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Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President, SOA Software, Former HP, Sun, Avnet Executive , Co-founder Hispanic-Net Recognized Executive in the field of Internet security, Mr. Medrano helped to create the firewall, content security, and security policy segments of the security market and has been active member on President Bush's National Security Advisory Committee, National Cyber Security Summit, The White House National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace., and participated in President Clinton's White House Security Summit.
Mr. Medrano has extensive experience with start-ups and large companies. Mr. Medrano was CEO of PoliVec, leader in security policy. Prior to PoliVec, Inc. Mr. Medrano was one of the top 100 Sr. Executives at Hewlett Packard . At Hewlett-Packard (HP) he was General Manager of the E-Services and Internet Security Divisions. As Division general manager for Hewlett-Packard, Medrano served a vital role as head of HP's key strategic emerging businesses. Some of these efforts included Internet security, middleware, management, web services, CRM, and E-commerce. Under his leadership, Medrano grew several teams from zero to significant revenue. Prior to joining HP, Medrano was president of Finjan, a leading security software firm. He also served as vice president of Milkyway Networks (IPO 1996), a firewall pioneer, and has held executive positions at Avnet Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc.
Medrano has been selected as one of "The 100 most influential Hispanics in 2001" and is co-founder and CEO for Hispanic-net www.hispanic-net.org, a non-profit organization. Mr. Medrano has started at the beginning of 3 industries: Electronic Design Automation, Open Systems and Computer Security. Mr. Medrano is a member of Technet. He has served in numerous company and advisory boards like: Arcot, Aventail, BigFix, Clearpathnet, Commendo, Encentuate, Netscaler, Panacea Software, Pivx, PoliVec, Sand Hill It Security.
Medrano holds a master's degree in business administration from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), a master of science degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California (USC).
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