Leadership

Gord Boyce
CEO

A high-tech veteran, Gord Boyce brings over 18 years of industry experience to ForeScout Technologies. Boyce joined ForeScout in 2006 as the global VP of sales and marketing, was promoted to president in 2007, and was named CEO in 2009. He has driven ForeScout’s strategy and overall execution which has led to eleven consecutive quarters of exceeding targets and strong annual growth. During this period, ForeScout has extended its leadership in the network access control market, second only to Cisco, and broadened its portfolio to include mobile security, endpoint compliance and threat protection.

Prior to ForeScout, Gord held several senior management positions within the Nokia Internet Communications group and the Enterprise Solutions business group. Prior to Nokia, Gord held sales management positions with VoIP pioneer Vienna Systems, which was acquired by Nokia in December 1998, as well as other telecom and datacom sales positions. Gord holds a bachelor of engineering and management in electrical engineering from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada.

 

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.

 

Danny Hernandez
CFO

Danny Hernandez has over 20 years of corporate finance and organizational experience from leading IT technology firms having stewarded young companies, acquisitions and public companies. He is responsible for ForeScout’s finance, operations, human resources and IT. Prior to ForeScout, Hernandez held management positions in Turnstone Systems, Ipsilon Networks (Nokia), Stratacom (Cisco) and Ungermann-Bass (HP). He holds a bachelor of science degree in accounting from San Jose State University.

 

Brant Kennedy
Vice President, Worldwide Sales

Brant Kennedy is responsible for all revenue generating activities at ForeScout developing strategic direction for sales, sales engineering, marketing and channel programs. With over 20 years of sales and marketing experience in IT networking and IT security, he has developed highly effective sales organizations in government, enterprise and global account markets at both startups and large market leaders. Prior to ForeScout, Brant held executive and sales leadership positions at Sybase, Orchestria, Nokia, and Cabletron. Brant earned his BS in Consumer Science from the University of Wisconsin- Madison.

 

Scott Gordon
Vice President, Worldwide Marketing

Scott Gordon brings over 20 years of industry experience and accomplishments in global marketing strategy and execution. Most recently, Gordon was vice president of marketing at AccelOps, a data center and cloud monitoring vendor. Previously, Gordon was vice president of marketing at SIEM vendors SenSage and Protego Networks prior to its acquisition by Cisco. Gordon has also held executive and management roles at NeoScale, Axent, McAfee, Cheyenne and CA. He is CISSP certified and holds an MBA in marketing, as well as bachelor degrees in marketing and MIS from Hofstra University.

 

Sam Davis
Vice President, Business Development

Sam Davis brings 25 years of industry experience in business development in companies both large and small. Previously, Davis held a business development leadership role at HP, and has held similar positions for several leading technology companies including ArcSight, MicroMuse, Riversoft, Lancope, and Arbor Networks. Sam’s passion for addressing business requirements through technology began while he was serving in the U.S. Navy. Sam is responsible for the overall management of ForeScout’s business development organization including corporate development, strategic partnerships, OEM opportunities and strategic channel partnerships.

 

Gil Friedrich
Vice President, Technology

Gil Friedrich is responsible for business development and OEM activity at ForeScout. In this role, Gil is responsible for identifying partnership and OEM opportunities, and finding new market opportunities for ForeScout’s technology. Before taking this position, Gil served as ForeScout’s VP of R&D and headed ForeScout’s engineering team for 6 years. Gil brings over 15 years of managerial and technical experience in developing networking software. Gil holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University (Cum Laude) and a B.Sc. in Physics and Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University (Cum Laude).

 

Zohar Gillai
Vice President, Global Services and Support

Zohar Gillai brings over 18 years of leadership experience in professional services,
customer support and pre-sales engineering support. She has held senior management positions  at Mercury Interactive, Newbridge Networks and most recently, Tropos Networks. Zohar holds  a Bachelor of Arts in Statistics from the University of Haifa, Israel, and an M.Sc. in Computer  Science from McGill University, Canada.

 

Hanan Levin
Vice President, Product Management

Hanan brings over 14 years of product leadership experience in delivering innovative, award-winning global enterprise solutions. Prior to  ForeScout, he was part of the Check Point R&D team developing the market leading Firewall-1, VPN-1 and Provider-1 solutions, where he managed various products and orchestrated the Check Point-Nokia joint venture. Hanan was Director of Product Management at TriSixty Security. Hanan holds an MBA and B.Sc. in Computer Science, both from Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and served as a Major in the Israeli Air Force.

 

Ori Naishtein
Vice President, R&D

Ori brings over 15 years of managerial and technical experience in developing networking and CAD software. Earlier in his career, Ori served in a number of roles at Tecnomatix (NASDQ: TCNO) and at Avaya. Ori served as an intelligence officer in the Israeli army. Ori holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Tel-Aviv University.