Alert Logic Board of Directors

 

Gray Hall
Chairman, President & CEO

Gray Hall joined Alert Logic in 2009. Previously, he was founder and CEO of VeriCenter, a leading managed hosting, collocation and IT outsourcing provider that was acquired by Sungard. Hall's experience also includes roles at Fidelity Equity Partners as Executive-in-Residence, IBM where he led the formation and launch of IBM's Center for Scalable Computing Solutions, and Broadband Venture Partners, LLC as Managing Director.

Misha Govshteyn
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Misha Govshteyn is co-founder and is responsible for security strategy, security research and operations at Alert Logic. Prior to founding Alert Logic, Govshteyn served as a Director of Managed Services for Reliant Energy Communications. In this role, he developed and successfully launched five major product lines including Managed Intrusion Detection services and managed enterprise firewall/VPN products.

Carter Griffin
Director

Carter Griffin is a General Partner at Updata Partners, a growth stage equity firm with $500M under management. Prior to joining Updata Partners, Griffin co-founded Brivo Systems, a pioneer in SaaS security software. He served as Chairman and CEO until selling the company to Duchossois Enterprises Group in 2004. Mr. Griffin currently serves on the boards of Alert Logic, Bradford Networks, iContact, and LogiXML.

Steve Coffey
Director

Steve Coffey is a managing director of Covera Ventures and has more than 20 years of investment experience with companies at all stages of development. Steve was previously president and managing director of Hunt Ventures and established the Austin office in 1999. Steve currently serves on the boards of directors for Alert Logic, Innography, iTKO, Ontela, Storspeed, and Zumobi, and is actively involved with Hubspan and SiGe Semiconductor. Steve was a director or actively involved in such companies as Airspan (NASDAQ: AIRN), Softricity (acquired by Microsoft), SNAPin (acquired by Nuance) and Metreos (acquired by Cisco).

Blair Garrou
Director

Since the late 90’s, Blair Garrou has focused on funding, operating and incubating start-up software companies. Mr. Garrou is currently a Managing Director of DFJ Mercury, a Houston-based seed and early-stage venture capital firm and a partner in the DFJ Global Network of venture funds.  Mr. Garrou currently sits on the board of directors for Alert Logic, Fluensee, Gendai Games, Graphic.ly, Kabongo, Performix, and ShareThis. Mr. Garrou’s previous investments have included Phurnace Software (BMC Software), FuelQuest (Saracen Energy), Intermat (IHS) and SAT Corporation (Invensys). Prior to co-founding DFJ Mercury, Blair was CEO of Intermat (NYSE: IHS), a leader in product information management software.

Vince Rossi
Director

Vince Rossi brings more than 15 years of private and public company security industry experience to the AlertLogic board. His extensive background in the security technology industry includes his most recent position as the CEO of St Bernard Software, a publicly traded internet security company. Prior to St Bernard, Mr. Rossi was the Sr VP of Product Management and Product Marketing for McAfee.