Management Team

Francis Dinha OpenVPN Co-Founder & CEOFrancis Dinha, Co-Founder & CEO

Francis Dinha has been key in orchestrating growth at OpenVPN Technologies, by building a viable business model to assure the Company's continued success. Before he founded OpenVPN Technologies, Inc., he was the CEO at Iraq Development and Investment projects where he played a principal role in architecting a joint venture to win the mobile communication license in Iraq and syndicated $50 million in equity and debt financing from various entities. He was also the founder and CTO of PacketStream, Inc. where he secured more than $5 million in equity financing. Francis Dinha has a master of science in computer engineering from the University of Linkoping in Sweden.

 

James Yonan, Co-Founder & CTOJames Yonan, Co-Founder & CTO

James Yonan founded the OpenVPN project in 2002, and has since then established OpenVPN as an award-winning offering in the Open Source security space. Prior to founding the OpenVPN project, he played a key role at Northfield Trading LP as the architect of TSE, a platform for rigorously evaluating the statistical fitness of financial trading models. James Yonan was a lead developer at Mark Williams Company, an early pioneer in the effort to create C language and Unix tools for the original IBM PC. James Yonan studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

 


Bob Niimon, VP EngineeringBob Nimon, VP of Engineering

Bob Nimon joined the OpenVPN management team in 2010 as the VP of Engineering. Before joining OpenVPN, he was a founding partner at Viewplicity, LLC., developing secure video collaboration applications, and the CTO at Espre Solutions, Inc. architecting web solutions for virtual private video broadcast networks. For fifteen years, he was the President of DNA Enterprises, Inc. which was a supplier of contract development services to the public and private sector, including Texas Instruments, Lockheed Electronics, Hughes Aircraft, DSC Communications (acquired by Alcatel-Lucent), and many others. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Texas.