Management
Flint Brenton – President and CEO
Dr. Partha Bhattacharya – Co-Founder and CTO
William Delaney – CFO
Robert Yusin – Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Ted Trimble – Vice President of Engineering
Flint Brenton – President and CEO
As AccelOps President and CEO, Flint Brenton leads AccelOps’ business strategy and operations.
Flint is a proven IT operations management software veteran. He most recently served as senior vice president of engineering in Cisco’s Intelligent Automation Business Unit. In this role, he led the organization in delivering automation solutions that make it easier for IT to manage and administer diverse technologies. In 2009, as president and CEO of Tidal Software, he oversaw the company’s acquisition by Cisco. He then guided the integration of the Tidal business into Cisco and the creation of the Intelligent Automation business unit.
During his 25-year career, Flint also served as senior vice president and general manager of NetIQ’s Security and Administration business unit, and has held various leadership positions at NetIQ, Compaq Computer Corporation, BMC Software and IBM.
He received a master’s in business and public management from Rice University and a bachelor of science degree from Mount Union College.
Dr. Partha Bhattacharya – Co-Founder and CTO
Dr. Partha Bhattacharya is co-founder, chief technology officer and vice president of engineering at AccelOps.
He has more than 18 years of experience in networking, security, database, system architecture and software development. Before AccelOps, he founded Protego Networks, where as CTO he created the award-winning MARS security appliance product line. Following Protego’s acquisition by Cisco Systems, he led the Cisco team that extended the product’s capabilities to satisfy a global market.
Before Protego, Partha was architect and technical lead at Cisco in charge of implementing the company’s security management infrastructure in the PIX, IOS, firewall, VPN, router and IDS products. Before Cisco, he was a research scientist at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he directed numerous network QoS, security, system scheduling and parallel query designs. While at IBM, he designed the company’s implementation of the IETF Service Location Protocol and built the industry’s first IR wireless LAN access point with token ring.
Partha holds 15 patents and is the recipient of two IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards and a fellowship from the University of Maryland Systems Research Center. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland.
William Delaney – CFO
William Delaney has more than 25 years of experience in finance and operations. As chief financial officer, he plays a key role in shaping AccelOps’ overall business strategy, day-to-day operations and fundraising.
Before AccelOps, he served as vice president of finance and CFO at Chelsio Communications, ConSentry Networks and MediaQ, a venture-backed startup acquired by NVIDIA. Earlier in his career, William held finance operations and controller positions at Stratacom (acquired by Cisco Systems), Chiron Corporation and LSI Logic.
William earned a bachelor of science in accounting and finance from the University of Limerick, Ireland.
Robert Yusin – Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Robert Yusin brings more than 20 years of experience in applications, security and storage addressing software and hardware markets globally.
As vice president of worldwide sales, Robert provides global leadership for all aspects of AccelOps sales, including direct sales, inside sales, channel, OEM and business development. He was formerly with Fox Technology, where he grew revenues to the highest in the company’s history. Before Fox Technology, Robert was the EVP of Operations at Log Logic, Inc., where his sales team delivered exponential sales growth within a three-year span.
His experience includes executive sales roles at Finjan Software, Network Associates, StorageTek and Commerce One. Robert has also held various advisory board positions to leading technology start-ups. He holds a M.B.A. from Saint Mary’s College of California.
Ted Trimble – Vice President of Engineering
Ted Trimble is vice president of engineering at AccelOps.
He has more than 25 years of experience managing large enterprise software projects. He comes from the Cloud and Systems Management Group at Cisco, where as a senior director, he managed Cisco Automation for Cloud, Cisco Cloud Portal, Enterprise Scheduler, Enterprise Orchestrator and Intelligent Automation for SAP products. Ted joined Cisco as part of the Tidal Software acquisition. At Tidal, he was responsible for managing development, quality assurance, support and user documentation of all of Tidal’s products. Before that, he was vice president of engineering for the Security, Administration and Migration products business unit of NetIQ Corporation, where he managed the development of products that boosted its quarterly revenue growth by 95 percent within four quarters. Before NetIQ, Ted spent 14 years at BMC Software, where he was vice president of DB2 Solutions, and prior to that served in various operational and support roles for several large enterprise corporations’ Information Technology divisions.