James Mongiello, President and CEO Jean Gastinel , founder and Chairman of the Board Jean-Marc Frailong, co-founder and CTO Richard De Soto, Vice President of Marketing and Inside Sales Marty Di Pietro , Vice President of Operations and Customer Service Sandy Benett, Vice President of Engineering James Mongiello CEO Jim is responsible for the  overall strategy and direction of the company. Previous to FreeGate Jim became a Venture Partner of Brentwood Venture Capital. Jim has more than 30 years of management and development experience  in the networking industry. His past positions include President and CEO of OnStream, the leading ATM access equipment supplier. 3Com in a stock transaction valued at $254 million purchased  OnStream. Prior to OnStream, Jim spent 9 years at Larscom as both President and Vice President of Sales. He has also held senior management, marketing and sales positions at Doeltz Networks,  Timeplex, General Datacomm, and Codex. He attended Lowell University and completed the Executive MBA program at Stanford University   Jean A. Gastinel Founder and Chairman of the Board Jean Gastinel founded FreeGate in December 1995 to provide innovative solutions to bring advanced Internet applications to businesses. He currently  presides as board chairman and adviser to the company. Previous to FreeGate, Mr. Gastinel was general manager of the Xerox/IMPACT business unit responsible for developing image-processing systems  used in high-speed printing and digital copying systems. Prior to Xerox/IMPACT, Mr. Gastinel was director of the SunDragon program at Sun Microsystems responsible for the development of the  SparcCenter 2000 and the SparcServer 1000. He holds a Doctorate from the Ecole Normale Superieure of Paris.   Jean-Marc Frailong Founder, Chief Technology Officer Jean-Marc Frailong is a co-founder of FreeGate. Prior to FreeGate, he was principal engineer at Xerox/IMPACT, working on system architecture and image  processing algorithms for digital copying systems. Previous to Xerox/IMPACT, Mr. Frailong worked on high-performance multiprocessor systems, first at Xerox, then as chief architect of the  SparcCenter 2000 and SparcServer 1000 projects at Sun Microsystems.He holds a M.S. degree in Mathematics from Paris VI University and graduated from Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. Sandy Benett Vice President of Engineering Sandy  Benett joined FreeGate Corporation in December 1998 as Vice President of Engineering.  Before joining FreeGate, Sandy was Vice President of the Newton Business Unit at Apple, where he led the  efforts on the MessagePad 2000 and eMate 300 hand-held computer products.  His past positions include Vice President of  the Newton Systems Group at Apple Computer and Director of Engineering for  GO Corporation.  Sandy has developed software at TransImage Corporation, Datacopy/Xerox, Tandem Computers and the Mitre Corporation.  He started his career teaching Computer Science and was  chairman of the Computer Science Department at Anne Arundel Community College.  Sandy holds a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.   Richard De Soto Vice President, Marketing & Inside Sales Mr. De Soto joined FreeGate in August 1998 as vice president of Marketing. Prior to FreeGate he was in various senior positions as vice president or  senior director of PC network software, Internet software and telecom companies such as NetManage, Attachmate, Wall Data, Nortel and US West. At NetManage he directed channel sales and marketing  of Intranet and internet products. At Wall Data he was very instrumental in enabling a successful IPO through channel programs. At Nortel he successfully introduced to the market the first  computer telephony product leveraging partnerships with IBM, DEC, HP and Apple. Mr. De Soto has a B.A. in Advertising/PR from San Jose State University and advanced information systems  certificate from Cambridge Technology.   Marty DiPietro Vice President, Operations and Customer Service Marty DiPietro joined FreeGate in April 1997 as vice president of Operations. For eight years, Mr. DiPietro served as vice president of Operations at  NetFRAME Systems. In the last two years, he was responsible for outsourcing all of the company's manufacturing operations. Prior to NetFRAME, Mr. DiPietro served as vice president of Operations  for Flextronics, printed circuit board assembly vendor. He holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology. Home | Products | Solutions | News | Support | Partners | Corporate