Ray Komar
As Vice President of Business Development, Mr. Komar is responsible for creating and
managing partner relationships within the Global Strategic Alliances business unit at
McAfee. In his over 13 years in the information security industry, he has held a diverse
set of leadership positions with some of the top organizations in their respective fields
including Deloitte, Internet Security Systems (ISS), Neohapsis and most recently McAfee,
via an acquisition of VC-backed Preventsys in June 2006. Mr. Komar received a Bachelor of
Science degree from the State University of New York at Fredonia in the field of corporate
finance and economics. He obtained an MBA from the University of California at Irvine's
Graduate School of Management in the field of information technology. He has spoken at
many industry groups meetings, been interviewed by numerous publications and has appeared
on The Discovery Channel, speaking on the topic of information security.
Peter Kuper
Mr. Kuper has been covering the software industry for over a decade. He was the lead software
analyst at Morgan Stanley where he wrote a number of industry-defining reports and market-moving
stock calls. Previously, he was a director and equity analyst at SG Cowen, where he covered the
software sector with a particular focus on security. He has also been an equity analyst and
vice president at FAC/Equities and a research analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.
Jason Livingood
Mr. Livingood serves as Executive Director of Internet Systems Engineering at Comcast Cable,
where he leads a team focused on managing and further developing the company's high-speed
Internet service. This includes the rollout of DOCSIS 3.0, email and voicemail, DNS, congestion
management, and many other critical systems and services. Jason joined Comcast in 1996 to help
the company launch high-speed Internet services, and has also been instrumental in the creation
and launch of Comcast's business class Internet services, as well as the Comcast Digital Voice
service. Jason also serves as co-chair of an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working
group, is the author of several RFCs, and has several patents pending in his field. He holds
a M.B.A., concentrating in Technology Management, as well as a B.S., Magna Cum Laude, from
Drexel University.
M. Thomas McNeight
Mr. McNeight has had a thirty year career in enterprise software systems. He was formerly the
President and CEO of GuardedNet, Inc., a security information management (SIM) software company
acquired by Micromuse. Prior to joining GuardedNet, he was a top executive of Internet Security
Systems, Inc. (ISS) where he was responsible for building the field operations. Prior to ISS,
McNeight was the Vice President of Sales for TSW International, a provider of plant maintenance
and management software, and prior to that, President and CEO of Aurum Software, a leading sales
force automation company subsequently sold to Baan International. Previous to Aurum Software, he
had a fifteen year career with Dun & Bradstreet Software (formerly Management Science America).
McNeight joined D&B Software after successful assignments at CNA Financial Services and the
John H. Harland Company. McNeight received his BA in Chemistry from Oklahoma State University
and his MS in Management Science from Texas Christian University.