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Management Team
Brad Miller, CEO
   
 

Brad Miller joined the company in May 2000 as CEO. Under his leadership, company revenues have grown more than 3,000 percent. Based on that achievement, Perimeter was named to both the 2004 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and the Connecticut Technology Fast 50. Specifically, Perimeter was ranked Number 5 on the Fast 50 and Number 121 on the Fast 500. Rankings are based on the percentage revenue growth over five years, from 1999-2003. Perimeter grew 1902% during this period. This business success was detailed in The Business of Software by Michael Cusumano, Distinguished Professor of Management at MIT and BALLS 6 Rules for Winning Today's Business Game by Alexi Venneri. The Business of Software was recently honored as one of the top business books of 2004 by Steve Lohr of the New York Times.

                     

The firm was honored in 2001 by the state of Connecticut for "Outstanding Sales Growth". In addition, Mr. Miller was honored as an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist in 2001. Previously, Mr. Miller served from July 1997 to April 2000 as Chief Operating Officer of PRG, the leading supplier of entertainment technology products and services with over $300 million in revenue. From July 1988 until June 1997, Mr. Miller was employed at Schroders PLC, most recently as a Director in the investment banking department.

Mr. Miller received his MBA from Columbia University Business School in 1988 and his BA in economics from Franklin and Marshall College in 1985. He is or has been a director of Cybergnostic.net, PRG, Palomar Technologies, Inc., a privately-held manufacturer of various technology-based industrial products, and DistributedMedia.com, a provider of Internet enabled audio/visual advertising to the retail market.
 
   
 
Richard Dobrow, Chief Operating Officer
   
 

CPA, CISA
As Chief Operating Officer of Perimeter, Mr. Dobrow is responsible for all security operations. Prior to Perimeter, Mr. Dobrow co-founded Guarded Networks, a managed security service provider for financial institutions. At Guarded Networks, Mr. Dobrow was responsible for the overall strategic direction and operational management of the company. Prior to Guarded Networks, Mr. Dobrow served as a Practice Leader for leading professional services companies such as Price Waterhouse and Andersen in their technology risk businesses.Over the past ten years, Mr. Dobrow has aided Fortune 500 companies and financial institutions of all sizes build secure network architectures, assess impact of security related events and help to develop corporate-wide information security frameworks. Mr. Dobrow is experienced in regulatory compliance requirements of financial institutions and has been involved in many cases of aiding financial institutions to meet their regulatory compliance requirements by working closely with FDIC, Federal Reserve Bank, OCC, OTS and NCUA examiners.

Mr. Dobrow has obtained license as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). Mr. Dobrow currently develops curriculum for information security programs at the university level and is an instructor of Information Security in Florida International University's Masters of Information Systems program.

 
   
 
Doug Howard, Chief Strategy Officer, Perimeter eSecurity and President, USA.NET
   
 

As Chief Strategy Officer of Perimeter, Doug is responsible for the Mergers & Acquisition and the Service Strategy for the Company. In addition, he is the President of USA.NET which is wholly owned subsidiary of Perimeter.

Prior to joining Perimeter, he served as COO of BT Counterpane where he was responsible for the business's ongoing operations. He led a team responsible for the development, implementation, operations, and marketing of BT Counterpane's product and service line. Earlier he served as Vice President of Security and Business Continuity for AT&T Corp. There, Doug formed an organization that developed and launched new security services for each of the company's business lines of service - commercial, government, wholesale - as well providing direction for the business continuity practice that delivered solutions for AT&T and its clients.

Doug started his career in the US Air Force working under the direct command of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. After the military, he moved into the private sector and held positions in sales, operations, engineering, product management and business development for companies such as Sprint, FLAG Telecom, Telenet, and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). He founded Technology Research International, Inc. in 1989, which was purchased by NBC Broadcasting in 1991. He is currently a member of IEEE, AHIMA, and the IATF Forum.
 

 
   
 
Kathleen Roberge, SVP Business Development
   
   Ms. Roberge joined Perimeter in 1999 and is responsible for developing and managing Perimeter's Direct Sales Group, Channel Development Group, and the Marketing Group.  Prior to joining Perimeter, Ms. Roberge developed and managed inside and outside sales team for Nextel Communications in two new markets.  For the last 15 years, her experience has included sales management, sales training, direct sales, direct marketing, business strategy development, business alliance development and new product development. Ms. Roberge is a graduate of Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT with a Bachelor's degree in Organizational Communications and Marketing. She currently serves as President of the Association of Financial Technology (AFT) (www.aftweb.com) and is a current member of the Bank Compliance Association of Connecticut.  
   
 
Kevin Prince, Chief Security Officer
   
 

For over 16 years, Kevin Prince has specialized in Information Technology, with the last 9 years specifically dealing with Internet security. He has developed and managed several Internet security products specifically designed for financial institutions including vulnerability assessments, firewalls, virtual private networks, and intrusion detection and prevention systems. He has helped hundreds of financial institutions understand the risks and threats of Internet security and conducted thousands of vulnerability assessments for financial institutions. 

With dozens of speaking engagements nationwide each year in the credit union industry, Mr. Prince's experience is widespread. He has been a speaker at many league education sessions, web seminars, trade conferences and examiner forums. Mr. Prince has also presented to several of the federal examiners (sometimes twice a year) for the past 4 years on topics such as firewall security, remote access, virtual private networks, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and what the examiners should look for when they examine a financial institution.

In 2000, Mr. Prince founded Red Cliff Solutions, an Internet security company focused on credit union security products and services. In January 2006, Perimeter acquired Red Cliff Solutions making Perimeter the largest provider of managed security services to financial institutions in the nation. In February of 2006, Mr. Prince was appointed Chief Security Officer (CSO) of Perimeter.

 
   
 
Patrick M. Curry, Chief Financial Officer
   
   CPA
For over 15 years, Mr. Curry has been the CFO for venture capital backed companies and has been on the founding team of several of those companies. Prior to joining Perimeter, Mr. Curry was CFO of Protedyne, Inc., a venture capital backed life sciences automation company. Mr. Curry was previously Director of Business Development of CiDRA Corporation and prior to that position, Mr. Curry was a Partner in the advisory and venture capital firm NorthEast Ventures, which was an early investor in and advisor to start-up and early stage technology companies, including CiDRA. Mr. Curry is a graduate of Bates College with a B.A. in Economics and earned an M.A. in Accounting from the University of Hartford while working for the international accounting firm Arthur Young & Co. Mr. Curry is a Certified Public Accountant.
 
   
 
Sebastian Fazzino, SVP Sales Engineering & Deployment
   
   As SVP, Sales Engineering & Deployment, Mr. Fazzino's primary objective is to facilitate a smooth transition from prospect to client, while ensuring the highest level of precision, caring and trust through the sales and deployment processes. Mr. Fazzino manages and leads both Sales Engineering and the deployment teams, which consist of Security Network and Application SME's, Project Managers, Project Coordinators, and Engineers.

Prior to joining Perimeter, Mr. Fazzino was Vice President, Chief Technology Officer for one of the largest marketing and integrated business strategy companies in North America, servicing Fortune 1000 clients. Mr. Fazzino has experience in managing enterprise financial systems, data centers, complex WANs & LANs, network operations and technical support services in complex, multi-platform environments. Additionally, he is an active member of the following security organizations: InfraGard, ISSA, and ISACA.


 
   
 
Bill Knight - SVP, Client Support & Services
   
   As Senior Vice President of Client Support & Services, Bill manages all customer facing Network, Security, and Command Center teams in addition to Perimeter's Operations team. His teams are responsible for ensuring Perimeter's services are provided to our clients with the highest level of security, performance, and availability. Bill brings over 16 years of experience in technology working within the IT outsourcing, Banking, Textile, and Aeronautical sectors. Prior to Perimeter eSecurity, Bill held the position of VP, Operations for iReadyWorld, a managed service provider. iReadyWorld provided 24/7 outsourced turnkey IT services to small and mid-sized businesses. Prior to iReadyWorld, Bill was employed at Wachovia (First Union) and was an AVP of Operations responsible for design and support of distributed application architecture for online banking and
global B2B applications.