Management Team

Gord Boyce
President
A high-tech veteran, Gord Boyce brings over 15 years of industry experience to ForeScout Technologies. He spent over seven years at Nokia holding senior sales 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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Gil Friedrich
Vice President, Research & Development
Gil brings over 11 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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Michael Landewe
Director, Security Engineering, US
Michael brings a wide and varied engineering background to ForeScout Technologies. Prior to joining ForeScout in 2004, Michael was the Systems Engineering Manager at Network Physics, a Silicon Valley startup that developed and deployed high-performance network management solutions. This came after his work as a research engineer in the Smart Systems Lab at NASA Ames Research Center where he designed adaptive control systems for orbital applications in both the Shuttle and Station programs. His previous start-up ventures include Network Communication Systems, DriverNET and NCSi.

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Liat Sossover
Vice President, Finance
Ms. Sossover joined ForeScout Technologies as Vice President of Finance in June of 2001. Prior to joining ForeScout, Ms. Sossover acted as VP Finance and secretary of the Board for Maximal Innovative Intelligence, which was acquired by Microsoft. She has held positions as Chief Financial Officer at RT Set (which is now part of Vizrt) and Financial Controller for BVR Technologies (which later was acquired by Esterline Technologies). Liat has her MBA from Edinburgh University, and a bachelor's degree in accounting & economics from Ben Gurion University.

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Ayelet Steinitz
Vice President, Business Development
Ayelet brings 15 years experience in network security to ForeScout Technologies. Prior to her current role at ForeScout, Ayelet held leadership roles in Product Management, Customer Support and Operations within the company. Prior to joining ForeScout, Ayelet established the U.S. operations for Pelican Security, an enterprise security company with a client-side sandboxing solution, which was acquired by Microsoft. At Pelican, Ayelet launched the Professional Services group while previously leading the Product Marketing team. Before Pelican, she was at Conduct Software Technologies, a network management and traffic monitoring tools firm, which was purchased by Mercury Interactive. Ayelet started her career in the military, where she spent 5 years focusing on networking and security technologies. Ayelet holds a B.Sc. in Information Systems Management from the University of San Francisco.

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Ray Wizbowski
Vice President, Marketing
Ray brings over 10 years of experience in strategic development and marketing of high tech organizations. Prior to ForeScout, Ray held senior business development and marketing positions at MetiLinx, Positio Investor and Public Relations, and Action Foundation. In the course of his career, Ray has provided strategic counsel for several multinational companies including, Canon USA, Mitsubishi Electronics, Motorola and Silicon Valley Group (acquired by ASML). In business development roles, Ray has built partnership frameworks which included such companies as Microsoft, Nokia, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and VMWare. Ray holds a B.A. in philosophy and intellectual history from Fresno Pacific University and has completed advanced studies in conflict management and resolution and ethics.

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Regional Leadership

• Tim Alden: UK
• Ralf Briglmeir: Germany, Austria and Switzerland
• Richard Galpin: Asia Pacific

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