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 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 start-up 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.

Dirk Morris
Co-Founder & Vice President, Products
Dirk Morris 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.

Richard Booroojian
Chief Financial Officer
Richard Booroojian has worked as a consultant CFO for early stage venture-backed startups for the past 15 years. In addition to serving as Untangle’s CFO since 2006, he has consulted with such companies as OnStation, WetFeet, Amitive, Upshot, Accrue Software and Salon.com, among many others. Prior to that, he was a full time CFO for game companies including Rocket Science Games and Accolade. Richard became a CPA at Arthur Andersen. He received a B.S. Accounting degree from California State University Fresno in 1979.

Lori Booroojian
Controller
Lori Booroojian leads the “behind the scenes” enterprise resource planning for Untangle. Prior to Untangle, Lori consulted for small start-up companies and was employed at Adaptec, Inc. Before her industry experience, she was a CPA at Arthur Andersen. Lori earned a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Santa Clara University.

Marc Runkel
Vice President, Technical Operations
Marc Runkel has been solving business problems with technology for over 20 years. Before joining Untangle he worked with businesses of all sizes, from owner-operated to multi-national corporations, and most recently he was responsible for the 911 call center infrastructure in New York City. Here at Untangle he wears a few hats: managing the support team, our world-wide data centers, and internal IT operations. Perhaps more importantly, he also oversees the weekly BBQ lunch at Untangle.

Amy Abatangle
Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Amy Abatangle began working on the web as a doctoral fellow at Columbia University. She relocated to Silicon Valley in 1995 and has been a leader in online strategy and operations at companies including Apple, Oracle, Women.com and VeriSign. Her passion for new technology and evolving market opportunities lead her to start her own consulting practice, working with start-ups to develop their web marketing, demand generation, social media and e-commerce strategies. Amy has enjoyed a variety of roles in engineering, product development, marketing and sales operations; she now spearheads Untangle’s sales and marketing initiatives.