Executive Team

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Brent Nixon, President & CEO
As CEO Brent is responsible for leading the company's efforts to revolutionize the market for Secure Web Gateway products. He has over 15 years of management, operations and product experience in high technology.

Prior to joining Cymphonix Brent led all 3Com's Wireless Systems product group. Brent was co-founder and Vice President of Maxis Research Inc., a market research/information company offering information and data products and services to the automotive industry. Brent served on the Bluetooth SIG and held the Chair of the Mobile Work Group for the Audio Communications Riser SIG.

Brent earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Utah and his Masters of Business Administration degree from University of British Columbia.

Fred Geiger, Vice President of Product Management
Fred has over 13 years of product management and development experience in networking, RF and computing industries. In this role he is responsible for all product planning and management for hardware and software platforms.

Prior to joining Cymphonix he was responsible for all user interface devices at Control4, a leader in affordable home automation solutions. Fred has held leadership positions at Paradigm Medical, Starbridge Systems and 3Com. He has also served on the board of directors for the Bluetooth SIG and was a marketing chair for the PCMCIA.

He holds Master of Electrical Engineering and Master of Business Administration degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign as well as a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Marquette University.

Joe Lowry, Vice President of Sales
Responsible for driving company revenue and sales growth, Joe brings over 12 years of channel sales and territory management experience to Cymphonix. Previous leadership roles at Cymphonix include heading multifunctional teams as both Director of Sales and Director of Sales Engineering.

Joe's extensive knowledge of the channel in both the telecom and network markets has earned him the respect of his peers and channel partners. His focus on creating effective channel programs and tools, as well as closely collaborating with partners allows Joe to shape Cymphonix's go-to-market strategies by matching customer needs to technical possibilities.

Trevor Paskett, Director of Software Architecture
Trevor is the primary architect of Cymphonix's award-winning Network Composer.

Trevor has been involved in the ISP industry since age 16, when he started his own ISP. He built his own server banks from scratch and grew his ISP to a customer base of 5,600 subscribers. After selling his ISP, Trevor worked as Senior Engineer at Onbravo, LLC and then BroadBand Solutions, LLC. Trevor's years of experience managing bandwidth in the ISP industry have formed the foundation for Network Composer. Trevor is an exceptional programmer who is proficient in Perl, C, Delphi, Pascal, Bash, SQL, and XML.

Trevor is a Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA) and a Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA).

Adam Lowry, Director of Operations
Adam brings 15 years of service and operations management experience to Cymphonix where he is responsible for all operations elements for the company worldwide.

Before joining Cymphonix, Adam was the Global Services Director at Callware Technologies, a unified messaging firm. Prior to that, Adam worked in service operations positions at the UCLA Medical Center.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the UCLA and an MBA from the University of Utah.

Brent Verhaaren, Director of Marketing

Responsible for building and implementing marketing and channel strategies that drive market share, brand development and revenue growth for Cymphonix, Brent brings 14 years experience marketing a variety of high tech companies like IBM, PowerQuest (now Symantec), and Novell as well as several other technology, healthcare IT, and professional services firms.

His extensive background in B2B and internet/social media marketing has been recognized by the Business Marketing Association, the International Academy of the Visual Arts and other industry associations.