NCIP is pleased to welcome two new members to its Advisory Board: Paul Grewal, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Facebook, and Barmak Meftah, CEO of AlienVault. Both Paul and Barmak are deeply committed to NCIP’s work and bring an array of knowledge to the NCIP advisory board.
Paul Singh Grewal is Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Litigation at Facebook Inc. Before joining Facebook, Paul served as United States Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of California. He was appointed by Chief Justice Roberts to the Magistrate Judges Education Committee of the Federal Judicial Center. Before his appointment to the bench, Paul was a partner at Day Casebeer LLP (later merged with Howrey LLP), where he served on the firm’s management committee and his practice was focused on intellectual property litigation. Paul has tried cases from Marshall, Texas to Wilmington, Delaware, and has argued before various federal appellate courts. Paul served as a law clerk to Federal Circuit Judge Arthur J. Gajarsa and United States District Judge Sam H. Bell. He received his JD from the University of Chicago Law School and his SB from MIT.
Barmak Meftah is President and CEO of AlienVault. Over his 20 years of experience in enterprise software, he has assembled an incredible track record for delivering award-winning products. Under his leadership since 2011, AlienVault has become one of the fastest growing security vendors in the industry with thousands of customers and partners around the world. Most recently he served as VP of the Enterprise Security Products division at HP. Barmak was Chief Products Officer at Fortify, leading the build-out and expansion of the company. Prior to Fortify, Barmak was VP of Engineering and Product Management at Sychron and had served in several senior management roles at Oracle Corporation. Earlier in his career, Barmak served as a managing principal consultant at Price Waterhouse LLC in the Management Consulting Services group, and as the group head for Wells Fargo Bank’s desktop business unit. Barmak graduated from the University of San Francisco with bachelors and masters degrees in computer science.
In addition, NCIP is grateful to longtime Advisory Board members Don Dodson and Nikki Pope for their service as they step down. Don Dodson brought not only his years of experience of working in the senior administration of Santa Clara University to NCIP, but he contributed the wisdom, vision and generous spirit that propelled him to such accomplishment. Nikki Pope brought her relentless creativity, keen business sense, and sheer chutzpah into passionate advocacy on behalf of NCIP and on behalf of exonorees. She continues her important work with exonerees through the Pruno Project (www.prunoproject.com). We thank Don and Nikki for their many years of service and friendship, and we look forward to their continued involvement in the years to come.
