Overview

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Gary Steele is the Chief Executive Officer at Proofpoint since November 2002. Gary brings a broad range of enterprise software experience to the company.

Before joining Proofpoint, Gary served as the Chief Executive Officer at Portera, an applications company delivering solutions for the professional services industry. Under Gary's leadership, Portera raised more than $100M in capital from some of the leading venture capitalists including Kleiner Perkins, IVP, and American Express and grew the business from its initial concept to $20M in revenue.

Prior to Portera, Gary served as the Vice President and General Manager of the Middleware and Data Warehousing Product Group at Sybase, Inc., an organization of more than 350 people, spanning four geographies and generating $150M in revenue. In this capacity, Gary initiated and spearheaded all new Internet projects targeted at the enterprise.

Gary's prior experience includes business development, marketing and engineering roles at Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard.

Gary holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Washington State University.