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Marshal Management

Ed Macnair

Chief Executive Officer

Ed is chief executive officer of Marshal Limited and led the management buyout of the company from NetIQ in 2005. He has a strong commitment to driving Marshal’s product development and innovation and has played a key role in evangelizing the worldwide market for enterprise-level content management and security. Ed has more than 25 years’ sales and business development experience within the IT industry and has held senior management positions at MessageLabs, IBM and Xerox Corporation.

Bruce Green

Chief Operations Officer

Bruce brings almost thirty years’ experience in the IT Services and Communications sector to the Marshal business. He has a track record of building successful organizations and driving maximum performance through the implementation of commercially-focused financial and operational controls and processes. His previous roles include Head of Strategic Operations for BT Global services where he was responsible for aligning operational plans with strategic direction and overseeing corporate change programs; Group Controller for Syntegra , BT's Global Consulting and Systems Integration subsidiary; and Finance Director for BT(CBP) Ltd , a specialist provider of Trading Systems technology. Bruce has also worked as an independent consultant to Sprint EMI during its start up phase.

Ellynora Nicoll

Vice President of Marketing

Ellynora joined Marshal from Symantec where she was responsible for Global Strategic Alliances working with companies such as IBM Global Services, EDS, CSC, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte. She has worked in the IT industry for more than 15 years. Her previous roles include Marketing Director at MessageLabs where she was responsible for developing and implementing corporate marketing and go-to-market strategies. Ellynora has also held business development and marketing management roles in organizations including NDS and IBM Global Services.

Nick Hawkins

Vice President of Global Sales

Nick is responsible for driving Marshal’s global sales and channel strategies across all regions. He has extensive and proven experience in managing successful IT organizations and establishing key sales methodologies that yield outstanding results. In his prior role leading Marshal’s Asia-pacific teams, Nick consistently increased market share and revenues in the Australian, New Zealand and Asia-Pacific markets. Prior to joining Marshal, Hawkins was Vice President of Sales for MessageLabs Asia-Pacific where he set up the company’s Asia-Pacific operations and presence. Previously, he held management positions in business development with British Telecom and NDS, located in the UK and Hong Kong.

Jeremy Hulse

Vice President of Asia Pacific

Jeremy is responsible for sales, channel and business development strategy in Asia-Pacific. With 23 years of experience in the Information Technology industry in the Asia Pacific region, his capabilities range from successfully selling products, solutions and services and developing business units. Jeremy has considerable experience in large enterprises sales, service provider environments and a track record in delivering strong revenue pipelines across all sales disciplines. He joined Marshal from Oracle, where he held the position of APAC Director of Security and Identity Management, in the Consulting Division. Prior to Oracle, Jeremy was business manager for Security Services for Cisco, where he worked as part of their worldwide security practice.

Michael Clifford

Vice President of EMEA

Michael is responsible for EMEA Sales. Before joining Marshal, he was Sales Director for the UK and Ireland at Trend Micro, where he drove the company’s Enterprise Protection Strategy was responsible for growing revenues by 45 per cent over a two year period. He has been working in the content security industry for more than 15 years, working in senior management roles for start-up organizations as well as global multi-million pound companies. Prior to joining Trend Micro, he held senior management positions in a number of IT companies including his role as regional sales director EMEA for Network Associates and Remedy Corporation.

Steve Sheinbaum

Vice President of Americas

Steve is responsible for driving sales and channel and business development strategy for Marshal's Americas operations. He joined Marshal from CipherTrust, where he served as channel vice president. In that role, he developed and implemented a two-tier channel/distribution model and helped drive channel and distribution strategy. Prior to CipherTrust, Steve also held positions with Nokia, Sony Electronics, Inc. and NEC Information Systems, Inc. He brings nearly 24 years of technology experience to the role, ten of which were spent in senior channel management roles. In 2006, Steve was recognized by VARBusiness as one of the Top 100 Channel Executives in 2006.

 

Technology Strategy Team

 

Peter Hodges

Chief Software Architect

Peter has worked with Marshal Software since its inception in 1997. Peter was Chief Technology Officer and Director of Marshal Software until the company was acquired by NASDAQ-listed NetIQ in 2002. During that time, Peter was responsible for all developmental aspects of Marshal's product line and he re-joined Marshal in January 2006 following its MBO from NetIQ.

Kevin McFall

Chief Technology Strategist

Kevin is an IT veteran and brings 26 years industry experience to his role as Chief Technology Strategist. He also has worked with Marshal Software since 1997 and was a Director of Marshal Software until the company was acquired by NASDAQ-listed NetIQ in 2002.  Together with Peter, Kevin was responsible for the developmental aspects of Marshal's product line until he re-joined Marshal in January 2006. Kevin drives the inbound product management team. This includes direction of development of existing and new technologies within the Marshal product sets, and input to overall product strategy.

Chris Nel

Vice President of Development

Chris has almost 2 decades of IT experience in roles covering software project management and development, business analysis, enterprise architecture and business management. He is responsible for expanding and leading Marshal's software development capability and he brings best-practices and a high level of professionalism to our development endeavors. Prior to joining Marshal, Chris held positions including GuruHut, Software Futures, FutureWorks and Optifab in South Africa.

Bradley Anstis

Vice President of Products

Bradley is responsible for driving the continuing development, innovation and improvement of Marshal solutions. He also heads up the Threat Research and Content Engineering team (TRACE) which provides round the clock monitoring of email and Internet traffic, ensuring that Marshal keeps pace with emerging security trends and market requirements and provides solutions that protect customers from the latest threats to their electronic communications. Bradley is a 20 year veteran of the IT industry and has held various technical management positions with Protocom Development Systems and Citrix in Asia Pacific.