CEO and Managment Team

Gord Boyce
CEO
A high-tech veteran, Gord Boyce brings over 20 years of industry experience to ForeScout Technologies. Gord has been with ForeScout since 2006 and was named CEO in 2010. Mr. Boyce oversees all of ForeScout's operations and advanced development decisions. Prior to ForeScout, Gord held several senior management positions within the Nokia Internet Communications group and, most recently as vice president, sales and marketing for the America's 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.

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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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Brant Kennedy
Vice President of Sales and Marketing
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.

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Gil Friedrich
Vice President, Research & Development
Gil brings over 15 years of managerial and technical experience in developing networking software. Prior to joining ForeScout he served as an officer in the Israeli Navy and lead an engineering team developing wired and wireless solutions for military data communications. Gil holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Tel-Aviv university and a B.Sc. in Physics and Computer Science from Tel-Aviv university.

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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.

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Hanan Levin
Associate Vice President, Product Management
Hanan brings over 12 years of product leadership experience in delivering innovative, award-winning global enterprise solutions. Prior to joining ForeScout, Hanan was part of the Check Point R&D team developing the market leading Firewall-1, VPN-1 and Provider-1 solutions, managed various products and orchestrated the strategic 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.

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Jack Marsal
Director of Marketing
Jack brings 20 years of marketing experience in IT security and enterprise infrastructure. Prior to joining ForeScout in 2009, he was Director of Marketing for McAfee where he introduced a new marketing strategy to broaden the portfolio of security products, helping to generate over $300 million in annual revenue. Previously, he held senior marketing positions at Trend Micro, Lotus Development, and CenterBeam. Jack holds an MBA from Freeman School of Business and a Bachelor degree in Engineering from Tulane University.

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