Management

Meet the Management Team

- NetFort Technologies

John Brosnan, Chief Executive Officer

John has extensive security and networking experience having worked as a Principal Engineer with Digital Equipment Corporation in Galway, London and New Hampshire for ten years. During this period he worked on a number of high-speed network interconnect projects specializing in low-level kernel programming. In 1996 he joined a start-up company, Asita Technologies, headquartered in Irvine California.

In 2002, John co founded NetFort Technologies, which has customers in Ireland, the UK and the USA.

John is a graduate of the University of Limerick (B. Eng Electronic Engineering (1986), M. Eng Computer Systems (1994) and has co authored two network design and security papers and is a member of the Irish Internet Association Security Working Group.

Michael Foster, Director Alliances, Partnerships and Marketing

Michael is responsible for strategic alliances and integations within netfort. As well guiding the Marketing and partnership strategy...

Until 2005, Michael served as an Executive Officer of Micromuse Inc (acquired by IBM Feb 2006), leading the engineering organization which included globally distributed teams for product development, testing, delivery and support. Responsible for setting the strategic technical direction and architecture of the Netcool© product portfolio. A strong leader and technologist with a proven track record of creating, implementing and managing global R & D operations. A results-focused strategist with a solid understanding of emerging technologies.

He holds a Bsc in Applied Mathematical Sciences from DCU, MSc in Computer Science from Loughborough University and a MBA from NUIG (1st class)

Morgan Doyle – Chief Technology Officer

With a background of over 10 years in Software development in the fields of High Performance Computing, Unix Clustering and Network Security, Morgan has a B.A a B.A.I and a M.SC in Engineering from Trinity College Dublin.

Between 1994-2000 he worked as part of Digital's High Performance Computing Group, developing message passing subsystems and associated software for Digitals TruCluster product (a highly available, load balancing cluster based on Digital's Tru64 Unix).

Morgan has experience of developing core components for Digital/Compaq Alpha Server SC, a large-scale computer cluster with cluster file system. Between 2000 and 2003, Morgan worked with Copperfasten Technologies as a software developer, joining NetFort Technologies in 2003.