Wayne Jackson

Wayne Jackson joined Sourcefire in May of 2002 and serves as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. During Wayne's tenure, Sourcefire has grown from a fledgling open source startup to a profitable category leader with more than 200 employees and operations worldwide. On March 9, 2007, Sourcefire raised more than $86 million dollars in its initial public offering of stock – the first network security industry IPO in over five years. Before joining Sourcefire, Wayne co-founded Riverbed Technologies, a wireless infrastructure company, and served as its CEO until the successful sale of the company to Aether Systems for more than $1 billion dollars in March of 2000. At Riverbed, Wayne grew the company from startup to category winner in less than two years with more than 100 employees and relationships with industry leaders including Palm, Oracle, IBM, Symbol, and Microsoft. As the Managing Director of Aether Capital, Wayne led the process for strategic investing and played a key role in two secondary stock offerings that raised more than $2 billion dollars. Previously, Wayne built a sophisticated emerging technologies profit center for a large systems integrator and has consulted to organizations including General Electric, the World Bank, and the Federal Reserve. Wayne holds a B.B.S in Finance from James Madison University, 1985.