About Us >> Executive Team

Tom Cook
Chief Executive Officer and President

Tom Cook, Chief Executive Officer and President, is responsible for guiding the company's strategy and vision. Cook has more than 20 years of experience leading companies ranging from start-ups to multi-million dollar technology companies. Prior to joining Permabit, Cook led and completed the sale of Curl Corporation to a division of the Sumitomo Corporation. Prior to Curl, Cook was President and CEO of Cakewalk Software, which he led from start-up to worldwide market leadership. He also served as Chairman and CEO of Soundsbig.com, a pioneering Internet broadcaster spun out of Cakewalk in 1999.

Cook has a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College, and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Harvard University.

Jered Floyd
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder

Jered Floyd, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, is responsible for exploring strategic future directions for Permabit's products, and providing thought leadership to guide the company's enterprise archive initiatives. He has previously deployed Permabit's effective software development methodologies and was responsible for developing Permabit product's core protocol and initial server and system architectures.

Prior to Permabit, Floyd was a Research Scientist on the Microbial Engineering project at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, working to bridge the gap between biological and computational systems. Earlier at Turbine, Floyd developed a robust integration language for managing active objects in a massively distributed online virtual environment.

Floyd holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also the Technical Chair of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Long-Term Archive and Compliance Storage Initiative and frequently speaks at events on technology and software development practices.

Clint McVey
Senior Vice President of Development

Clint McVey, Senior Vice President of Development, is responsible for coordinating design, engineering and development of Permabit's award-winning products.

Clint McVey is an accomplished software executive with an impressive two decade track record of leading top engineering teams. Most recently as senior vice president, product operations at Avamar, McVey helped transform that startup's product management and engineering teams into a recognized provider of quality solutions. The success of that effort became apparent when the company was recently acquired by EMC. Prior to that, McVey held vice president level roles at Veritas where he led the Data Management Group line of business and oversaw the industry's leading products in the backup/recovery market. Between 1994-1997 McVey created and oversaw a development center for Computer Associates' Cheyenne Software.

Michael Ivanov
Vice President of Marketing

Michael Ivanov, Vice President of Marketing, is responsible for Permabit's product marketing execution, new business development, and overall marketing strategy to help drive sales for the company.

Before joining Permabit, Ivanov headed CommVault Systems' Archive Center of Excellence, a dedicated cross-functional team focused on CommVault's enterprise archive solutions. Prior to CommVault, Ivanov was vice president of product marketing for Mimosa Systems. At Mimosa, he was responsible for all areas of marketing and was instrumental in defining and launching both the product and the company brand. Before Mimosa Systems, Ivanov held senior management roles in product management and marketing for Veritas Software. Over the course of his nine-year tenure at the company, which merged with Symantec in 2005, Ivanov was responsible for the overall Microsoft Windows strategy and managed the Backup Exec, Volume Manager, Storage Replicator, Storage Migrator, NetBackup Professional, and WinINSTALL product lines.