcing activities.

Mr. Goeser holds a B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles.

 

David Weiner

Director of Finance

As Director of Finance for Passlogix, David is responsible for all the company's financial operations including financial reporting, audit, forecasting, and all banking and financial relationships foreign and domestic. Since joining Passlogix in 2002, David has overseen the financial growth and development of the company including its expansion into Long Island, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong.

Prior to Passlogix, David held several positions at eB2B Commerce, a publicly-traded, New York-based ASP focused on creating branded supplier portals and managing supplier adoption. David began at eB2B as a financial analyst and business development associate focused on financial modeling, scenario analysis, forecasting, pricing, and development of alliances. Later, David oversaw the company's Investor Relations effort.

Prior to eB2B Commerce, David was an Assistant Vice President in the U.S. Equity Research Group at Gruntal & Co., a mid-sized broker dealer. While there he maintained company-specific and industry coverage over the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology sectors.

Mr. Weiner holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Lehigh University

 

Steve Terry

Director Asia Pacific

Steve Terry oversees Passlogix sales operations throughout the Asia Pacific region as the Director, Asia Pacific. He has specialized in selling security and Internet technology products across broad Asia markets for over a decade, covering areas including Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Korea, Malaysia and India. 

He previously served as Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand, for RSA Security directly before that company’s sale to EMC. His experience also includes six years as VP and Managing Director, Asia Pacific, with iPass Inc., a provider of enterprise solutions to support the remote and mobile workforce.

Steve was educated in Western Australia and attended the Telecom Training college completing a diploma in Electronic engineering, other studies have included Commercial Law at Open Universities Australia and the Chinese university of Hong Kong specializing in IT law.

 

 

Paul A. Biddelman

Director

Paul A. Biddelman is President of Hanseatic Corporation, a private investment firm with overall assets under management exceeding $300 million. He joined the firm as principal in 1992 to strengthen private equity investments. Prior to joining Hanseatic and since 1982, he was Managing Director in Corporate Finance at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., where he had responsibility for the merchant banking portfolio and the real estate investment product. His prior investment banking and corporate finance experience included stays with Kuhn Loeb & Co (Lehman Bros.) and Oppenheimer & Co. Earlier in his career he practiced corporate and securities law at Willkie Farr & Gallagher. His Directorships include SystemOne Technologies Inc., ApplyYourself, Inc., HigherOne, Inc. and DocuSys, Inc. His academic background includes a B.S. from Lehigh University, a Juris Doctorate from Columbia Law School and a Masters in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.

 

Ennius E. Bergsma

Director

Ennius Bergsma helps establish Passlogix’s overall strategic direction and priorities. He joined Passlogix in 2000, but has been involved with Passlogix since its inception as both an investor and advisor.

In his 25 years at McKinsey & Company, Inc., where he was Senior Director, Mr. Bergsma founded and led the Firm’s global Corporate Finance Practice and was Co-Founder and Co-Leader of McKinsey’s E-Commerce Practice. He initiated McKinsey’s Marketing Sciences Practice, led the effort that synthesized McKinsey’s approach to Business Strategy, was a leader of McKinsey’s Consumer and Telecommunications sectors and was core member of the McKinsey Strategy Initiative that crafted the Firm’s priorities. Mr. Bergsma’s client service has focused on the development of new businesses in e-commerce, financial services, consumer goods and telecommunications. He led numerous teams creating new businesses, with values ranging from $500 million to $5 billion. Mr. Bergsma is still associated with the Firm as member of the McKinsey Advisory Council.

He is Chairman of the Netherland-America Foundation, Trustee of the Hewitt School, Honorary Board Member, past Chair and President of the Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York and past member of Harvard Business School’s Executive Council. Mr. Bergsma holds a Candidate and Masters Degree with distinction in Corporate and Commercial Law from the University of Leiden in The Netherlands, and an M.B.A. with distinction from the Harvard Business School.

 

R. Bradford Burnham

Director

R. Bradford Burnham is a “Managing General Partner of Union Square Ventures”. Prior to forming Union Square Ventures, he was a general partner at AT&T Ventures. Earlier in his career, Brad was the founder and CEO of the software company, Echo Logic. Brad began his career with AT&T, where he held a variety of sales and marketing positions, primarily in their computer systems group. He is currently a director of several privately held companies. Brad holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University.

 

Gregory Arnold

Director

Gregory Arnold is one of the Passlogix’s co-founders and serves on the Board of Directors. Prior to co-founding Passlogix, Mr. Arnold worked with large corporations, start-ups and investors to create technology-based businesses. Among Mr. Arnold’s clients were Viacom Interactive Services, the new technology unit of Viacom International, Inc. He was responsible for a joint venture with a major online service and evaluated numerous Internet technologies and services. Mr. Arnold also Co-Founded Simon & Schuster Online, the online technology division of publisher Simon & Schuster, Inc., where he had responsibilities for business development, marketing, strategic planning and new technologies. He was previously an investment banker for Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Kidder, Peabody & Co., specializing in Corporate Finance and Mergers and Acquisitions. Mr. Arnold earned an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a B.A. from the University of California at San Diego.