Hyper9 has been developed from the ground up by a team of executives who are anything
but new to the industry. With a combined 60+ years experience in growing billion
dollar businesses and launching dozens of technical products, our management team
comes with the deep market insight and innovative strategic vision to ensure that
Hyper9 reaches its potential.
Bill Kennedy|CEO & President
Bill is the CEO and President of Hyper9. A technology entrepreneur with over 25 years
of experience in software, Bill has been a founder of 3 successful software companies
and currently sits on the Board of Directors and the Board of Advisors for several
privately held software companies, including Bomgar Inc., SailPoint Inc., and Zenoss
Inc. A mathematician by training, Bill has managed software engineering teams, managed
operations for early stage start-up companies, and consulted with large federal agencies
in the area of digital security. Bill's career began with IBM Tivoli, where he was
Director of Engineering for Security Products. In January 2000, Bill co-founded Waveset
Technologies, directing R&D and engineering for the pioneering Identity Management company,
which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in late 2003. Following the Sun acquisition, Bill
served as Vice President of Identity Products for Sun, directing the work of cross-functional
teams on 3 continents. Bill has a Masters degree in Mathematics and Physics from the
University of Texas at Austin.
Chris Ostertag|SVP of Worldwide Sales
Chris is the founder and SVP of Worldwide Sales at Hyper9, and has more than 25 years of industry experience
in successfully delivering innovative and enterprise-class technologies to market.
Most recently, he served as VP of Worldwide Sales and field operations for Credant.
Prior to Credant, Chris led Sun’s worldwide team of more than 4,500 technical sales
experts. Chris joined Sun through its acquisition of Waveset Technologies, where
he was the SVP of Worldwide Sales. Prior to Waveset, Chris was at Tivoli, where
he grew sales from $3 million to more than $2 billion in less than five years. He
has also held various sales management and leadership positions with Bowstreet,
Parc Place Systems, Servio Logic Corporation, Oracle, and Informix. Chris holds
a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland.
Dave McCrory|Chief Technology Officer
Dave is the CTO and founder of Hyper9. He is an exceptional entrepreneur and world–renowned
expert in virtualization whose career spans more than 13 years in enterprise technology.
Prior to Hyper9, Dave was the Chief Scientist at Surgient, where he helped create
and develop many of the core technologies used to fuel current Surgient revenues.
Dave joined Surgient through its acquisition of ProTier, a pioneering virtualization
software company which he founded in May 1999. Dave has served in technology and
architecture roles at companies such as Sprint Paranet (now Sprint E-Solutions)
and General Electric. He holds five patents in server virtualization and management,
with three others pending, and is a co-author of the book Advanced Server Virtualization:
VMware and Microsoft Platforms in the Virtual Data Center.
