Brian leads outbound product management for network observability and network automation for IBM. Brian joined IBM with over 25 years of experience in the network management and monitoring space at Novell, Cisco and SevOne where he focused primarily on product management, product marketing and strategic alliance efforts of early stage products for emerging technologies in enterprise and service provider markets. Brian believes in enabling customers and partners to integrate products and technologies via open APIs and interfaces to solve the individual customer needs, earning two US Patents (US06584507 and US 06957256) for Linking External Applications to a Network Management System.

Reggie joined IBM Software Networking via the acquisition of NS1 in April 2023 where he led NS1’s product management organization. Prior to NS1 Reggie led the Federal, Managed Service Provider, network discovery and security businesses at FireMon after the acquisition of Lumeta Corporation in June, 2018. Reggie served as Chief Product Officer of Lumeta, which he joined in October, 2013 as part of a turn-around management team.
Prior to Lumeta, Reggie held executive level product positions at ProtonMedia, a SaaS enterprise collaboration start-up and AEP Networks, a network security start-up, which was sold to Ultra Electronics in 2011. Reggie was the CEO and co-founder of Netilla Networks, a pioneer in creating the SSL VPN marketplace, which had been acquired by AEP in 2004.

Prior to starting Netilla, Reggie was a General Manager at 3Com which had acquired AccessWorks, a start-up Reggie co-founded and led after successfully exiting his first venture-funded start-up, Teleos Communications (acquired by Madge Networks).

Reggie began his career as a Member, Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, the research and development arm of AT&T where he was a design engineer creating products for the telephone network and AT&T business communications services. He holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and Bachelors of Electrical Engineering from City College of New York.
Reggie is a longstanding Member of the IEEE and has received five US patents. While he has spent a lot of time traveling the US and the globe on business, Reggie considers himself a native New Yorker. He now lives in New Jersey and is married with three adult children. He enjoys cooking, jogging, gardening, photography and just spending time at the beach.