Executive Management

Roger was born in North Platte, Nebraska and raised in Rolla, Missouri. He graduated from the University of Missouri – Rolla with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.

After graduation, Roger initially worked as an Application Engineer for Hubbell Power Systems prior to making the move into Product Management supporting a $40M product portfolio in the Americas and EMEA. His affinity for products and sales took him to Raleigh, NC where he joined NetApp as an Inside Sales Representative. Roger supported Government customers from the Air Force, Navy, Joint Commands; Departments of the Interior, Health & Human Services, and Energy before moving into an Account Manager role in Maryland solely supporting the Intelligence Community.

During his tenure at NetApp, Roger achieved over 200% of his goals for three consecutive years and was responsible for over $100M in revenue. Roger’s accomplishments were recognized with 5 President Club awards, as well as being named 2007 Account Manager of the Year for the U.S. Public Sector.

Roger brought his experience and knowledge of the Civilian Agencies, Department of Defense, and Intelligence Community to ClearShark in 2010 and created a business unit whose focus on inception was primarily reseller business, but has since evolved to include the creation & implementation of custom technical solutions. Partnering with industry leaders such as Splunk, Nutanix, FireEye, Palo Alto Networks, NetApp, and F5, ClearShark has recognized a 300% growth in the Sales Business Unit.

Roger’s enjoys golf, running, hunting, fishing, music, travel, spending time with his wife and two young children, and, always supporting his beloved St. Louis Cardinals.

Finn Ramsland is the Vice President of Engineering and Technology at ClearShark. He is responsible for sales engineering, engineering services, and the company’s technical direction.   Before beginning at ClearShark in 2010, Finn spent 20 years in sales engineering with early stage companies such as Cisco Systems, Ascend Communications, Redback Networks, Procket Networks, IronPort, and Solera Networks.  Finn began his career as a computer scientist at the National Security Agency.  He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Towson University and an M.S. in Computer Science from the Johns Hopkins University.

Skip Liesegang is Optiv ClearShark’s Senior Director of Partnerships and Alliance. In this role, Skip is responsible for leading ClearShark’s strategy and direction related to all of the company’s partnerships including technology vendors, distributors, cloud service providers, business partners, and all other eco-system partner relationships.

Over a 35 plus year career, Skip has a solid track record of delivering superior sales results as a successful and seasoned executive in Sales, Marketing, Channels, and Distribution. He is a passionate and creative leader in building diverse, high performing organizations for Vendors, Solution Providers, and Aggregators/Distributors. Skip has participated in many channel advisory boards including Crowdstrike, Proofpoint, McAfee, SourceFire, Proofpoint, EMC, Brocade, and NetApp. Skip founded the Government Channel Leadership Council in 2009, an advisory committee of public sector channel executives across technology manufacturers to address common concerns, execute channel research, and define best practices for building productive channels and routes to market.

Prior to joining Clearshark , Skip served as the Director of Channels/Distribution for the Americas at Proofpoint, Vice President of Channels/Vendor Alliances at DLT and immixGroup, and led the Public Sector channels for seventeen years at Sun Microsystems. He is a frequent industry speaker, author of articles for various IT trade publications, as well as the 2013 Computer Reseller News Channel Champion awardee. Skip is a constant learner and is always looking for ways to help deliver value through creative approaches and strong relationships, but above everything he loves to help other people grow and succeed through active mentorship and coaching. He holds a Bachelor of Science from James Madison University and a Master of Business Administration from Averett University.

Jon Teunis is Director, Special Programs at Clearshark. Prior to joining Clearshark in 2017 Jon held similar positions at F5 Networks, Commvault and Quantum. With a B.S. in Business Administration from Towson University, and an early start in the IT industry, Jon has been involved with IT transformations in basic storage and networking to today’s secure cloud infrastructures.