Pete Foley

President & CEO

Pete brings more than 15 years of technology management and entrepreneurial experience to his role as president and CEO of RingCube Technologies.  Most recently, Pete served as President and CEO of Port Authority Technologies, an information leak prevention software company which was acquired by WebSense in early 2007. Pete also served as Chairman and founding CEO of InfoBlox, a successful infrastructure and security company.

Prior to Infoblox, Pete co-founded two companies: Sysix Technologies, a Chicago-based systems integrator and Faber Consulting, a business intelligence consulting firm.

Pete earned his BA in Economics and Political Science from Yale University.

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Mike Larkin

Co-founder & CTO

Mike has over 13 years of experience in embedded systems, OS development and grid computing areas. Prior to co-founding RingCube, Mike worked in various management and engineering roles at IBM storage systems division. In addition to holding an MS degree from SJSU, Mike holds a Computer Science degree from Cal Poly Pomona. Mike also works an adjunct faculty at the Computer Engineering department at San Jose State University.

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Kiran Kamity

Co-founder & VP of Engineering

Kiran brings in expertise in Operating Systems, embedded systems and computer networking. Prior to co-founding RingCube, Kiran was a software systems architect at Network Appliance working in the core platform group. In addition to holding an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Kiran holds a BS in Material Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where he was awarded with a President’s ( of India) Silver medal for outstanding academic performance. He also won several awards in Indian national science competitions and a gold medal in the Math-Olympiad in 1995.

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Ron DiBiase

VP of Worldwide Sales and Business Development

Ron brings more than 24 years of high tech sales and marketing experience to his position as Vice President of Worldwide Sales at RingCube. During his career, he has held various senior management positions focusing on executive sales management activities; direct and channel oriented sales strategies and implementations; multi-national marketing programs; Enterprise customer support; and high tech selling efforts into several vertical markets.

Prior to RingCube, DiBiase served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales at PortAuthority Technologies, which was acquired by Websense in 2007. Prior to PortAuthority, DiBiase served as the Vice President of Emerging Technologies Sales for Americas, at Juniper Networks.  He joined Juniper as part of the acquisition of Redline Networks where he was the Vice President of Sales.  Prior to coming to Redline Networks, he was Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Planetweb and Shoretel. His successful career also includes tenure as Vice President of North American Channel Sales at Nortel Networks, and various sales and sales management positions at Bay Networks, SynOptics Communications, and Digital Equipment Corporation. DiBiase holds a BS in Metallurgical Engineering with an emphasis in business and economics from Lafayette College, Easton, PA.

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Dr. Tom Speeter

Chief Architect

From 2002 through 2006 Tom was director, founder and CTO of Cendura Corporation, a leading provider of configuration and policy compliance software. He led the application architecture team and spearheaded the definition and development of Cendura's patented application blueprinting technology. Cendura was acquired by CA in September of 2006

Prior to Cendura, Dr. Speeter was a Fellow and Chief Engineer at Healtheon Corporation (now WebMD). At Healtheon he oversaw the engineering of foundation technologies for the company. This included the development of Healtheon's distributed, highly secure, application server for web applications. This platform, developed prior to the commercial availability of such products, provided the scalable infrastructure for Healtheon's online services.

Prior to Healtheon, Dr. Speeter worked at Silicon Graphics as chief network architect in the Interactive Media Group. He was responsible for the network design of Time Warner, Inc.'s Interactive TV project in Orlando Florida. This network was among the first to support streaming video over a wide area network, layering IP and MPEG protocols over ATM and hybrid fiber-coaxial distribution networks. From 1986 to 1993, Dr. Speeter was a Principal Investigator in the research division at AT&T Bell Laboratories. There, his research focuses on distributed systems, control theory and teleoperation of robotic hands. He published widely in this area and was a seminal contributor in the areas of teleoperation and sensor based robotic control.

Dr. Speeter holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, a M.S.C.E from the University of Southern California, and a B.S.C.E from Michigan State University.

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Doug Dooley

Senior Director of Marketing

Doug brings more than 13 years of experience in networking, security, and software systems where he has held various positions in marketing, sales, engineering, and development.  Prior to joining RingCube, Doug was responsible for Juniper Networks High-end Security Systems marketing group and also reported to the General Manager of the Service Layer Technology (SLT) business group where he helped to drive P&L across 9 product lines in security, networking, and application acceleration that contributed over $500M USD in annual product revenue. Doug joined Juniper through two acquisitions of Neoteris then NetScreen.

Prior to Juniper, Doug worked in marketing and sales management at Inktomi Corporation developing their OEM relationships with HP, Compaq, Dell, F5 Networks, 3Com, and IBM. Prior to Inktomi, Doug served in various sales and engineering roles at Cisco Systems, Intel Corporation and Nortel Networks.

Doug holds a BS (Cum Laude) in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech University.

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