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Company
Opengear designs and manufactures next generation infrastructure management solutions for secure remote access and control of network devices such as routers, switches, servers, firewalls, uninterruptable power supplies, power distribution units and environmental monitoring devices. Opengear's open source platform gives network managers and system integrators the most flexible, extensible, infrastructure management solution on the market today with integrated console server and management software, for serial console ports, service processors, power solutions and environmental monitoring. Opengear provides network managers the virtual hands to access networking equipment in remote offices, data centers and colocations all over the world. Equipment can be remotely configured, rebooted and power cycled. Opengear’s extensive support for out-of-band management solutions ensures our customer access and control even when the main network is down. The result is a drastic reduction in the need for expensive on-site technical staff, on-site visits and an accompanying acceleration to problem resolution and critical network availability.
Mission
To be the lead provider of simple, secure and affordable technologies, services and solutions that meet the infrastructure management needs of enterprise data centers, telcos, businesses with distributed offices, MSPs and industrial control sites.
To develop and lever open source software and hardware so as to reduce barriers to managing distributed networks.
The People
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Bob Waldie, Chairman and CEO
Bob Waldie has a track record of successful entrepreneurship with open source
ventures. Prior to co-founding Opengear, Bob served as CEO then Chairman of
SnapGear, a leading developer of embedded Linux security appliances. In 2003
SnapGear was acquired by CyberGuard (NASDQ: CGFW). Before this Bob was CEO of
Moreton Bay Ventures, a company he founded in 1996 which developed Internet
messaging products. In 2000, Moreton Bay was acquired by Lineo Inc, where Bob
served as COO. Prior to Moreton Bay, Bob was Managing Director of Stallion
Technologies, a pioneering remote connectivity company he co-founded in 1985.
Bob has participated in a host of other start ups, and served on the board of a
number of private and public technology companies, and government industry
bodies.
E-mail: bob.waldie@opengear.com
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Tony Merenda, Director and Vice President Engineering
A 20-year veteran in the computer industry, Tony spent the major part of his
career as Chief Technology Officer with Stallion Technologies, a company he
co-founded in 1985. There Tony and his team developed innovative data
communications and remote access hardware adapters and network appliances.
These products all operated in Linux, Open/FreeBSD and Windows environments.
Subsequently Tony led the R&D team at ePipe which
developed a suite of patented data compression and encryption technologies.
Tony was also a co-founder of SnapGear, and worked there
as VP Product Marketing, driving managed network security appliance projects
based on embedded open source operating systems such as OpenBSD and uCLinux.
E-mail: tony.merenda@opengear.com
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Todd Rychecky, VP Sales & Marketing North America
Todd Rychecky, VP Sales & Marketing of North America , has over 17 years of sales and sales management experience. He is responsible for managing the sales and marketing strategies for Opengear in North America. He excels at working with system integrators, global key accounts, OEM partnerships and implementing product marketing strategies. Prior to working at Opengear, Todd worked for Whitmire Distribution/Cardinal Health (1991-1996) and sold the industries first pharmacy management system that connected buyers, suppliers and distributors. Todd also worked for Datex-Engstrom (1996-1999) selling patient monitoring solutions and the industries first electronic medical record for the perioperative process. He most recently worked at Perle Systems (1999-2008) where he was a Senior Sales Manager and the top sales producer for the company for the past decade. Todd holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Nebraska Wesleyan University.
E-mail: todd.rychecky@opengear.com
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