Management Team

Greg Hoglund, Chief Executive Officer

Greg Hoglund has been a pioneer in the area of software security. After writing one of the first network vulnerability scanners (installed in over half of all Fortune 500 companies), he created and documented the first Windows NT-based rootkit, founding www.rootkit.com (rootkit.com) in the process. Greg went on to co-found Cenzic, Inc. (cenzic.com) through which he orchestrated numerous innovations in the area of software fault injection. He holds two patents. Greg is a frequent speaker at Black Hat, RSA and other security conferences. He is co-author of Exploiting Online Games (Addison Wesley 2007) and Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel (Addison Wesley 2005) and Exploiting Software: How to Break Code (Addison Wesley 2004).
Greg's Fast Horizon webblog can be found here.

Rich Cummings, Chief Technology Officer

Rich Cummings has been focused on catching cybercriminals for over 10 years. Rich has been doing incident response investigations since the late 90's when he worked as part of the 911 emergency response team at Network Associates. During his career, Rich has been involved in many high profile incident response investigations at some of the largest companies in the world. Prior to joining HBGary, Mr. Cummings was with Guidance Software for 6 years as the Director of Security Engineering & Government Solutions. Rich was instrumental at Guidance in the early days crafting the enterprise go to market strategy for their flagship product Encase Enterprise. During his time at Guidance Rich held many leadership roles in the organization in product engineering, sales, and marketing departments. Rich also worked closely with the federal government and military to architect large scale solutions for incident response, computer network defense, and counterintelligence investigations.

Penny Leavy, President

Penny Leavy co-founded Cenzic (formerly known as ClickToSecure, Inc.) with Greg Hoglund. She formulated Cenzic's basic business structure, assembled a solid executive team and helped secure financing from top-tier venture capital firms during a tight economy. Previously, she helped FTP Software build a distribution network of over 500 OEM and channel partners, and open several international sales offices, growing sales from $3 million to $140 million. Penny was also instrumental in repositioning Finjan Software as a leading corporate-security provider, negotiating major contracts with IBM, Intel and Cisco. And she developed an aggressive product strategy that resulted in increased visibility and revenues for the computer security company Tripwire.

Pat Figley, Vice President of Sales

Pat Figley serves as HBGary's Vice President of Sales. In this role he is responsible for all of the company’s sales functions including its direct and inside sales force, and sales operations.Pat joins HBGary from Agiliance where he was responsible initially for US and then International sales of IT Governance, Risk and Compliance solutions. Under Pat's leadership, Agiliance grew from startup to significant growth in revenue and new customers in both the US and European markets. Prior to Agiliance, Pat held various sales and sales management roles, where he led significant customer growth in the US for ArcSight, Cenzic and Impresse. Mr. Figley holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Drexel University and an MBA from San Francisco State University.

Bob Slapnik, Vice President of Government Sales

Bob Slapnik has a track record of successful sales management in Fortune 1000 and federal government accounts. He was president of Network Test Solutions, a channel sales organization serving the needs of network test labs with a wide range of tools for security and performance testing. He was President of Chesapeake Capital Corp. which arranged financing for commercial real estate and businesses. Bob has also held various sales and marketing positions with NetIQ, Antara, Sequent Computer Systems and Hewlett Packard. Bob has a Masters of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, both from Kent State University.

 

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