About

Stephen was appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in September 2020. He joined BlueCat as Chief Financial Officer in 2018 and served as Chief Operations Officer beginning in early 2020. He brings over two decades of senior financial and operational leadership to the CEO role, including as the Chief Financial Officer at Marketwired, which he helped sell to Nasdaq in 2016; at Second Cup, which he led through an initial public offering (IPO); and at Q4 Inc.

David joined BlueCat as Chief Marketing Officer in 2022. He drives brand awareness and growth and oversees activities across product marketing, demand generation, channel marketing, community marketing, and corporate communications. David brings more than three decades of technology marketing expertise, having served in leadership positions with Broadcom, CA Technologies, Tenable, and Webroot. More recently, he helped GitLab achieve a successful IPO with the highest pipeline coverage and channel contribution in its history.

As Chief People Officer, Cheryl leads BlueCat’s overall people strategy, focusing on attracting, retaining, and inspiring top talent. Cheryl joined BlueCat from Achievers (later acquired by Blackhawk Networks), where she was Vice President of Employee Success.

Martin joined in 2021 as Chief Product Officer, with overall responsibility for BlueCat’s product portfolio and direction. He brings over two decades of product management and engineering experience in the networking, cloud, and security industries. Prior to BlueCat, he held senior positions at Cisco, Arista, and F5 Networks.

As Global Head of Technology, Matt oversees BlueCat’s engineering, cloud, and infrastructure teams as they build on the company’s vision for a dynamic, open, scalable, secure, and automated DDI environment in every enterprise network. Matt holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science from the University of Toronto, where he also served as a faculty member before joining BlueCat in 2019. Matt brings over 20 years of experience to BlueCat, having held positions at DataMirror (now IBM), Canada Protection Plan, and National Instruments.

As Chief Customer Officer, Petrisa is responsible for BlueCat’s customer engagement and ultimately supporting their organizations’ success strategies. Before joining BlueCat, she was at Blackberry, where she was a manager of carrier network service management and carrier billing, managing teams for both North and South America.

As Chief Revenue Officer, Barry leads BlueCat’s growing global sales team, working alongside the rest of BlueCat’s executive leadership. With a passion for developing successful customers, Barry has spent the past 18 years leading high-performance sales teams at growth-stage software companies including Ping Identity, Cast Iron Systems, Group 1 Software, and BigFix, Inc.

Francisco joined BlueCat as Chief Financial Officer in 2023. He oversees BlueCat’s accounting, business support, financial planning and analysis, treasury, investor relations, legal, IT, internal audit, and tax functions. He brings more than 15 years of finance experience to BlueCat, having held finance leadership roles at 360Learning, E2Open, and Forterro. Francisco was part of the team that prepared E2open to go public on the NYSE in 2020, has integrated more than $400 million in company acquisitions across the Americas and Europe, and built and led finance teams in global companies with significant operating scale and complexity.

As Chief Strategy Officer, Andrew works closely with BlueCat’s CEO and executive team to chart BlueCat’s course as it continues to build market share. Previously BlueCat’s Chief Product and Technology Officer, Andrew also works with leading enterprises and technology partners as BlueCat creates more value for its current and prospective customers.