Joe Wang, CEO of WatchGuard Technologies, has a proven track record of growing businesses and generating tremendous returns during his 20 years in the high technology marketplace. Prior to joining WatchGuard, Wang was the CEO of LANDesk Software, an Intel spin-off, where he grew the company by 150% in four years. He successfully sold LANDesk Software for over $400m, generating significant returns for shareholders. Prior to LANDesk, Wang was vice president and general manager of Symantec's Enterprise Administration Division, a business unit with $230m in annual sales. Before joining Symantec, Wang was CEO of 20/20 Software. He built the company from conception to a growing and profitable business and ultimately championed its successful acquisition.

Wang has an M.A. in Communication Management from University of Southern California, an M.S. in MIS from People's University of China, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Beijing University.

Eric Aarrestad, Vice President of Marketing, brings 20 years of business and executive leadership experience to WatchGuard. Prior to joining WatchGuard, Aarrestad served as Director of Worldwide Marketing for Microsoft in the Mobile Communications Business. In that role he led global product and business segment marketing from incubation to a $300M+ commercial business group. His responsibilities included developing Microsoft's worldwide business group organizations and successful growth of Microsoft's mobile software platform, application, messaging, and infrastructure assets. Prior to joining Microsoft Aarrestad served as the Vice President of Marketing at Sightward where he was responsible for marketing and business development related to the company's predictive analytics and hosted services solutions. Before joining Sightward, he served as Director of Product Marketing for N2H2, helping guide the content delivery company to a successful IPO. Aarrestad previously worked as a management consultant in the business strategy, operations and M&A practice at Edgar, Dunn & Company in San Francisco, California.

Aarrestad has an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Portland.

Prior to joining WatchGuard, Richard Barber has served in several executive level finance roles including Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Insightful Corporation, a public software company, and CFO of FullPlay Media Systems, a public hardware and software company. Most recently, Barber served as CFO for MOD Systems, Inc., a privately owned digital media software company. Barber has also served as an independent financial consultant to high-technology companies and held various positions, the last of which was Senior Manager, at KPMG LLP.

Barber holds a B.S. in business administration and accounting from Gonzaga University magna cum laude and with honors and is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Management Accountant.

Matt Deichman became Vice President of Business Development in 2007, after serving as Chief Information Officer at WatchGuard. In this new role, he is responsible for managing OEM and licensing relationships, developing new strategic relationships, and exploring M&A opportunities to support the company’s long-range growth and profitability objectives. Prior to joining WatchGuard, Deichman was General Manager at RealNetworks, where he successfully negotiated with media companies including ABC, BBC, CNN, NFL, MLB, NBA, Disney, and C-Span to monetize their content utilizing the company platform. Deichman also served as Vice President of Technology Solutions for a leading professional services firm where he was responsible for a $60M line of business and several successful acquisitions. During his extensive career in the high tech industry, Deichman has held positions at McCaw Cellular Communications and AT&T Wireless. An accomplished speaker, he has presented lectures at a number of industry trade shows and conferences, including Digital Hollywood and Consumer Electronics Show.

Deichman is a graduate of Washington State University.

Terry Haas, Vice President of International Sales, joined WatchGuard in May 2007. He brings 20 years of experience in the technology industry, predominantly in the areas of networking, software, and security. Most recently, Haas served as the CEO of Solera Networks. Previously he was Vice President of Sales for LANDesk Software where he was responsible for transforming the sales organization into a scalable and efficient "direct touch" team, contributing to LANDesk's acquisition by Avocent. As Vice President at Phobos Corporation (acquired by SonicWALL), he spear-headed product marketing and management of their SSL accelerator product line. He has also served as Vice President Sales at think3 design and Vice President Channel Sales and Marketing at Novell.

Haas holds a B.S. from Western Michigan University and a M.B.A. in Finance from DePaul University.

Shari McLaren became Vice President of Customer Services and Support after serving three years as Director of LiveSecurity Services at WatchGuard. In that position, McLaren was instrumental in increasing revenue growth, standardizing support offerings across all product lines, implementing critical business applications and programs to help the channel maximize services revenue, and ensuring that WatchGuard's support remained a critical differentiator for all WatchGuard products. Prior to joining WatchGuard, she held a variety of positions in the high tech industry, including Director of North America Channel Services for Computer Associates and North American Technical Marketing Specialist for Legent Corporation.

McLaren has a degree in Business Administration from Washington State University.

Bill Smith, Vice President of Sales for the Americas, brings more than 20 years of sales and executive management experience to WatchGuard. Smith is recognized as an expert on selling methodologies and has taught Question-Based Selling to sales people and organizations throughout the world. During his 10 years with Novell, as vice president of sales for the Americas, and as vice president of worldwide sales for LANDesk, Smith has managed virtually every aspect of sales operations. Smith's role at WatchGuard is to ensure that all revenue, profitability, productivity, and customer satisfaction goals of the Americas' sales teams are met.

Sin-Yaw Wang has more than 20 years engineering and development experience with a proven track record of managing large and diverse groups to build and deliver innovative, high quality, market-leading products. Prior to joining WatchGuard he was Vice President of the Operating Systems Technologies group at Juniper Networks where he was in charge of JUNOS kernel technologies, user interface, configuration management, data path architecture, and development tools. Wang was previously with Sun Microsystems, Inc. for eight years, most recently as Vice President of Global Engineering, Greater China Engineering Lead, in Beijing, China where he managed more than 350 engineers and provided strategic direction for pre-sales, marketing, and services activities. Wang represented Sun's engineering presence in Greater China, forging strategic relationship with government, universities, customers, and partners and initiating and managing M&A and joint venture activities.

Wang has an MBA and a MS/EECS from Santa Clara University, a Master Technology/ Manufacturing from Arizona State University and a Bachelor of Science/ME, from Tamkang University, Taiwan. He is a Six Sigma certified green belt.