CLOUDLINK TECHNOLOGIES - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Chief Executive Officer
• Director
• Founder
• President

Alex Berlin, CloudLink President & CEO since founding the company is a successful business leader with a proven track record in developing and monetizing innovative networking, virtualization and security products. Prior to CloudLink (formerly known as AFORE), Alex held a number of senior management and executive roles with high tech companies in both Canada in Europe including Marconi Communications, Nortel Networks and Telrad Networks. Alex was a co-founder of Ambercore Software Inc. (big data analytics), where he served as a Chairman from 2004 to 2007 and played a key role in initial product incubation and securing Angel and VC rounds of funding.

Job Titles:

• Founder and CEO of C2 Labs, Inc
• Strategic Advisor / Founder and CEO, C2 Labs, Inc.

Anil Karmel is the Founder and CEO of C2 Labs, Inc. C2 Labs is a cloud security and services company focused on enabling IT agility by simplifying complexity through our innovative products and services, allowing you to Command and Control YOUR Cloud. Formerly, Anil served as the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Deputy Chief Technology Officer and RightPath Chief Architect. RightPath is a lean and agile methodology employed via a partnership between the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of the Chief Information Officer and NNSA, delivering IT transformation to DOE by focusing on the key areas of people, process and technology. Karmel is the inventor and architect of Los Alamos National Laboratory's (LANL) award winning secure hybrid cloud service broker, Infrastructure on Demand, illustrating an innovative partnership between industry and government. He also designed LANL's Enterprise Collaboration Suite, which consists of a suite of tools allowing users to collaborate how, when and where they want on a variety of endpoints including smartphones, tablets and zero clients. These solutions form the basis of the NNSA's Network Vision (2NV) - a RightPath project delivering ONEvoice powered by YOURcloud on the OneNNSA Network, laying the foundation for a dynamic, untethered virtual workforce. Karmel has been in the IT Industry for over fifteen years, working with various Fortune 500 companies and government in the areas of enterprise virtualization, messaging and collaboration. He and his team garnered industry and government accolades, including the SANS National Cyber Security Innovators Award for Cloud Security, InformationWeek 500 Top Government IT Innovators, ACT/IAC Excellence.gov Award and the DOE Secretary's Achievement Award. His team at LANL was named an ACT/IAC Excellence.gov Finalist two years running. Karmel is a nationally recognized speaker and has been featured at numerous IT conferences and webinars, including VMworld and Gartner.

Job Titles:

• Executive
• Director & Strategic Advisor / President, Brian O'Higgins and Associates

Brian O'Higgins is an executive with over 20 years as a leader in security technology development for enterprise and government customers-possibly known best for his role pioneering PKI (public key infrastructure)- and as the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Entrust, a leading Internet Security Company. He was also a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Third Brigade, a provider of security products for physical and virtualized servers that was acquired by Trend Micro in 2009. Brian's approach to security is both visionary and pragmatic. He is a frequent presenter at security and industry events around the globe. In 2008, he was appointed as a delegate to contribute to the Global Cybersecurity Agenda of the International Telecommunications Union. He is also a founding author and contributor to the Cloud Security Alliance.

Job Titles:

• CFO
• Chartered Accountant
• Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Business Operations

As CFO, Craig oversees all finance, accounting, human resources and administrative matters at CloudLink. Prior to joining CloudLink (formerly known as AFORE), Craig held senior finance and controller roles at Alcatel, ActivCard, and WorldHeart. Craig is a Chartered Accountant, 2011 Forty Under Forty Winner and holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree from The University of Ottawa.

Job Titles:

• Director & Strategic Advisor

Gus began his career in information technology sales and services 30 years ago with roles at companies including Merisel, 3Com and McAfee. In 2005, he joined nCircle as Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Services and following its acquisition by Tripwire now heads Tripwire's global sales organization. Gus combines extensive knowledge of global markets including North America, Europe and Asia with strong technical knowledge to drive success in the competitive and rapidly changing IT marketplace. Gus has extensive background in information security and compliance, networking, network systems management, CRM, and application design and development. Prior to joining Tripwire, Gus led worldwide sales, channels, inside sales, professional services and customer support for nCircle and McAfee, consistently delivering record revenue growth and unparalleled customer satisfaction. At McAfee Gus served in a number of executive leadership positions including Senior Vice President of Enterprise Products, a $500 million business, Senior Vice President of Advanced Products for the IPS/IDS group, and Vice President and GM of the Canadian business unit. Gus loves photography, hiking, and sports involving speed, but not necessarily in that order. He is happiest when building things - wood pieces, metal works, and, naturally, sales teams and winning go to market sales strategies. Gus is extremely curious and his desire to pull things apart, to understand how they work, got him into some early trouble (no clock remained standing in his family home) yet that curiosity has served him well in his professional life.

Job Titles:

• Chairman
• Chief Strategy Officer

Job Titles:

• Chief Technology Officer and Vice President R & D

Misha Nossik is a successful serial entrepreneur and a recognized technology leader. He joined CloudLink (formerly known as AFORE) as a CTO with primary responsibility for the Cloud Computing and Virtualization products. Prior to AFORE Misha served as EVP and Chief Strategy Officer of SIMtone, a pioneering cloud computing company focused on desktop virtualization. His responsibilities included running the Canadian subsidiary of the company, development of consumer and enterprise cloud-hosted services and bringing a family of SIMtone embedded products to the market. He joined SIMtone through its acquisition of Thintropy (company he founded in 2004). Prior to Simtone, Mr. Nossik spent two years with IDT Inc., following its acquisition of Solidum, a fabless semiconductor network processing pioneer he co-founded in 1997. During his tenure at IDT, Misha was the Chairman of the Network Processing Forum (NPF), the industry special interests group, promoting the standardization and use of Network Processors. At Solidum he served as CEO and later EVP, creating the vision for Network Processing architecture, playing key roles in product definition and in raising of over $24M of VC funding. Misha's experience also includes R&D and product management positions with Skystone (acquired by Cisco), Timestep (acquired by Newbridge/Alcatel), Gandalf Technologies, RAD Data Communications and the Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Misha holds a MSc in Applied Mathematics from M.I.I.T. University in Moscow.

Job Titles:

• Chief Operating Officer for the Americas at VMware
• Strategic Advisor / Chief Operating Officer, Americas, VMware

Peter McKay is Chief Operating Officer for the Americas at VMware and is responsible for optimizing the alignment and integration of all go-to-market functions for the region. In this role, Peter oversees the VMware Americas Partner Organization, Americas Field Marketing, Americas Virtual Sales, and the sales organizations for emerging technologies such as Cloud Management, Hybrid Cloud and End User Computing (EUC). Prior to this position, Peter was Vice President Sales, EUC, Americas, and General Manager, DaaS for VMware. Before joining Desktone (acquired by VMware], Peter served as Executive In Residence at North Bridge Venture Partners in Waltham, MA and Insight Ventures in New York. He also directed and advised many venture and private equity backed firms, including Spotfire (sold to Tibco), Application Security Inc., SmartBear Software (formally Automated QA), Lagan Software, N of One, Sonian, Inc. and Apperian, Inc. As President and CEO of Watchfire, a security solutions provider, from 2001 through its acquisition by IBM in July 2007, Peter was responsible for defining and directing Watchfire's worldwide strategic direction, software development, sales efforts, market development and expansion activities resulting in the growth of Watchfire SaaS revenues from $3 million to $50 Million. Peter remained at IBM as VP IBM Rational Software Group through July 2008. Prior to Watchfire, Peter was the President and CEO of eCredit before it was sold to Internet Capital Group in January 2001, growing the business from $3 million in revenue to $25 million in annualized revenue via a world-wide direct and indirect channel strategy. Peter came to eCredit having held Senior Executive positions at Computer Associates and Parametric Technologies. At Computer Associates, he was a Senior Vice President of Worldwide Indirect Sales responsible for over $500 million in revenue and a team of 350 people. He holds a BA degree in Accounting and Finance from Northeastern University.

Job Titles:

• Advisor
• Strategic Advisor / Technology Business Advisor

Rob Rose is an advisor to technology business large and small on a variety of topics. Having worked extensively for the past 30 years in the industry, Rob is well-known as a leader in Corporate Strategy, M&A, Product Management and Marketing, as well as Positioning and Design. Most recently, Rob was SVP, Product Management & Marketing at Ceridian. Prior to Ceridian, Rob spent five years working at IBM, where he was most recently Chief Designer, Business Analytics. Before becoming Chief Designer, Rob was worked as Director, Office of Strategy - Business Intelligence and Performance Management. Before his time at IBM, Rob had worked at Cognos for sixteen years; his last position there was as Chief Strategy Officer. Rob is also an accomplished author, writing "Smooth Sailing on Rough Seas: 8 Principles of High-performance Business" in 2002, as well as numerous other articles about business performance management and technology trends. In his spare time, Rob serves the Ottawa technology community by having been an active member on various boards throughout the years. He also plays wicked lead guitar.

Job Titles:

• Director / Managing Partner, BDC IT Venture Funds
• Registered Professional Engineer

Ron is a an experienced senior executive with a proven record of building successful software companies over the past 26 years. During the early part of his career, he held progressively senior positions in engineering, product management, software sales and marketing. In 1991, Ron became President and CEO of Simetra Inc. after leading a management buyout. Over the following nine years, he grew Simetra's software business across Canada and the U.S. and successfully sold it in 2000. In the process, he co-founded a second software business that he helped build and eventually sold. Ron joined BDC Venture Capital in September 2000 and is currently a Managing Partner with the BDC IT Venture Fund. Ron has actively participated on the board of directors of a number of IT companies. Ron is a registered professional engineer and holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Queen's University and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario."