Our Team

John Zicker
Chief Executive Officer

John Zicker is a veteran entrepreneur with a proven track record of expeditiously bringing companies from initial concept to thriving businesses. Recently at Sana Security as CEO, Zicker transformed an interesting laboratory project into a thriving business, breaking through the exceedingly crowded computer security market to emerge as one of the top three vendors in intrusion prevention and anti malware software, competing with some of the biggest names in technology today. With an enviable list of high profile customers in the hotly competitive financial and government sectors, Zicker currently dedicates himself to high-level customer care, overseeing product development, directing company operations, increasing sales and attracting investment. Sana Security was successfully sold to AVG. In his previous role as founder and CTO of Sagent Technology, Zicker brought to life a highly complex business intelligence concept, built a team of 200+ worldwide employees, and broadened the company's offerings and differentiation through two highly successful, strategic acquisitions. His leadership contributed to an extremely successful initial public offering, and a market capitalization in excess of $1 billion. At ReportSmith, a company he co-founded in 1991, Zicker pioneered the world's first 'live' database reporting concept, acquiring enough customers and revenues to sell the company to Borland for six times its revenues - an unmatched multiple for its time. Zicker has also held research positions at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, NASA Ames and Lawrence Livermore Laboratories.Zicker holds an MSEE degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison and a BSEE degree from the University of California, Davis.

Thomas A. Rolander
Chief Technology Officer

Tom Rolander has been at the forefront of emerging technologies for over 25 years. Tom has founded and provided key management and engineering leadership for a number of successful software companies including PG Soft, Novell and Digital Research. Tom's Career Highlights include design of multi-tasking (MP/M) and network (CP/NET) operating systems for the early microcomputers; development of the first encyclopedia (Grolier) on CD-ROM; creation of the Sony Electronic Book Authoring System (SEBAS) for the Sony Data Discman; concept and design of the Tape-It drive letter redirector for 3M; design and implementation of the 2003 Codie award winning Novell iFolder internet application, a secure internet based client file system replication tool. PG Soft sold to Novell in 2001. Tom earned his BS in Civil Engineering and his MS in Electrical Enginereering / Computer Science from University of Washington.

Mrinal Desai
Advisor

Mrinal is with our sales and business development team. Prior to this, he was at LinkedIn, one of the first social networking companies on the Internet. At LinkedIn, the world's largest and most effective business network, he helped grow the user base from 1.5M users to 6.5M in less than 2 years. Apart from that, Mrinal was responsible for initiating and nurturing partner relationships for the company, in addition to new business development. He successfully packaged, launched and drove adoption of LinkedIn's first premium products - Job Listings and Premium Accounts - into the leading Fortune 500 companies like Google, ebay, Vivendi Universal, Expedia and The Standard Insurance to name a few. He also created the first customer advocacy group within LinkedIn to promote user feedback and managed all customer relationships. In the past he has sold and marketed enterprise solutions and managed partners like Silicon Graphics, EADS Matra Datavision, HP, Alias and EDS while at a subsidiary of the $20 Billion TATA conglomerate based in India. He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology in India and an MBA from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California and yes - he loves people!