Who We Are
Peter Dougherty, Co-founder, President and CEO
Peter Dougherty is President and CEO at Certeon. Before co-founding Certeon, Mr. Dougherty led the product development and marketing of streaming solutions at EMC, following that company's acquisition of Digital Bitcasting. Mr. Dougherty was also the CEO and co-founder of Bitcasting, a pioneering software compression company which expanded into streaming media products. He built his entrepreneurial success on a prior record of achievement and leadership in broadcast management. Mr. Dougherty is also Chairman of the Cranwell Fund which is building public-private funded schools for at risk high school students in the Rhode Island area. www.acceleratingamerica.com
Donato Buccella, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Engineering
Donato Buccella brings more than 20 years of software industry experience having successfully brought to market several commercial products in multiple verticals including security, infrastructure management and electronic data capture. Prior to coming to Certeon, Mr. Buccella was a founder and Chief Architect at Verdasys. Mr. Buccella has also lead product teams at Symantec Corporation and Phase Forward in addition to consulting to several Fortune 500 companies. He holds a number of patents and received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Boston University.
Susan Roberts, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Susan Roberts brings more than 25 years of business-to-business and business-to-consumer sales and marketing expertise to Cereteon. Prior to Certeon she was involved in global marketing and sales positions at Oracle, Cisco. EDS, Qwest Communications, May D&F, and several startups including Virtual Iron (acquired by Oracle) and Compatible Systems (acquired by Cisco). She is also a Member of the Disability Commission and the Fair Housing Commission for the City of Newton in addition to being an active member of the Asperger's Association of New England. She is a graduate of Boston University.
Kevin Murphy, Vice President, Product Management
Kevin Murphy has more than 15 years leading successful products into emerging markets defining and delivering distributed systems for telecommunications, CDNs, IT infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud solutions. Prior to Certeon, Mr. Murphy was the CTO of NEI where he was responsible for their software, cloud, and virtualization strategy as well as expanding the IP portfolio. Mr. Murphy also led the architecture, design, and implementation of GE Intelligent Platform's cloud and virtualization solution for the Proficy product line. Most recently Mr. Murphy was at VCE where he was responsible for defining the security and management of the Vblock Platforms. He holds 2 patents and a BSEE from UMass Lowell.
Charles Kraus, Senior Director Business Development
Mr. Kraus is responsible for Certeon's Business Development strategy and execution. He manages Certeon's relationships with Dell, IBM, Microsoft and VMware. Mr. Kraus has over 20 years experience in the semiconductor, data, storage networking, and networking software solutions areas. Mr. Kraus has held management positions with Wellfleet Communications, 3Com, TopLayer Networks, Emulex and LSI Logic. Mr. Kraus has a degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA.
