Vectra® is the leader in threat detection and response – from cloud and data center workloads to user and IoT devices. Its Cognito® platform accelerates threat detection and investigation using AI to enrich network metadata it collects and stores with the right context to detect, hunt and investigate known and unknown threats in real time.

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Willem Hendrickx is the current Chief Revenue Officer at [Vectra AI](/org/vectra-ai). Prior to this, they were the Founder and Chairman of the board at GIG Technology from February 2016 to March 2020. Before that, they were the President Europe - Middle East and Africa at Alcatel-Lucent from January 2015 to January 2016.

Hendrickx has also held the position of SVP EMEA at [Riverbed Technology](/org/riverbed-technology) from July 2011 to December 2014, Executive Vice President at [Tieto](/org/tieto) from August 2010 to June 2011, and Senior Vice President Global Channels at EMC from October 2001 to June 2010. Willem's career started as SVP Northern Europe at PTC from January 1996 to December 2001.

Willem Hendrickx works with Marc Gemassmer - GM, SaaS PM, Tommy Jenkins - Chief Marketing Officer, and Oliver Tavakoli - CTO. Willem Hendrickx reports to Hitesh Sheth, President & CEO.

Willem Hendrickx

Jason Kehl is senior vice president of engineering at [Vectra](/org/vectra-consultoria-e-servicos-ltda). He has over 15 years of experience in the security industry, including management, software development and strategic innovation. Previously, Jason was vice president at Juniper, where he led global R&D for the SRX and management product lines. Prior to Juniper, he was a director at [Cisco](/org/cisco), where he drove innovation in IPS Global Correlation and big data. Jason joined [Cisco](/org/cisco) through the acquisition of IronPort Systems where he led teams that built the industry’s leading anti-spam and reputation technologies. He holds a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from [Worcester Polytechnic Institute](/org/worcester-polytechnic-institute).

Jason Kehl

Howie Shohet is the chief financial officer at [Vectra](/org/vectra-consultoria-e-servicos-ltda). Before joining [Vectra](/org/vectra-consultoria-e-servicos-ltda), he was the CFO at [Lattice Engines](/org/lattice-engines), a leader in sales and marketing predictive analytics. Prior to [Lattice Engines](/org/lattice-engines), Howie was CFO at C3 Energy. He also held the role of senior business unit controller at [Juniper Networks](/org/juniper-networks), where he led finance for the enterprise switching, security and data center business groups, and was executive director at Siebel Systems, where he was responsible for worldwide financial planning and analysis. Howie earned his undergraduate degree in finance and accounting from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and earned his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Howie Shohet

Aaron Bean is the vice president of human resources at [Vectra](/org/vectra-consultoria-e-servicos-ltda). He brings more than 20 years of HR leadership to [Vectra](/org/vectra-consultoria-e-servicos-ltda), with experience in private and public companies. Before [Vectra](/org/vectra-consultoria-e-servicos-ltda), Aaron was vice president of HR at Skyhigh Networks, which was acquired by McAfee, and senior vice president of HR at Aruba, where he led human resources from startup to IPO and acquisition by [Hewlett Packard Enterprise](/org/hewlett-packard-enterprise). Prior to Aruba, he was head of human resources for the Juniper Security Products Group and vice president of HR at Alteon WebSystems, where he built HR, facilities and IT functions from startup to IPO. Aaron holds a bachelor of science degree from the [University of Southern California](/org/university-of-southern-california).

Aaron Bean

Tim McAdam joined TCV in 2010 and focuses on investments in the enterprise software, security, and tech-enabled services markets. In addition to [Vectra](/org/vectra-consultoria-e-servicos-ltda), his current investments include [Alarm.com](/org/alarm-com) (NASDAQ: ALRM), [FinancialForce](/org/financialforce), and [Silver Peak](/org/silver-peak). His prior investments include [Avalara](/org/avalara) (NYSE: AVLR), [Rapid7](/org/rapid7) (NASDAQ: RPD), [Splunk](/org/splunk) (NASDAQ: SPLK) and TOA Technologies (acquired by Oracle). He was previously a partner at [Trinity Ventures](/org/trinity-ventures), a leading early- to mid-stage venture capital firm, where he focused on investments in the software and security sectors. Prior to Trinity, McAdam was a vice president at [GTCR](/org/gtcr) in Chicago. He started his career in the early 1990s at [TA Associates](/org/ta-associates) in Boston. He received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and graduated with a BA in classical archaeology from [Dartmouth College](/org/dartmouth).

Tim McAdam

Jim Messina is founder and CEO of the Messina Group, a full-service consulting firm with offices in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. The architect of Barack H. Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, Messina is widely recognized as one of the world's premier public affairs and communications strategists. In 2013, Messina was named the chairman of Organizing for Action, an advocacy group that promotes social policies from the community level, and co-chairman of Priorities USA Action, a progressive super PAC. His close and ongoing connections to President Obama and other key global figures add singular value and insight to the Messina Group's work.

Jim Messina

Kevin Dillon has 30 years of operating experience in the technology sector, including vice president of Microsoft EMEA, where he helped grow the regional business from $500 million in 1991 to $9.5 billion in 2004. Dillon was also an international tax advisor at Price Waterhouse in Europe, the United States. and South Africa, where he helped structure international growth, acquisitions and income repatriation planning for many leading technology companies in Silicon Valley. He holds degrees in business, finance, taxation and law, and is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Investment Manager. Dillon is on the boards of Quixey, Metaio, Panda and Acision and was on the board of Polarlake prior to its sale to Bloomberg.

Kevin Dillon

Hitesh Sheth is the president and CEO of [Vectra](/org/vectra-consultoria-e-servicos-ltda). Previously, he held the position of chief operating officer at Aruba Networks. Hitesh joined Aruba from [Juniper Networks](/org/juniper-networks), where he was EVP/GM for its switching business and before that, SVP for the Service Layer Technologies group, which included security. Prior to Juniper, Hitesh held a number of senior management positions at [Cisco](/org/cisco). Before [Cisco](/org/cisco), he held executive and engineering management positions at Liberate Technologies and Oracle Corporation. Hitesh started his career as a Unix programmer at the Santa Cruz Operation. He holds a BA degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

Hitesh Sheth

Charlie Giancarlo has served on the [Vectra](/org/vectra-consultoria-e-servicos-ltda) board of directors since April 2014. He is currently the CEO of [Pure Storage](/org/pure-storage) and previously served as managing director, head of value creation and senior advisor at [Silver Lake](/org/silver-lake) Partners. Before [Silver Lake](/org/silver-lake), for over a decade Giancarlo was a senior executive at [Cisco](/org/cisco), including chief technology officer and chief development officer. He led [Cisco](/org/cisco)’s multiproduct growth and was at the forefront of the company’s R&D efforts for all product lines, with entry into new markets, including IP Telephony, Wi-Fi, VPNs, TelePresence, and the SMB market. Giancarlo holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from [Brown University](/org/brown-university) where he serves on the board of trustees, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley where he serves on the board of advisors, and an MBA from [Harvard Business School](/org/harvard-business-school).

Charlie Giancarlo

Marcus Hartwig

Marc Gemassmer is the General Manager, SaaS PM at [Vectra](/org/vectra-consultoria-e-servicos-ltda). Marc oversees global Sales, Channels, Customer Success and Sales Engineering. With over 20 years of enterprise software experience, Marc brings deep expertise building global, high growth sales organizations with a customer-first approach. Prior to [Vectra](/org/vectra-consultoria-e-servicos-ltda), Marc was the Chief Sales Officer at Xactly Corporation, GM of Global Cloud Security Sales at Cisco Systems, and held senior leadership positions at [Alteryx](/org/alteryx), SAP, Flexera Software, and PTC. Marc holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley.

Marc Gemassmer

James Socas is a Managing Director at [Blackstone](/org/blackstone) and, in addition to [Vectra](/org/vectra-consultoria-e-servicos-ltda), has been involved with the firm’s investments in [FireEye](/org/fireeye), [Snowflake](/org/snowflake), [Diligent](/org/diligent), [Episerver](/org/episerver), and Titus. Before joining [Blackstone](/org/blackstone), Mr. Socas was co-Managing Partner of Updata, a boutique growth equity firm focused on the software industry, and earlier served as a Managing Director at Credit Suisse First Boston and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, providing mergers & acquisitions and capital raising advice to companies in the global software industry. He also served on the leadership team of Symantec, as Head of Corporate Development, leading its strategic acquisitions, alliances and corporate venture investing.

James Socas

Tommy Jenkins is chief marketing officer of Vectra. He brings more than 20 years’ experience in technology marketing and sales. Tommy joined Vectra from Veeam, where he was acting chief marketing officer and VP of Global Demand Generation. Prior to Veeam, Tommy was with AvidXchange where he built and executed a demand generation strategy that led the company to double in revenue, setting them up for IPO. Tommy also spent almost a decade at Red Hat in roles leading digital optimization and ecommerce, global marketing operations, global lead management, and sales development. He holds a BA degree in Communications from Wake Forest University.

Tommy Jenkins

Kevin Kennedy is senior vice president of product management at [Vectra](/org/vectra-consultoria-e-servicos-ltda). Before [Vectra](/org/vectra-consultoria-e-servicos-ltda), he was vice president of product management at Agari Data, which builds data-driven security solutions that eliminate email as a channel for cyberattacks. Prior to Agari, Kevin was senior director of security product management at Juniper, where he spearheaded the company’s continued innovation in data center security. Kevin was also director of product management at [Cisco](/org/cisco) IronPort Systems, where he led the highest-growth business in the [Cisco](/org/cisco) security portfolio, growing bookings by 400 percent in three years. Kevin earned his BSE in computer engineering at the University of Michigan.

Kevin Kennedy

Michael is the Senior Vice President of Corporate and Business Development at Vectra. He brings 20 years of experience in private and public companies, primarily focused on infrastructure software and SaaS. Previously, Michael was VP of Strategy and Business Development at Cohesity, the next-generation data management company, and acting GM of Cohesity’s transformation into SaaS. Prior to Cohesity, he was head of Corporate Development for Cisco’s Data Center business, helping spearhead Cisco’s strategy and execution of venture investments and M&A. Before Cisco, he held roles in Venture Capital and Private Equity. Michael holds a BA in Economics from Yale University.

Michael Porat

Brad Gillespie is a seasoned technology leader with over 15 years of experience in product, technology, and management. He is currently a General Partner at [IA Ventures](/org/ia-ventures). Previously he served in several roles at Microsoft including Technology Advisor to the CTO. Gillespie started out at Lockheed-Martin developing real-time classification systems and programming a PDP-11 in assembly. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the [University of Washington](/org/university-of-washington) and is an Affiliate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the [University of New Hampshire](/org/university-of-new-hampshire).

Brad Gillespie

Bruce Armstrong focuses on enterprise technology markets, including big data, containers, devops, security, IoT, networking, storage, and other infrastructure. At [Khosla Ventures](/org/khosla-ventures), he has served on the boards of Big Switch Networks, Cylance, Ginger.io, [GitLab](/org/gitlab), [MemSQL](/org/memsql), [Mesosphere](/org/mesosphere), Metamarkets (acquired by Snap), [Panzura](/org/panzura), Parstream (acquired by [Cisco](/org/cisco)), [Scaled Inference](/org/scaled-inference), [Theatro](/org/theatro), and [Vectra](/org/vectra-consultoria-e-servicos-ltda). Previously, Armstrong was president and CEO of PivotLink, chairman and CEO of Kickfire, and president and CEO of Knova Software. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Bruce Armstrong

Oliver Tavakoli is chief technology officer at [Vectra](/org/vectra-consultoria-e-servicos-ltda). Oliver is a technologist who has alternated between working for large and small companies throughout his 25-year career – he is clearly doing the latter right now. Prior to joining [Vectra](/org/vectra-consultoria-e-servicos-ltda), Oliver spent more than seven years at Juniper as chief technical officer for the security business. Oliver joined Juniper as a result of its acquisition of Funk Software, where he was CTO and better known as developer #1 for Steel-Belted Radius. Prior to joining Funk Software, Oliver co-founded Trilogy Inc. and prior to that, he did stints at Novell, Fluent Machines and IBM. Oliver received an MS in mathematics and a BA in mathematics and computer science from the University of Tennessee.

Oliver Tavakoli

Eric Wolford joined [Accel](/org/accel) in 2014 and focuses on enterprise infrastructure companies. He leverages his infrastructure and IT experience in working with founders across the enterprise stack, from next-gen analytics platforms like Jut, to emerging cloud security and threat detection companies like [Netskope](/org/netskope) and [Vectra](/org/vectra-consultoria-e-servicos-ltda). Eric also co-leads the [Accel](/org/accel) Tech Council. Prior to [Accel](/org/accel), Eric spent years in a variety of product and management roles at FastForward Networks, Inktomi and most recently, at Riverbed where he was president of the products group. There, he oversaw the growth of Riverbed’s flagship WAN optimization and app acceleration platforms, which grew to be a $1 billion+ business. Eric is from the Bay Area, graduated from Pepperdine, and has an MBA from NYU.

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