ServiceNow CEO Frank Slootman and Industry Veteran David Strohm Join Imperva’s Board
Imperva, a pioneer and leader of a new category of data security solutions for high-value business data in the data center, yesterday announced the addition of ServiceNow CEO Frank Slootman and industry veteran David Strohm to Imperva’s Board of Directors, effective August 9th.
“Frank and David bring valuable experience to our Board of Directors,” said Shlomo Kramer, CEO of Imperva, Inc. “Both have significant experience to help Imperva build and strengthen its position in the data security market. We welcome them in their new roles.”
Currently, Slootman is the CEO of ServiceNow, a leader in cloud-based IT infrastructure management which was recently named byInc. 500 as one of the fastest-growing companies in the world. Prior to ServiceNow, as the CEO of Data Domain, Slootman blazed new trails creating a high-growth enterprise storage company that went public on NASDAQ in 2007. “Frank helped build DataDomain into one of the most successful and innovative enterprise infrastructure companies, shepherding the company through its 2007 IPO as well as its acquisition by EMC for $2.4 billion in 2009,” explained Kramer. “His guidance and experience will prove invaluable to Imperva.”
Previously, Slootman was senior vice president of product operations at Borland Software where he ran the company's engineering and product management function. Additionally, Slootman spent seven years at Compuware as general manager of UNIFACE in Amsterdam and general manager of the EcoSystems division in Campbell, Calif. Slootman holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Netherlands School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam in his native Holland.
Dave Strohm has been an early or founding investor in more than 30 companies, including more than a dozen which have become publicly-traded, including Mentor Graphics (NASD: MENT), Ascend Communications (NASD: ASND), Legato (NASD: LGTO), Forte Software (NASD: FRTE), Doubleclick (NASD:DCLK), Internet Security Systems (NASD:ISSX), and SuccessFactors (NYSE: SFSF). A number of other early investments have achieved successful mergers, including ccMail (Lotus/IBM); Kiva Software (Netscape/Sun); Octane Software (ePiphany); Decru (Network Appliance); and Wily (Computer Associates).
“For the past 31 years, Dave has been a savvy entrepreneur who has been involved in building numerous public companies,” noted Kramer. “Few people in the Valley enjoy this level of experience.” Strohm is actively involved with seven private companies (AtHoc, BountyJobs, Matrixx Software, OpenDNS, Progreso Financiero, Rich Relevance, and Tabula). Strohm has also been a Board member at EMC (NYSE: EMC) since 2003, and Lead Director since 2006, and at VMWare (NYSE: VMW) since 2007. Strohm is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard BusinessSchool.
Meanwhile, Tal Be'ery, Web Research Team Leader at Imperva’s Application Defense Center (ADC) has updated the Imperva blog with his take on website, rankmyhack.com
Rank My Hack
Many sites have been set up over the years to help rank and rate variousthings. Now hackers have their own version: RankMyHack.com:
“Welcome to RankMyHack.Com. The worlds first elite hacker ranking system. Submit proof of your website hacks in exchange for Ranking Points that earn you a place on the leaderboard of legends. The bigger the site, the bigger the points. Then use your points to duel with other hackers and protect your legacy in one on one digital combat. So have you got what it takes to be the best?”
So far more than 1000 sites were hacked in this competition – including very high profile ones. Currently, as of this writing, the top hack goes to a hacker who broke into theHuffington Post (does this mean good hackers are Republicans?).
Can we be sure that everything in this list is real? We can't. But there's a good chance that many of them are.
Follow the Imperva blog for the full story:http://blog.imperva.com/