About Perimeter:

Perimeter is the trusted market leader of information security services that delivers enterprise-class protection and compliance for businesses of any size

Perimeter E-Security


Tim Harvey

Chief Executive Officer

Tim Harvey brings a rich history of experience in the software and managed services industry to Perimeter E-Security. He most recently served as CEO & President of XAware leading provider commercial open source data integration software and services. Tim joined XAware from S1 Corporation (NASDAQ: SONE), a leading global provider of enterprise software and managed services to the financial services industry where as the Senior Vice President for Sales, Marketing and Product Management he had responsibility for all customer facing operations.

Prior to S1, Harvey spent six years with SynQuest, a Warburg Pincus funded supplier of Supply Chain management solutions. As President and COO, he helped manage the company's significant growth leading to an IPO in August, 2000 and subsequent merger. Additional experience includes executive and sales management roles with Datalogix (acquired by Oracle 1996) and MSA.

Harvey graduated from the University of Florida with a BSBA in Finance and served four years as an officer in the United States Marine Corps.

Richard Dobrow

President/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.

Andy Lazarus

Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Lazarus is responsible for leading strategic growth initiatives and the corporate finance and accounting plans required to successfully execute those objectives. From 2002 to 2008, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Genesys Conferencing a leading international provider of unified communications provided as a Software-as-a-Service. At Genesys, he integrated 14 acquisitions, strengthened its capital structure with public equity and debt financings and directed significant investment in research and development activities. During his tenure at Genesys, a publicly traded company duly listed on Nasdaq and NYSE EuroNext, equity value grew by $300 million prior to its sale. Mr. Lazarus brings to Perimeter a history of building teams that excel in the preparation of audited financial statements, financial reporting and operational analysis.

Prior to 2002, Mr. Lazarus was an investment banker focusing on growth-oriented, middle market companies in the telecommunications and technologies services industry and the private equity investors that sponsored those opportunities. As an Executive Director at CIBC WorldMarkets from 2002 to 1997, he led numerous public equity and debt financings and mergers and acquisitions. Earlier in his career he worked at Bank of America and Fidelity Investments.

Mr. Lazarus received his MBA from New York University, Stern School of Business, in 1993 and his BS from Babson College in 1987.

Kurt Heinemann

Chief Marketing Officer

Kurt joined Perimeter in 2008 and brings 20 years of marketing experience in technology and Internet industries to his role as Chief Marketing Officer.

Prior to joining Perimeter, Kurt was the President of the Internet group of Time Warner’s Synapse division driving a 26% increase in revenues. Kurt oversaw new product development and marketing for Walker Digital and Priceline and played a central role in the launch of one of the country's first cable television offerings from a telecommunications company. For the last 20 years Kurt’s experience has included brand and product relaunches, product marketing, direct marketing and public relations efforts to support direct and indirect sales channels.

Mr. Heinemann holds a MBA from University of Connecticut School of Business, and a B.A. in Political Science from Tulane University.

 

John Viega

Executive Vice President - Products and Engineering

John is Executive Vice President of Products and Engineering at Perimeter E-Security. John has authored numerous books on security, including the recent “Myths of Security”, and the seminal “Building Secure Software”, which was the first book on application security.

Prior to Perimeter, John was at McAfee, where he was CTO and VP of Engineering for the Software-as-a-Service business unit. Before that, he was McAfee’s Chief Security Architect, where he worked on M+A and also owned McAfee’s core technologies, such as anti-virus and the SiteAdvisor product. John also founded Secure Software, raising a Series A from Charles River Ventures. The company was later acquired by Fortify, where John is still an advisor.

John is an editor for IEEE Security and Privacy magazine, and his technical work in cryptography has been standardized by NIST, the IEEE and IETF. He has a MS in Computer Science and a BA from the University of Virginia.