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Management Team
Arxan Technologies, Inc.
The Arxan executive management team is made up of seasoned professionals, with a long track record of proven success. The management team is well poised to drive Arxan's mission to provide advanced software security technology to the market place and superior customer satisfaction. As part of their mission, Arxan's executives also engage in evangelizing the significance of software-based security technology that minimizes risk and maximizes profitability.
Michael Dager
CEO and Chairman of the Board
Michael Dager joined Arxan as Chief Executive Officer in May 2006. Mr. Dager has over 27 years of experience in senior level positions at leading technology companies. He came to Arxan from Worksoft, a leading provider of automated enterprise testing solutions, where he served as CEO and Chairman of the Board. Prior to Worksoft, he was president and CEO of OSE Systems Inc.(ENEA.ST), growing the company from a startup in 1997 to the number two embedded operating system supplier in 2001 with a stock market valuation of over $1 billion. Before OSE Systems, Mr. Dager held senior sales management positions at Pure Software (RATL) for many years helping raise the market valuation of the company from start-up level to over $1 billion. During his tenure at Pure the company completed one of the most successful IPOs of 1995. The company was later acquired by Rational Software. He began his career at Texas Instruments in the semiconductor division after earning a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering
Kevin Morgan joined Arxan technologies in August 2006 as Vice President of Engineering. Mr. Morgan has 29 years of experience in the commercial system software business. He joined MontaVista software in 1999 as the Vice President of Engineering and the sixth permanent employee. Mr. Morgan led the engineering and product strategy for nearly seven years, growing the company to the world's dominant embedded Linux products provider and one of the largest embedded operating systems businesses overall. He began his career at Hewlett Packard developing kernel level software in the RTE operating system, rising to Laboratory Manager for the HP-UX kernel and overseeing all HP-UX product development. He holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Tom van Gorder
Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Channels
Tom van Gorder has more than 20 years of experience in senior level sales and business development positions at leading technology and information publishing companies. Most recently, he was Vice President, Global Channel Sales and Alliances for Macrovision Corporation, the market leader in content protection, software licensing and installation and digital rights management technologies. Prior to Macrovision, van Gorder was Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales for Current Analysis. Prior to his role at Current Analysis, van Gorder held senior vice president of sales positions for InPhonic Inc. and VeriSign Inc. Mr. van Gorder holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Marketing and an Executive Masters of General Management Degree in Marketing and Information Management Systems from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland at College Park.
Vice President Marketing
Jodi (Jyoti) Wadhwa joined Arxan in April 2007. Ms. Wadhwa has over 19 years marketing and management experience in technology companies, specializing in high growth corporate and entrepreneurial environments. She has been responsible for marketing strategy, demand generation, product marketing and partner programs, corporate positioning and communications across security, software, and critical infrastructure industries. Ms. Wadhwa comes to Arxan from Secure Software, a leader in application security software, where her contributions as Director of Corporate Marketing enhanced revenue growth that resulted in a successful acquisition. Her prior experience includes senior positions at Nortel Wireless, Plateau Systems, a global leader in talent management software and AboveNet, a premium provider of high bandwidth connectivity solutions. Her notable accomplishments include leading cross-functional global teams to achieve accelerated market share growth in various prior positions. She holds a Bachelor’s of Commerce in Marketing from the University of Calgary and a Masters' of Business Administration in Finance and Information Systems from the University of British Columbia.
Vice President Product Management
Vince Arneja brings over 17 years of experience in senior level technical product and program management positions with the last 10 years focused on product management in the domains of application, endpoint and network security. Mr. Arneja joined Arxan from Sigaba, a leading email encryption provider, where he led Government and Commercial Product Management. Mr. Arneja’s responsibilities include leading product strategy, defining corporate product roadmaps, pricing and positioning. Prior to Sigaba, he served in a variety of senior product and program management roles at various software companies where his accomplishments include leading product teams and creating product portfolios. Mr. Arneja started his career as a software developer after working towards a Bachelor's degree in CIS from Thomas Edison State College. He is also a graduate of the Executive Product Management Program at University of California, Berkeley.
Vice President of Technology and Chief Software Architect
Dr. Chang has researched, designed, and implemented state-of-the-art software-protection technologies for over 13 years. A co-founder of the company, Dr. Chang spearheaded the creation of Arxan's "Guard" technologies through his earlier Ph.D. research with the CERIAS Center of Excellence at Purdue University. Throughout his tenure at Arxan Dr. Chang has led innovation of the company's globally deployed security technologies. Dr. Chang continues to lead development teams on the creation of new security products via industry best practices that yield durable and resilient software security. Dr. Chang's security expertise, leadership and drive for excellence continue to advance the breadth of Arxan's core security capabilities in order to enable provide sophisticated software defenses for evolving customer requirements, in new and existing markets. Dr. Chang earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University, and his B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Slippery Rock University.
