Management Team

Omar Hussain — President and CEO

Omar has 20 years of experience building and managing successful, global high tech companies. Prior to joining Imprivata, Omar was the founder and CEO of Anchorsilk, an innovative sell-side e-commerce software company. Before that, Omar was general manager of Compuware Corporation's (CPWR) NuMega Labs, where he was responsible for the integration of NuMega Windows business into Compuware while successfully growing revenues and managing operations for a $30+ million, 170 person business unit.

Prior to Compuware, Omar served as VP Marketing at NuMega, where he played a key role in helping to craft NuMega's marketing strategy and its rapid growth. Before NuMega, he was part of the management team at Open Environment Corporation, where as VP marketing and head of business development, he played a key role in the company's growth from a start-up to a public company and was also responsible for the sale of the company to Borland.

David Ting — Founder and CTO

Named one of Infoworld's Top 25 CTO's of 2006, David has more than 20 years of experience in developing advanced imaging software and systems for high security, high-availability systems. Prior to founding Imprivata he developed biometric applications for government programs and web-based applications for secure document exchange. David was formerly the technical manager of Kodak's Boston Technology Center, a systems development group for Eastman Kodak. He managed an engineering group that developed the software platform used in most of Kodak's digital photography products including Photo CD print applications.

Prior to that position, he managed Atex System's Imaging Department, where he was responsible for the first full color output system used in the newspaper industry. David worked for a number of start-ups including Lexidata, Inc., and Delphax Systems, now a division of Xerox. Most recently, he was chief architect for eCopyIt, an internet infrastructure start-up offering distributed document capture and direct delivery of documents. He was a member of the scientific staff at the BNR/INRS Labs in Montreal, a collaborative research institution jointly operated by Bell-Northern Research and University of Quebec. He holds six patents and has several patents pending.

David regularly blogs on Identity 360 – Imprivata's blog.

Jeff Kalowski — Chief Financial Officer

Jeff has over twenty years of high technology experience, both at technology vendors and in public accounting. Prior to joining Imprivata, Jeff was the CFO at ProfitLogic, Inc., where he was responsible for all the financial and administrative operations from its early stages through rapid growth to profitability and ultimately its acquisition by Oracle. Before ProfitLogic he served as CFO of Torrent Systems, where he facilitated the company’s acquisition by Ascential Software. Prior to Torrent, Jeff held CFO positions at various hardware, enterprise software and interactive entertainment technology companies, namely, Looking Glass Technologies, Beyond Incorporated, Magna Computer Corporation, and Cadmus Computer Corporation.

Alan Sonnenberg — Chief Security Officer

Alan has been architecting and deploying complex network infrastructures for 20 years. For the past 10 years Alan has been focused on leading and driving all aspects of information security within major corporations. Throughout his career, he has built and led senior engineering teams that have addressed issues including vulnerability and risk assessments, code audits, OS and network security, IDS, VPN, and firewall evaluation, testing, installation and operation.

Prior to joining Imprivata, Alan was the director of information security at toysmart.com. While at toysmart.com, he led a team that completed the design and deployment of a secure business infrastructure that scaled to meet the company's holiday season selling requirements and won numerous industry awards.

As director of enterprise security architecture at GTE, Alan established the company's nationwide security vision, strategy, design and direction with an IT budget of more than $1.5 billion. Before this, he served as BBN's director of information security. At BBN, Alan led a team that completed design and deployment of a world-class network infrastructure to facilitate security, capacity and scalability issues resulting from the company's revenue growth from $100 million to $5 billion in five years.

Chris Shaw — Vice President, Research and Development

Chris has more than 20 years of experience in software engineering design, development and management. Prior to joining Imprivata, he was vice president of engineering at Netegrity, where he developed a reputation for delivering multiple, market leading product releases. Chris was the technical inventor of Netegrity Siteminder’s cross cookie domain SSO. While at Netegrity, Chris was responsible for new product features and product maintenance.

Prior to Netegrity, Chris served as an engineering manager and consultant at Switchboard Incorporated, ePresence Inc., and Banyan Systems. Also previously, he held senior engineering roles at Banyan Systems, Wang Laboratories, Raytheon and Thorn EMI Electronics Ltd. in the United Kingdom.

James K. Hall — Vice President, Finance

Jim has more than 20 years of financial management experience, and an established track record helping software start-ups manage high growth, profitability, global operations, and the transition to going public. Prior to Imprivata, Jim served as controller of the Web Applications Test Group at Empirix (a spin-off of the RSW Software division of Teradyne). At RSW he instituted programs that achieved profit margins of 25% during a time of rapid growth in the company. Jim also established a new comprehensive computerized financial system for RSW, and established key operating metrics that top executives used to make critical decisions about the business.

Prior to RSW, Jim was corporate controller of SolidWorks, a CAD software start-up. As SolidWorks evolved from pre-revenue to $30 million in annual revenue, Jim launched all of the financial programs and systems needed to support and monitor this growth, including the global infrastructure needed to maximize profits and ensure adherence to various international legal and accounting requirements. His background also includes key roles at Teradyne and Digital Equipment and 10 years in the New York Treasury Department of General Motors.

Molly Galetto — Vice President, Marketing Communications

Molly has more than 20 years of marketing management and leadership experience with startups, large corporations, and advertising agencies. Prior to joining Imprivata, Molly was director of marketing communications at SilverStream Software, where she built and managed the North America marketing group, from start-up to initial public offering (IPO). Molly also managed SilverStream’s EMEA marketing in Brussels, responsible for team members and marketing operations in 13 European countries. SilverStream was acquired by Novell in 2002, at which time Molly integrated her team with Novell’s and focused on combining and marketing the two companies’ brands.

Prior to SilverStream, Molly was director of marketing at Pilot Software, where she was responsible for successfully rebranding and relaunching the company’s business intelligence tools.

Before joining Pilot Software, Molly was a key team member at Powersoft Corporation, where she developed corporate branding, communications and partner marketing programs that helped to establish Powersoft as the leader in the client/server tools market. During Molly’s tenure at Powersoft, the company grew from $0-$200M in revenue. Molly was part of the team that developed and implemented Powersoft’s pre-IPO communications strategy that was instrumental in launching a highly successful IPO. Molly was appointed Marketing Manager at Sybase after its purchase of Powersoft in 1996.

Geoff Hogan — Senior Vice President, Business Development & Product Management/Marketing

Geoff Hogan has 20 years of extensive business development, marketing, sales and general management experience in the storage, data management, and software infrastructure market segments with both large organizations and start-ups. Prior to joining Imprivata, Geoff was the Executive Vice President of Corporate Development and Alliances at Princeton Softech, where he was instrumental in defining and executing the company’s strategic database archiving business strategy. At Princeton Softech, Geoff was responsible for developing business opportunities, partnerships and acquisitions to support the company's long-term strategic initiatives. He helped reposition the company from a focus on horizontal base technology to comprehensive end-to-end vertical market solutions, including the development of strategic relationships with PeopleSoft, Siebel, Amdocs, BMC, Veritas, HP and IBM.

Prior to Princeton Softech Geoff has held senior level positions with HighGround Systems (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Quantum Corp, and Digital Equipment Corp. At HighGround Systems, Geoff drove and managed relationships with key strategic partners Compaq and Veritas. At Quantum Corp., Geoff helped grow the DLTTM tape business from <$100M to $1.5B over a four year period.

Wayne Parslow — Vice President of European Operations

Wayne has over 20 years of leadership experience in business development, sales and marketing, most recently driving business development at OATSystems, a recognized RFID framework leader. Prior to joining OATSystems, he served as vice president of Global Alliances for Novell, where he played a crucial role in implementing the partner strategies around the company’s resurgence as a major player in the open source marketplace. Before joining Novell, Wayne served as vice president of Global Business Development for Web services-oriented application development leader, SilverStream, and was instrumental in their 2002 acquisition by Novell. At SilverStream, he led the effort to build a European channel operation. Over his career, Wayne has held manager and director positions at Watermark, BancTec, and ImageSolve International.