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Nominum's President and Chief Operating Officer
Joined on March 6, 2007
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As Nominum's President and Chief Operating Officer, Tom Tovar brings a proven track record of executing strategic partnerships, alliances, mergers and acquisitions at leading network and security companies and major Silicon Valley law firms.
Tom comes to this role after serving as Nominum's Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development. In this position, he was responsible for overseeing the company's sales revenues and defining and executing worldwide partnership and alliance initiatives. Before joining Nominum, Tom was vice president in charge of corporate development at NetScreen Technologies, where he led NetScreen's alliances, strategic partnering and M&A activities. He has also served as NetScreen's vice president of legal affairs. Before NetScreen, as a lawyer at Cooley Godward LLP, Tom led private financings, IPOs, strategic alliance and licensing transactions as well as merger and acquisition efforts for numerous successful technology companies.
He holds B.B.A. in finance from the University of Houston and a J.D. from Stanford University.
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