Executive Team
Jonathan A. Clark, CEO
Jonathan has 20 years experience in the high tech business with various corporations including Morphics, Applied Materials and NAS. Jonathan has also been a founder member of several previous start ups encompassing among others the arenas of Internet Service Provision and Video Conferencing.
Jonathan heads up the Information Technology practice and overall business practices. Since starting ExoIS Jonathan has led initiatives including amongst others, design and provision of SaaS offerings , developing extensions to commercial software systems, software for mobile platforms and providing encrypted and optimized international networks. Network and system reliability has always been a pillar of ExoIS offerings and Jonathan has led the development of multiple proprietary tools to enhance functionality and security in these areas.
Jonathan has a Bachelor of Science degree with honours in Mathematics from Bristol University.
Ruth Xovox, Chief Compliance Strategist
Ruth Xovox has an extensive background in dealing with all aspects of compliance, risk management and information security, including hands-on operational experience, as well as, providing strategic risk assessment and scoring for leadership and board level audiences. She has strong regulatory experience with both domestic and international compliance standards such as SOX, PCI, FFIEC, SAS 70, CSSF, APRA, GLBA, and EU privacy laws.
Since 2007, Ruth was twice elected by the industry to represent PayPal on the PCI Security Standards Council Board of Advisors and was active on several taskforces including Brand Alignment and PABP (or PA-DSS). She has managed PCI and CISP audits for various companies including PayPal, Verisign, eBay, Skype and Trinity. Ruth led PayPal to become the first company to achieve PCI DSS 1.1 compliance. She also helped to drive and facilitate compliance for all PayPal merchants.
Ruth brings more than 15 years of technology experience in the U.S. and internationally with more than 10 years experience in information security and compliance. Ruth was educated in the US, UK and Europe and holds numerous industry certifications including CISSP, CISA, PCI-QSA and CHFI.
John D. Clark, COO
John Clark brings over 30 years of management experience in the high technology business to the team. He has held executive management positions in sales and marketing in the Information Technology industry and his experiences cover consulting services, IT security services, hardware and software. Prior to joining ExoIS he had been a Management and Marketing Consultant working primarily with high technology start-up businesses in the software, security services and professional services market places.
John became a consultant following 11 years with Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), the last 5 of which as as an Executive Vice President, having been promoted to that position after 6 years with HDS as European Vice President of Marketing based in London. During his tenure as EVP, he initiated and then led the company’s first major move into the open systems and solutions business as head of their New Business Unit.
Prior to joining HDS, John spent 22 years with IBM where he worked in a variety of management positions in systems engineering, sales and marketing in both in the UK and in IBM’s European headquarters in Paris.
John holds a BSc Hons Degree from Hull University in England.
Fletch Sullivan, Vice President, Sales
Fletch comes to ExoIS with a 15-year track record in running and building sales organizations in technology- based solutions. Prior to joining ExoIS, Fletch co-founded Aplena, a highly successful Data Center Infrastructure Service company, where he served as Vice President of Sales. Fletch managed and built a team of professionals at Adaptec where he launched the 700i, which won a Technology of the Year award from InfoWorld. Fletch is a seasoned executive with a strong track record in building and developing new markets with value-driven solutions.
