Rob Gilde

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Mr. Rob Gilde is the Owner of Luminis. Prior to this, he severed as Vice President pf Engineering at Tempered Networks. Rob Gilde has been with Tempered Networks since October 2014. Gilde has 30 years of experience in engineering and management, successfully bringing numerous innovations to the market, along with 12 patents awarded in the networking and network security space. Prior to joining Tempered Networks, Gilde was Vice President of Platform Engineering at Apptio, where he led a major re-architecting of their IT business management product, and their transition to a cloud-based service. Previously, Gilde was CTO at QL2 Software, an Internet data mining and business intelligence service. Throughout his career, Gilde has held key positions at several companies in Seattle, including Lockdown Networks, where he created Lockdown Enforcer, the category-defining Network Access Control appliance, and F5 Networks, where he led the architecture and development of BIG-IP, which continues to be the market-leading application delivery controller product. Prior to F5, Gilde was a Principal Engineer with The Boeing Company, where he helped advance state of the art avionics and command/control systems. Gilde holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University.