GrammaTech and T.E.N. Announce Call for Nominations for Product Security Executive of the Year Awards
Management Team
Meet our executive team of software scientists and business leaders.
Tom van Gorder
Chief Revenue Officer
Tom has over 30 years of senior sales management experience (domestic and international) in technology, application security and information publishing. He has an impressive record of sales leadership in both early stage and large public companies with revenues in excess of $8B.
Prior to GrammaTech, Tom was the Senior Vice President of North America Sales for Clarabridge. Prior to Clarabridge, Tom was Executive Vice President, Global Sales at FranConnect. He has held numerous senior sales management roles at Arxan Technologies, Macrovision Corporation and VeriSign, Inc.Tom is an avid outdoorsman and loves to participate in Spartan and Tough Mudder races.
Dr. Tim Teitelbaum
Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder
Tim brings over 40 years of experience in software design and analysis to the technology space. A co-founder of GrammaTech, Tim has led the company since its inception in 1988.
Tim was a faculty member of the Computer Science Department at Cornell University from 1973 until his retirement in 2010. In 1978, he (along with GrammaTech co-founder Thomas Reps) created the Cornell Program Synthesizer, one of the seminal systems that established the viability of integrated language-based programming environments (IDEs).
Tim received his Mathematics BS from MIT and his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University.
Dr. Thomas Reps
President and Co-Founder
Tom is well-known for his work on techniques to help programmers
create correct, reliable, and secure software. His research interests
span static program analysis (both source-code analysis and
machine-code analysis), program verification, computer security,
software engineering, incremental computing, and program-development
environments. In addition to being President of GrammaTech, Tom is
the J. Barkley Rosser Professor & Rajiv and Ritu Batra Chair in the
Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin, where he
has been on the faculty since 1985.
Reps has received numerous awards for his work, including the ACM
Doctoral Dissertation Award, an NSF Presidential Young Investigator
Award, a Packard Fellowship, a Humboldt Research Award, and a
Guggenheim Fellowship. He is also an ACM Fellow. In 2017, he received
the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award.
Tom received an A.B. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard, and M.S and
Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Cornell University. Tom lives
in Madison, Wisconsin.
Andrew Meyer
CMO
Andrew is the leader of GrammaTech's marketing team and efforts.
Prior to joining GrammaTech, Meyer led numerous software companies as CEO following an extensive career in B2B Marketing at Websense, Financial Fitness Group, MSC Software, Worksoft, and more. He brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience in product launches and market expansions, principally in the Application Security and B2B software spaces.
Meyer started his career with Cisco as a Product Line Director after earning a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also an MBA graduate of the University of New Orleans.
Mike Dager
Chief Executive Officer
Mike brings more than two decades of experience in senior-level management positions at leading technology companies. Prior to joining GrammaTech, Mike held numerous successful leadership positions including CEO of Bayshore Networks, Arxan Technologies, a company in the Application Security space, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Worksoft, President and CEO of OSE Systems Inc., and held multiple senior sales management positions at Pure Software. Mike began his career at Texas Instruments in the semiconductor division.
Mike holds a BSEE degree from the University of Michigan. Mike is on the board of the University of Michigan Engineering School, and has been since 2007.
Alexey Loginov
CTO
Alexey oversees all aspects of the operation of GrammaTech’s Research Division, including technical leadership of contract execution, decision-making and review of proposal generation, as well as steering of the Division’s recruiting and financial steps.
Alexey's research work at GrammaTech has focused on binary analysis technologies, including both formal and heuristic techniques. A key contribution of his work was the addition of Binary Analysis capabilities within CodeSonar.
Alexey graduated with Highest and Special Honors from the University of Texas with B.A. in Mathematics and B.Sc. in Computer Sciences. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin. Alexey's thesis exposed a new connection between Machine Learning and program analysis; his work has been presented in a number of journal and conference publications.
Before joining GrammaTech, Alexey worked at Hewlett-Packard and the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He currently lives in Ithaca.
Dan Goodwin
General Manager, Research Division
Dan Goodwin is the General Manager for the Research Division at GrammaTech. Dan is an experienced Technology Executive, Program Manager, and Digital Engineer with a diverse customer and industry background. His professional experience includes a diverse portfolio of technologies including cyber security, software, systems, FPGAs, microelectronics, telecommunications, networking, and hardware in domains such as Information Assurance, SIGINT, and Platform Missions.
Dan has a M.S. in both Electrical/Computer Engineering and Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. in both Electrical Engineering and Business Information Systems from University of Maryland, College Park. He is also a PMI certified Project Management Professional and participated in University of Maryland’s Entrepreneurship Citation Program.
Dan enjoys running, biking, skiing, playing piano, and spending time with his wife and three small children.
Vince Arneja
Chief Product Officer
Vince Arneja brings over 20 years of experience in executive and senior level technical product management positions with the last 17 years focused on product strategy and management in the domains of application, cloud, mobile, endpoint and network security. Vince has a very successful track record, both in being part of a private company that went public and working for five private companies that were ultimately acquired.
Vince’s responsibilities include leading product strategy, defining corporate product roadmaps, pricing and positioning. Previously, he was at 5nine, OPAQ and Arxan where he lead the Product function for almost 9 years which resulted a nine figure exit to TA Associates. Prior to Arxan, he was at Sigaba, a leading email encryption provider acquired by Proofpoint, where he was an executive leading Government and Commercial Product Management.
Vince also serves as an advisor to various Cyber Security companies in the DC Metro Area and the Bay Area. He started his career as a software developer and was part of an IPO after working towards a degree in CIS. He is also a graduate of various Executive Management Programs at University of California, Berkeley.
Board of Directors
Mike Dager
Chief Executive Officer
Mike brings more than two decades of experience in senior-level management positions at leading technology companies. Prior to joining GrammaTech, Mike held numerous successful leadership positions including CEO of Bayshore Networks, Arxan Technologies, a company in the Application Security space, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Worksoft, President and CEO of OSE Systems Inc., and held multiple senior sales management positions at Pure Software. Mike began his career at Texas Instruments in the semiconductor division.
Mike holds a BSEE degree from the University of Michigan. Mike is on the board of the University of Michigan Engineering School, and has been since 2007.
Scott Snow
Chairman of the Board
Scott serves as Chairman of the Board of GrammaTech and is a Managing Partner of Five Points Capital and member Five Points’ Board of Directors and Investment Committee. Five Points Capital is a partnership-focused private equity investor dedicated to bringing patient capital to support the unique needs of business owners and management teams in the U.S. lower-middle market.
Prior to joining Five Points Capital, Scott was an investment banker in the Media and Communications Corporate Finance Coverage group at Wachovia Securities (now Wells Fargo Securities), where he provided leveraged and equity capital raising and merger and acquisition advisory services to both public and private companies. Prior to Wachovia Securities, he worked for GE Capital and GE Plastics in various corporate finance and business development capacities.
Scott received his MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Brigham Young University.
Marshal White
Marshall serves as a Director of GrammaTech and is a Managing Partner of Five Points Capital and member Five Points’ Board of Directors and Investment Committee. Five Points Capital is a partnership-focused private equity investor dedicated to bringing patient capital to support the unique needs of business owners and management teams in the U.S. lower-middle market.
Prior to joining Five Points Capital in 2014, Marshall worked for American Capital, formerly a publicly traded $4.4 billion business development company, in its Dallas office. During his nine-year tenure at American Capital, Marshall focused on originating and structuring middle market equity and debt investments while working closely with the firm’s portfolio companies. Prior to joining American Capital, Marshall worked in New York for J.P. Morgan, focusing on M&A and financings for large cap, diversified industrial companies.
Outside of work, Marshall enjoys spending time with his family and following various sports interests.
Marshall received an BS in Finance and Accounting from Georgetown University.
James Vandervelden
James is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Pleasant Bay Capital Partners (“PBCP”) and has over 25 years of private equity experience. In 2012, James teamed up with Covington Associates to form PBCP, a private equity firm focused on working with family offices, high net worth individuals and institutional investors in the acquisition, growth, and recapitalization of lower middle market companies.
Prior to Pleasant Bay Capital Partners, James was a Co-Founder and General Partner of Ticonderoga Capital Inc., an investment firm that managed three funds with total committed capital of over $250 Million. As a General Partner, he focused on equity and subordinated debt investments in healthcare, business services, and software companies. Throughout his career, James has been an active Board member in many companies and has assisted portfolio companies in management recruitment, strategic and operational issues, raising equity and debt financings, identification and due diligence on acquisition targets, and sale/merger/IPO discussions.
Prior to Ticonderoga, James worked at Dillon Read & Co.’s venture capital group making growth equity investments for its fund. He worked previously with TA Associates where he focused on management buyouts, recapitalizations, and minority growth capital investments of lower middle market technology and service-related businesses. Prior to TA Associates, he was employed by APM Inc., where he specialized in strategic and operational consulting to hospitals and managed care companies.
James received a B.A. in Economics and Organizational Behavior & Management, with Honors, from Brown University.
Mike Armistead
Armistead is an industry veteran with three decades of leadership experience in the security, application development and consumer internet arenas. He co-founded Respond Software in 2016 and leads the company as its CEO. Previously, Armistead co-founded Fortify Software in 2003 and acted as VP & general manager for both Fortify and ArcSight business groups after the companies were acquired by HP in 2011. Prior to Fortify, Armistead held executive and key product positions at companies that include Pure Atria (IBM Rational) and Lycos.
Over his career, Armistead has led groups in all aspects of the organization, including marketing, development, operations and sales. His experience has spanned from managing large enterprises (+$350M revenues) to multiple start-ups in numerous industries.
Tom Reps
Thomas W. Reps is the J. Barkley Rosser Professor & Rajiv and Ritu Batra Chair in the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Wisconsin, which he joined in 1985. Reps is the author or co-author of four books and more than two hundred papers describing his research (see http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~reps/). His work has concerned a wide variety of topics, including program slicing, dataflow analysis, pointer analysis, model checking, computer security, code instrumentation, language-based program-development environments, the use of program profiling in software testing, software renovation, incremental algorithms, and attribute grammars.
Professor Reps received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1982. His Ph.D. dissertation won the 1983 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. Click here for a summary of Reps's current research activities, here for a summary of his past research achievements, and here for his C.V.
Tom Burns
Over his 30+ year career, Tom Burns has been a highly successful Air Force officer, technology inventor, CEO, Fortune 100 R&D business leader, DARPA executive, and angel investor. He currently provides early-stage capital and hands-on business leadership to scientists and engineers with powerful technology ideas but little business experience.
Dr. Burns formerly served as the Director of the Strategic Technology Office (STO) at the Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA). His office led the world in the R&D of advanced sensing, communication, and electronic warfare technology.
Prior to DARPA, Dr. Burns served as Senior Vice President at SAIC (now Leidos), where he led over 900 employees executing over $300M in annual DoD-funded R&D business. Tom joined SAIC after they acquired his company, SET Corp., which he co-founded and led as CEO and Chairman. SET specialized in advanced R&D of smart sensing technologies for military and intelligence customers.
Dr. Burns received a B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering and a B.A. Degree in Philosophy from The Ohio State University, where he is a Distinguished Alumni. He received his M.S. Degree and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.
