John Mutch has been at the forefront of disruptive technologies for decades as an investor, board member and business leader. Mutch became the CEO of BeyondTrust, an IT security company that secures administrative privileges in virtual and cloud environments, in 2008 after over 20 years of experience in empowering positive transformations at high-tech companies.
Prior to BeyondTrust, Mutch was a founder and managing partner of MV Advisors, LLC, a strategic block investment firm which provides focused investment and strategic guidance to small and mid-cap technology companies. Before founding MV Advisors, In March of 2003 Mr. Mutch was appointed by the U.S. Bankruptcy court to the Board of Directors of Peregrine Systems. He assisted that company in a bankruptcy work out proceeding and was named President and CEO in July of 2003. Mr. Mutch ran Peregrine Systems operating the company under an SEC consent decree, restating five years of operating results and successfully restructuring the company culminating in a sale to HP for $425 million dollars in December of 2005.
Prior to running Peregrine, Mr. Mutch served as President, CEO and a Director of HNC Software, an enterprise analytics software provider. Under his leadership, the company nearly doubled revenue and successfully spun out Retek in an IPO which returned more than $2.5 billion to shareholders. HNC Software was sold to Fair Isaac Corporation in August of 2002 for $825 million. Prior to HNC Software, Mr. Mutch spent seven years at Microsoft Corporation in a variety of executive sales and marketing positions. Mr. Mutch previously served on the boards of Edgar Online (NASDAQ:EDGR), Aspyra (Amex:APY), Overland Storage (Nasdaq:OVRL) and Brio Software.
He currently serves on the board of Adaptec Inc. (Nasdaq:ADPT) as a director designee of Steel Partners and the board of Agilysys (Nasdaq:AGYS) as a director designee of Ramius Capital. Mr. Mutch holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.S. from Cornell University where he serves on the advisory board for the undergraduate school of business.
| How to Steal Data from the Cloud |
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| An Easy Guide for IT Admins |
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John Mutch |
| I recently saw a media interview where they said everyone at RSA is talking about buying into the cloud and everyone at Black Hat is talking about how they’re hacking into it. Despite over 85 percent of IT professionals being worried about security in the cloud, 90 percent of virtualized environments have put their heavily regulated, mission-critical data on virtual servers. In other words, the cost benefits are so compelling, IT must turn a blind eye to the security shortcomings of their virtualized environment and march forth. |
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