Management Team
Guy Churchward
President & Chief Executive Officer
Guy Churchward joined LogLogic in 2009 from NetApp, where he served as NetApp’s Vice President and General Manager of their Data Protection Group. Prior to NetApp, Churchward was VP & GM of BEA’s Weblogic Products Group and ran several business units including Server, Portal, JavaVM, Virtualization, Eventing, Realtime and RFID. Churchward’s career spans more than 20 years in the IT industry, with a bias on applications and data infrastructure, concentrating heavily on virtualization and cloud for the last 5 years. Churchward previously held senior management positions at Sun Microsystems (formerly Tarantella inc.), Santa Cruz Operations (Formerly IXI), Accenture (formerly Binder Hamlyn) and Olivetti. Churchward holds an executive MBA from Stanford Business School and he studied computer science at Cambridge Tutors College, UK.
Kevin Carroll
Vice President, Engineering and Operations
Kevin Carroll joined LogLogic in January of 2008, bringing over 25 years of experience in leading world class technical and business organizations at EMC Corporation, Sun Microsystems, and Tyco International. Kevin is responsible for managing the design, development, delivery and support of all LogLogic products. At EMC, Kevin was Vice President of Global Supply Chain Management and also served as the company's Chief Procurement Officer. Prior to that, he held numerous executive roles at Sun Microsystems spanning engineering and operations for workstations, servers, and storage products. Kevin began his career in product engineering and operations management roles with Tyco International and Kollmorgen Corporation. He received his bachelor's degree from Plattsburgh State University College in New York and continued his graduate education at Adelphi University.
Joseph Consul
Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Joe joined LogLogic in 2008 from Everdream Corp, a leading SaaS company acquired by Dell in 2007. Joe served as the CFO at Everdream, leading the strategic financing effort that culminated in the Dell acquisition. Prior to his work at Everdream, Joe was the CFO of Arcot Systems, where he supported a 60% growth rate while improving margins. Prior to serving at Arcot, Joe was the CFO at Tumbleweed Communications, where he led the initial public offering and secondary offerings for Tumbleweed. Joe started his career at KPMG where he was a Senior Auditor after which he joined Adobe Systems as its first corporate controller and implemented systems and processes that supported growth from $17M to $125M in revenue over three years. Joe received his BS in Business Administration at San Jose State University with honors after which he earned his MBA at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. He is on the Advisory Board for the SJSU College of Business.
Jean-François Déchant
Vice President of Strategic Business Development
JF Déchant joined LogLogic in May 2009 from Exaprotect, a company launched by Déchant in 2004, that gained global recognition thanks to visionary breakthrough technologies and over 200 blue chip customers Worldwide. In 2006, Déchant, founder and CEO of Exaprotect, led the company through the successful acquisition of Solsoft, a leading software company in the NCCM market. Déchant brings 20 years of experience in the IT industry he acquired during his various roles at leading world class technical and business organizations, such as Dimension Data (DDT), Anixter (AXE), Digital Equipment (DEC). Prior to Exaprotect, Déchant was the founder and CEO of Exaprobe a MSSP company sold to DEVOTEAM (FR-DVT) in 2007. Since 2007, Déchant has been established in the Silicon Valley where he gave a new dimension to Exaprotect thanks his strategic vision, he rolls out by establishing partnerships with CISCO, Juniper, Fortinet & LogLogic. Déchant is a graduate of ParisTech/ ENSAM.
Diane Deutsch
Vice President, Human Resources
Diane Deutsch joined Loglogic, Inc. in January, 2008 and is responsible for all aspects of the company's Global Human Resources including: recruiting, compensation, benefits, employee relations, leadership development and the continuing evolution of the company's corporate culture. Ms. Deutsch brings more than 20 years of experience in all aspects of Human Resources management to Loglogic. Prior to Loglogic, she served as Senior VP of Human Resources at Surfcontrol, VP of Human Resources at Chameleon Systems and Director of Human Resources at Nuance, Avaya, Lucent and Octel. Diane is a member of the Society of Human Resources (SHRM), the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP) and World at Work. Diane holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Management from San Jose State University and a Masters in Human Resources and Organization Development from the University of San Francisco.
Gary Hemminger
Vice President of Product Management
Gary Hemminger joined LogLogic in 2009. Hemminger brings over 20 years of experience in product management, systems engineering, and software development with leading networking companies such as Brocade Communications, Foundry Networks, and IP Infusion. At Brocade (Formerly Foundry Networks), Hemminger ran product management & marketing for the application delivery controller and security products. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Product Management at IP Infusion. Hemminger attended Stanford University, where he received an MS in Computer Science.
Stephen Manley
Chief Technical Officer
Stephen Manley joins from NetApp, where he was Senior Technical Director for both the Data Protection Business Unit and the company’s Quality Assurance. Stephen helped define and develop NetApp's tape and disk-to-disk backup, mirroring, and compliance technologies, while also frequently speaking and authoring papers, Stephen graduated with a B.A. in Computer Science from Harvard University.
Barbara Rogan
Vice President, Legal Affairs
Barbara Rogan joined LogLogic, Inc. in April 2008 and is responsible for the company's legal needs. Ms. Rogan previously served as Senior Corporate Counsel at Brocade Communications where she supported the Services and Support business unit's legal needs. Prior to Brocade, Ms. Rogan was a senior director and corporate counsel at SurfControl, Inc. where she managed the legal contracts and intellectual property portfolio on a world-wide basis. Prior to SurfControl, Ms. Rogan was divisional counsel at Fair Isaac Corporation for the Enterprise Decision Management business unit. Prior to her corporate work, Ms. Rogan worked as a prosecutor for Los Angeles County and Santa Clara County. Ms. Rogan has a bachelors degree in government from Claremont McKenna College. Ms. Rogan received her Juris Doctorate from U.C. Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and her LL.M in Intellectual Property Law from Santa Clara University School of Law.
Bill Roth
Chief Marketing Officer
Bill Roth joined LogLogic in 2009 from BEA, where he served as Vice President of the BEA Workshop Business Unit. Prior to BEA, Roth was Chief Technical Evangelist at Epiphany. With over 20 years in this industry, Roth has played numerous product marketing, product management and engineering roles at companies like Sun Microsystems, Morgan Stanley, and GSI Commerce. Roth is also Editor-At-Large for Sys-Con Publications, and was recently named to the “Top 30 Cloud Computing Bloggers” list world-wide. Roth has an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin.
Vince Schiavo
Vice President, Global Sales
Vince Schiavo is responsible for global sales for LogLogic. Mr. Schiavo joined the Company in 2009, bringing with him thirty years of experience in sales, marketing and business development. For six and a half years prior to joining LogLogic, Mr. Schiavo was senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing for Secure Computing Corporation. A 16B officer of the company reporting to the Chairman and CEO, Mr. Schiavo built a team of over 300 sales, marketing and business development professionals who grew Secure from $36M per year in early 2001 to a run rate of over $300M per year in billings by the end of 2006. Secure Computing achieved and maintained profitability on a non-GAAP basis from mid-2002 until the company was acquired by McAfee in November 2008. Mr. Schiavo has extensive M&A experience, participating in pre-transaction due diligence and post-transaction integration of multiple projects including both public and private company acquisitions of up to $290M. The formative years of Mr. Schiavo's career were spent with Data General Corporation and Apple Computer in both sales and marketing positions.
