Leadership

Gus Malezis is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Imprivata. Gus is widely recognized as a visionary leader in the information technology security industry where he brings more than 30 years of experience driving innovation and growth while building market leading organizations.

Prior to joining Imprivata, Gus was most recently the President of Tripwire, a leading global provider of endpoint detection and response, security and compliance solutions. In his career, Gus has built a strong track record of delivering growth and innovation for leading technology and security companies such as Tripwire, McAfee, and 3Com. He combines extensive knowledge of global markets including North America, Europe, and Asia with strong technical knowledge and a passion for enabling customer success in the rapidly changing IT marketplace. Gus has extensive background and expertise in information security and compliance, networking, network systems management, CRM, and application design and development.

Gus studied Computer Science and Philosophy at the University of Toronto.

Jim Carr is the Chief Financial Officer of Imprivata. He brings over 20 years of industry experience leading successful teams within both public and private companies. His responsibilities at Imprivata include all financial matters, including accounting, FP&A, audit, and tax.

Prior to joining Imprivata, Jim held leadership roles within several prominent technology companies. Most recently, Jim served as CFO for PlumChoice. While at PlumChoice, he oversaw all financial, legal, and corporate development matters, as well as investor relations. Jim has also held senior leadership positions at Akamai, CA Technologies, and Oracle.

Jim holds a Master of Science degree in Finance from Bentley University and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Saint Michael’s College in Vermont.

Dr. Sean Kelly is the Chief Medical Officer at Imprivata where he heads the company’s Clinical Workflow Productivity team and advises on the clinical practice of healthcare IT security. In addition to serving as Imprivata CMO, Dr. Kelly practices medicine and teaches at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a level one trauma center and academic teaching hospital in Boston, MA. He trained at Harvard College, University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Vanderbilt University, where he served as resident and Chief Resident. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine and is a Fellow in the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Dr. Kelly is a member of the CHIME Opioid Task Force, a team of health IT leaders committed to taking deliberate actions to avert the increasing addiction and growing mortality of the Opioid Crisis. In June, the group published the Opioid Task Force Playbook, a framework for building IT-based supports for launching and maintaining system-wide initiatives to reduce the disease of opioid addiction in our communities.

For several years, Dr. Kelly worked in hospital administration as Director of Graduate Medical Education, responsible for over 600 doctors in training, comprising over $65 million in Medicare funding. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, has published a textbook on emergency medicine and articles on medical education, and won several teaching awards, including the Harvard Affiliated EM Residency Best Teaching Attending and Role Model awards.

Dr. Kelly is also the Co-founder and Partner of Lifeguard Medical Group in Martha’s Vineyard, a seasonal concierge practice run by emergency physicians. He serves as a visiting professor at the University of Florence in Italy, First Aid physician at Fenway Park, and enjoys doing humanitarian and disaster relief work worldwide.

As Chief Customer Officer at Imprivata, Tony is responsible for all customer-facing operations that fuel customer success including: professional services, customer support, customer success, technical account management, and renewals. Tony brings three decades of experience inspiring high-performance technical teams for a variety of products and industries. Under Tony’s leadership, the Imprivata customer experience organization has been honored with the Gainsight Sally Award and the TSIA STAR Award.

Tony has led teams supporting multiple products on various platforms and environments, including SaaS and on-premise solutions. Prior to joining Imprivata, Tony served as Vice President of Customer Support at Brightcove. Prior to that, he held customer success, support, and services leadership roles at high-tech companies including Envox Worldwide, Pegasystems, Epiphany, and Edify. Tony received his BS in Electronic Engineering from the University of Scranton.

Mark McArdle is the Chief Products and Design Officer at Imprivata. Mark is responsible for leading all product management and product design activities across the portfolio. He has over two decades of experience in SaaS leading cybersecurity product development organizations.

Prior to joining Imprivata, Mark was the CTO of eSentire, a pioneer and leader in CyberSecurity Managed Detection and Response. He was responsible for all engineering, systems and product management functions, including the expansion of SOC capabilities into Europe. Prior to eSentire, Mark was SVP of Product Development at McAfee, where he was responsible for product management and engineering of the consumer business unit and guided the industry’s first transition from a retail boxed product line to an award-winning and market-leading global SaaS “always on, always up to date” delivery model. Additionally, Mark was part of McAfee strategic acquisitions focusing on leading and emerging cyber technologies.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo and has completed the Ivey Executive Program from the Ivey Business School at Western University. Mark holds six patents in cybersecurity.

Kelliann brings more than 20 years of human resources management and operational leadership experience to Imprivata, where she leads the company’s global human resources and recruitment initiative to ensure a high-standard of talent acquisition and retention. Additionally, Kelliann oversees Global Facilities and Administration, and is also tasked with the maintenance and development of all business partnerships, while establishing objectives that align with the company’s goals.

Prior to joining Imprivata, Kelliann was the Chief People Officer of Symbotic, a global provider of supply network automation solutions for warehouses and distribution centers, from 2011 to 2013. While there, Kelliann played a key role in the transformation and rebranding of the business, which was accomplished by establishing a new company culture and developing an entire infrastructure that was conducive to employee growth. Before Symbotic, Kelliann served as Vice President of Human Resources at Netezza, an IBM Company. During her five-year tenure at Netezza, Kelliann had a big hand in navigating the company’s acquisition and integration by IBM. As a member of the executive leadership team, Kelliann also successfully oversaw Netezza’s global HR initiative, which included executive coaching, recruiting and employee growth & development. Kelliann has also held leadership positions at CA Technologies and at Concord Communications.

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Mark Nesline is the Chief Engineering Officer at Imprivata. Mark is responsible for leading all engineering, software development, and server development activities. He has extensive experience in technology product development, including leading organizations that delivered industry-leading products in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) models and leading organizations that delivered products for the security and healthcare markets.

Prior to joining Imprivata, Mark was the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Lionbridge Technologies, the largest commercial translation company. He was responsible for development of Lionbridge’s language translation technology, as well as leading product management and IT. Mark led product development for Kenexa’s (now IBM) industry-leading SaaS applicant tracking system, and was Senior Vice President of Engineering and Product Development at Sentillion, an identity management company focused on delivering solutions to healthcare providers. Prior to Sentillion, Mark was Vice President of Engineering for RSA Security, where he led development of authenticators and authentication systems.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College and Master of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University.

Jack Sebbag is the Chief Revenue Officer at Imprivata where he drives the development and execution of the global sales strategy. Jack has been working in information technology sales and sales management for more than 30 years. Most recently as the Vice President of Sales, North America at Tripwire, he was responsible for Sales and Sales Management in North America and achieved significant growth by creating vertical and specialist teams as well as a strategic accounts team. Throughout his career, Jack has established expertise in security and software, in part due to his sales leadership and innovation at companies like Nakisa, MXI Security, Oracle, and McAfee.

Jack holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from McGill University.

Wes Wright is the Chief Technology Officer at Imprivata. Wes brings more than 20 years of experience with healthcare providers, IT leadership, and security.

Prior to joining Imprivata, Wes was the CTO at Sutter Health, where he was responsible for technical services strategies and operational activities for the 26-hospital system. Wes has been the SVP CIO at Seattle Children’s Hospital and has served as the Chief of Staff for a three-star general in the US Air Force.

Wes holds a B.S. in Business and Management from the University of Maryland and received his MBA from The University of New Mexico. Wes is a member of the CHIME & AEHIT Virtual Health Policy Workgroup.