Management Team

Bob Walters
President & CEO

Bob Walters began his accomplished career landing F/A-18 Hornet fighter aircraft on aircraft carriers. Today, Bob leads Untangle, the pioneer in open source network gateway platforms. Most recently, he landed his segment-leading application security startup, Teros, at Citrix Systems via acquisition. Along the way, Bob contributed in executive/general management positions at a number of top startup and public companies, including Securant Technologies (now part of RSA Security), Linuxcare, Informix Software, and Red Brick Systems.

Bob is a published expert and invited speaker in internet security, data warehousing/data mining, entrepreneurship, and leadership. He is an honors graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and was a Guggenheim Fellow at Princeton University.

Mark Floisand
Chief Operating Officer

Mark is a seasoned manager with over twenty years' experience in the technology industry, spanning blue chip and start-up companies across three continents.

Before joining Untangle, Mark was Senior Director, eCommerce and Web Strategy at Business Objects, and subsequently at SAP after its acquisition of Business Objects. He led the integration and rebranding of Business Objects' web properties into SAP's networks, and expanded the global footprint of their ecommerce stores. 

Prior to Business Objects and SAP, Mark was with Adobe Systems, where he led the global eCommerce business, growing it into a material global channel for the company. He also held roles in product marketing, and field marketing in Northern Europe. Mark also successully founded an internet startup in South Africa, after a nine year sales and marketing career with Apple.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Durham in the UK.

Dirk Morris
Co-Founder & Vice President, Products

Dirk Morris is the co-founder and Vice President of Products at Untangle. He is the visionary behind the Untangle Gateway Platform. 

Prior to Untangle, Dirk was Chief Architect at Akheron Technologies, where he invented the patent-pending High Bandwidth Transparent Vectoring used in the company's proxy firewall engine. He has also held positions as lead engineer at VerticalNet and H.L.L.C. Consulting, developing Java-based distributed monitor and intrusion detection systems.

Earlier in his career, Dirk worked on survivability simulations at CERT/CC (Computer Emergency Response Team), the renowned, federally-funded Center for Internet security operated by Carnegie Mellon University.

Dirk earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University.