Centrify Executive Management

Tom Kemp

President and Chief Executive Officer

Tom Kemp is President and Chief Executive Officer at Centrify, where he is driving the strategic direction of the company. Previously he was Entrepreneur in Residence at Mayfield, a leading venture capital firm. Kemp was a co-founder of NetIQ and in his last position there served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Development. Other positions held by Kemp in his nearly eight-year tenure at NetIQ included Senior Vice President and General Manager of its Performance and Availability Management business unit; Senior Vice President of Products; and Vice President of Marketing. Prior to NetIQ Kemp held various management, technical and marketing roles at Compuware Corporation, EcoSystems Software, and Oracle Corporation. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and in history from the University of Michigan.

Adam Au

Vice President of Engineering

Adam Au is Vice President of Engineering at Centrify, where he oversees all engineering activities. Before joining Centrify, Au was a Divisional Vice President of Computer Associates' BrightStor Brand Unit. Prior to CA, Mr. Au founded Netreon, a private storage management company acquired by Computer Associates, and Auco, a private embedded networking company acquired by Peerless System Corporation (PRLS). Previously, he was Group Director of the Corporate Technology Office at Novell, Inc., where he was responsible for overseeing the companywide development process and resolving corporate engineering problems. During his nine-year career at Novell, Au also worked as Group Director of Enterprise Systems, where he was responsible for developing Novell's SNA products, growing the engineering organization from 16 to 140 people and associated revenues from $6 million to over $100 million. Au holds a BSEE degree from the University of Hong Kong and a MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Paul Moore

Chief Technology Officer

Paul Moore serves as Chief Technology Officer for Centrify, where he provides the technical vision for its cutting-edge solutions. Prior to Centrify, he was Vice President and Principal Architect for next-generation storage management products at Computer Associates. From 1999 to 2003, as CTO of Netreon, Moore designed the architecture and led the team that implemented Netreon's SANexec Manager and SANexec Designer. Prior to Netreon he was a Program Manager in Microsoft's Windows 2000 development group, where, among other things, he drove the integration between Active Directory and the Windows 2000 enterprise print subsystem. Moore also represented Microsoft on various industry standards committees, and authored several RFCs and other industry standards. Before joining Microsoft he spent 20 years in a wide variety of software development and consulting positions for companies including Hosykns Group (Cap-Gemini), BAT, AT&T, Nestle, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Air Force, British Petroleum, Hamlet International PLC and Honeywell. Moore holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Math and Physics from the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, and is a fellow of the Institution for Analysts and Programmers in the UK.

Jim Chappell

Vice President, Business Development & Support

Jim Chappell is Vice President of Business Development and Support for Centrify, leading initiatives to develop strategic partnerships and OEM opportunities, and managing the worldwide support organization. Before joining Centrify, Chappell served for more than ten years in multiple executive positions at Legato Systems, Inc., where he helped grow the company's annual revenues from $3M to $250M. His responsibilities included establishing and managing channel programs, inside sales, OEM sales, and sales operations. At the time of Legato's acquisition by EMC, Chappell was serving as Senior Vice President for Business Process and Development, which included managing mergers and acquisitions. Prior to Legato, Chappell ran OEM sales and marketing at CXI, an IBM 3270 communications company that was acquired by Novell, where he continued on in the same capacity. Chappell serves on the Board of Directors of Atempo, Inc., an information lifecycle management company. He is currently a member of the Industry Advisory Council for the Cal Poly Computer Sciences Department, advising on curriculum and technology career opportunities for Cal Poly students.

Steve Kennedy

Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations

Steve Kennedy is Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations for Centrify, leading direct and indirect sales as well as system engineering and professional services. Kennedy brings 20 years of leadership experience to his role at Centrify having most recently served with Zantaz where in his four year tenure as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales he grew the business from $13 million to over $130 million. Prior to joining Zantaz, he was Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Wind River Systems. Kennedy also spent 10 years at Quantum Corporation, where he most recently served as the Executive Vice President Worldwide Sales and Marketing. While at Quantum, Kennedy was an integral part of the company's sales growth, which went from $200 million when he started to $5.9 billion when he left the company. Kennedy holds a B.A. in Business Studies from Portsmouth University, Portsmouth, England.

Maxine Erlund

Vice President of Product Development

Maxine Erlund is Vice President of Product Development for Centrify, managing Centrify's worldwide development and quality assurance teams for Centrify's flagship DirectControl solution. Erlund brings over 24 years of leadership experience to her role at Centrify including Director of Engineering at Sun for Java Compatibility. She most recently served as Vice President of Engineering at Applied Identity. Before joining Centrify, Erlund held management roles at three security solution providers: she was Vice President of Engineering at Applied Identity and PacketMotion; and prior to that, she was Senior Director of Engineering at Securify. Previously, Erlund held Director and Senior Management positions at Sun which included responsibility for Java Security, Networking and Naming. While at Sun she was also responsible for the award winning, $60M/year Netra i and Netra j product lines. Her career includes engineering roles at Informix, Tandem and ROLM. Erlund received her Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley and her Master's degree in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University.

Mike Patnode

Vice President of Technology

Mike Patnode is Vice President of Technology for Centrify, applying his 20 years of solution architecture and product development experience to creating advanced product features for Centrify solutions and extending Centrify technology into new channels including OEMs and strategic partners. Mike Patnode has been Director of Engineering and Senior Architect at Centrify for over four years. Previously he was Vice President of System Architecture at Wells Fargo and has held management and architect roles at Netscape and SCO. Mike received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Cal Poly and spent a year at the MIT X Consortium developing multimedia network protocols.