Management Team

Russ Hawkins | President and CEO

A 28-year technology industry veteran, Mr. Hawkins is responsible for developing Agilence’s overall strategy and leading its growth.

Prior to Agilence, he built two early stage technology companies into successful businesses. He was President and CEO of SilverStorm Technologies, a developer and manufacturer of high performance computer networking equipment, from 2004 until 2006 when he sold the company to QLogic Corporation. Prior to SilverStorm, he was the President and CEO of Paragon Networks, a developer of wide area backhaul solutions for wireless networks, which he sold to Carrier Access Corporation in 2003.

Prior to Paragon, Mr. Hawkins spent 15 years at Lucent Technologies in a variety of management positions.

He graduated from Boston College in 1980.

Pedro Ramos | Vice President of Sales and Operations

Mr. Ramos is responsible for managing Agilence's retail solutions and audit services organizations. Prior to Agilence, he managed the loss prevention and reverse logistics programs for Pathmark, a 141 store supermarket chain, acquired by A&P in 2008. While at Pathmark, he led the effort to re-organize Pathmark’s loss prevention program utilizing Agilence’s solutions to reduce internal shrink and save more than $8 million annually.

Mr. Ramos is a former chairman of the New Jersey Food Council’s Loss Prevention Committee. He is active in the Pennsylvania Food Merchants Association, NY Food Industry Alliance and the Loss Prevention Foundation.

He graduated magna cum laude from Kean University, earning a BS in Business Management Science and Economics.

Derek M. Rodner | Vice President of Product Strategy and Marketing 

Derek M. Rodner has overall responsibility for the product strategy and marketing at Agilence. Derek was most recently Vice President of Marketing at PERFMAN, a cross-platform systems management software provider. Prior to joining PERFMAN, Derek was responsible for worldwide marketing for EnterpriseDB Corporation, spearheading the growth of the company to over 300 customers and millions in sales.

Before EnterpriseDB, Derek held a number of marketing roles at Unisys Corporation. He led the open source initiative at Unisys and was responsible for the marketing of their Intel server line. In addition, Derek was the first non-employee Chairman of the Marketing Board for the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL). Derek was also the founder and president of a business re-engineering firm for Fortune 500 companies.

Derek is a graduate of Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

Edward Parks |  Vice President of Engineering

Mr. Parks is a technology executive with over 25 years experience managing the development of software and computer hardware products.  He is responsible for all Agilence product development, and for leading its global development teams.

Prior to joining Agilence, Mr. Parks served as the Vice President of Worldwide Engineering at Neoware, where he drove the development of thin clients and enterprise desktop management software, developed strategy, and led the integration of ten acquisitions in the US, Europe and China.  During his tenure Neoware, the company grew from $8 million to $100 million in revenue over five years and became the #2 worldwide market share leader in thin clients. 

Mr. Parks also served as Corporate Director for Product and Market Development and Director of Engineering for Commodore Business Machines, and spent ten years with Eastman Kodak in various engineering management positions. He is a graduate of MIT's Sloan School of Management, and holds an MSEE degree from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Craig Orr |  Controller

Mr. Orr is in charge of all financial and HR functions for Agilence. In his 20+ year career, Mr. Orr has held controller positions at six companies in various industries including Eastern Insulated Wire Corp, Cobra Products, Inc., Property Technologies, Ltd, and Fresh Air Solutions, LP.

Mr. Orr graduated from Rutgers University with a BS in Business in 1986.