Paul Serrano
Vice President of Marketing, CipherTrust Asia Pacific

Mr. Serrano has more than 28 years of experience in the security and networking arena and has extensive experience in sales, marketing and business development. Prior to CipherTrust he served as Director for security products marketing for Juniper Networks via the acquisition of NetScreen Technologies where he held a variety of senior management positions. Mr. Serrano served four years at NetScreen Technologies, two of which were as Senior Director of Product Management at the California headquarters and the latter two where he functioned as Senior Director of Marketing, APAC, based in Hong Kong. Prior to joining NetScreen, Serrano was director of business development at Bell Labs Research where he played a key role in the commercialization of various research technologies into the telecom market space. Before that, he co-founded and served as CEO for Network Tools, a company focusing on configuration challenges in the data networking sector. He was vice president at the HSBC banking corporation as well as serving in senior management roles at JP Morgan Bank and Citibank. He previously served in senior positions in sales, marketing and product management at start-up SynOptics Communications (later acquired by Nortel). Serrano spent nine years with the US Air Force and was responsible for the planning, design, installation and deployment of large-scale communication systems, including satellite systems, fiber optics, voice and data systems, cryptographic systems and wireless communications. He is a member and participant in the IEEE and IETF forums.