Leadership Team
Enterprising minds. Leading by example.
Mark Woodward
Chief Executive Officer
Mark Woodward, a 40-year veteran of the Information Technology industry, joins Armor as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Mark Woodward, a three-time CEO, has extensive experience in successfully growing software companies. Woodward served as President and CEO for E2open, a cloud-based company, which he took public in 2013. Woodward was also the longtime President and CEO of Serena Software, an infrastructure software company, which he helped take public in 1999. Woodward has worked as Chairman and CEO of Invoca, a marketing automation technology company, in addition to holding executive roles at McAfee and Legent. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors at Plutora Software, TeamFusion, and the foundation All Stars Helping Kids. Mr. Woodward attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied computer science.
Bob Mosteller
Chief Finance Officer
Bob Mosteller brings 25+ years of business experience with CFO and COO leadership roles in venture capital, private equity, financial services, and emerging technology companies. Most recently, Bob served as the CFO of Talari Networks, an innovator of SD-WAN technology, where he and the executive team reorganized, capitalized and led the business to a successful acquisition by Oracle. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors at Surpass Senior Living and NeoFirma. He is also an active advisor to Silver Creek Ventures, an institutionally-backed venture capital firm specializing in seed, start-up, and early-stage technology companies in Texas and California. Mr. Mosteller attended Texas A&M University where he studied accounting.
Diana Massaro
Chief Marketing Officer
Diana, who wields a healthy affinity for data and metrics-based strategy, leads Armor’s dynamic marketing team. With more than 15 years’ experience of delivering positivity, vision and management leadership to the private sector, her skills scale across a variety of disciplines, including large enterprise software and high-volume transaction models.
Josh Bosquez
Chief Technology Officer
Josh Bosquez is responsible for all aspects of Armor’s engineering and product development. With extensive experience in Application Development and Architecture, Josh helps chart a strategic vision for Armor’s secure cloud infrastructure and leads the development and engineering teams in delivering best-in-class technologies that bring it to life.
Matt Cook
Chief Revenue Officer
Matt comes to Armor from Commvault, a cloud backup and recovery technology company, where he served as Senior Director for the Americas VAR, Alliances, and OEM teams. He later took over as Vice President of the company’s Service Provider and Geo sales segments. Matt comes to us with a wide breadth of experience leading and growing partner programs at Commvault, Forsythe and Cisco. While at Cisco, Matt spent 7 years leading a team of direct and indirect team members supporting some of the company’s largest partners in the U.S. He also successfully spearheaded the creation of Cisco’s Global Virtual Distribution Model and co-led the company’s global collaborative initiative known as the Global Partner Network (GPN). In this role he served as chief architect, defining and guiding Cisco’s strategy for global go-to-market through channels.
Board of Directors
Years of experience. Extraordinary council.
Mark Woodward
CEO at Armor
Mark Woodward, a 40-year veteran of the Information Technology industry, joins Armor as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Mark Woodward, a three-time CEO, has extensive experience in successfully growing software companies. Woodward served as President and CEO for E2open, a cloud-based company, which he took public in 2013. Woodward was also the longtime President and CEO of Serena Software, an infrastructure software company, which he helped take public in 1999. Woodward has worked as Chairman and CEO of Invoca, a marketing automation technology company, in addition to holding executive roles at McAfee and Legent. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors at Plutora Software, TeamFusion, and the foundation All Stars Helping Kids. Mr. Woodward attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied computer science.
Chris Drake
Armor Founder, COO at Leap
Chris is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of LEAP, a company of ST Telemedia. Chris previously founded Armor in 2009. Under his leadership, Armor grew to become one of the leading cloud security solutions providers in the industry, protecting 1,200 customers in 45 countries. Prior to founding Armor, Chris began his career by serving as a paratrooper in the legendary 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army. After his service, Chris went on to establish an interactive marketing and web development company, TargetScope, which developed hundreds of websites and applications containing critical data. After watching customers’ data being compromised while using other hosting providers, he saw a clear need in the market for a secure cloud platform and established FireHost, now Armor. Chris holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing from the University of North Texas.
Tom Hedrick
Operating Partner at The Stephens Group, LLC
Tom Hedrick is an operating partner of The Stephens Group, LLC. He has been a private equity investor through his investment partnership, Dillon Joyce Ltd., since 1995. Since that time, he has participated in over 30 private investments, serving on the board of directors of more than half of those companies.
Aaron Clark
Managing Director at The Stephens Group, LLC.
Aaron Clark is a managing director of The Stephens Group, LLC. He joined the firm in 2006 as an associate after spending two years in the corporate finance department of Stephens Inc. He helps analyze, coordinate and execute many of the firm’s transactions while continuously supporting the firm’s partner companies.
Chris Smith
Partner at the Circumference Group
Chris Smith is a partner and the director of consulting at The Circumference Group. Prior to founding The Circumference Group, Chris was Executive Vice President of Network Services of Alltel Corporation, the fifth largest wireless company in the U.S. Prior to its acquisition by Verizon in January 2009. Chris joined Alltel in 1991 and held a variety of roles. As EVP of Network Services, Chris was responsible for all new technology evolutions, short- and long-term network planning, engineering, operations, capital budgeting and management, and wholesale roaming relationships. Chris has also served as a Board member at Calient Technologies, Goodman Networks (proxy Member), Conterra , and American Traffic Solutions. Chris currently serves on two non-profit boards: The University of Arkansas at Little Rock – College of Business, and The CALL-serving foster and adoption families.
Stephen Miller
President & Group CEO of ST Telemedia
Stephen Miller is responsible for ST Telemedia’s strategic direction, leadership and continued growth. He also is a member of ST Telemedia’s board of directors. He joined STT in 2005 and has held various senior positions including Chief Financial Officer, and President & Chief Operating Officer. Stephen has over 25 years of global investment, financial management, strategic planning and CMT industry experience.
Nikil Eapen
Deputy CEO & Chief Investment Officer at ST Telemedia
Nikhil Eapen is Deputy Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer at ST Telemedia. He is responsible for driving ST Telemedia’s overall investment focus as well as building synergistic investment clusters and operating platforms in Infrastructure Technology areas across AI & machine learning, analytics, cloud, cybersecurity, software-defined infrastructure, and so on. Nikhil also oversees the corporate development activities of ST Telemedia with a view toward maximising value across ST Telemedia’s communications, data centres and technology portfolio. Prior to ST Telemedia, Nikhil served as an investment banker for 19 years, starting his career as Financial Analyst at Salomon Brothers in 1997 and serving from 2008 to 2015 as Managing Director & Head of Asia-Pacific Technology, Media & Telecommunications Corporate & Investment Banking at Citigroup. Nikhil graduated from University College London (UCL) with a Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Economics.
Steven Terrell (Terry) Clontz
Senior Executive Vice President of ST Telemedia
Steven Terrell (Terry) Clontz is Senior Executive Vice President, International, of ST Telemedia, where he is responsible for stewarding the company’s global investments. He is also Chairman of StarHub, Singapore’s first fully integrated information-communications company, as well as Director on the boards of Level 3 Communications, ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, Cloud9 Technologies, PSA International and Virgin Mobile Latin America. Terry is a well-regarded veteran in the telecommunications and media industry with over 40 years of experience. He has held a variety of senior executive positions including Chief Executive Officer of StarHub, President and Chief Executive Officer of IPC Information Systems., based in New York, and President of BellSouth International (Asia-Pacific).