Our team is powered by security industry veterans and innovative thinkers. Meet the leadership team.

Kerry T. Bailey

Chief Executive Officer

A leader in growth and change, Kerry Bailey is an industry veteran with over 28 years experience in the information technology services sector. As CEO of eSentire, Kerry is driving the company's market acceleration and its evolution as the industry's leading Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service provider.

His executive experience spans security, managed services, and cloud computing at Fortune 50 and early-stage growth companies. Most recently, Kerry served as SVP, GM of Cloud, and Channel Chief at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). In these roles, he led the growth of private, public, and hybrid clouds and the worldwide indirect channel.

Prior to Hewlett Packard, Kerry held various senior executive roles at Verizon Enterprise including CEO and president of Terremark, a Verizon company, and leader in global managed security services, data center colocation, and cloud. Earlier roles include CEO of Betrusted and Security Assurance Group and various senior executive level positions at Cybertrust and the United States Intelligence Community (IC).

J. Paul Haynes

President and Chief Operating Officer

J. Paul Haynes was drawn to eSentire with a vision to create a disruptive cybersecurity company. He successfully partnered with growth capital firms to invest in and scale eSentire to become the world’s largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider and market leader. J. Paul is a professional engineer with a 25-year entrepreneurial track record of success. His business acumen, in-depth understanding of technology, and strong leadership have made him a respected and reliable voice on the topic of cybersecurity in North America and Europe.

J. Paul holds both a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Engineering from the University of Guelph. He is also a proud alumnus serving on the Industrial Advisory Board for the University of Guelph’s School of Engineering and is a Board Director for Innovation Guelph and Technation (formerly ITAC).

Matt Neisler

Chief Financial Officer

As eSentire’s Chief Financial Officer Matt leads the Business Operations Analytics and Reporting, Finance, Legal and internal security teams. Matt is a seasoned CFO with experience across public and private SaaS, IT and cybersecurity companies. Most recently, Matt led the FP&A team for RealPage where he was involved in several major operational and financial change initiatives. He has a proven track record of driving improved business results across his executive leadership positions held at Ansira, Trustwave, DXC Technology and HPE. Matt is a graduate of Illinois State University, completed his MBA at Southern Methodist University and continued his executive education in Mergers & Acquisitions at Columbia Business School.

Dustin Rigg Hillard

Chief Technology Officer

Dustin Rigg Hillard is responsible for leading product development and technology innovation, systems teams and corporate IT at eSentire. His vision is rooted in simplifying and accelerating the adoption of machine learning for new use cases.

Prior to eSentire’s acquisition of Versive, he was CTO at Versive, where he focused on automating security expertise and understanding normal network behavior through machine learning. Dustin was also an early data scientist for Microsoft’s Cortana and worked in ad-revenue and relevance at Yahoo! He has deep ML experience in speech recognition, translation, natural language processing, and advertising, and has published over 30 papers in these areas.

Dustin holds a Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington.

Chris Gesell

Chief Portfolio Officer

As Chief Portfolio Officer at eSentire, Chris Gesell has accountability for the full life cycle of services offerings and direct oversight of the marketing, product, and experience teams. Chris is a results-focused executive who brings more than 20 years of global leadership experience in IT services, including consulting, cloud, security, data center, and managed services. His experience in corporate strategy and executing mergers and acquisitions, along with setting the company's direction, will be critical to the next phase of eSentire’s growth.

Chris has a passion for IT transformation, distilling complex business challenges into innovative product strategies, and sales enablement. Most recently Chris served as VP of Worldwide Partner Strategy at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and CMO at Terremark, a Verizon company.

Erin McLean

Chief Marketing Officer

As Chief Marketing Officer, Erin McLean leads eSentire's global marketing and communications functions including all brand, corporate communications, media relations, analyst relations, and marketing operations. Prior to joining eSentire, Erin led Marketing and Human Resources for global Managed Security Services Provider, Herjavec Group. In 2020, she was named one of the Top 100 Women in Cybersecurity by Cyber Defense Magazine for her commitment to industry thought leadership, and take to market acceleration.

Erin is passionate about encouraging young women to pursue careers in cybersecurity. She created the Ambitious 7s program in partnership with the Durham District School Board to expose young female students to career paths in technology, and encourage them to build a supportive community around their common ambitions.

Erin is a driven competitor whose background in team sport has helped shaped her motivating approach to people leadership. She competed for 6 years as a member of Team Canada Softball and represented Canada in softball at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Erin holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from Simon Fraser University and a Masters of Business Administration from the Schulich School of Business.

Kathryn Hodge

Chief People Officer

Kathryn is a passionate people leader, keenly focused on organizational collaboration that drives innovative and positive employee programs. With more than 20 years of experience, Kathryn has led global HRBP teams primarily in R&D environments supporting software development, quality, product management, project management, and product marketing. She is tirelessly committed to driving enriched employment experiences.

Kathryn has led corporate-level HR Centers of Excellence focused on Talent Management, Global Learning, HR Communications, and Corporate Citizenship. Kathryn has held senior-level roles with companies including WellPoint Health, BlackBerry, and Nortel.

Matt Vitale

Chief Revenue Officer

Matt Vitale is responsible for the strategy and execution of achieving eSentire’s revenue goals with direct oversight of all revenue-generating activities, including go-to-market strategy and leading the worldwide sales organization.

Prior to eSentire, he served as President and General Manager of the Data Protection business unit at Quest Software. Prior to Quest, he led Dell Software’s global 500 sales organization as well as worldwide sales for data protection software. Vitale has also held executive sales leadership positions at Pentaho, Ingres, and VERITAS Software.

Vitale holds a bachelor’s degree of science in mechanical engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology and a master’s degree of business administration from the State University of New York.

Rahul Bakshi

Chief Product Officer

As Chief Product Officer, Rahul Bakshi leads eSentire’s Product Management teams to develop and execute on the product strategy. Rahul is an industry veteran who brings 20+ years of experience in cybersecurity, SaaS, cloud computing, and managed services.

Most recently, Rahul served as Senior Vice President, Product for Securonix, where they took the leader’s quadrant for Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for SIEM 3 times, launched new offerings in SOAR and XDR broadening the company’s total addressable market & competitive positioning, and worked with some of the largest security service providers to enable them to deliver MDR offerings. Prior to that, Rahul was VP Product at Alert Logic, where they grew to be a leader in Cloud Security and Security-as-a-Service. Additionally, Rahul has held leadership positions at SunGard and HungerRush with a proven track record of building and leading high-performing teams.

Rahul holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance from the University of Houston.

Greg Crowley

Chief Information Security Officer

Greg Crowley is an accomplished executive with over 20 years in Information Technology and Cybersecurity with extensive experience in managing enterprise security and mitigating risk for global hybrid networks. Greg believes that as a leader in the cyber world, being able to communicate and execute a strategic vision to defend and protect is the most important part of his role. Prior to joining eSentire, Greg oversaw the overall cybersecurity function as Vice President of Cybersecurity and Network Infrastructure at WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment). He spent over 17 years in various leadership roles across engineering, infrastructure and security within that organization. Greg holds a Bachelor's degree from Queens College. He is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Tia Hopkins

Chief Cyber Resilience Officer

As Chief Cyber Resilience Officer & Field CTO, Tia Hopkins is focused on engaging with the cybersecurity community, providing thought leadership, supporting strategic customer and partner engagements, and working closely with the sales, marketing, product, engineering, and customer success teams to drive security outcome-focused initiatives.

She has spent the past 20+ years of her career in various IT and IT Security roles and has over a decade of experience in the managed services space. Outside of her role at eSentire, Tia is also an adjunct professor of Cybersecurity at Yeshiva University and is currently pursuing her PhD in Cybersecurity Leadership.

Tia holds a B.Sc. in Information Technology, M.Sc. in Information Security and Assurance, as well as a M.Sc. in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance. She was recognized by SC Media as a 2019 Reboot Leadership Award recipient in the Outstanding Educator category. In 2020, Tia was awarded The Software Report’s Top 25 Women Leaders in Cybersecurity and the Cyber Defence Magazine’s Top 100 Women in Cybersecurity. She was also recognized in 2021 by IFSEC Global as a top global influencer in the Security Executives category.

Eldon Sprickerhoff

Founder and Advisor

Eldon Sprickerhoff is the original pioneer and inventor of what is now referred to as Managed Detection and Response (MDR). In founding eSentire, he responded to the incipient yet rapidly growing demand for a more proactive approach to preventing and investigating information security breaches. Now with over 20 years of tactical experience, Eldon is acknowledged as a subject matter expert in information security analysis.

Eldon holds a Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science degree from the University of Waterloo.

Bob Layton

Chief Channel Officer

As Chief Channel Officer, Bob Layton leads eSentire’s channel sales organization and partner strategy, with a focus on growing and expanding eSentire’s Partner Program globally.

Bob comes to eSentire with 25 years of experience in the technology industry, specifically in B2B and B2C sales, channels, and marketing. Across the last decade, he has driven transformation and international expansion through channel-leveraged strategies and has successfully created new strategy and execution models that have led to MRR growth and new routes to market in security, services and SaaS platforms. Immediately prior to eSentire, he helped drive the successful acquisition of Digital Defense by creating new paths to revenue with an ecosystem of partners, alliances, and technical integrations.

Bob has also held senior leadership positions where he was responsible for sales, channel and marketing at Alert Logic, Pluribus Networks, Lumenate, and Cisco. He has been recognized three times as Channel Chief by CRN magazine and has been published extensively in security and channel publications. When not advising venture-backed startups or serving as a board member to technology companies, he enjoys spending quality time with his wife and three children at their home in Austin, Texas.

Michael Corbin

Senior Vice President, Technical Operations

Michael Corbin leads teams responsible for service delivery, support center, and customer deployments. His focus is on supporting the end-to-end customer journey and customer on-boarding experience.

Before coming to eSentire Michael led Verizon’s Global Cloud and Security Solutions Engineering team where he focused on the customers’ business drivers to improve their security posture and deliver efficient computing platforms. He has also led the Verizon Business Client Care organization to become an extension of the customer’s IT organization insuring seamless planning and deployment of various IT initiatives.

Michael holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology and Business Management from Columbia Union College.

Larry Gagnon

Senior Vice President, Security Services & Incident Response

As Senior Vice President Security Services & Incident Response, Larry is responsible for shaping the eSentire Global Incident Response Program. He is a veteran of the digital forensics and incident response world, having accumulated over 21 years of experience leading the investigation of technology-based crimes.

Larry has completed many forensics training programs with the RCMP, OPP e-Crimes, FBI, National White-Collar Crime Committee and the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists as well as with several technology vendors. Larry is a Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (IACIS 2001), and GIAC Certified Incident Handler. He has extensive experience testifying as a qualified expert in both criminal and civil matters.

Shane Sharpe

Senior Vice President, Sales North America

As the Senior Vice President, Sales North America, Shane leads eSentire’s North American Sales and Sales Engineering Teams, with focus on go-to-market strategies and execution.

Shane has spent more than a decade, disrupting traditional Managed Service approaches, and rapidly scaling B2B sales teams. During his time in leadership, eSentire’s sales team has more than tripled in size and eSentire recognized scale from <$40M to >$100M in annual recurring revenue.

Shane studied Computer Engineering at Texas Tech University and resides in Austin Texas with his wife and children.

Megan Eckhardt

Senior Vice President, Go-To-Market Operations and Enablement

As Senior Vice President of Go-To-Market (GTM) Operations and Enablement, Megan leads the collaborative process that aligns efforts across the GTM, Sales Development, Sales Operations and Sales Enablement teams. She is responsible for unifying the planning and execution process across the GTM team and enabling and supporting the operational needs of the Sales organization. With 17 years experience in enterprise strategic account management, customer advocacy, customer experience and service management, Megan is fiercely committed to building and ensuring consistent growth across the organization.

Leslie Marinaro

Senior Vice President, Customer Success

As Senior Vice President, Customer Success, Leslie leads the Customer Success organization dedicated to providing an exceptional customer experience. Her organization is responsible for the successful onboarding of our customers, ongoing reviews and renewal of services. Leslie has been with eSentire for 5+ years and was the very first resource hired to onboard customers. She has continued to enhance the foundational strength of the Customer Success team to scale the business and market demands. With a history of always putting the customer first, Leslie continues to drive excellence throughout the organization.

Leslie is a graduate of Brock University where she studied International Business and really discovered her passion for connecting with people and companies across the globe.

Rob Watson

Senior Vice President, Security Services

As Senior Vice President Security Services, Rob leads the global security operations center (SOC) and managed risk services teams, responsible for delivery of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and complimentary security services. Rob joined eSentire eight years ago and has held numerous leadership roles helping to drive growth and scale. With experience in Sales, Technical Support, Customer Support, Operations, Project Management, Product Management, and Finance, Rob is a constant advocate for best-in-class customer security.

As a Graduate of Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Rob studied both Business Administration and Network Engineering.

Piers Morgan

Vice President, EMEA & International

Piers Morgan is a visionary business leader with a distinguished career in technology spanning more than 25 years, oscillating between start-ups and global IT, tech and SaaS companies. As VP of EMEA & International, Piers leads international expansion for eSentire.

Piers has enjoyed a distinct career leading sales and marketing teams at many global Enterprise corporations including Level 3 Communications acquired CenturyLink for $34B, Samsung, Dell Technologies and Savvis, who were also acquired by CenturyLink.

More recently Piers has applied his industry knowledge, contacts and GTM strategies contributing to the successful expansion of several UK and Silicon Valley based start-ups. These include Pulse Secure a $750m specialist SaaS security business, acquired by Ivanti, Eseye, the specialist IOT / AI solutions provider and Digital Defense a specialist Vulnerability Management corporation who were recently acquired by Helpsystems.

Art Munson

Vice President, Machine Learning

As Grand Poohbah of Data, Art is responsible for the application of machine learning across eSentire's technologies. Art's expertise is in combining machine learning (ML), statistics, large-scale data processing, and domain knowledge to find relevant results. He architected and built the core of the Versive automated ML platform, which was acquired by eSentire.

At Sandia National Laboratories, he researched the reliability of machine learning tools and developed novel algorithms to efficiently learn from massive data on Hadoop.

Art’s dissertation work at Cornell investigated practical modeling problems in the context of ecological modeling — specifically, the domain of modeling continent-wide populations of bird species using citizen science data. This work helped build the tools used in creating the U.S. Department of Interior’s State of the Birds reports. Art has 241 bird species on his life list.

Matthew Garrett

Vice President, Corporate Marketing

As Vice President, Corporate Marketing, Matthew Garrett leads eSentire’s digital demand generation, integrated brand campaigns, creative services, and content marketing strategy.

Prior to joining eSentire, Matthew served as Vice President of Field Marketing and Programs at Cyxtera, where he rapidly built and led a global marketing team focused on driving brand awareness, digital demand generation campaigns, and event marketing strategies tailored to support the cybersecurity, data center and bare metal portfolios. In previous roles at HPE, Verizon and Terremark, Matthew led the global marketing efforts to promote Cloud Computing, Virtualization, IT Infrastructure, and Managed Security.

Matthew holds a Bachelor of Science from Miami University where he studied Marketing, Spanish, and Latin American Studies.

Kristin Glover

Vice President, Field Marketing

As Vice President, Field Marketing, Kristin is responsible for driving brand awareness, regional marketing strategy, and lead generation across our global markets. Under Kristin’s leadership, the Field Marketing team leads efforts that allow eSentire to connect with cybersecurity leaders in market by working alongside the sales organization to drive value within the industry.

With over a decade of experience in the cybersecurity, Kristin has built and led high-performing teams across brand marketing, public relations, and global marketing campaigns that drive revenue growth and industry engagement.

Prior to joining eSentire, Kristin led Field Marketing and Public Relations for Cyderes (Herjavec Group), a global Managed Security Service Provider.

Kristin holds a Masters in Marketing Communications Leadership from York University, a Public Relations Certificate from Niagara College and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Windsor.

Ashlyn McLean

Vice President, Partner Development

As Vice President, Global Partner Experience, Ashlyn McLean leads eSentire’s global Partner Marketing and Channel Sales program.

Ashlyn has 15+ years of experience as a Channel and Marketing leader in the technology and cybersecurity industry with a proven track record of building and executing Go-To-Market (GTM) strategies for technology products and solutions. She has demonstrated expertise across the marketing function, including field marketing, channel & partner marketing, marketing operations, product marketing, and customer marketing. Prior to eSentire, Ashlyn held leadership roles at Digital Defense, CloudPassage, Tenable Network Security, and Cisco.

Ashlyn holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration - Marketing & Communication from Meredith College and a Master’s of Business Administration, Marketing & Innovation Management from North Carolina State University.