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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

Senior Vice President of Sales and Technical Services

As the Senior Vice President of Sales and Technical Services for Passlogix, Mr. Bonnell is responsible for driving company success and customer satisfaction by managing the global sales, professional services, customer support and product management teams.

Immediately before assuming his current position, Mr. Bonnell served as Passlogix's Vice President of Technical Services. In that role he was responsible for integrating and aligning all pre-sales engineering, professional services, training and customer support teams to optimally manage and ensure continuity for customers through all phases of their solution evaluation and deployment cycles.

Since joining Passlogix in 2000 to manage a key technology OEM relationship, Mr. Bonnell has also served as Vice President of Business Development with responsibility for developing and implementing partner strategies. In that capacity, he helped ink technology license agreements with category-leading vendors in the secure access, strong authentication and identity management sectors. He also 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.

 

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.

Mr. 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. Mr. Harris assumed the Global Sales role in January 2010.

Before joining Passlogix, Mr. 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.

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

 

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.

 

Lesley Peebles

Vice President of Engineering

Lesley Peebles joined Passlogix after more than 20 years of software engineering experience that has included management-level responsibilities for architecture, development, QA, release engineering and documentation as well as technical support and sustaining engineering. At Passlogix she supervises the development and QA teams responsible for delivering new and enhanced products for the v-GO suite.

During her first two years at Passlogix, Lesley was responsible for Support, Sustaining Engineering, and Account Management.

Immediately before joining Passlogix, Ms. Peebles served as Director, Quality Assurance, Technical Support, Documentation and Training for n2N Commerce, a provider of eCommerce platforms targeting multi-brand, multi-channel retailers. She previously was Manager, Engineering Development, at The Mathworks, the world’s leading developer of technical computing software for engineers and scientists.

Her career has also included director- and manager-level engineering positions with BladeLogic, a developer of data center compliance and software provisioning products used in Fortune 500 companies; Vignette, Inc. (formerly Oberon Software), a content management developer; Vivo Software, a provider of serverless streaming multimedia tools; and Decision Architects, a developer of strategic management decision support products.

Ms. Peebles holds an A.B. in European History from Princeton University.

 

David Weiner

Vice President of Finance

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

Prior to eB2B Commerce, Mr. Weiner 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

 

 

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.