Passionate business builder. Launched and grew two technology companies from first powerpoint through initial product, go to market and later hundreds of enterprise customers. At different times i was CEO, CMO, CPO, Head of Channel and Strategic Partnerships before leading this past two years organic and inorganic strategy for the security and API BU's inside the F500 technology company that eventually acquired my last start-up. At my most recent start-up, Layer 7 technologies (acquired by CA Technologies in 2013) i helped define early products in the SOA space and drove the pivot into the emerging mobile and cloud markets for API technology. My team helped create and launch new mobile access, cloud connectivity and developer community products that today represent the majority of revenue for the company. In my capacity as CMO my team drove demand generation, PR and analyst relations resulting in 3 consecutive years as both Gartner MQ Leader and Forrester Wave Leader. While at layer 7 I helped build out the initial VAR network to expand the company internationally and drove both ISV and SI reseller relationships. Working alongside the CEO and CFO i helped raise two rounds of founding and played a critical role in multiple corporate strategy engagements that eventually lead to our acquisition. At CA Technologies i have led the team responsible for shaping our portfolio strategy and identification of potential opportunities for organic development and acquisition. My team worked alongside corporate M&A to evaluate and prosecute prospective deals in security and API related segments spanning security, integration and devops. I am frequent public speaker and have been published in numerous technology publications. Specialties: new product definition, product launch, portfolio shaping, marketing communications, PR, go-to-market, demand generation, strategic business development, channel development, OEM licensing, strategic partnership, VC financing, M&A.

CEO & Cofounder @ Israeli / US stealth security venture addressing $200B market problem. From September 2015 to Present (4 months) Angel Investor @ Work with prominent NY Angel syndicate vetting and funding early stage technology companies From May 2015 to Present (8 months) Greater New York City AreaStart-up Mentor at Enterprise Technology Accelerator @ Work with Work-bench enterprise portfolio companies on positioning and go to market. From June 2015 to Present (7 months) Greater New York City AreaAdvisor at Enterprise Seed Stage Fund @ Help vette prospective investments and assist portfolio companies with go to market initiatives From June 2015 to Present (7 months) Greater New York City AreaAdvisor @ Advising API design company Apia.ry From June 2015 to Present (7 months) San Francisco Bay AreaAdvisor @ Advice Israeli docker / container security company From June 2015 to Present (7 months) Advisor @ Help company transition to enterprise focus for their deep-linking / deferred deep-linking platform for converting mobile Web visits to app usage From April 2015 to Present (9 months) Vancouver, Canada AreaAdvisor @ Help develop new enterprise oriented messaging around real-time business visualization From April 2015 to Present (9 months) Vancouver, Canada AreaAdvisor @ Help with early product and market positioning for next generation biometrics authentication platform From May 2015 to Present (8 months) Greater New York City AreaInvestor, Advisor @ Helping TalentClick shape their message and go to market around Human Capital Intelligence, a new big data approach to helping organizations identify and remediate risk and risk behavior in critical employees. From August 2013 to Present (2 years 5 months) Vancouver, Canada AreaInvestor @ Company provides advanced social authentication for reducing fraud, identifying credit risk and new user on-boarding qualification From July 2015 to July 2015 (1 month) SVP, Strategy for the Security and API Business Units @ My team was responsible for overall portfolio positioning and gap identification. Our team helped develop organic plans to address market opportunities and also worked alongside corporate M&A to identify and prosecute inorganic acquisitions in the security and API BU's. From June 2013 to June 2015 (2 years 1 month) Greater New York City AreaChief Strategy & Marketing Officer, cofounder @ responsible for driving new product directions, identifying and developing key ISV relationship and managing overall marketing efforts including product positioning. From January 2009 to June 2013 (4 years 6 months) Investor @ OpenGeo provides an open-source set of tooling and servers for building enriched geospacial maps for commercial and public sector uses. From March 2013 to March 2013 (1 month) Greater New York City AreaInvestor @ StrongLoop provides a node.js runtime for APIs and micro-services From April 2012 to December 2012 (9 months) VP Marketing and Alliances, cofounder @ Helped launch leading player in SOA, Cloud security and integration space. Company has been recognized as a top 100 private company in Cloud, Gartner MQ Leader, Infoworld 100 company, Secure Computing Award Finalist, VAR Magazine Innovator, Techforum Award Winner, Stevie International Honoree, Network Computing Vendor to Watch etc. From April 2003 to 2011 (8 years) CEO, cofounder @ Cofounder of VPN security software company designed for telco's to resell to small businesses with their broadband package. Led company through two rounds of funding, product introduction, first telecom relationship and first revenue. Left to start Layer 7. From 1999 to January 2002 (3 years) Director, Business Development @ Helped bring to market new wholesale Internet services for second largest Canadian telecom. Helped previously Western Canada focused carrier establish first major account footprint in Eastern Canada with leading Internet US service providers. From May 1997 to August 1999 (2 years 4 months) Technology Licensing Associate @ While completing masters degree, worked in school technology transfer office helping to develop licensing plans for school IP. From January 1994 to June 1995 (1 year 6 months)

M.Sc., Engineering Physics @ University of British Columbia From 1992 to 1995 B.Sc. Hon., Physics @ McGill University From 1988 to 1992 St. Paul's Dimitri Sirota is skilled in: Channel, Business Development, Product Launch, Marketing Communications, Public Relations, OEMs, Cloud Computing, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Start-ups, SOA, Product Marketing, Enterprise Architecture, Mobile Devices, Solution Selling