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Dan Kuykendall, co-CEO and Chief Technology Officer Mr. Kuykendall manages NT OBJECTives' software development and handles NTO’s relationships with several partner companies. He has an extensive background in web application development and security. As part of the Founding Team, Dan has been involved in the methodologies and design of NTO’s flagship product since its inception. Dan joins NT OBJECTives from Foundstone, where he was responsible for the portal interface to the company’s flagship product, FoundScan. During this time he was instrumental in building scan management, and remediation capabilities into the product. Prior to Foundstone, Dan was the founder of the Information Security team in the United States branches of Fortis. Mr. Kuykendall is involved with Web Application Security Consortium, is regular contributor to many open source development projects. He was a founder of the phpGroupWare project and creator of podPress. Dan podcasts to educate the public about web application security issues from his blog at mightyseek.com and as co-host of An Information Security Place Podcast. Matthew Cohen, co-Chief Executive Officer Mr. Cohen brings extensive experience in executive management to NTO, where he manages the organization's operations, business affairs and relationships with several key clients and partners. Previous to NTO, Matthew was CFO of publicly traded TTR Technologies. Prior to TTR, Mr. Cohen was the founding CFO at APB Online, Inc., where he handled business development, raised $27 million, and built a financial infrastructure to support a 140 person company. Matthew has held positions at The Blackstone Group, Rothschild, Inc., and Kidder, Peabody & Co.; where he worked on restructurings, capital financings, and mergers and acquisitions. He holds a degree in economics from Princeton University. Jay Johnson, Vice President, Sales Mr. Johnson brings more than 20 years of industry experience and an impressive record of building organizations into market leaders. Prior to joining NTO, Jay was a founding executive and VP of Sales at AirDefense, where he helped develop AirDefense into a wireless security leader. Before AirDefense, Mr. Johnson served as Vice President of the Network Security Services division of VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the leading provider of trusted infrastructure services. Under his leadership, the Network Security Services division successfully delivered high double-digit revenue growth rates and earned prestigious client accolades, including acknowledgement from Nokia and Check Point Software Technologies as the Most Valuable Partner and Global Partner of the Year. In 1997 Mr. Johnson teamed up with Jay Chaudhry and Richard Rushing to form SecureIT, a leading provider of security services to the IT industry. As Vice President of Sales at SecureIT, Mr. Johnson successfully generated business from over 50 percent of the Fortune 100 companies in the United States in less than 18 months. Dmitriy Kashitsyn, Director of Engineering Mr. Kashitsyn is responsible for the design and development of NTOSpider, with primary responsibility for the development of new vulnerability modules. Dmitriy has an extensive software development experience in various industries creating software for companies like Sonic Solution, Roxio, Applied BioSystems and Siemens. He holds a master degree in computer science from The Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering. Mike Morton, Lead Developer Mr. Morton brings to NT ObJECTives considerable experience in software architecture including web applications, database, and Windows applications using C++, COM, C#/.NET and related software technologies. His software experience includes such diverse applications as advertisement layout software, dialup internet protocols, memory management software, DNA sequencing, workforce management web applications, and security assessment software. Mr. Morton is a graduate of the University of California at Irvine where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Information and Computer Science specializing in algorithms, numerical analysis, and languages. Mr. Morton joins NT OBJECTives from Foundstone where he designed the database, report generation engine, and thread and memory architecture for the FoundScan product. In addition to specific technologies, he specializes in architecture with a focus on algorithmic efficiency and multi-threaded designs that maximize throughput as well as memory management designs that maximize stability over long periods of time as required by security assessment tools. Mr. Morton also designed and implemented FASL for the FoundScan product. This is an object oriented, strong-typed scripting language inspired by Java and C++ that facilitates rapid and reliable coding of network attacks and forms the core of that product's security assessment technology. He brings all of this experience to bear on NT Objectives' flagship product, NTOSpider. |
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