Ashar Aziz
Founder, CEO & CTO
Ashar founded FireEye in 2004 and leads both the technical and business strategies of FireEye as CTO and CEO. Since founding FireEye, he has directly run all major departments, including Engineering, Marketing, Product Management, Sales and Finance. He is also the original inventor of the core set of technologies behind FireEye's ground breaking Malware Protection Systems. This work has led to the filing of over 18 patents on various aspects of FireEye's technologies. Ashar has received over 20 patents in the areas of networking, cryptography, network security and data center virtualization for work done prior to FireEye. Before FireEye, Ashar founded Terraspring, a company focused on datacenter automation and virtualization. Terraspring was successfully acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2002, where Ashar then served as CTO of the company's N1 program. Before Terraspring, Ashar spent twelve years at Sun as a distinguished engineer focused on networking and network security. Ashar holds an S.B. (Scientiae Baccalaureus) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, where he received the UC Regents Fellowship.
Anthony James
Vice President of Product Management
Anthony is vice president of product management at FireEye. A 20-year veteran of the security industry, Anthony specializes in network security and has held multiple product and technology executive roles at security companies including Fortinet and Blue Coat. Over the course of his career, he has driven product solutions targeting the complex and evolving threat landscape. Some of his recent accomplishments include the oversight and direction on reengineering an appliance-based anti-virus detection engine to increase performance while enhancing accuracy and detection efficacy, expanding the technology and features of a UTM solution to deliver next generation firewall functionality, and the introduction of a cloud-based security service offering. Anthony has also held responsibilities for threat research teams and their ongoing analysis capabilities. He holds an Associate Diploma from Sydney Institute of Technology.
Alexa King
Vice President of Legal, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Alexa is vice president of legal, general counsel, and corporate secretary for FireEye. She has over 15 years of professional experience at private and public technology companies and most recently was vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary of Aruba Networks. Alexa joined Aruba in 2005 as its first in-house attorney and was instrumental in their IPO. She helped the company scale to facilitate growth, and built a department of 12 legal and equity professionals worldwide. From 2000 to 2005, Alexa served as senior director of legal at Siebel Systems, and her early career included working at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro (now Pillsbury Winthrop) and Fenwick & West. Alexa graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in Eastern European Studies and was awarded her J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law, where she was named to the Order of the Coif.
Bahman Mahbod
Vice President of Engineering & Security Research
As vice president of engineering and security research, Bahman is responsible for FireEye's research and development efforts. With over 20 years of solid leadership and management experience, Bahman has dedicated his career to providing enterprise networking and security solutions working with organizations such as Gemini Mobile Technologies, FaceTime Communications, IBM, Sybase and Vantive. Bahman holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Brent Remai
Chief Marketing Officer
As chief marketing officer, Brent brings over 20 years of marketing and strategy experience from top-tier companies such as McAfee, HP and Palm as well as start-ups. Brent joined FireEye from McAfee, where he was vice president of worldwide marketing for the $1B consumer and SMB businesses. At McAfee, he helped achieve record growth and market share, which ultimately led to the sale of McAfee to Intel for $7.7B. Prior to this role Brent was the vice president of product and field marketing for Palm where he helped spawn the smartphone market and grew revenue to over $1.5B. Brent also held senior management positions at HP and is the recipient of three major global industry marketing awards. He holds an M.B.A. from the Ivey School of Business (Western) and a B. Comm. from the University of Saskatchewan.
Thomas Schaeffer
Vice President of Human Resources
Tom is vice president of human resources and oversees the human resource organization on a global basis. He has been in the high technology industry for over 25 years in leadership roles within the broad discipline of corporate resources. He has been a participant and strategist in four successful technology IPOs including Juniper Networks, Synopsys, and Daisy Systems. In addition, Tom has been instrumental in developing and driving corporate acquisition strategies including one of the largest technology acquisitions to date Cisco/StrataCom. Tom is a recognized leader on corporate resource issues with published articles appearing in The Wall Street Journal, Upside Magazine, and Red Herring Magazine. He holds a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of San Francisco and an M.S. in Organizational Development from Chapman University.
Michael Sheridan
Chief Financial Officer
As chief financial officer, Mike brings over 25 years of financial, operational and business management experience in several private and public Internet and technology companies. Most recently, Mike was chief financial officer at Mimosa Systems until it was acquired by Iron Mountain in 2010. Prior to Mimosa, Mike held chief financial officer positions at Facebook, IGN Entertainment (acquired by NewsCorp), and SonicWALL. Prior to that, Mike was a finance executive at Genesys Telecommunications (acquired by Alcatel) and NetApp. Additionally, Mike served on the board of directors and audit committee of 3Par Inc. until its acquisition by HP in 2010. Mike received a bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Santa Clara University.
Stuart Staniford
Chief Scientist
As chief scientist, Stuart is responsible for fundamental research and core technology design at FireEye. He brings over two decades of experience as both a researcher and practitioner in computer intrusion detection. He has written a number of pioneering research papers and served as president of Invicta Consulting, principal scientist at Nevis Networks, and founder of Silicon Defense, a network intrusion detection company. Stuart holds a Ph.D. in Physics and a M.S. in Computer Science and Physics from the University of California, Davis and a B.S. in Mathematical Physics from the University of Sussex, UK.
Zane M. Taylor
Vice President of Customer Care & IT
Zane is vice president of customer care and IT for FireEye. His over 25 years of experience includes roles as vice president of operations at Citrix Systems and vice president of worldwide operations for NetScaler. Prior to joining NetScaler, Zane was director of operations at Exodus Communications, where he developed core operational procedures and processes in addition to managing several global systems implementations. Zane has also held senior management positions at Akamba, International Networks Services, and Cisco.
Jeffrey Williams
Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Business Development
As vice president of worldwide sales and business development, Jeff brings to FireEye a wealth of business experience in operational roles at top-tier start-up companies and leading high tech firms. Jeff has a 20-year track record of successfully managing sales, customer service, and channel programs for leading information technology companies. Most recently, Jeff was global vice president of sales for innovative technologies at Cisco and prior to this managed IronPort sales to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue leading to being acquired by Cisco for $830M. Before joining IronPort, Jeff was vice president of sales at IntruVert Networks which was acquired by McAfee, vice president of sales of Abeona Networks (a Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital funded company), and GlobalCenter, where he led the sales organization through its $6.5 billion merger with Exodus Communications. He holds a B.S. degree in Marketing from California State University, Chico.
