Executive Vice Chairman and Founders

Kent Elliot
Executive Vice Chairman
Kent Elliott served as ForeScout CEO from 2003 -2009. Under his tutelage, the company extended its market reach from simple perimeter IPS to a leadership position in Network Access Control, Endpoint Security, and Compliance. Through its flagship product family, CounterACT, the most successful of its kind, ForeScout became the industry leader, second only to Cisco. Under Kent's direction, ForeScout achieved world renowned status, cash self-sufficiency, as well as management and execution maturity. This foundation brought a diverse group of global, multimillion dollar customers from government, defense and Fortune 1000 corporations.

Kent has held a wide range of international executive positions with companies such as Nokia (Senior Vice President, Nokia Internet Communications), CEO of Vienna Systems (acquired by Nokia December 1998), TMI Communications, and Mitel Corporation. Kent holds an MBA from Queen's University, Canada with a primary focus on marketing and strategic planning.

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Oded Comay
CTO, Co-Founder
Oded has more than 25 years of experience in network communication protocols and operating systems, and is a leading authority in the Israeli networking community. He previously managed the Tel Aviv University systems group, and was responsible for the main Internet Service Providing facility of the Israeli academic institutes. Designed and implemented BandWiz - the Israeli universities bandwidth management system. Oded was a Co-Founder of TapGuard Technologies (acquired by Elron Software). Oded holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Tel Aviv University.

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Doron Shikmoni
Co-Founder
Doron is a leading authority in the Israeli Internet security and networking community. He has spent many years in the academic networking arena, and was one of the Internet pioneers in Israel. Doron has more than 20 years of technical as well as management experience. Doron is the architect of the Israeli government's secured Internet gateway. He provides consultation to various government organizations and companies. Doron serves on the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee. He is a founding board member of ISOC-IL - the Israeli chapter of the Internet Society (served as president for 3 years), which, among other things, operates the IIX - the Israeli Internet Exchange.

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Hezy Yeshurun
Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder
Hezy brings to ForeScout over 25 years of technical and entrepreneurial experience. Hezy has co-founded several technology companies including TapGuard (acquired by Elron Software in 1998) and Top Image Systems (NASDAQ: TISA). Hezy was formerly the Chairman of the Israeli National Committee for IT, a member of the board of the Israeli chapter of W3C, and a member of the board of governors of the International Association for Pattern Recognition. Hezy holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Tel Aviv University.

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