About Us
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Management Team
| Tim Leisman - President & CEO |
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Tim Leisman has more than 25 years of software and service general  management experience at Fortune 50 companies and start-ups. Previously, he was President and CEO of
Storability Software, a recognized leader in enterprise storage management software. Previous to this assignment Tim was President and CEO of Infinite Content, an i2
business-to-business software company, where he grew to more than $100M in two years.
At Compaq, Tim was Senior Vice-President and Division General Manager of the Outsourcing Division, which he founded and grew to $1.5B in revenue in just 5 years.
During his 14-year tenure at Digital Equipment Corporation, Leisman held several senior executive positions in software and services organizations.
He holds a B.A. in economics and a MBA in marketing from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Tim also completed Harvard’s Executive Education Program.
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| Gregg Timmons - VP Worldwide Sales and Marketing
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Gregg Timmons brings over 20 years  successful experience in sales, marketing, and business development for F500 and startup companies. Gregg is responsible for BorderWare’s sales, marketing, and channel operations worldwide. Gregg joined BorderWare in 2003 as Vice President, North America Sales.
Before joining BorderWare, Gregg was Vice President, Partner Sales and Alliances at Entrust, Inc. responsible for worldwide channel sales and marketing. Prior to Entrust, Gregg spent six years at Netscape Communications running the Americas Partner Sales organization, growing channel sales 70% annually. Before Netscape, Gregg worked at Silicon Graphics, and was at Eastman Kodak Company for 10 years in various sales management roles. Gregg holds a BBA in Accounting from the University of Texas, San Antonio.
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| Shawn Eldridge - VP Corporate Marketing and Products
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Shawn Eldridge brings more than 16 years of product and marketing management experience in the Internet security industry to BorderWare. As Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Products, Shawn is responsible for driving and overseeing worldwide product management, corporate marketing and go-to-market strategies.
Before joining BorderWare, Shawn was Global Business Development Manager at IronPort (a division of Cisco Systems), where he initiated and managed business development efforts for the new OEM practice. Prior to Cisco, he served as Director of Products and Strategy at PostX where he was responsible for products and product marketing, strategic market development, and strategic alliance functions for the business which was subsequently acquired by IronPort.
Earlier in his career, Shawn founded and chaired global technology forums including TECF (Trusted Electronic Communications Forum) and has served as a security consultant to the industry. In addition, he has held senior product management and marketing positions at ZixCorp, FlashNet Internet Service (acquired by SBC), and Allegiance Telecom.
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| Andrew Graydon - Chief Technology Officer |
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Andrew is responsible for leading the  technology innovations at BorderWare, ensuring our position as a leader in the messaging security field. Bringing his technical expertise
and years of working worldwide with customers and technical communities, his vision, energy and enthusiasm drive BorderWare products to being the best-of-breed in messaging security.
Prior to joining BorderWare, Andrew was the V.P. Customer Engineering at Wysdom, a privately held company which pioneered the Software Delivery Platform for wireless devices, allowing
wireless telcos to enable their internal infrastructure for secure delivery of functionality to external developers. In this role he helped to internally define the technology and concepts
while working with the customers and the technical community.
In his previous position as Director, Development with Origins Software Company, a startup in Boston bought by Wysdom, he architected the product and led the development team for
ActiveBlueprints, a fourth generation development environment for generating N-tiered application code for mobile devices from graphical design flow diagrams.
Andrew holds a B.Sc(Hons) from Dublin City University, Ireland, in Applied Physics with specialisations in Computational and Mathematical Physics. |
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| Demetri Fanourgiakis - VP Engineering |
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|  Demetri is a seasoned executive with 25 years of experience in building wide and local area networks access devices and switches for customer premises and service providers.
Most recently, Demetri held the position of R&D Leader for the CTO Office of Nortel networks, where he was responsible for Common Developments and R&D Effectiveness across business units. Prior to that Demetri was Vice President of Engineering at Enterasys Networks where he was responsible for the successful launch of a new engineering development site in Toronto and the development of the company’s Secure WAN IP Access Routers.
At Motorola Demetri was the Director of Engineering of the Internet and Networking Group (ING), where he led a team that developed award-winning WAN multi-service IP routers and access devices for IP-converged voice and data networks.
As Vice President of Engineering at Memotec, Demetri played an instrumental role in the foundation of the company, and managed the development of ATM/Frame Relay access switches and IP routers. He also held senior positions with Chantry Networks a WiFi Wireless startup, Microsoft, Nortel and Philips.
Demetri holds a B.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University of Athens Greece and a Master of Computer Science (M.Sc.) from the Department of Electrical Engineering McGill University of Montreal Canada. |
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| Jack Pagano - VP North American Sales |
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Jack Pagano has over 20 of experience in the high-tech industry where he held senior roles with start-up organizations and industry leaders focused on Enterprise Networking, IT Security Solutions and Professional Services.
Before joining Borderware Technologies, Jack held a General Managers position with Enterasys Networks Canada. He was nominated to the Board of Directors for the Canadian Corporation and he also held P&L responsibilities for all aspects of the Canadian business.
In the early stages of his career Jack was involved in numerous International assignments in Asia Pacific, Latin America and Middle East. He held both technical and sales leadership position with the International division at Eicon Technologies where he built the technical team, recruited and developed the international sales channel and generated $12 million in revenue in 2 years.
Jack has a strong technical background in IP Based Networking, Network and Application Security Solutions as well as IP Telephony. Jack studied at Concordia University in Montreal, towards a Bachelors of Commerce degree majoring in Management Information Systems. |
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| Teresa Brzozowski - VP Operations |
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Teresa Brzozowski brings over 15 years of management, business development and marketing experience in technology  to BorderWare. Prior, Teresa was responsible for
European business at MGI Software (TSX:MGI) a leading provider of digital imaging and video products. There she led the European region to over $10 million in
sales, successfully negotiated contracts and managed relationships with OEMs and strategic partners, while establishing MGI products as best sellers. Prior to
MGI, Teresa was a member of the senior management team at Delrina (NASDAQ:DENAF), a leading provider of communications and forms software. She managed Delrina’s
international business development efforts, including Europe and AsiaPac, until the company’s sale to Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC).
While with Symantec, she managed
the integration of Delrina’s “Rest of World” business with Symantec’s. Teresa holds an Applied Studies Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Waterloo
where she is currently a Member of the President’s Alumni Advisory Council. She is also a member of the Development Committee for Pathways to
Education (www.p2e.ca), a Toronto-based charity which assists disadvantaged youth in successfully completing high school. |
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| Denise Scarff - VP, Human Resources |
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For the past 12 years, Denise has served in various corporate human resources roles where she was responsible  for overseeing North American as well as worldwide
operations. During her 3 year tenure at Silicon Graphics Canada, Denise held a number of generalist human resources positions, including payroll and strategic organizational
development. Subsequently, Denise held senior human resources management roles at Platform Computing Corporation where her responsibilities included all aspects of Human Resources and a key strategic business partner to the executive management team of Finance, Information Technology and Legal departments.
Currently, Denise is responsible for world-wide human resources for BorderWare Technologies reporting directly into the President & CEO and is a key member of the
Executive Team. Denise holds an Honours designation in Business & Administrative Studies from the Academy of Commerce of Barbados in 1992 and received her Human Resources Management
Certification in 1998. Denise is a member of the Human Resources Professional Association of Ontario and has been a guest speaker at various seminars on human
resources and organizational development. |
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