Executive Management

R. Brooks Borcherding, President

As NaviSite’s President, R. Brooks Borcherding provides executive leadership to the company’s senior management and is personally involved in the strategy, financing, merger and acquisition (M&A) activities, business planning and day-to-day operations of the company. Brooks leads the executive team in accelerating NaviSite’s transformation as the leading provider of cloud computing, enterprise-class hosting, and managed application services for enterprise customers. Under his leadership, NaviSite is building a world-class organization dedicated to offering clients unparalleled service and support. With his direction, we intend to further our focus on the unique requirements confronting senior level IT executives in organizations throughout the world.

Brooks joins NaviSite from Cisco Systems, where he was responsible for strategy, planning, business development and sales operations for its Enterprise East division with a focus on driving revenue from Cisco’s largest customers. Previously, he held leadership positions in sales, sales management, general management, product management and information technology at Avaya, Lucent and AT&T. Brooks began his career as a senior consultant at Andersen Consulting.

Jim Pluntze, Chief Financial Officer

As Chief Financial Officer for NaviSite, Jim Pluntze is responsible for all finance and administration functions within which include, due diligence for all acquisitions, asset reallocation, and fund raising efforts for the company. Mr. Pluntze is also a member of the NaviSite Sarbanes-Oxley steering committee.

Mr. Pluntze joined NaviSite in 2002 as the Chairman of the Audit Committee on the Board of Directors. In March of 2003, Mr. Pluntze moved to an operating role within the company as the acting Chief Financial Officer and held that position until May 2005 when he became the Sr. Vice President of Finance. During his time at NaviSite, Mr. Pluntze played a key role in NaviSite’s six acquisitions. Mr. Pluntze has over 20 years of experience in high level finance positions in several Massachusetts high tech companies.

Denis Martin, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Denis Martin's role as Executive Vice President reflects his continued contributions to NaviSite's strategic direction, including acquisition activity, and product, service, and channel development. Martin brings 20 years of business experience and has served in several positions in the company, most recently as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development. He has extensive experience in network-based computing and outsourced delivery of business solutions and managed services.

Before joining NaviSite, Mr. Martin managed the national hosting and application services organization for AppliedTheory, Inc. As a co-founder of AppliedTheory, Inc., he was instrumental in the development of the company's managed service offering by combining traditional hosting services with application development, integration and support services. He had served as Senior Director of Software Engineering at AppliedTheory's predecessor, NYSERNet, the world's first regional Internet service provider. He has also acted as a consultant to several state and federal agencies in developing network and application programs at local, state and national levels.

Mark Clayman, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing

As Senior Vice President, Enterprise Sales, Mark Clayman provides strategic direction for global sales operations to drive revenue growth. With extensive experience that spans multiple functional responsibilities over the course of his career, Mark focuses on enhancing the sales capabilities across the enterprise to increase closed opportunities for both install base and new logo prospects. In his earlier role as Senior Vice President Service Delivery within the company, Mark continually improved the company’s overall service delivery, applications services and account management to meet the growing demands of NaviSite customers.

Mark joined NaviSite through the acquisition of Surebridge, Inc., a Lexington, MA provider of application services where he served as Vice President and CIO, responsible for creating and managing the Hosting and Technology Group. Clayman began his career as a Corporate Accountant for The Berkshire Group, producing their quarterly and annual financial consolidations of the corporate entities for Senior Management and third-party auditors.

Sumeet Sabharwal, Senior Vice President of Global Delivery

As Senior Vice President of Global Delivery, Sumeet Sabharwal is responsible for leading and managing NaviSite's Global Delivery organization. This includes all aspects of sales and delivery for NaviSite’s custom application services business and the Global Delivery operations that span the various service offerings.

Mr. Sabharwal brings extensive experience in both the IT services and outsourcing arenas, having spent more than 15 years leading and managing the global delivery operations for IT services companies, like Sapient and Intrasphere. Before joining NaviSite, Sabharwal was Vice President and Managing Director at Intrasphere, where he led their Global Delivery operations and served on the Board of Intrasphere India. Prior to Intrasphere, he was Vice President and Executive Director at Sapient, where he played an instrumental role in launching the Global Delivery operations in India and growing it to more than 800 people in less than four years. He also led Sapient's application management business across both the US and Europe, and held responsibility over all facets of its operations, including sales and service delivery. He previously held senior level positions at Visient, Sapient, and Motorola.

Allen Allison, Chief Security Officer

During his 20+ year career in the information security industry, Allison has served in management and technical roles, including the development of NaviSite’s industry-leading cloud computing platform; chief engineer and developer for a market-leading managed security operations center; and lead auditor and assessor for information security programs in the healthcare, government, e-commerce, and financial industries. With experience in the fields of systems programming; network infrastructure design and deployment; and information security, Allison has earned the highest industry certifications, including CCIE, CCSP, CISSP, MCSE, CCSE, and INFOSEC Professional. A graduate of the University of California, Irvine, Allison has lectured at colleges and universities on the subject of information security and regulatory compliance.

Rathin Sinha, President, America’s Job Exchange

As President of the America’s Job Exchange http://www.americasjobexchange.com/ (AJE), a wholly owned subsidiary of NaviSite, Rathin is responsible for incubation, development and growth of this online job search and recruitment business leading all strategic and operational functions.

Rathin joined NaviSite in June 2007 as SVP and Chief Marketing Officer bringing in more than twenty years of internet and marketing experience, and a track record of growing high-tech and online businesses. Prior to NaviSite, he was VP/GM at Monster.com where he founded and led aggressive growth of the SMB targeted e-commerce channel making it the largest in the online recruiting industry. Earlier, he was VP of Strategic Marketing at Standard Register, Senior Director of eCommerce at Kinko’s and a Strategy Consultant with the Mitchell Madison Group. Rathin earned his MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, M.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, and B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology.