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Leadership Team

Jeff Gray
CEO & Co-Founder

Jeff Gray

Olivier Huynh Van
CSO & Co-Founder

Olivier Huynh Van

Hamish Butler
COO

Hamish Butler

Matt Westover
Chief Revenue Officer

Matt Westover

Jeff Boone
CTO and VP of Engineering

Jeff Boone

Ernest Lefner
Chief Product Officer

Ernest Lefner

Traci Soward
Chief Marketing Officer

Traci Soward

John Alves
Chief Financial Officer

John Alves

Colin Henry
Vice President of Channel Sales

Colin Henry

Michael Haugh
VP of Product Marketing

Michael Haugh

Tim Silverline
VP of Security

Tim Silverline

Stanislav Miskovic
VP of AI

Stanislav Miskovic

Chris Ellerman
VP of Presales and Service Delivery

Chris Ellerman

Julie Keith
Sr. Director of Customer Success and Support

Julie Keith

CEO & Co-Founder

Jeff Gray

Jeff Gray is the CEO and co-founder of Gluware, the leading provider of Intelligent Network Automation. As CEO, he oversees business operations and strategy, as well as the development of enterprise-leading intent-based network automation technologies adopted by some of the largest Global 2000 enterprises from Pharma to Finance. Gray has been a networking industry leader for decades, starting with the commercial development of innovative high-bandwidth networking solutions as a student at California Polytechnic State University.

Gray launched his professional career as a networking product manager in the semiconductor industry, where he developed technical networking solutions to power smart grid initiatives. He served as Vice President of Business Development for Yelofin Networks, a virtual network operator; the Director of Business Development for Firefly Communications, a Cisco learning partner; and a management consultant to Deutsche Bank. Gray later moved into managed network services where met future Gluware CSO and co-founder, Olivier Huynh Van. Together, they created the foundation for Gluware out of the mutual need to automate advanced network architectures, initially bootstrapping the company as Glue Networks.

Gray is credited with bringing the industry’s first SDN orchestration platform to market and achieving significant blue-chip enterprise adoption. He holds two United States patents for virtual private network technologies, alongside Huynh Van, and is the recipient of a United States Special Congressional Recognition and a United States Congressional Commendation for his service to the business community and entrepreneurial leadership. Gray received a B.A. from California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo.

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CSO & Co-Founder

Olivier Huynh Van

Olivier Huynh Van is the Chief Science Officer and visionary inventor of Gluware technology, leading the company’s R&D efforts. Previously, Olivier was the former CTO of Yelofin Networks and has 20 years of experience designing and managing mission-critical global networks for ADM Investor Services, Groupe ODDO & Cie, Natixis, Oxoid, and Deutsche Bank. Olivier holds a Master’s Degree in Electronics, Robotics and Information Technology from ESIEA in Paris, France.

COO

Hamish Butler

Hamish Butler is responsible for finance and operations at Gluware. Prior to his role at Gluware, Hamish was CEO of Objective Systems Integrators (OSI), a leading provider of carrier-grade BSS & OSS software solutions, and was responsible for the divestiture of OSI from Agilent Technologies. Hamish is a C. Eng., MIET, IEEE Senior Member, and a member of Financial Executives International. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen and a Master’s degree from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh.

Chief Revenue Officer

Matt Westover

Matt Westover is Gluware’s Chief Revenue Officer. He leads all aspects of Gluware’s sales, business development, and strategic partnerships.

Matt has over 25 years of executive experience in information technology and network infrastructure, and a proven track record of leading start-ups and medium sized companies to achieve exponential growth. Most recently, he served as Sales Vice President of Eastern U.S. and Canada at SUSE (SUSE.F), a $600M+ enterprise open-source Linux and Kubernetes software company. Matt spent the bulk of the previous decade at F5 (FFIV), a $2B+ multi-cloud application services and security company committed to optimizing and securing every app and API anywhere, including on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. While at F5, Matt led the financial services vertical accounts teams to become one of the fastest and highest growing businesses at the company.

CTO and VP of Engineering

Jeff Boone

Jeff Boone has more than 25 years of experience developing and deploying successful commercial software and hardware solutions. Prior to Gluware Jeff was a senior vice president of engineering at SynapSense, and CTO of Retail Technologies International. Jeff holds a Bachelor’s degree in computer science from CSU Sacramento and completed postgraduate coursework at the California Institute of Technology.

Chief Product Officer

Ernest Lefner

Ernest Lefner comes to Gluware with over 20 years of financial services IT Leadership experience. Ernest Lefner has held a variety of roles in his career including an executive role at Ernst & Young, and 13+ years building and leading the Fidelity Investments Network Product Management, Cyber Security Engineering organizations. In addition, Ernest spent 5 years as a change agent driving change across infrastructure at Bank of America and most notably built the Network, Voice, and Security Architecture and Engineering organizations during the insourcing of the network from HP. Ernest has also been a powerful industry presence through co-founding the industry organization known as ONUG (Open Networking Users Group) which is focused on sharing IT experiences between members to help the adoption of complex technology like software-defined infrastructure, Automation, and Cloud. Ernest also spent 12 years in the United States Air Force and is passionate about Veterans causes and gives back to the community through his participation and leadership on the North Texas advisory board for Npower organization focused on free training and transitioning of veterans and underprivileged youth into new careers in IT.

Chief Marketing Officer

Traci Soward

Traci joined Gluware in April of 2022, and leads global marketing. She is a seasoned and award-winning marketing and business development executive with over 25 years of successful experience driving breakaway-led growth throughout the technology industry.
Traci has held numerous key leadership positions with global industry leaders such as Cisco, WebEx, and Intel. She has pioneered new revenue models, invented partner programs that dramatically expanded addressable markets, and created marketing capabilities that achieved record-breaking results in revenue, adoption, and retention. Traci’s many passions include digital disruption, social entrepreneurship, and flower farming.

Chief Financial Officer

John Alves

John is an experienced CFO with over 25 years of finance and operational strategy experience serving both private and public companies. John is a CPA with both BS and MBA degrees in finance and accounting from California State University, East Bay. Prior to joining Gluware, John was a fractional CFO focused on advising and leading early-stage technology companies through periods of hyper-growth. In this role, John helped a variety of early-stage technology companies achieve operational efficiencies in building and scaling “IPO-ready” finance organizations and infrastructures. John’s successes included formulating and executing on operational strategy, securing much-needed debt and equity growth capital, navigating through acquisitions, ERP implementations and upgrading scalable finance organizations. Prior to that, John was CFO for Accela, Inc., where he raised more than $240 million in debt and equity capital in support of that Company’s growth and acquisition strategies. Prior to Accela, John held various CFO and senior executive management roles at a variety of enterprise software companies including Serena, Inc. (acquired by MicroFocus) and Barra Inc. (acquired by MSCI), where he led both those companies through successful IPOs.

Vice President of Channel Sales

Colin Henry

Colin Henry joined Gluware as VP of Channel Sales in January of 2022.  In this role, his responsibilities include strategy, execution and results for sales growth through indirect routes to market for Gluware’s intelligent network automation platform.

Prior to this role, he was the Head of Partner Sales and Strategy with a large solution provider/MSP where he oversaw the profitability of their product resale business and built their sales enablement engine. Colin has more than 15 years of experience in enabling value to clients in the high-tech IT channel with both solution providers and distributors. As a passionate technologist at his core, He has sat on sales and technical partner advisory boards for industry leaders such as VMware, HP and Lenovo.

VP of Product Marketing

Michael Haugh

Michael Haugh brings over twenty-five years of experience and leads Product Marketing at Gluware. Prior to Gluware, Michael was VP of Product Management at ClearPath Networks. He has previously held roles in System Engineering, Product Management, and Marketing at Ixia and Spirent. Michael also worked at IBM Global Services and AT&T in Network Operations, Network Engineering and as a Design Engineer. Michael, Cisco CCIE #4334, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, and holds a B.S. in Engineering from Southern Illinois University.

VP of Security

Tim Silverline

Tim Silverline has spent the previous 20 years working in the network and security industry helping organizations build reliable and secure infrastructures. Much of his time has been spent creating security practices within Value Added Resellers and consulting for organizations of all sizes. He was instrumental in creating a security practice at Tympani (now Mindsight), was the first employee for WWT in California, and most recently helped Sycomp move from a focus on Check Point technologies to a full spectrum security solutions provider working with over 50 technology partners and some of the largest enterprise customers in the world. Tim also spent several years with an e-Commerce company as CIO & CISO; revamping their entire IT infrastructure, creating a security strategy where none existed, and preparing them for PCI audits to achieve certification. He comes to Gluware with some innovative ideas about how to address specific security challenges that are impacting companies every day and is excited about leveraging the Gluware automation platform to do so.

VP of AI

Stanislav Miskovic

Stanislav Miskovic, Ph.D., serves as a VP of Artificial Intelligence focusing on development of Gluware’s strategic direction in advanced analytics and automation. Stanislav brings 20 years of experience related to systems, big data and security.  Prior to Gluware, Stanislav led ML content of Splunk’s User Behavioral Analytics product. Prior to that, he helped Symantec improve its big data platform and patented several algorithms for predictive security alerting based on massive telemetry analysis. In his other professional engagements, he worked on traffic analysis, infrastructure building and distributed processing systems. Stanislav has a strong customer focus in delivering analytics products, which ensured millions of dollars in contracts during his previous engagements. He has 18 USPTO patents. Stanislav graduated from the University of Belgrade, and earned his Ph.D. at Rice University.

VP of Presales and Service Delivery

Chris Ellerman

Chris Ellerman leads the Gluware global Presales and Service Delivery teams. Mr. Ellerman has 25 years of IT infrastructure and security experience. Prior to Gluware, Chris led Global Presales Strategy and Operations for VCE while at Dell EMC. Chris has built and run multiple Presales and Professional Services organizations at vendors and VARs including VCE, Meru Networks and Dimension Data. Early in his career he was a co-founder of N2N Solutions, a Cisco VAR with specialties in security and converged communications. Chris holds a B.S in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University and a Masters of Business Administration from DePaul University.

Sr. Director of Customer Success and Support

Julie Keith

Julie Keith joined Gluware as Sr. Director of Customer Success and Support. Her responsibilities include leading the companies support, customer success and training teams.

Julie brings over 20 years of experience in building and leading highly impactful, customer-focused teams. She has held regional and global support leadership roles at Fortinet, Meru Networks, Whitehat Security and Delphix. Driven by her passion for customer delight and innovation, Julie brings a history of building strong customer relationships and has experience growing and evolving efficient teams as companies scale.

Board Members

Jeff Gray
Chairman

Jeff Gray

Olivier Huynh Van
Board Director

Olivier Huynh Van

Jeff Samberg
Board Director

Jeff Samberg

Michael J. Donahue - Michael Donahue copy

Michael J. Donahue

Chairman

Jeff Gray

Jeff Gray is the CEO and co-founder of Gluware, the leading provider of Intelligent Network Automation. As CEO, he oversees business operations and strategy, as well as the development of enterprise-leading intent-based network automation technologies adopted by some of the largest Global 2000 enterprises from Pharma to Finance. Gray has been a networking industry leader for decades, starting with the commercial development of innovative high-bandwidth networking solutions as a student at California Polytechnic State University.

Gray launched his professional career as a networking product manager in the semiconductor industry, where he developed technical networking solutions to power smart grid initiatives. He served as Vice President of Business Development for Yelofin Networks, a virtual network operator; the Director of Business Development for Firefly Communications, a Cisco learning partner; and a management consultant to Deutsche Bank. Gray later moved into managed network services where he met future Gluware CSO and co-founder, Olivier Huynh Van. Together, they created the foundation for Gluware out of the mutual need to automate advanced network architectures, initially bootstrapping the company as Glue Networks.

Gray is credited with bringing the industry’s first SDN orchestration platform to market and achieving significant blue-chip enterprise adoption. He holds two United States patents for virtual private network technologies, alongside Huynh Van, and is the recipient of a United States Special Congressional Recognition and a United States Congressional Commendation for his service to the business community and entrepreneurial leadership. Gray received a B.A. from California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo.

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Board Director

Olivier Huynh Van

Olivier Huynh Van is the visionary inventor of the Gluware technology and leads R&D. Previously, Olivier was the former CTO of Yelofin Networks and has 20 years of experience designing and managing mission-critical global networks for ADM Investor Services, Groupe ODDO & Cie, Natixis, Oxoid and Deutsche Bank. Olivier holds a Master’s Degree in Electronics, Robotics and Information Technology from ESIEA in Paris, France.

Board Director

Jeff Samberg

Jeff Samberg is the Managing Director of Acadia Woods Partners, LLC, a New York-based investment partnership that focuses primarily on early-stage technology companies. He lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 15 years where he held a number of high-tech management roles, including Vice President of Corporate Strategy for PeopleSoft Inc., Vice President of Business Development for Wily Technology, and Entrepreneur in Residence for Greylock Partners. Mr. Samberg received his MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and his B.A. with high honors in Economics from Princeton University.

Michael J. Donahue

Michael J. Donahue has been a director of WSFS Financial Corporation since March 2019. He served as a trustee and then a director of Beneficial from 2015 until its merger with WSFS. He is a retired partner of KPMG LLP, the global audit, tax, and advisory firm, where he served as the managing partner, technology solutions, of its global consulting business. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of KPMG LLP (US), KPMG Consulting KK (Japan) and as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of KPMG Consulting AG (Germany, Austria and Switzerland). He managed the process to spin-off the consulting division as a $3.6 billion consulting and systems integration firm and served as its Group Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He led the IPO of KPMG Consulting, Inc. (NASDAQ: KCIN), later renamed BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE: BE). While Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Donahue led a global expansion program, completing 34 merger and acquisition transactions which added $1.1 billion of annual revenue.
Mr. Donahue operates a business advisory firm, Donahue Consulting, Inc., and serves as an advisor to NewSpring Capital in Radnor, Pennsylvania. Mr. Donahue graduated with bachelor’s degrees in economics and history from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed the International Management Program at the University’s Wharton School. Mr. Donahue is a member of the Provost’s Board of Villanova University and endowed the Donahue Family Analytics Program at the Villanova School of Business. He began his career as a Research Associate in Econometrics at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
Mr. Donahue has significant Board experience having served on the board of directors for a total of 20 public and private corporations ranging from large public company boards to emerging growth company boards. Since 2015, Mr. Donahue has served as an independent director of SiteSpect, a marketing and personalization software business located in Boston. Mr. Donahue served as an independent director of Mobiquity, a privately held, Massachusetts-based technology services company, from 2014 to 2020, until it was acquired by Hexaware, Inc. In 2021, Mr. Donahue became an independent director of Gluware, a networking and configuration management software company, based in Sacramento, California. Mr. Donahue provides the Board of Directors with significant technology strategy and information systems experience across a wide range of industries, and experience mergers and acquisitions at a local and national level, and offers significant risk management and public company oversight experience.

Advisory Board

Joe Skorupa

STRATEGIC ADVISOR​

Joe Skorupa is a former Gartner Research VP/Distinguished Analyst with more than 40 years of experience in enterprise, service provider, and storage networking. During his tenure at Gartner, Joe defined and shaped the SASE market and carried out breakthrough research on CASCE, SD-WAN, SDN, and WAN optimization that resulted in three Gartner Thought Leader awards. A strategic advisor, Joe will serve as a Gluware thought leader and contribute a wealth of knowledge on the convergence of networking, security, and applications and the disruptive forces that shape those markets.

“The automated network is the platform for digital transformation. Network automation presents an area of incredible potential for enterprises in the digital era, and Gluware is well positioned to lead the charge,” said Skorupa, Gluware Advisor. “I believe we’re going to see spectacular possibilities as robotic process automation and autonomous networking capabilities become more mainstream. I’m pleased to work with a company so committed to customer success and to leading this market and technology to its full potential.”

Kevin Carney

Retired Principal Consultant/Network Architect At MasterCard

Kevin Carney worked in enterprise networking for over 40 years. He was the former Principal Consultant and Network Architect at MasterCard, where he redesigned MasterCard’s production and corporate networks. He is a long-standing supporter of automation to simplify network administration and reduce manual errors. Carney has been a featured speaker at various industry events and served on numerous customer advisory boards. He has deep technical expertise and brings a wealth of operational insights.

“I look forward to working alongside Gluware’s talented and forward-looking leaders,” said Carney, Gluware Advisor. “Gluware has the portfolio and customer success teams to support every enterprise’s network automation strategy. Together, we can help companies demystify their large-scale network automation implementations to achieve business outcomes quickly.”

Frank Fanzilli

Corporate Director

With an impressive career spanning technology and finance, Frank Fanzilli brings invaluable expertise to his role on Gluware’s advisory board. He has served as a Corporate Director and Senior Advisor for a range of global public, private, and nonprofit technology organizations. Specifically, his guidance of strategy, operations, and M&A investments for organizations such as Credit Suisse, The Linux Foundation, and CommVault will be an asset in Gluware’s future efforts. Through these positions, Fanzilli has cultivated significant strategic planning and corporate governance experience that will further fuel Gluware’s impressive growth and innovation trajectory.

“I’m excited to join Gluware at what I see as network automation’s critical tipping point, where enterprises increasingly understand the network’s foundational role in effective digital transformation,” said Frank Fanzilli, Advisory Board Member, Gluware. “I look forward to contributing to the company that’s leading the charge through prebuilt capabilities that automate day-to-day network management tasks so organizations can move on to more impactful financial and mission-driven goals.”

Tony Farinacci

Chief Technology Officer

Tony Farinacci has a successful track record in leading network operations and automation initiatives at major multinational companies, such as JPMorgan Chase, KeyCorp, and General Electric. With his extensive background as an infrastructure CTO, CISO, and Architect, he brings a keen understanding of the complexities of large-scale networks and significant expertise in developing and implementing strategic network automation solutions. This insider’s perspective supports Gluware’s efforts to build solutions and capabilities that solve customers’ real day-to-day challenges, while his leadership roles deliver an understanding of how to deploy these solutions strategically and at scale. This combination of technical and business expertise makes him an ideal addition to Gluware’s advisory board.

“DIY approaches lead to extended timelines, mounting technical debt, and other risks that become even more acute when key personnel leave. The shift from DIY network solutions to streamlined, prebuilt automation is critical,” said Tony Farinacci, Advisory Board Member, Gluware. “Gluware’s platform addresses these challenges head-on, delivering value rapidly — often within days. I’m eager to help enterprises transform network management and realize the full potential of Gluware’s offerings.”

Rajeev Khanolkar

President and CEO, SecurView, Inc

Rajeev Khanolkar has served as President and CEO of SecurView for over 15 years. SecurView is a full-service security solutions company delivering security within the cloud and mobility space. SecurView has a global presence and extensive network security domain expertise, offering solutions for leading security technology companies like Cisco Systems, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, and more. Khanolkar also served as the Founder and President of Netcom Systems.

“Network automation is a mission-critical technology for improving security and mitigating risks. Business models are evolving and transforming faster than ever, and network performance and reliability are foundational to progress,” said Khanolkar, Gluware Advisor. “Gluware has given customers the ability to ensure network performance, reliability, and agility while reducing risks and maintaining a strong security posture. I look forward to working with Gluware and the wider advisory team as we take automated enterprise networking to new levels.”

Paul Melchiorre

Operating Partner Stripes

Paul Melchiorre is an Operating Partner at Stripes and serves as Chairman of the Board at R3. Melchiorre is also a board member at Legion Technology, a board member at Paradox, and a board observer at Dataiku. Throughout his career, Melchiorre has focused on assessing and advising SaaS portfolio companies on go-to-market strategies. Previously, he served as President and Chief Revenue Officer at Anaplan, a leading SaaS platform to facilitate financial planning and management. He contributed to its successful IPO in 2018 and saw the company grow from $80 million to over $300 million in Annual Recurring Revenue and a greater than $7 billion market capitalization. Melchiorre brings unique perspectives that will support Gluware’s mission to accelerate network automation adoption.

“It is an exciting time to join the Gluware Advisory Council. The destination is clear; automation is essential for enterprise networks and the future of the enterprise,” said Melchiorre, Gluware Advisor. “The proven potential of intelligent automation to scale and transform business models and operations will only continue. Enterprises will rely on automation as the best way to keep pace with business demands and as an essential part in go-to-market strategies for the foreseeable future.”

Brad Peters

CEO, Scoop Analytics

Brad Peters is the current CEO of Scoop Analytics, a business application company designed to monitor, track, and visualize data across an organization. In 2005, Peters founded and served as CEO of Birst, which focused on high-end machine-learning-based analytical applications within the financial services sector. He served in this role until Birst was acquired by Infor, where he then transitioned to Senior Vice President and General Manager of Analytics and Business Intelligence. Peters continued to run the large, high-growth, fully multi-tenant SaaS business while managing the core BI, Analytics, and AI product families at Infor until 2019. Before Infor and Birst, Peters served as Senior Director of Analytics at Oracle, where he managed Siebel Systems, which is now Oracle’s BI platform.

“Gluware continues to be at the forefront of network automation. Gluware Network RPA delivers powerful self-operating functionality and capabilities that are new to the industry and meet customers’ needs,” said Peters, Gluware Advisor. “AI technology and AI-powered data and insights will deliver a new level of value and capabilities. I look forward to working with Gluware during this exciting next chapter as the company looks to take AI-powered network automation to new heights.”

Stephen White

Senior IT Executive

Stephen White brings a wealth of experience to Gluware’s advisory board, with roles ranging from Founder and CEO of Viking Technology Advisors to Senior Vice President at Citizens Bank. He has served on the front lines, guiding enterprises to their digital transformation goals through an emphasis on network services. He has also held several senior leadership roles at State Street, where he gained expertise in global network infrastructure, architecture, and engineering. As a member of the advisory board, Stephen will serve as a thought leader and contribute his wealth of knowledge to support Gluware’s efforts to accelerate network automation adoption.

“I am excited to collaborate with Gluware’s dynamic leadership team and esteemed advisory board,” said Stephen White, Advisory Board Member, Gluware. “Together, we’ll deepen customers’ ability to optimize their network performance, enhance reliability and boost agility, propelling automated enterprise networking to unprecedented heights.”

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