Brian P. McCann, CEO
Brian is responsible for the vision, growth strategy, and total leadership of the business. He has more than doubled the revenues since 2008 and dramatically increased new product investments to further grow the addressable applications for the company’s core technologies.
Prior to joining OnPATH, Brian was the founding President of the US Division of ADVA Optical Networking. He was also the Chief Sales & Marketing Officer of the global organization. During his tenure from 1996 to 2008, the North American business grew to over 250 people achieving over $100Million in revenues as global revenues exceeded $350M. Prior to ADVA, Brian spent nine years at 3M Corporation where his career spanned management, sales, product marketing, and manufacturing engineering in the fiber optics products businesses.
Brian served on the Board of Directors of Nexxus Lighting(NEXS), until 2010 and regularly speaks at technology or entrepreneur conferences. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Ceramic Engineering and Fiber Optics Program at Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J.
Larry Cantwell, Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
Larry Cantwell sets the company's technology direction and long-term product strategy. He joined OnPATH Technologies and runs the Engineering organization after serving as vice president of Engineering at venture-funded Tacit Networks in wide area file services. He successfully headed engineering operations up to and including the successful acquisition and integration with Packeteer Corporation.
Larry has over 20 years of engineering development leadership experience in the networking and storage industries, and has held positions with such companies as IBM, General Electric and CNT Corporation (formerly INRANGE and previously part of McDATA Corporation). He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from R.I.T. and an MBA from Rutgers University, where he currently teaches as an adjunct professor. He also holds several patents for switching advancements.
David P. Vitt, Vice President Operations & Service
Dave Vitt is responsible for all operations and service functions for the organization-including overseeing product quality and delivery, as well as customer support and service. Dave has over 25 years of commercial and military industry experience. He is a former vice president of Quality Assurance at McDATA Corporation and vice president of Engineering at CNT Corporation, and has also held executive and management positions at INRANGE Technologies and General Signal Networks. David possesses extensive experience in Mil-Q-9858 and ISO-9001 Quality Systems, as well as the European Union Directives.
He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University and earned his MBA from Rowan University. Dave is also an adjunct professor at Rutgers University.
Peter Dougherty, Founder
Peter Dougherty was the Founding CEO of OnPATH Technologies and is now a strategic advisor for the Company. Peter led the financing and spinout from Brocade Communications in 2007 and assembled a strong management team. He successfully developed OnPATH from a re-start to a growth Company. He has more than 20 years of experience designing and marketing storage, input/output and storage networking technologies.
A former vice president at McDATA Corporation, he has also held marketing, management and engineering positions at Western Digital and Unisys Corporation. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the College of New Jersey.
