Renesys Corp

Management Team

Ashton Peery

Chief Executive Officer

Ashton is an experienced CEO, investor and high-tech consultant. He is a former General Partner of Lucent Venture Partners, served as the Chief Strategy Officer and head of Business Development at Lucent Technologies and was the Managing Director of GeoPartners Research, Inc., a thought-leading technology strategy consultancy. Early in his career, Ashton was a public television Producer, Director and Writer. He serves on the Boards of several early stage startups and a New Ventures incubator.

Dr. Andy T. Ogielski

President and Chief Scientist, Co-founder

Andy has more than 25 years experience encompassing data networking and telecommunications, Internet protocols, wireless systems, software systems, and scientific computing. Before founding Renesys, he was a research professor at Rutgers University where he led multimillion-dollar government funded projects such as scalable Internet modeling and simulation software (SSFNet) that pioneered analysis of large networks exceeding 100,000 multiprotocol hosts and routers. At Bell Communications Research (now Telcordia), Andy built pioneering high-speed network packet traffic recording and analysis systems, fraud detection software, streaming distributed video servers, and network operations software systems. As a research scientist (MTS) at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1982 to 1989, Andy was involved in very large scale scientific computing. In 1984 he designed and built a special-purpose supercomputer that ran Monte Carlo simulations of complex materials several times faster than a Cray supercomputer built the same year. Andy holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Wroclaw, Poland.

Jim Cowie

Chief Technology Officer, Co-founder

Jim has more than 15 years entrepreneurial and software development experience in high performance computing, network modeling and simulation, web services, and security. Prior to founding Renesys, Jim was a principal at Cooperating Systems, a consulting services company that provided rapid software prototyping and technology planning for advanced research and development in academia and industry. Jim’s fascination with the Internet’s impact on security and collaboration dates back to 1995, when he authored the first web-based collaborative environment for cryptographic key factoring. Jim is the primary architect of SSFNet, the first open-source network simulation framework to support transparent parallelization and multiprocessor execution. Jim holds a B.S in computer science from Yale University.

Barbara Labonte

Chief Financial Officer

Barbara comes to Renesys with over 20 years in finance, including venture capital financings and M&A experience. Prior to joining Renesys, Barbara was Chief Financial Officer for Granite Systems, Inc., a venture-backed telecom software company that was purchased by Telcordia in 2004. She began her career at Ernst & Young LLP where she spent nine years in the audit practice, most recently as an audit manager. Barbara also served as Vice President, Finance for PolyVac, Inc., a medical device company that was purchased in 1996. She received her BS degree in accounting from Southern New Hampshire University in 1985 and became a CPA in 1988.

Earl Zmijewski

VP and General Manager

Earl Zmijewski is responsible for all of Renesys's Internet Data software, services and operations. He has over 20 years of experience encompassing scientific computing and most areas of IT, with particular emphasis on networking and security. Before Renesys, Earl spent over 12 years as IT Director at Fluent Inc., a computational fluid dynamics software company, where he was instrumental in establishing new offices throughout the US, Europe and Asia and was the principal architect in the design of Fluent’s networks and Internet security posture. Before that, Earl held various academic positions at Cornell University, University of California, and James Madison University. Earl has a PhD and MS in Computer Science from Cornell University and an MS and BA in Mathematical Sciences from The Johns Hopkins University.

Robert Pate

Chief Security Officer

Rob Pate is responsible for Renesys' Internet Data network security services and solutions. Before joining Renesys, Rob was Vice President for Cybersecurity and Privacy at McNeil Technologies, Inc. focused on providing Converged Security Services for large enterprise networks by merging protection, detection, response, and recovery components. Before that, Rob was Director of Strategic Operations at US-CERT, and held various senior management positions in network security and operations. He received a B.A. degree in mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, took advanced business courses at Johns Hopkins and Stanford Universities, and the Senior Executive Leadership Program at Georgetown University.

Bob Fletcher

Senior Director, Sales and Marketing

Bob joined Renesys with 24 years of data and telecommunications experience in both Europe and North America. Recently, he drove US business development activities for venture-backed Swyx Solutions, a leading German provider of SMB IP-PBXs. Prior to Swyx, he held senior business development, marketing and engineering roles at Nortel Networks, Sonoma Systems and NetPhone. He was a pivotal in the acquisition of NetPhone by Sonoma and subsequently by Nortel. Bob read Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nottingham University in the UK.