Management Team

Mark Hatton, President and Chief Executive Officer
John O´Brien, Executive Vice President of Corporate Operations and CFO
Milan Shah, Senior Vice President of Products and Engineering
Patricia C. Foye, Senior Vice President of Marketing
Stephen Pace, Senior Vice President of Sales and Services
Pablo Setuain, Vice President and General Manager of South American Operations
Flavio de Cristofaro, Vice President of Engineering for Professional Products

Mark Hatton

President and Chief Executive Officer

As president, CEO and member of the board of directors, Mark Hatton is responsible for setting Core Security’s strategic direction and overseeing the company’s day-to-day operations.

With over 20 years of progressively diverse general management, sales and operations experience, Hatton has established a proven track record for generating revenue, building operations and providing successful leadership and direction. He has held senior roles with companies ranging from venture capital-backed, early-stage software vendors to a Fortune 500 information technology services and distribution organization.

Prior to joining Core Security, Hatton was president of North American operations for Sophos. During his tenure, he was instrumental in significantly growing the company’s North American business and transforming the company into the one of the fastest growing and largest independent security vendors in the industry

Hatton holds an MBA from Boston University, Massachusetts and a BA Communication from Westfield State College, Massachusetts. In 2006, he was inducted as a member into the prestigious Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), which includes more than 10,000 young global leaders in 80 nations.

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John O´Brien

Executive Vice President of Corporate Operations and CFO

As Executive Vice President of Corporate Operations and CFO, John O’Brien is responsible for management of Core’s financial and administrative functions as well as leadership of the Company’s day-to-day business operations.

O’Brien comes to Core with more than 25 years of financial and operations management experience in the high-technology sector. Prior to joining Core, O’Brien served as EVP and CFO for Macgregor, Inc., a privately-held provider of software and connectivity services to the investment management industry, where he played an integral role in growing the company and its eventual sale to ITG, a financial services technology provider. O’Brien also served as CFO for Exchange Applications, Inc., a leading provider of analytic CRM solutions. Under O’Brien’s leadership, Exchange Applications successfully went from a private to a publicly-held company.

Earlier in his career, O’Brien held various senior-level financial management positions at Computervision Corporation, Wang Laboratories, Avid Technology and Advanced Modular Solutions. He began his career with Ernst & Whinney (now Ernst & Young).

O’Brien is a CPA and holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in accounting from Northeastern University.

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Milan Shah

Senior Vice President of Products and Engineering

As SVP Products and Engineering, Milan Shah drives Core Security’s product management and development functions. His primary focus is on building and evolving a suite of innovative Security Testing and Measurement (STM) products, including enterprise-class productivity applications, SaaS solutions, and specialized STM offerings for corporate, government and military organizations.

Prior to joining Core, Shah served as vice president of engineering in the Identity and Access Management group at CA where he led the engineering of products acquired via the Netegrity acquisition. Prior to CA, Mr. Shah was the vice president of engineering at IMLogic where he was a founding team member and contributed to the development of enterprise-class server solutions before the company was acquired by Symantec, and before that as development manager in Microsoft’s Exchange product group.

Shah graduated from The University of Illinois with a degree in Computer Engineering and also holds a masters degree in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Patricia C. Foye

Senior Vice President of Marketing

As Senior Vice President of Marketing, Patti Foye is responsible for driving high-impact initiatives across all marketing disciplines including corporate, product, industry, partner and field marketing. With over 25 years of executive experience in technology marketing, sales and operations, Patti has a proven track record of building innovative marketing strategies that spur market share growth and heightened brand awareness. She has held executive roles with technology organizations ranging from Fortune 500 enterprises, to both small and mid-sized private and publicly traded companies.

Prior to joining Core Security, Foye served Progress Software as Vice President of Product Marketing, MRO Software as Executive Vice President of Global Marketing and Alliances(successfully acquired by IBM), QAD as Vice President/General Manager, Global Industrial and Electronics Business Unit, Marcam as Vice President of Marketing, Digital Equipment Corporation as Vice President/General Manager, Global Utilities Business Unit and executive roles at HMS Software, Allenbrook, Inc. and Compugraphic.

Patti graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell (formerly the University of Lowell) with a Bachelors of Arts and serves on several non-profit boards.

Stephen Pace

Senior Vice President of Sales and Services

Steve Pace is responsible for overseeing Core Security’s global sales, services and support initiatives. Steve has more than 20 years experience in information technology, including enterprise software, network management, storage management, security management, and managed application and data center services.

Prior to Core Security, he served as senior vice president of worldwide operations for ChosenSecurity, a leading provider of on-demand digital identity services where he was responsible for all sales, marketing, support, and service operations. He also was vice president of worldwide sales with GeoTrust, where he was responsible for direct and channel sales efforts, leading the company though an explosive growth phase that culminated in its acquisition by VeriSign.

Steve’s experience also includes executive roles at application service provider, Surebridge, Inc., where he built the sales and marketing organization from the company’s founding through its sale to NaviSite, Inc. He continued with responsibility for worldwide sales and marketing at NaviSite, where he directed the integration of sales and marketing efforts across multiple lines of business, including Software as a Service (SaaS), Microsoft Business Solutions, Oracle/JDE/Siebel and PeopleSoft applications – growing each unit to record levels within the company. Steve also gained extensive sales, marketing and operational management experience while at Seagate Software, Wall Data, NetScout and IBM.

Steve graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with honors and a degree in Electrical Engineering, and he also studied at the University of Arizona while at IBM. He also serves on the Customer Advisory Board with the College of Information and Technology at Penn State.

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Pablo Setuain

Vice President and General Manager of South American Operations

Pablo Setuain is responsible for the daily management of Core Security’s Buenos Aires offices, where he oversees the company’s consulting and research & development organizations in addition to the regional human resources and IT operations teams.

Prior to joining Core, Setuain worked at MercadoLibre, the largest e-commerce platform provider in Latin America, where he served as Vice President of Advertising, responsible for leading and developing MercadoLibre's entire advertising business.

Before assuming that role, Pablo was the Director of Finance of Amazon.com at its worldwide headquarters in Seattle. Setuain initially oversaw the retail and marketplace business for Amazon’s Electronics & General Merchandise categories, and later led the company’s Worldwide Business and Corporate Development finance team.

Setuain holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Universidad Catolica Argentina and an MBA from The Wharton School.

Flavio de Cristofaro

Vice President of Engineering for Professional Products

As Vice President of Engineering for Professional Products, Flavio de Cristofaro oversees the design, development and testing of CORE Security professional products. His primary focus is on building and evolving CORE Impact Pro as well as introducing new professional products into the marketplace.

Mr. de Cristofaro has over 10 years of experience in penetration testing and IT security, having led onsite and remote penetration testing engagements for several clients worldwide. Prior to joining the Engineering team, he led the CORE Security Consulting Services practice where he coordinated leading-edge penetration testing services for multiple global organizations and drove 50% year-over-year growth in services revenue. Prior to joining CORE, he worked at Deloitte leading one of the global penetration testing centers located in Argentina. He also taught at ITBA University in Argentina until 2004.

Flavio graduated as an Electronics Engineer from Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires Argentina and holds an MBA from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.