Alert Logic Management

Gray Hall
Chairman, President & CEO

Gray Hall joined Alert Logic in 2009 as a 20 year veteran of the IT industry. In 1999 Hall co-founded VeriCenter, a pioneer in managed IT services, and served as President and CEO until its successful sale to SunGard Data Systems in 2007. VeriCenter was a leading provider of Enterprise Hosting solutions, and under Hall's leadership delivered 7 years of consecutive revenue growth and achieved $80 million in annual sales. After VeriCenter, Gray served as Executive-in-Residence at Fidelity Equity Partners, a $500 million middle-market buyout fund backed by Fidelity Investments. Earlier in his career Hall spent seven years at IBM where he led the formation and launch of IBM's Center for Scalable Computing Solutions in 1994, and several years in the venture capital industry.  Gray is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mezeo Software, Inc., a leading provider of cloud storage software.





Misha Govshteyn
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Misha Govshteyn co-founded Alert Logic in 2002. Misha is responsible for security strategy, security research and software development 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. Under Govshteyn's direction, Managed Services was the fastest growing group at Reliant Energy Communications, increasing revenue by 300% and reaching profitability in less than a year. Prior to Reliant Energy Communications, he held the position of Director of Advanced Technical Services at Insync Internet Services.





Christopher Granberry
Chief Financial Officer

Chris Granberry joined Alert Logic as CFO in 2002. Prior to Alert Logic, Granberry served as President of Next Step Footcare LLC, where he led the company from start-up to profitability and ultimately to a sale to a private investor group. Granberry previously served as the CFO for Insync Internet Services, where he played a key role in all aspects of the business including coordinating the sale of the company to Reliant Energy Communications. He has also served as a senior financial analyst with Torch Energy Advisors in the capital markets group, and as a Senior Consultant at Arthur Andersen in the economics and financial consulting group. Granberry has an MBA from Southern Methodist University, a BS in Business Administration from Trinity University and is a licensed CPA. He also serves as an advisory board member for Kid's Meals and is a member of TECH Champions at the Houston Technology Center.





Gene Golovinsky
Vice President of Research & Development

Gene Golovinsky joined Alert Logic in 2006, bringing 20 years of software industry experience to the company. Prior to Alert Logic, Golovinsky served as Director of R&D at BMC Software, where he led an internationally distributed development organization delivering shared development services and infrastructure components to other development organizations within BMC. At BMC, Golovinsky co-authored several industry standards and patents, and held multiple R&D leadership positions. Prior to BMC he served as a product developer for AVAYA (formerly LANNET Data Communications). Golovinsky holds an MS in Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Communication and Transportation in St. Petersburg, Russia.





Greg Davis
Vice President of Sales

Greg Davis joined Alert Logic in 2009 and is responsible for Alert Logic's direct, channel, and service provider sales strategy. Prior to Alert Logic, Davis served as Vice President of Sales, south central region, for SunGard Data Systems. In that role, he held responsibilities for SunGard's Enterprise Hosting, Continuity Software, and Recovery Services lines of business. Prior to SunGard he served as Regional Manager with VeriCenter, a leading managed IT hosting provider, acquired by SunGard in 2007. Earlier in his career Davis held positions with Global Data Systems, a leading provider of managed network solutions, and Davis Restaurant Group. He graduated from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor's degree in Business.





Marty McGuffin
Vice President of Operations

Marty McGuffin joined Alert Logic in 2009 and is responsible for Alert Logic’s managed services including the company’s Security Operations Center (SOC), technical support, cloud infrastructure, provisioning, software release, and all other aspects of service delivery. Prior to Alert Logic, McGuffin served as the Vice President of Service Delivery at SunGard Availability Services where he was responsible for the operations of the Managed Services Line of Business. Prior to SunGard, he held the position of Director of Service Operations at VeriCenter, a leading managed IT hosting provider which was acquired by SunGard in 2007. Previously, McGuffin served in operations leadership positions at Hewitt and Associates, Exult Corporation and the US Marine Corps.





Urvish Vashi
Vice President of Marketing

Urvish Vashi joined Alert Logic in 2010 and is responsible for marketing strategy and execution along with product management.  Vashi joined Alert Logic with 15 years of experience in IT and managed hosting services.  Previously, he held leadership roles in both product management and marketing at ThePlanet.com Internet Services and Navisite (formerly Interliant), both IT service providers.  Further, Vashi was responsible for product management at Symantec and NetIQ in their security and compliance product groups.  He graduated from Rice University with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.