Leadership

Toney has been leading teams in the information protection and technology fields for over 18 years. Toney comes to SignaCert from CoreTrace, where he was president and CEO until its acquisition by Lumension. Under Toney’s leadership, CoreTrace became a recognized leader in the emerging anti-malware category, application whitelisting. Prior to CoreTrace, Toney was the CEO of Mirage Networks, the network access control pioneer. Before Mirage, Toney was a founder, CEO, and Chairman of WheelGroup Corporation, the creators of the first commercially available intrusion detection system, through its successful sale to Cisco Systems. Earlier in his career, Toney led teams at Trident Data Systems and as an officer at the Air Force Information Warfare Center (AFIWC), conducting penetration testing and vulnerability assessments of Department of Defense (DoD) networks.

For over 25 years, JT has built technology-based companies and solutions that make enterprises more profitable, compliant and secure. JT has held executive marketing, strategy and sales roles in leading and innovative technology companies. JT’s security experience includes launching multiple anti-malware pioneers in categories such as application whitelisting at CoreTrace (acquired by Lumension) and behavioral malware/phishing detection at WholeSecurity (Symantec). In addition to security, JT has been an executive and/or founder at other leading enterprise technology companies including Site Controls (Siemens), Kurion (iSyndicate), SMART Technologies (i2/JDA), and SBC Communications. Prior, JT led marketing strategy projects for major technology companies such as Sega, Apple, Sprint, AT&T, Kodak and HP while a principal at Regis McKenna, Inc.

Jeff has been instrumental in creating and establishing major successes in the software industry for 20 years.  His 15 years in Silicon Valley included strategy, business development and executive roles at SunSoft (Sun Microsystems), Netscape (employee #46), AllBusiness and Kenamea.  He moved back to Austin several years ago where he’s been CEO of Digilife and VP of Products at Open Labs.  The common thread across all of these opportunities has been Jeff’s ability to solve complex problems for customers with solutions that are easy to use and extremely reliable. As VP of Products at Open Labs, Jeff successfully lead their transition to Agile software development while launching a brand new product- a product available in 120+ countries within 18 months of launch.  He is applying the same leadership and product development strategies at SignaCert.

Greg has been active in the software industry for the past 20 years. The past 10 years, Greg has been focused on the monitoring/security industry, including leadership roles at companies such as Winternals (acquired by Microsoft), MessageOne (Dell), and CoreTrace (Lumension). Greg has always thrived in the technical aspects of the various products he has touched. In addition to leading technical sales engineering and professional service teams, Greg has managed multiple product lines including those offered by SignaCert. Greg’s philosophy always strives to make things better for the customer. This philosophy includes improving software products, as well as better equipping personnel to provide services for customers. For Greg, the cornerstone for improvement is always the customer experience.

Newt is Chairman of the Board for Texas Multicore Technologies. In the past 35 years, Newt has founded, or served as CEO or a director of, companies in the software, hardware, marketing consulting, financial services, medical research, third party logistics and food products industries. Newt began his corporate career with Aluminum Company of America, working his way up to a senior management position at the company’s Cleveland (OH) Works, its primary aerospace manufacturing facility. After a stint with Whirlpool Corporation he began a successful career as an entrepreneur, founding his first company in 1971. Newt is an active angel investor, has been involved in raising more than $140 million in growth capital, and has led M&A activities for 17 companies.

Dr. Eugene H. Spafford is one of the most recognized leaders in the field of computing. He is a Professor of Computer Sciences at Purdue University, the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue, and is a recent inductee into the Cyber Security Hall of Fame. Dr. Spafford has been a senior advisor and consultant on issues of security and intelligence, education, and policy to a number of major companies, academic and government agencies, including Microsoft, Intel, Unisys, US Air Force, NSA, GAO, FBI, NSF, DoJ, DoE, and two Presidents of the United States.  Earlier in his distinguished career, Dr. Spafford and Gene Kim developed Tripwire, the first free intrusion detection system distributed on the Internet.