RESTON, Va - Jan 2, 2017 - MantisNet, a solutions-based company producing real-time network insight and defense through continuous monitoring of live traffic and advanced cyber security systems, announced today the addition of Peter Dougherty as Chief Executive Officer of MantisNet. In his role as CEO, Peter will oversee MantisNet’s operations, manage the sales and development teams and function as a driving force in new business acquisition.
Most recently, Peter served as Vice President at Coalfire Systems, Inc, a Carlyle Group portfolio company providing cyber risk management and IT-GRC services. Throughout his duration at Coalfire, he served as VP of Product Management and Business Development, Practice Development and Marketing, In addition, Peter was the Founder, President and CEO of OnPath Technologies, the leading provider of ultra-scalable networking and monitoring solutions for high-performance cloud infrastructure. Peter juggled responsibilities of all aspects of the business from ideation, business plan development, obtaining VC and debt financing, building the leadership team, company launch, P&L management, governance and growth resulting in the successful exit to NetScout Systems.
“Peter is a leader, entrepreneur and technologist,” commented Kevin Fecher, President and Co-Founder of MantisNet. “He is passionate about building, leading, mentoring, and working with great teams taking on complex challenges. His unique expertise in strategic business development, product management and marketing, coupled with his vast understanding of the technology field, make him the ideal candidate for MantisNet. He is determined to showcase our innovative product offerings strategically, and we are eager to have him lead the company into deeper dimensions of success.”
“MantisNet is at the forefront of metadata and streaming network analytics technologies that are radically changing the way organizations deploy, manage, monitor and secure their network infrastructure,” said Peter Dougherty. “I am honored at the opportunity to usher them into a new season of company partnerships and customer acquisition.”
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About MantisNet (www.MantisNet.com)
MantisNet develops Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) network intelligence solutions that provide businesses and governments real-time network monitoring solutions, for 100G speeds and beyond. MantisNet’s solutions better enable network teams to monitor, manage and engineer the increase in network traffic flows they’re experiencing compared to traditional packet brokers, firewalls and event management solutions. We offer end-to-end visibility through wire-speed network monitoring and protocol analysis (from the L2 to L7 layers) and provide the capability for real-time engineering and remediation to act on network threats such as operational issues, threats, fraud, and malicious activities, either manually or autonomously. Our solutions are deployed at leading telecom, service providers, NEM labs and government sites. We work to make network intelligence actionable for a broad range of DevOps, network and application performance testing, streaming analytics, and cyber security applications. For more information, visit https://www.MantisNet.com
