ABOUT US

Kate Hartshorn

Vice President of Legal Affairs

Since 2017, Kaitlin has provided crucial legal navigation to Protegrity. Kaitlin is a member of the New York and Florida Bar, and with her years of experience in enterprise affairs, Kaitlin now leads all legal affairs at Protegrity, delivering, executing, and leading Protegrity’s legal team to ensure lawful business conduct. Previously, she served as Assistant General Counsel at Health Care Navigator, which provides consulting services in the post-acute and long-term care sectors throughout the United States. When she’s not handling all corporate governance for the company, she’s exercising her skills in drafting and negotiating commercial contracts that mitigate Protegrity’s business risks.

In her free time, Kaitlin can be found spending time with her puppies.

Paul Mountford

Chief Executive Officer

Paul Mountford joined Protegrity in 2021 as Chief Executive Officer and brings more than 30 years of experience in global software and technology innovation to the data security sector.

Paul recently served as the COO at Pure Storage, one of the fastest-growing cloud data storage enterprises today, and has held several senior executive positions at Cisco Systems, including heading their Worldwide Channels, Emerging Markets, and Global Enterprise business.

Following that, he was CEO of Riverbed Technology and Sentillian Inc. He has also served in advisory and non-exec directorships with public and privately held companies.

When not leading global data security efforts, Paul can be found playing golf, strumming his guitar, or watching Premiership soccer.

Mark Novakovich

Chief Financial Officer

Mark has been a crucial part of Protegrity’s growth, bringing extensive global financial and accounting leadership to the world of data security. His career experience focuses on technology companies spanning the life cycle from start-up to growing public entity, which has contributed greatly to Protegrity’s financial growth.

Most recently, Mark was part of the leadership team that guided Control4 into becoming the market leader in professionally installed smart home systems. With his leadership contributions, he would take Control4 public in 2013. Mark then sold the business to a private-equity firm in a $680 million all-cash take-private transaction.

When Mark is not changing the world with his impressive financial leadership, he enjoys flaunting his Red Sox Jersey to friends and other sports memorabilia collectors.

Jeffrey Breen

Chief Product Officer

Jeffrey Breen is an experienced technology executive focused on helping companies derive business value from “big data” and analytics. Always on the lookout for innovative and appropriate applications of new technologies, Jeffrey oversees all things at Protegrity related to technology innovation and strategy.

A long-time consultant and advisor, he spent five-plus years as VP, Global Analytics Strategy, at Think Big Analytics.

When not creating data security solutions, he might be found sailing or up in the clouds as an instrument-rated private pilot and FAA-certified ground instructor.

Brad Rouse

Chief Revenue Officer

Brad brings more than 30 years of sales and marketing leadership experience to Protegrity.
After receiving his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northwest University, he started his career at IBM. Brad then moved on to lead sales teams at Entrust, Ping Identity, and Gemalto among others, helping to grow these enterprises through strong leadership and customer relations.

Working with high-acceleration startups and larger enterprise technology players has given him the experience to build highly effective revenue teams that deliver innovative solutions to customers. He implements the same, effective strategies at Protegrity today.

When he’s not traveling the world, Brad enjoys spending time with his family.

Anton van Deth

Chief Marketing Officer

Anton is a true global marketer with over 30 years’ experience delivering customer journeys that improve decision making for complex products and services.

He has developed groundbreaking programs in Australia, Japan, France, Germany, the UK and the US.  Anton has changed the way companies like Apptio, Informatica, Red Hat and Symantec leverage disruptive innovation to stand out in crowded enterprise markets.

He believes that marketing works best when it serves instead of sells, and focuses on the outcomes made possible using the products and services being offered.

On weekends you’ll find him flying planes, racing or tinkering with cars, kicking up sawdust in the workshop, being crushed at chess by his eldest son or shooting pool with his wife.

Terri McBride

Chief People Officer

Terri has extensive experience in human capital, transformational change, organization design, talent management, and performance management. Prior to joining Protegrity, Terri spent the majority of her career with the management consulting firms of A.T. Kearney and McKinsey & Company.

Originally from the United States, she has worked in Australia, Japan, and Germany, creating high-performing cultures for global enterprises. She now resides in London, United Kingdom. Terri holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University.

When she’s not enabling individuals and organizations to deliver strategic and operational results, Terri can be found exercising her impressive rock climbing skills.

Dante Malagrino

Chief Technology Officer

Dante is a seasoned leader in the high-tech industry, passionate about technology and always aiming at learning new things. He has a Ph.D. from Politecnico di Torino in Italy and has been in leadership roles in the high-tech industry for over 25 years. He is an entrepreneur at heart who founded a VC-backed startup in Silicon Valley and still advises many entrepreneurs in the early stages of their journeys.

Dante recently completed a Master’s in Information and Data Science at the University of California in Berkeley.  

He is also a certified group exercise instructor and a professionally trained pizzaiolo that won a silver medal at the 2022 Pizza Olympics in Naples.

Jon Gleich

Global VP of Professional Services

Jon brings 25 years of experience in Software Development, Architecture, and Technology Leadership in the Security, Data and Analytics sectors as Head of our Professional Services and Learning organizations.

Throughout his career, Jon has focused on helping companies get maximum value from their technology investments — a mission that continues today.  Originally from the U.S., Jon has spent the past 15 years leading International and Global teams from his home in Dublin, Ireland.

Kate Hartshorn

Vice President of Legal Affairs

Since 2017, Kaitlin has provided crucial legal navigation to Protegrity. Kaitlin is a member of the New York and Florida Bar, and with her years of experience in enterprise affairs, Kaitlin now leads all legal affairs at Protegrity, delivering, executing, and leading Protegrity’s legal team to ensure lawful business conduct. Previously, she served as Assistant General Counsel at Health Care Navigator, which provides consulting services in the post-acute and long-term care sectors throughout the United States. When she’s not handling all corporate governance for the company, she’s exercising her skills in drafting and negotiating commercial contracts that mitigate Protegrity’s business risks.

In her free time, Kaitlin can be found spending time with her puppies.