The Management Team

Bob Cirrone is Courion's chief financial officer (CFO) and is responsible for the company's finance and accounting operations. As Courion continues to expand its worldwide operations in response to rapidly growing demand in the Enterprise Provisioning market, his strength in operations management and global operations, as well as financial management, are key components in accelerating Courion’s growth. With over 30 years of financial management experience, Bob has been the CFO of both private and public software and networking companies.

Prior to joining Courion Cirrone was the CFO of Connected Corporation, a $30M+ provider of automation software for storage, archiving and recovery of distributed data, which was acquired late last year by Iron Mountain. In prior positions, he was CFO of Shiva Corporation and InfoLibria, VP of Finance for Worldwide Audit for Sun Microsystems and VP of Operations for SunExpress. Cirrone received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Massachusetts and an MBA from Northeastern University.

As senior vice president of field operations, Bill Norberg is responsible for managing and scaling Courion’s field sales, channel sales and international operations to the next stage of the company’s growth. A key member of the executive team, Bill brings more than 30 years of technology sales experience and more than a decade of senior management experience.

In previous roles, he has demonstrated success in executing direct sales, channel and partner programs that significantly increased revenues. Prior to Courion, he was the vice president of world wide sales for Ibrix, Inc. where he instituted partner and channel programs that tripled company revenues from fiscal 2005 through fiscal 2006. As vice president of world wide sales at NSI Software, he managed to quadruple sales over a two year period. He has also served as vice president of sales at StorageNetworks, and held senior sales positions at Parametric Technology Corporation and Prime Computer. Bill is a graduate of Boston College.

As Vice President of Customer Solutions, Chris heads both the Solutions Engineering and Customer Management areas for Courion Corporation. Solutions Engineering is comprised of architects and engineers who work in pre and post-sales capacities to shape enterprise provisioning and compliance programs for some of the world's largest companies. Customer Management is accountable for customer success across the company. Chris is also responsible for building a sales consulting capability and defining and institutionalizing implementation methodologies to ensure customers realize rapid and lasting business results from their provisioning deployments. He applies best practices strategies developed from over 275 customer implementations and works directly with security and IT operations teams to ensure customer success.

Prior to joining Courion, Chris was president and co-founder of ISOLX, Inc., a provider of systems integration services. In this role, he directed all facets of business operations including business development, resource planning, operations, and delivery. Prior to founding ISOLX, Chris was a partner at Onsett International, a leading IT service and security consulting firm that provided strategic consulting to global institutions. At Onsett, he developed the e-business solutions, IT Operations, and Outsourcing Management practices. Before Onsett, Chris worked in a variety of product management, engineering, and research and development roles for international companies including Samsung, Schlumberger, Digital Equipment Corporation, and IBM. Chris received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University.

Tim McAlice directs all of Courion's software development activities, including software design, development, documentation, and quality testing of Courion's Enterprise Provisioning Suite.

Tim brings 20 years of software development and software management experience to Courion. Prior to joining Courion, Tim was the Vice President of Engineering at NetSuite Development Corporation, which pioneered the development of software products for network discovery, design, validation, and documentation. Tim directed the activities of engineering, support, quality assurance, and engineering services. He managed and scaled the engineering efforts for NetSuite's patented N'telligence technology, during NetSuite's astronomical 11x revenue growth across a two year period. He went on to play a key role in the eventual acquisition of NetSuite by Visionael Corporation. Previous to NetSuite, Tim held various leadership roles in both Data General, and Raytheon's, product development divisions. Tim holds a BSEE from the University of Rhode Island College of Engineering.

As vice president of services, Kathy Pugh is responsible for managing Courion's professional services, services partner management, technical support, and training. Kathy brings proven customer service and relationship management skills with deep financial services and compliance experience to this role. Her past experience in building scalable services organizations will be instrumental as Courion continues to grow.

Prior to joining Courion, Kathy was vice president of professional services for Charles River Development where she was responsible for professional services, training, hosting and outsourcing services. While at Boston Trust, an asset management firm, Kathy was their senior vice president and chief administrative officer responsible for operations, IT and trading. As regional vice president of professional services for Advent Software, Kathy led the services organization's successful re-engineering effort. Kathy holds a BA in economics from the College of the Holy Cross.