Senior Management
| Jeff Hawn | Chairman, President, and CEO |
| Charles Sansbury | Chief Financial Officer |
| Jay Gardner | Senior Vice President and General Manager, NetIQ Business Unit |
| Bob Flynn | General Manager and Senior Vice President, Host Connectivity Business Unit |
| Thomas W. Hull | Vice President, Attachmate and NetIQ North America Sales |
| Roberto (Rob) Reiner | Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering, NetIQ Business Unit |
| Ron Hardy | Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, NetIQ Business Unit |
| Ron Milton | Vice President of Customer Value Realization, NetIQ Business Unit |
Jeff Hawn
Chairman, President, and CEO
As chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Attachmate, Jeff Hawn is responsible for identifying the company's corporate direction and business strategies.
Jeff's management tenure includes multiple senior-level positions relative to the mainframe software market. Before joining Attachmate, Jeff was an operating partner with JMI Inc. and led the firm's private equity acquisition and operating activities. Prior to his work at JMI, Jeff was senior vice president at BMC Software, where he held several key management positions. Additionally, he has served as a partner at the global consulting firm of McKinsey & Company. Jeff is an active member on several boards.
Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Southern Methodist University, and a master of business administration degree from the University of Texas.
Charles Sansbury
Chief Financial Officer
Charles Sansbury is Attachmate's chief financial officer, overseeing worldwide finance and operations for the $400 million company. He brings more than 15 years of experience in strategic, financial, and operational leadership to Attachmate.
Prior to joining Attachmate, Charles served as CFO for Vignette Corporation, a publicly-traded provider of enterprise content management software. He also served as Vignette's senior vice president of corporate development, where he was responsible for the company's mergers, acquisitions, and strategic financing initiatives. Before Vignette, Charles was a principal in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Morgan Stanley, specializing in the software, professional services, and semiconductor industries.
Charles holds a master of business administration degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University.
Jay Gardner
Senior Vice President and General Manager, NetIQ Business Unit
Jay Gardner leads the NetIQ Business Unit and is responsible for engineering, product management, marketing, technical support, sales and operational functions as well as the unit's market vision and business strategy. He brings over thirty years of experience in sales, marketing, business development and technology strategy to the organization. Prior to joining Attachmate, Gardner served as a venture advisor for DFJ Mercury. He is also an 18-year BMC Software veteran, where he served in a variety of positions, including vice president and general manager of the BMC On Demand business unit and CIO. Prior to the CIO role, he held a series of sales and worldwide operations positions that supported the company's significant year over year growth.
Mr. Gardner holds an M.B.A and a bachelor's degree in business administration from Texas Christian University.
Bob Flynn
General Manager and Senior Vice President, Host Connectivity Business Unit
An Attachmate executive team member for over 10 years, Bob Flynn oversees the company's host connectivity business unit as general manager, providing daily leadership and operational oversight. Bob also serves as senior vice president of global sales, a role that spans the company's host connectivity and systems and security management business units.
Prior to joining Attachmate, Bob held multiple senior-level positions during his nearly 20-year career at IBM. In his tenure there, Bob contributed to the consulting, business process reengineering, and availability services divisions. His roles included leading global, multi-million-dollar consulting engagements at Fortune 100 companies, directing and redefining key internal processes at IBM, and managing a region-wide, $500 million availability services division.
Bob holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Oregon State University.
Thomas W. Hull
Vice President, Attachmate and NetIQ North America Sales
A seasoned sales executive, Tom Hull leads North American sales efforts for Attachmate and NetIQ as vice president. In this role, Tom guides the direct sales force, field technical resources, and the company's relationships with channel partners, overseeing selling activities for approximately 200 employees within Attachmate's sales organizations.
Since joining the company in 2003, Tom has served in various executive roles, including vice president of worldwide sales for WRQ prior to its 2006 merger with Attachmate. Tom also served as vice president of sales for GoAhead Software, Inc., where he managed sales, business development, and client service organizations. He has held sales management positions at several companies, including IBM Corporation, RealNetworks, and Sequent Computer Systems.
Tom received his Bachelor of Arts degree in government from Dartmouth College.
Roberto (Rob) Reiner
Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering, NetIQ Business Unit
Rob Reiner is the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering for NetIQ and has been a part of the team since 2001. Rob is responsible for the technical direction and development of NetIQ Performance, Security and Administration products. Under his direction, NetIQ has adopted a strategic development process in order to maximize adoption, usability and efficiency of NetIQ solutions.
Before joining the team, Rob spent six years at BMC Software in various research and development roles, including Director of Engineering responsible for Patrol and BMC Core infrastructure. He joined PentaSafe as Vice President of Engineering; when NetIQ acquired PentaSafe, Rob continued as Vice President of the Security product line and was promoted to CTO in 2005.
Rob has a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the University of Houston.
Ron Hardy
Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, NetIQ Business Unit
Ron Hardy is the Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for NetIQ and has been a part of the team since summer 2009. His teams are responsible for the overall product strategy, pricing and packaging and future direction of NetIQ products and solutions as well as all their global marketing and promotion through various channels, including global sales teams, web marketing, social media, channel partners industry analysts and the media.
Ron has successfully defined, launched and supported many enterprise software products spanning multiple IT disciplines such as Application, Virtualization, Security, Network, Storage and IT Service Management with companies such as BBN Communications, Sterling Software, Intellitactics and Progress Software.
Ron has a bachelor's degree in Economics from the Hartwick College.
Ron Milton
Vice President of Customer Value Realization, NetIQ Business Unit
Ron Milton, vice president of Customer Value Realization, is responsible for leading professional services, technical support, education and training programs as well as online communities at NetIQ. In this capacity, Milton helps extend NetIQ's value proposition to current and prospective customers.
With over 25 years in the technology industry, Milton joined NetIQ from International Data Group (IDG), where he drove operations and strategy for Computerworld, InfoWorld and ITWorld as their executive vice president. He also served as chairman of the board of trustees for the Computerworld IT Awards Foundation. Previously, Milton has also held a variety of Marketing, Sales and Channel Management positions at GLA Computer Systems and Bull HN Information Systems.
Ron Milton holds a graduate diploma for Strategic Marketing Management from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Concordia University.
