Gary Fish
Chief Executive Officer
Gary Fish is founder and CEO of Secure Passage LLC., headquartered in Overland Park,
Kansas, and of FishNet Security Inc., headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. With
over two decades of experience in the information technology field he is regarded
as a pioneer in the information security industry. Fish has a successful track record
in creating prosperous companies with the founding of FishNet Security Inc. in 1996
and Secure Passage in 2004. Under Fish’s leadership, FishNet Security has become
the largest and most successful Information Security Solutions Provider in the United
States.
Fish has demonstrated his strengths as an entrepreneur and leader through organic
growth, acquisitions, and fundraising activities. Fish has successfully acquired
multiple competitors within the information security market and has successfully
integrated them into FishNet Security. An industry recognized leader, Fish successfully
raised $112 million dollars in private placements from two private equity firms.
Fish actively serves on the boards for numerous national and global technology companies
and actively participates as an Angel Investor and advisor to growth stage entrepreneurial
companies. In 1999, he was named as one of the Top 25 Executives for the new millennium
in computer-related fields. In 2001, Ernst & Young honored him as the Technology
Entrepreneur of the Year and in 2010 Fish was named a Security Superstar by CRN.
Fish holds a degree in electronics from DeVry University and is certified in many
areas of technology and business. He also served in the Army and National Guard.
Jody Brazil
President and Chief Technology Officer
As Founder and CTO of Secure Passage, Jody Brazil is a seasoned entrepreneur with
two decades of executive management experience and deep domain expertise in all
aspects of networking, including network security design, network security assessment,
and security product implementation.
Before joining Secure Passage in 2004, Brazil spent eight years at FishNet Security,
serving as their Chief Technology Officer, where he was responsible for providing
direction for solutions to their customers. Previously, he was president and founder
of Beta Technologies, a Network Services and Internet Application Development company.
A few of Brazil’s major accomplishments include his implementation of the first
load balanced deployment of Check Point firewall software in 1997. A year later
he engineered the security solution that allowed, for the first time, the transfer
of criminal history data over the Internet as approved by the FBI. Brazil then released
the first ever graphical firewall policy change view in 2001 and the first ever
firewall rule usage analysis application in 2004.
Brazil holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Kansas State University.
Alin Srivastava
Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing
Alin Srivastava holds deep domain expertise in IT security analysis and compliance
solutions, experience in building high performance sales teams and a proven track
record of generating positive revenue growth. He brings 14 years of security industry
sales experience to Secure Passage.
Before joining Secure Passage, Srivastava directed strategic accounts at Crossbeam
Systems, a company that provides enterprise and carrier-class unified threat management
solutions. There he was responsible for increasing strategic account revenue with
consistent sales growth. Prior to that he served at Nokia for six years where he
was accountable for all business activities in the central United States region
as well as Mexico. Before that he was channel manager at several leading security
organizations and computer networking firms including RSA Security/Security Dynamics,
Trusted Information Systems, Lantronix and Emulex.
Srivastava holds a Management Information Systems Degree and minors in Business
Administration and Computer Science from Oklahoma State University.
Tim Woods
Vice President, Customer Technology Services
Tim Woods has over two decades of experience in information security and data technology.
With a proven track record of leading sales teams to success and deep domain expertise
in security and technology he is a driving force of many thriving companies.
Before joining Secure Passage, Woods spent three years at Crossbeam Systems Inc.,
a company that transforms the way enterprises, service providers, and government
agencies architect and deliver security service. There he was responsible for technical
recruitment, and developing a top notch sales engineering team. Previously, Woods
was the Security Engineer manager for Nokia Enterprise Solutions, where he managed
the pre-sales technical resources and led a team of sales engineers supporting security
and mobile enterprise sales. He spent ten years at Intrusion.com where he managed
and supervised all aspects of technical personnel selection and department administration.
Woods enjoys educating people on new and emerging technologies and has been a technical
presenter and corporate speaker for seminars, technology conferences and sponsored
events.
Woods proudly served 8 years in the Naval Intelligence community and attended the
University of Maryland majoring in Information Systems.