Peter Stewart: President, CEO, & Co-Founder
Pete Stewart has more than 19 years of leadership experience in the hi-tech industry, where he has held a variety of executive positions spanning sales, business management and strategy with leading companies such as McAfee (NYSE:MFE), Micrografx (Nasdaq: MGXI) and Fifth Generation Systems (Nasdaq: SYMC). Stewart has been President and CEO of TraceSecurity since 2004. Under his leadership, TraceSecurity’s revenue has increased an average of 153% each year and its customer base has grown to over 800 worldwide. Additionally, during Stewart’s tenure, TraceSecurity has closed both Series A, B and C investments with investors who maintain more than $3 billion in assets, and the company has been first to market with several Saas-based risk and compliance management solutions targeting the middle market.
Pete holds a Bachelors Degree from Louisiana State University and was recently named as a finalist for Best Executive in the American Business Awards. Previously, Pete served as a member of the Louisiana National Guard 239th Military Police Unit.
Robert Guba: Chief Compliance Officer, Co-Founder
As Chief Compliance Officer, Rob Guba is responsible for overseeing and managing the areas of security compliance and policy management relating to TraceSecurity solutions and services. Rob has over 11 years experience in the technology industry with deep expertise in regulation and compliance standards. Rob has a successful proven track record in providing IT security technology solutions to Fortune 500, government and other various industries.
Rob is one of the original founders of TraceSecurity. He was a member of the management team at PatchPortal prior to the merger with Blaze Technologies in the formation of TraceSecurity. Prior to PatchPortal, he held various sales, marketing and technical management roles for companies including CSA, Industry.Net, Perot Systems, and Network Associates / McAfee.
Rob attended University of Houston and Louisiana State University where he studied architecture and economics.
Jim Stickley: CTO, Vice President of Engineering, & Co-Founder
As CTO and Vice President of Engineering for TraceSecurity, Jim Stickley has been instrumental in directing the TraceSecurity strategy. Jim is responsible for developing and releasing multiple versions of the software used by hundreds of clients today. Jim is in charge of the guiding principles and structure of all TraceSecurity solutions including products and services. Jim has over ten years experience in the hi-technology industry.
Jim is one of the original founders of TraceSecurity as TraceSecurity was formed from the merger of his and Guba's company, PatchPortal, and Blaze Technologies. Prior to PatchPortal, Jim worked in management roles at Blaze Technologies and other security companies.
Additionally, Jim is a renowned security expert. He has been involved in thousands of security services for financial institutions, Fortune 100 corporations, healthcare facilities, legal firms, and insurance companies. He has been a consultant for 20/20, Network Associates, numerous magazines and newspapers and was featured in Time Magazine, Business Week, Fortune Magazine, New York Times and other industry specific publications such as PC Magazine and Security Focus. He has also been showcased on NBC's "Nightly News", CNN's "NewsNight", CNBC’s “The Big Idea” and numerous times on NBC's "Today Show".
Furthermore, he serves as a speaker at numerous security-related tradeshows, conventions, seminars and forums throughout the US, covering topics that range from basic network security to national cyber terrorism. Jim is also on the editorial advisory board for IT Defense Magazine where he writes a monthly column for IT titled Cyber Sideline.
Through the years Jim has discovered numerous security vulnerabilities in products such as firewalls, PKI servers, online banking applications and PDA devices.
Paul McCown: Chief Financial Officer
Paul McCown, chief financial officer, brings more than 19 years of
experience in financial planning and
management, investor relations, operations, mergers and acquisitions and
public company credentials.
Paul’s deep knowledge of the high-tech industry brings tremendous value to
TraceSecurity’s strategic
and financial planning, as well as operations.
Paul previously served as Senior Vice President of Enabling Technologies at
Equifax, where he led a
$160 million business unit. Prior to that, he was president and chief
financial officer of APPRO
Systems where he expanded the company’s revenue from $11 million with a $7
million loss in 2001
to $27 million in revenue an $8 million in profit in 2005.
Paul received a Bachelor of Accountancy degree from the University of
Mississippi.
Tracey Mustacchio: Chief Marketing Officer
Tracey Mustacchio has over 17 years of experience in marketing, business development and product management. As Chief Marketing Officer, Tracey is responsible for overseeing all of TraceSecurity’s marketing and product management functions, including go-to-market-strategy, public relations and lead generation. Prior to joining TraceSecurity, Tracey held senior level marketing and product management positions at Secure Software (recently acquired by Fortify Software), McAfee, Business Evolution (acquired by Kana) and Verisign, as well as operating her own strategic marketing consultancy, which specialized in providing marketing and product management consulting to high growth companies.
At Business Evolution, Tracey positioned the company as a strategic eCRM provider and was instrumental in the company’s sale to Kana Communication for $140 million. During her tenure at McAfee, revenues grew from $25 million to more than $900 million, and Tracey led product marketing and product management for all product lines.
Tracey holds Math/Computer Science and Philosophy degrees from Virginia Wesleyan College, where she graduated as one of ten Wesleyan Scholars.
Dariel LeBoeuf: Senior Vice President of Strategic Accounts
As Senior Vice President of Strategic Accounts, Dariel LeBoeuf is responsible for forging strategic relationships. Previously Dariel ran all sales initiatives at TraceSecurity. He grew the sales and sales engineering team by 500% since joining TraceSecurity in October 2004. Under Dariel's guidance, customer acquisitions have doubled in that same timeframe.
Dariel specializes in enterprise account sales and sales management, both of which he mastered while at Tripwire. At Tripwire, Dariel worked as the Western Regional Sales Director, whereby he managed four regions. Prior to Tripwire, Dariel worked at Symantec Corp, where he acquired numerous awards and accolades, including the 1998 Large Account Representative of the Year and the Achiever's Trip Award in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998. Also in 1995, Dariel was ranked the number one representative worldwide, exceeding his quota by 230%.
Dariel began his career at Fifth Generation. While at Fifth Generation, Dariel managed sales to Fortune 1000 accounts in 13 states and received the top salesman award twice.
Dariel graduated from Louisiana State University, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Quantitative Business Analysis.
R. Dayle Alsbury: Director of Security Services
Dayle Alsbury is responsible for managing the engineering security services division. This includes comprehensive assessments, penetration testing, social engineering and security awareness training. With his comprehensive security background, and numerous certifications including CISSP, Dayle insures the highest level of customer service that is associated with TraceSecurity. In addition to managing and training the engineers of TraceSecurity, Dayle also contributes to the management of the overall security of the TraceSecurity Network.
Dayle, with a bachelor's degree in business management and an MBA in financial information systems from Southeastern Louisiana University, has had over 12 years of experience in a variety of systems and network-related management and administration. Most recently he was senior network and security administrator at Baton Rouge-based Starmount Life Insurance Company. Prior to that Dayle was technology supervisor of the service division of United Companies Financial Corp., also in Baton Rouge.
Brady Justice: Director of Systems Engineering
As Director of Systems Engineering, Brady Justice is responsible for leading the sales engineering team, supporting the sales team, and ensuring clients receive outstanding service. Brady plays a key role in the management team; since his time joining TraceSecurity Brady has continually exceeded milestones. Brady has over seven years in the high-technology field.
Prior to TraceSecurity, Brady was a senior security engineer for Garrison Technologies. Prior to Garrison, Brady worked as an independent consultant in the high-technology field maintaining and running several networks including large telco's IRC servers. He also provided security expertise on IDS and firewalls and other security technologies, and system administrator expertise for several webhosting and shell-providing companies.
Denis O’Neil: Director of Channels
Denis O’Neil is the Director of Channels at TraceSecurity. Denis brings over 18 years of experience building and managing sales channels and alliances throughout North America, Latin America and Europe.
Denis has a unique combination of general management, business development and technical experience. Denis complements his understanding of business with an understanding of the technical challenges that channel partners and their customers face. Denis holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification and is a member of the Association of Contingency Planners.
Denis is a public speaker and a published author on the topics of business continuity and disaster response, primarily regarding global supply chains.
Denis contributes his free time as president of the executive board of the Cedar Hill Food Pantry of Texas, as well as serving on several committees for the Rotary Club District 5810 in Irving, Texas.
