Aboutpaglo

The team that serves up Paglo

Paglo was developed and is managed by a highly focused team with deep IT management and SaaS experience.

Customer feedback set the stage for the company as Paglo was founded by Brian de Haaff and Dr. Chris Waters after they led the sale of Network Chemistry's wireless security business to Aruba Networks (NASDAQ: ARUN). In addition to offering wireless security, the company built technology for enterprises to capture information about and classify all of their networked devices. Customers continually requested the ability to search that info to solve computer, network, and security challenges. So, we have our customers to thank for leading us to develop the world's first search engine for IT.

Founders

Brian de Haaff, CEO
Brian de Haaff
Brian has over 15 years of technology industry experience and a proven ability to lead great private and public companies. He has created and developed three new categories of technology and has held senior strategy and marketing positions at multiple successful startups. At Network Chemistry, as CEO, he led the successful sale of the company's wireless security business to Aruba Networks [NASDAQ ARUN]. Prior to Network Chemistry, he led strategy and set the product direction for Netli, the leading application delivery company, ultimately leading to an acquisition by Akamai for nearly $200M. Prior to that, he held senior positions at RouteScience, which was acquired by Avaya, and at Concentric Network, which was acquired by XO Communications for over $2B. He graduated with honors with a MS in Marketing from Northwestern University and a BA in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley.
Chris Waters, PhD, CTO
Chris Waters
Chris sets the technical vision for Paglo. He founded Network Chemistry and was the CTO until its sale to Aruba in July 2007. Previously he was the Director of Software Engineering at Ubicom and was responsible for Ubicoms wireless operating system. He ran his own IT consulting firm and is the holder of 2 issued patents and numerous applications. He has a PhD from the University of Auckland in Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Paglo Board of Directors

  • Brian de Haaff, Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder
  • Dr. Chris Waters, Chief Technology Officer & Co-founder
  • Aymerik Renard, Innovacom
  • Robert Troy, Geneva Ventures
  • Lou Ryan, Entrepreneur and angel investor