Doug Howard Chief Executive Officer

Doug Howard brings over 20 years experience in business development, M&A, operations, engineering, marketing, sales and executive leadership to his chief executive role at VBrick. Howard’s industry background includes senior leadership positions across a number of high-profile global companies in the Internet security and telecommunications sectors.

Prior to joining VBrick, Howard served as President of USA.NET, a wholly owned subsidiary of Perimeter where he also held the Chief Strategy Officer position. While at USA.NET, Howard served as President and oversaw all aspects of the business including sales, marketing, business strategy and service delivery. Under his leadership, USA.NET experienced significant growth in both revenue and EBITDA.

Howard previously served as Chief Operating Officer of BT Counterpane, where he led a global team responsible for the development, implementation, operations and marketing of BT Counterpane's product and service lines. Prior to BT Counterpane, he served as Vice President of Security and Business Continuity at AT&T Corp., where he developed and launched new services for each of the company's business lines of service.

Howard started his career in the US Air Force working under the direct command of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. After the military, he moved into the private sector and held executive positions at Sprint, FLAG Telecom, Telenet and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). He founded Technology Research International, Inc. in 1989, which was purchased by NBC Broadcasting in 1991. Howard’s impressive business track record and industry thought leader status have earned him accolades from top analyst firms including Frost & Sullivan and The Radicati Group.

John Shaw Chief Operating Officer

John Shaw brings more that 25 years of experience building networking and software businesses.  Prior to joining VBrick Systems, he was Chief Executive Officer of Aptima, Inc., a major provider of predictive analytics and Web 2.0-related products and services.  Previously, Mr. Shaw was with Cisco Systems for seven years, where he held several senior Marketing positions. He was a member of the leadership team which formulated and executed the company’s voice over IP strategy, representing one of Cisco’s fastest growing product segments. Mr. Shaw joined Cisco via the 1998 acquisition of Summa Four, a leader in the programmable switching market, where he was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development.  During Mr. Shaw’s seven year tenure, Summa Four’s revenues grew five-fold and the company went public.  He also spent five years with AT&T in several sales positions.  Mr. Shaw holds a B.A. in Economics from Bowdoin College, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Paul Hallee Chief Financial Officer

Paul Hallee has more than 25 years of experience in finance and operations at established and venture-funded technology companies. As CFO with Boston-Power, he secured $18 million to drive the company’s manufacturing expansion in China. Additionally, Mr. Hallee was CFO for Sandburst Corporation, where he guided the sale of the company to Broadcom in 2005. Earlier in his career, Mr. Hallee was CFO at FutureTense, where he was central to directing the company’s sale to Open Market for $125 million. Mr. Hallee has also held executive positions at Cognio, Gotuit Media, Gould Electronics, iConverse, and WSI Corporation. Mr. Hallee holds a B.S. in Accounting from Bentley College and an M.B.A. from Babson College.

John Senior Senior Vice President of Engineering

John Senior, a ten year veteran of VBrick’s engineering team, leads the design and development of VBrick’s video software and hardware solutions.  Most importantly, he is responsible for architecting and implementing the future technology strategy for the VBrick enterprise platform.  John has been a key contributor in many of VBrick’s hardware and software development efforts including the MPEG-1 network video appliances, the second generation MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and WM solutions, and most recently VBrick’s newest platform of H.264 appliances. John holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering from the University of Connecticut.

Craig Myers Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Craig Myers is a long time streaming media evangelist and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of success building and managing emerging market sales teams.  Prior to joining VBrick in 2004, Craig was the co-founder and CEO of a venture backed streaming media service provider, VideoScape.   VideoScape pioneered the corporate use of streaming media as a business tool to train and communicate with customers, partners and sales channels.  He was an early executive with PictureTel where company revenue grew from less than $100 million to more than $500 million during his tenure as the Director of Channel Sales.  He was instrumental in the creation, sale, implementation and management of an innovative service based model for videoconferencing.  This led to one of PictureTel’s largest end user sales ever, Kinkos.  Craig holds a degree in Management from Purdue University.

Michael Benson Vice President of Strategic Accounts

Mike Benson is a seasoned veteran of nearly 20 years of selling technology and telecommunications solutions to major corporations and government agencies. He has an impressive record of high-curve sales growth and responsive customer service. Before coming to VBrick in 2000, Mike was a regional sales manager for Sprint, overseeing a territory of 35 states and the Caribbean and managing an impressively productive sales team. Prior to that, he held senior account management positions at Tektronix and Eastman Kodak. Mike received his B.A, degree from Graceland College in Iowa.

Bryan Neumann Vice President of Operations

Bryan Neumann has over 20 years of experience in high-tech operations and manufacturing. Bryan has held management and engineering positions at: American Dynamics Manufacturing Engineering where he was responsible for automated circuit board assembly and the selection, installation, and operation of MRPII system; Dataswitch Corporation Manufacturing Engineering where he implemented MRP systems, was responsible for manufacturing facility implementation, and managing off-shore manufacturing subcontractors; and Trinitech Systems Inc., where he served as Vice President of Hardware Technology where he was responsible for manufacturing, product development, customer service, purchasing, quality assurance, and hardware sales.