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Company

Opengear develops enterprise-grade remote infrastructure management solutions.

We design and manufacture next generation console servers for secure remote access and control of routers, switches, servers, firewalls, uninterruptable power supplies, power distribution units and environmental monitoring devices.

Opengear's open source platforms give network managers and system integrators the most flexible, extensible and secure remote management solution on the market today. We provide the virtual hands to access and control networking equipment in remote offices, computers in data centers and smart devices distribiuted all over the world. Equipment can be remotely reconfigured, rebooted and power cycled.

Opengear’s extensive support for out-of-band management ensures our customers have access and control even when their 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 of problem resolution and improvements in critical network availability.

Mission

The mission of Opengear is to deliver open source management appliances and cloud services that simplify control of complex distributed systems and networks.

The People

Bob Waldie 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

Tony Merenda 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

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

Tom Timmins, Manager of OEM Sales & New Business Development
Tom Timmins, Manager of OEM Sales & New Business Development, has 20 years of sales and sales management experience. He is responsible for managing key business relationships with Opengear’s OEM partners and driving new business throughout North America. Tom is a veteran at selling information technology solutions to end users through system integrators, resellers and key OEM business relationships and he has great industry knowledge and experience selling console servers, power management solutions and KVM. Tom most recently worked at Lantronix where he was the Regional Sales Manager in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions responsible for selling console servers, device servers and OEM products. Prior to Lantronix he held the position of Director of Sales at Raritan where he lead the sales efforts for the reseller and distribution channels as well as the embedded and hardware level OEM products. He is a native and resident of the Philadelphia area and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
E-mail: tom.timmins@opengear.com

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