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| Brian Laing |
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| Mike Lloyd |
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| Alain Mayer |
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CTO Bios
Brian Laing
Co-founder and Chief Security Officer
Brian Laing has over 18 years experience in IT security, holding roles in network IT security, security consulting and security product development. While at Applied Materials, Brian was responsible for network security for a system that spanned 5 buildings, supporting over 2000 end users. In 1995, he left to join a network security consulting firm, where his clients included McAfee, Sega and Sony. He help McAfee build its first secure, web-based, online credit card order system. During this time, he developed the first distributed vulnerability scanner using ISS as the core scanning engine. In 1998, he joined ISS, which developed the industry's first commercial vulnerability scanner. While at ISS, his consulting clients included London International Financial Futures Exchange, Deutsche Bank, ARAMCO, ING Barings, European Bank of Reconstruction, British Telecom and British Petroleum. In 2002, he founded a security products company, Blade Software, delivering the industry's first commercial IPS firewall testing tool. Combing his company, with Alain Mayers' new business venture, they emerged as RedSeal Systems in 2004, a well-funded started up, having attracted money from leading investors such as Venrock and Sutter Hill Ventures. At RedSeal, Brian is driving the security aspects of the RedSeal product vision and design.
Mike Lloyd
Chief Scientist
Mike Lloyd has more than 20 years experience in the modeling and simulation of dynamic systems. He holds a degree in mathematics from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and a PhD in epidemic modeling from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1992, he relocated to the U.S. and taught statistics at New York University Stern School of Business. In 1993, he moved to California to join MasPar, a massively parallel supercomputer company, as a member of technical staff. In 1995, he joined startup Netsys Technology as a network modeling specialist. Netsys was acquired by Cisco in 1996, where Mike served as principal architect for the MPLS VPN provisioning system. In 1999 he joined early-stage startup RouteScience as CTO. While there, he led pioneering work in self-optimizing networks and authored four patents on dynamic network control. RouteScience was acquired by Avaya in 2004, where Mike continued to develop high-speed measurement and control systems for VoIP networking. In 2006, Mike joined RedSeal Systems, where he is deeply involved with the product's security analysis engine and network modeling capabilities.
Alain Mayer
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Alain Mayer has more than 20 years experience in computer science (CS) research and software development. After graduating with a Masters in CS from Brown University, Alain joined IBM's T.J Watson, Research Center where he worked on the design of network protocols. He left IBM for Columbia University, where he received his PhD and wrote his thesis on fault tolerant models for network protocols. In 1995, he joined an early stage startup, SMARTS, as an engineer, working on root cause analysis for network management. In 1996, he joined Bell Labs-Lucent, where he helped start a new security research group. During his time at the Labs, he worked on web privacy, web security, and firewall security management, publishing over 20 papers in these areas. Alain left the Labs to join Centerrun in 2001, where, as CTO, he was at the forefront of innovation in data center automation, developing new technologies that unified the management of large server farms. In 2003, the company was successfully acquired by Sun Microsystems. After the acquisition, Alain began developing new technology around his patent for policy-based network management. His new approach looked at network management from a business policy point of view, instead of the traditional device point of view. In 2004, Alain combined his emerging business venture and patent with Brian Laing's company, Blade Software, to form RedSeal Systems, a well-funded started up, having attracted money from leading investors such as Venrock and Sutter Hill Ventures. At RedSeal, Alain was responsible for the original architecture and algorithms of the RedSeal product, and, as CTO, remains deeply involved in the company's product innovation and technology evolution. During his career, Alain has written over 35 research papers and is author of 8 granted US Patents.
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