Company

Management Team

Peter Dougherty, Co-founder, President and CEO

Peter Dougherty is President and CEO at Certeon. Before co-founding Certeon, Mr. Dougherty led the product development and marketing of streaming solutions at EMC, following that company's acquisition of Digital Bitcasting. Mr. Dougherty was also the CEO and co-founder of Bitcasting, a pioneering software compression company which expanded into streaming media products. He built his entrepreneurial success on a prior record of achievement and leadership in broadcast management. Mr. Dougherty is also Chairman of the Cranwell Fund which is building public-private funded schools for at risk high school students in the Rhode Island area. www.acceleratingamerica.com

Donato Buccella, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Engineering

Donato Buccella brings more than 20 years of software industry experience having successfully brought to market several commercial products in multiple verticals including security, infrastructure management and electronic data capture. Prior to coming to Certeon, Mr. Buccella was a founder and Chief Architect at Verdasys. Mr. Buccella has also lead product teams at Symantec Corporation and Phase Forward in addition to consulting to several Fortune 500 companies. He holds a number of patents and received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Boston University.

Karl Soderlund, Senior Vice President Worldwide Sales

Karl Soderlund is responsible for Certeon's worldwide sales and business development organizations; including directing the strategy for Certeon's growing number of worldwide channel partners. Mr. Soderlund brings over 15 years of experience in building and managing highly successful sales and business development organizations in the networking industry. Prior to coming to Certeon, Mr. Soderlund was the America's VP and General Manager for Sales and Marketing of Hewlett-Packard's ProCurve business. Mr. Soderlund was also instrumental in driving the successful IPO of Fortinet, a provider of network security systems. He has held senior management positions at Extreme Networks, and Cisco Systems where his leadership drove substantial growth in both companies. Mr. Soderlund has a BA in Management from Anna Maria College.

Charles Kraus, Senior Director Business Development

Mr. Kraus is responsible for Certeon's Business Development strategy and execution. He manages Certeon's relationships with Dell, IBM, Microsoft and VMware. Mr. Kraus has over 20 years experience in the semiconductor, data, storage networking, and networking software solutions areas. Mr. Kraus has held management positions with Wellfleet Communications, 3Com, TopLayer Networks, Emulex and LSI Logic. Mr. Kraus has a degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA.

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