Guidance Software


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ShawnMcCreight
Shawn McCreight | Chairman and Chief Technology Officer
Shawn McCreight founded Guidance Software, Inc. in November 1997 and has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors since its inception. From January 2003 to present he has served as Chairman and Chief Technology Officer. Prior to January 2003, he served as Founder and Chief Executive Officer.
    McCreight has extensive experience in the design and development of software programs and applications, and was the principal developer of Guidance Software’s EnCase® software. He continues to develop the products that drive Guidance Software’s success in digital investigations solutions.

    McCreight received his bachelor of arts in physics from the University of California, Berkeley.
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VictorLimongelli
Victor Limongelli | President and Chief Executive Officer
As President and Chief Executive Officer, Victor Limongelli is responsible for strategic planning and initiatives, making recommendations to the Board of Directors and managing the company's growth mission and operational objectives. He is also a member of the Board of Directors.
    Limongelli joined Guidance Software as General Counsel, where he specialized in privacy issues, incident response and digital evidence. He has also served as Vice President of Professional Services where he oversaw the company's renowned computer investigation team, providing incident response and computer forensic services to corporate, government and legal clients worldwide. Prior to his appointment as CEO, Limongelli led Guidance Software's worldwide operations as the company's President and is credited with formulating and overseeing its highly-successful eDiscovery strategy.

    Before moving in-house, Limongelli was associated with the national law firm of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, where he practiced with a technology company-focus which has a particular emphasis on licensing and venture capital. His accomplishments with the firm include arguing (and winning) a case before the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.

    He received his juris doctorate degree from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a James Kent Scholar, and his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College. He has written numerous white papers and articles on statutes, regulations, case law, and industry standards governing information security, and has spoken at many notable conferences.
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Barry Plaga
Barry Plaga | Chief Financial Officer
Chief Financial Officer, Barry Plaga brings over 20 years of financial and operational experience to Guidance Software. As CFO, he oversees the company's worldwide financial planning and analysis, accounting, treasury and tax functions. Prior to joining Guidance Software, he served two years as Vice President of Financial Global Processes at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he oversaw financial planning and forecasting, finance program management and the finance components of Sun's Oracle ERP project.

    Plaga joined Sun Microsystems through the acquisition of SeeBeyond Technology Corporation, a public software technology company where he served for six years as the Chief Financial Officer. At SeeBeyond, in addition to his core finance and accounting role, he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions, legal, information technology, human resources, administration and facilities. Additionally, he helped lead the company through its initial public offering, secondary offering and eventual sale to Sun for nearly $400 million.

    Prior to SeeBeyond, Plaga served two year as Chief Financial Officer of Activision, Inc., and as Vice President of Finance and Chief Accounting Officer at Activision for six years before that.

    Plaga received his bachelor of science in business administration and master’s in accounting from the University of Southern California, and is a certified public accountant.
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MarkHarrington
Mark Harrington | Corporate Secretary and General Counsel
Bringing 15 years of business and legal experience to his position, Corporate Secretary and General Counsel, Mark E. Harrington oversees worldwide legal responsibility for the Company. Previously, Harrington held the position of Associate General Counsel where he managed a variety of legal matters including licensing, insurance, intellectual property, export compliance, marketing, litigation and general corporate activities.
    Prior to joining Guidance Software, Harrington was a Senior Attorney at Intel Corporation where he worked on complex intellectual property agreements, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters. Harrington also worked on electronic discovery and litigation matters for the law firm of Munger, Tolles and Olson in Los Angeles.

    Harrington received his juris doctorate degree from Southwestern University School of Law, and his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is an Adjunct Faculty member of the Los Angeles Community College District and Vice President of the Southern California Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel. Additionally, he frequently lectures at colleges, industry conferences and has written on a wide range of legal issues relating to business law, mergers and acquisitions, protecting corporate assets and intellectual property.
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Robert Botchek | Senior Vice President, Forensic Business Unit
Robert Botchek is senior vice president of Guidance Software’s Forensic Business Unit. He is responsible for overseeing Guidance Software's forensic portfolio of EnCase® software and Tableau hardware. Botchek founded and previously served as president of Tableau, LLC, which Guidance Software acquired in May 2010.
    From 2003 until 2010, Tableau established itself as the worldwide leader in forensic hardware including write-blockers, forensic duplicators and hardware-accelerated password recovery technologies.

    Botchek has more than 20 years of technology management and more than 30 years of development experience. Botchek was vice president of Business Development at Electric Gravity, a pioneer in online social networking in the 1990's acquired by Microsoft in 1996. In the 1980's and early 1990's, Botchek was also vice president of Engineering at Trantor Systems, Ltd., a leader in SCSI technology acquired by Adaptec in 1993.

    Botchek attended the University of California at Berkeley where he studied electrical engineering, computer science and material science.
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Larry Gill | Senior Vice President of Sales
Larry Gill, Senior Vice President of Sales is responsible for worldwide sales. Gill joined Guidance Software in 2006 as Vice President of Marketing, where he led the company’s worldwide marketing efforts.
    Prior to Guidance Software, Gill served as Marketing Director for Aspen Technology, Inc. In his six years with AspenTech, he held a variety of director-level roles including Director of Business Development, where he developed the go-to-market strategy for a diverse line of enterprise software products and supporting professional services. He joined AspenTech through the acquisition of Petrolsoft, Inc.

    During his tenure with Petrolsoft Inc., a privately held software technology company, Gill served as the Vice President of Sales & Marketing. He hired, trained and led a global sales and marketing team, expanding operations into both EMEA and APAC. The company was twice recognized by Inc. 500 as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in America. Prior to this, Gill was a top-performing sales and marketing manager with Oce-USA, Inc. and was also a two time combat veteran serving as a Captain in the United States Marine Corps.

    Gill holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado and is certified with Pragmatic Marketing.
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Ken Basore
Ken Basore | Vice President of Research and Development
Ken Basore serves as Vice President of Research and Development for Guidance Software. A 20 year veteran of law enforcement and a seven year expert in computer forensics, he directs the development of the company's software products and supervises the Research, EnScript, QA and Technical Support departments. In his career, Basore has overseen nearly 1,500 investigations and has extensive experience in the development and operation of computer forensic laboratories. His investigations have included financial crimes, narcotics, child exploitation, homicide and terrorism; and he has testified as an expert in both computer forensic investigations and computer forensic laboratory policies and procedures.
    A police officer for 17 years, Basore was responsible for the development of the first Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory in San Diego, California where he supervised 16 investigators from various federal, state and local law enforcement facilities. In 2001, Basore won the "Police Officer of the Year" award from the El Cajon, California Police Department.

    Basore is a certified Electronic Evidence Collection Specialist, a Federal Bureau of Investigation-Computer Analysis Response Team (CART) forensic examiner and an EnCase Certified Examiner. He is also a member of the High Technology Crime and Investigation Association (HTCIA) and the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists (IACIS).
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Leo Cole
Leo Cole | Vice President of Marketing
Leo J. Cole serves as Vice President of Marketing for Guidance Software. He brings more than 30 years of experience in enterprise software marketing, including more than ten years of experience in data security.
    Previously, Cole was Vice President of Marketing for Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN). During his five years at the company, he developed marketing strategies that helped the company increase revenue from $100 million to $350 million annually, expand its market reach beyond web filtering to the fast growing data security market, and grow internationally through an award-winning channel marketing program.

    He spent 25 years at IBM (NYSE: IBM), where he held various positions, including Director of Product Management for the IBM Enterprise Security Portfolio, Director of Strategy for the Systems Management Portfolio, Director of Strategic Alliances, and various product development positions.

    Cole earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Syracuse University and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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Sandy Gyenes
Sandy Gyenes | Vice President of Human Resources and Global Facilities Management 
With over 20 years of experience, Sandy Gyenes, Vice President of Human Resources, leads the worldwide human resources team, working closely with the senior management team on strategic and functional workforce issues. Additionally, Gyenes is responsible for the company's organizational culture, including succession planning, performance improvement strategies, employee motivation and reward systems.
    Prior to joining Guidance Software, Gyenes served as the Executive Director of Human Resources for American Golf Corporation with responsibility for 350 public and private golf courses and clubs, employing 27,000 employees worldwide. She has experience managing all aspects of human resources, including recruitment, organizational development, employee relations, compliance, policy development, compensation and benefits.

    Gyenes received her bachelor’s degree in behavioral science/sociology from Loyola Marymount University.
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Patrick Zeller | Vice President of eDiscovery and Deputy General Counsel
Patrick Zeller, Vice President, eDiscovery and Deputy General Counsel, provides oversight and coordination to the Company’s eDiscovery efforts, leads the Company’s relationship with its Strategic Advisory Board, supervises the legal and regulatory team, and works with corporate legal departments seeking to implement defensible in-house eDiscovery processes. In this role, he also provides oversight of other products and services targeted at the legal community, works closely with Marketing and Product Management on eDiscovery-related matters, and interfaces with industry analysts and our Customer Advisory Board.
    Prior to joining Guidance Software, Zeller was with Seyfarth Shaw LLP where he practiced commercial litigation with a strong emphasis on technology issues and electronic discovery. He also co-chaired the firm's Electronic Discovery Practice Group.

    Zeller also served previously as an Assistant Attorney General and Director of the Computer Crimes Institute for the State of Illinois, where he prosecuted a wide variety of technology related crimes and supervised a multi-jurisdictional computer forensic laboratory. He was named a Computer Crimes Fellow by the United States Department of Justice and served as a trial attorney for the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. In this capacity, he advised prosecutors and law enforcement agents on how to conduct Internet and high-tech criminal investigations. Zeller has lectured extensively on Internet and high-tech crime at numerous law enforcement training venues nationwide, including the FBI Academy. He is widely regarded as one of the leading experts in technology and the law. His specialties include: eDiscovery, internal investigations, computer intrusion, economic espionage, online fraud, intellectual property and trade secret issues.

    Patrick is an Adjunct Professor and Distinguished Lecturer at The John Marshall Law School’s Information Technology and Privacy Law LLM program, where he teaches the “eDiscovery, Digital Evidence and Computer Forensics” class. He also holds several certifications in computer forensics, is a member of the Sedona Conference, chairs the national Board of Directors of the American Association of Digital Forensics and eDiscovery (ASDFED), and presided over the Midwest Chapter of HTCIA High Technology Crimes Investigatiors Association in 2008.
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Al Hobbs | Vice President of Professional Development
Al Hobbs joined Guidance Software in 1999 and since 2006 has served as Vice President of Professional Development and Training Operations where he oversees the growth and operations of the company’s worldwide forensic technology and methodology training programs and certifications.

Under his leadership, the Professional Development and Training Division has experienced steady revenue and student growth and he has expanded the companies training facilities into the Midwest U.S., as well as led the company’s expansion of methodology-based training programs into over 45 countries, and 13 languages.

In addition, the highly successful EnCase OnDemand® training and EnCase Certified eDiscovery Practitioner (EnCEP™) certification were developed under his leadership, as well as a dramatic growth in the company’s existing EnCase Certified Computer Examiner (EnCE®) certifications since 2005.
    Hobbs started with Guidance Software as a computer forensic trainer, and has trained thousands of professionals across the globe. He is often called upon to provide expert witness testimony. Hobbs has held various positions at Guidance Software, including, Master Instructor, Course Developer and Director. Hobbs is a retired police detective with over 25 years of experience working all aspects of law enforcement in or with local, county, state and federal law enforcement with over 10 years of computer-based investigations. He is an internationally recognized expert in the field of computer forensics and digital investigations, as well as collection of digital evidence. He has received numerous awards throughout his law enforcement career, including awards of: Valor, Officer of the Year, Illinois Heroism and numerous other commendations.

    Hobbs holds multiple certifications including EnCE®. He has published numerous papers through forensic organizations and was a contributing member in the creation of the “Forensic Examination of Digital Evidence: A Guide for Law Enforcement” published by the NIJ, U.S. Department of Justice.
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Amanda Berger | Vice President of Professional Services
Amanda Berger, Vice President of Professional Services, is responsible for Guidance Software’s worldwide Professional Services organization. She oversees all Professional Services offering, programs, and methodologies and is responsible for ensuring customer success with Guidance Software products through onsite technical services and business practices advisory.

    Prior to joining Guidance Software, Berger served as Vice President of Professional Services, Americas for MicroStrategy, Inc. where she helped double the Professional Services revenue for the Americas region during her tenure. In this capacity, Amanda managed a team of approximately 200 employees in North and South America and was instrumental in developing new consulting offerings, such as Advisory Services, Industry Practices and Global Delivery Centers. Additionally, Berger played a key role in securing many Fortune 1000 customers for MicroStrategy, including several of the top banks and retailers.

    Berger received her bachelor of arts from Occidental College. She has been active in many professional services organizations and in public speaking for organizations such as TPSA.
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