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Jeffrey P. Hank has served as a director of Qualys since January 2010. From June 2005 to July 2012, Mr. Hank was the Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller of Intuit, Inc., and Mr. Hank served as the Vice President of Finance and Chief Accounting Officer of Intuit from July 2012 until September 2013. From June 2002 until September 2003, Mr. Hank was an audit partner at KPMG LLP. From September 1994 until June 2002, Mr. Hank was an audit partner at Arthur Andersen LLP. Mr. Hank holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.
As a cybersecurity visionary, Sumedh is passionate about making the world’s digital journey safer. His education and early experiences as a coder led him to Qualys, where he rose from engineer to president and CEO. He joined Qualys in 2003, shortly after the company’s founding and in an era when organizations started using the cloud but didn’t know what to call it. His contributions and leadership helped propel Qualys to its current success in cybersecurity.
Sumedh became president and CEO in 2021. In 2019, he was named president, and prior to that, he was chief product officer, driving the company’s vision of making enterprise security more efficient and disrupting the VM space with integrated capabilities like patch management and cybersecurity asset management. A “product fanatic and engineer at heart,” Sumedh was instrumental in dramatically expanding the original Qualys platform’s scope, integrations, and automations. He also scaled the company’s engineering talent internationally with a global 24x7 follow-the-sun product team. He is a co-inventor of five U.S. patents for cybersecurity technology in Qualys offerings.
Previously, Sumedh was an engineer at Intacct, an early cloud-based financial and accounting software provider. He also worked at Northwest Airlines developing complex algorithms for its yield and revenue management reservation system. He has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering with distinction from Savitribai Phule Pune University.
John has been a member of the Qualys board since 2020. He is the former CEO and president of Redhorse Corporation, a technology services firm specializing in delivering decision-quality data to federal government customers. Before that, he served as Senior Vice President at Leidos.
Prior to joining Leidos, John enjoyed a distinguished career in government service spanning more than thirty years, concluding with his role as Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a presidential appointment. He transitioned to the DHS from the Department of Defense (DoD), where he served as Acting Chief Information Officer. John also served as the deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for command, control, communications, computer systems, intelligence, information operations & space and the acting Department of Navy chief information officer. John began his career in government service with the U.S. Navy. He retired as a Naval Flight Officer after serving as a squadron commander and in various staff assignments throughout his military service.
He holds a B.S. in business administration from the University of Scranton, an M.S. in finance from the Naval Postgraduate School, and a Ph.D. in public policy from George Mason University.
Wendy M. Pfeiffer has served as a director of Qualys since August 2019. Wendy has a distinguished technology career spanning more than 30 years of cross-industry leadership for public companies including Nutanix, GoPro, Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, Exodus Communications and Robert Half. During her tenure, Wendy has been responsible for large-scale hybrid infrastructure operations, internet technology development, ML/AI-led business process transformation, cybersecurity governance, and global data privacy policy development and promulgation.
In addition to her operating roles, she served as the lead independent director of SADA Systems until it was acquired by Insight Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ:NSIT) in December 2023. Wendy’s board service also includes non-profit leadership on the American Gaming Association (501(c)6) and Girls in Tech (501(c)3) boards.
A respected member of the technology ecosystem, Wendy is the recipient of the Fisher Center’s World Business Analytics CIO of the Year, Silicon Republic’s Tech Titan, The Software Report’s Top 25 Software CTOs, Silicon Valley Enterprise CIO of the Year, Chief in Tech’s Top 100 Women in Tech, Technology Magazine’s Top 100 Tech Execs, Infrastructure Masons Lifetime 100, and the National Diversity Council’s Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology.
Wendy has earned numerous industry certifications and a B.S. in Finance and Technology from the University of Phoenix.
Kristi is a leading executive and former senior government official with extensive international leadership experience in the public and private sectors. Her strategic advice and counsel are regularly sought on issues relating to global supply chain resiliency, security and disaster response, federal government contracting, the role of business in complex and dynamic environments, and crisis communications.
Today, she is the managing partner and co-founder of Principal to Principal, and P2P Strategies, strategic positioning companies operating at the most senior levels of business and government. Their objective is to bring constructive approaches to today’s multifaceted public policy issues and assist organizations with successfully addressing complex challenges. P2P manages a Global Forum and a Global Supply Chain Task Force.
A recovering start-up CEO, Kristi successfully launched, managed, and grew two companies with overseas operations. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Qualys Inc. (a publicly traded company), chairs its Nominating and Governance Committee and serves on its Compensation & Talent Committee; and NowSecure (a private mobile app security company), serving on its Audit and HR & Compensation Committees.
Kristi also serves on the Board of Business Executives for National Security (BENS), co-chairs the Women’s Foreign Policy Group Board, and serves on the Advisory Councils for ForgePoint Capital, George Mason University’s National Security Institute, and the Silverado Policy Accelerator. She was recognized by WomenInc. as a member of their 2019 Most Influential Corporate Directors. In June 2020, she was appointed to the BENS Commission on the National Response Enterprise, chaired by former U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary, the Honorable Jeh Johnson, and the Chairman & CEO of Johnson & Johnson, Alex Gorsky.
Previously, Kristi was a senior executive within the US government serving at the Departments of Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security. She spent just under a year in Iraq while at Defense, also traveling extensively in the Middle East and Africa. Today she is the State Society of Michigan’s President and a regular speaker at Michigan State University’s College of Social Science and other organizations.
With nearly 20 years of executive experience running enterprise software companies, Tom Berquist announced his retirement in September 2025 as CFO of Cloud Software Group, an entity resulting from the merger of Citrix Systems and TIBCO Software in September 2022. Before the merger, Tom served as CFO of TIBCO Software for seven years. Tom’s professional journey includes serving as the CFO of Alludo (formerly Corel) and Actian (formerly Ingres), as well as being the CEO of Saba Software (acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand) and Alludo.
Tom spent a decade on Wall Street, acting as a managing director of Software Equity Research at various institutions such as Citigroup (formerly Salomon Smith Barney), Goldman Sachs, and Piper Sandler. His purview encompassed major enterprise software companies like Microsoft and Oracle, rapidly expanding cloud software entities like Salesforce and Concur, and security software companies like Symantec, McAfee, and Checkpoint Software. Tom spent the early part of his career at Deloitte Consulting as a management consultant developing software strategy plans for Fortune 500 customers including Honeywell, Liberty Mutual, and US Bancorp. Before Deloitte Consulting, Tom developed enterprise software for Wells Fargo and Fortis. Tom has previously served on the board of directors of Alludo, Saba Software, and Serus Corporation (acquired by E2open). Tom holds a BA in accounting and an MBA in management and marketing from the University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Bradford L. Brooks is an accomplished technology executive and public company board member with over 30 years of leadership experience in global technology and cybersecurity organizations.
Most recently, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Censys, a leader in continuous attack surface management, from January 2022 to May 2025. During his tenure, Brad led Censys through a period of significant growth, securing major funding rounds, and strengthening its position in the Threat Hunting and Attack Surface Management (ASM) markets with customers including the U.S. intelligence agencies, NATO countries, and more than half of the Fortune 500.
Previously, Brad was President and Chief Executive Officer of OneLogin, where he focused on simplifying and securing identity management. Prior to that, he held senior leadership roles at DocuSign, including CMO and interim Co-CEO/COO, and held executive positions at Juniper Networks and Microsoft.
Brad brings deep expertise across SaaS, AI, cybersecurity and enterprise software, with a strong background in corporate governance, driving shareholder value, and digital transformation. His board experience includes serving on the boards of ARC Document Solutions (where he was Lead Independent Director and Chair of the Compensation Committee) and the Dutch company WeTransfer.
He holds a B.S. from California State University, Chico, and a Master of International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University.