Eric Aarrestad, Vice President of Marketing, is a senior business executive with over 18 years of marketing and business development experience in the software and services industry. Prior to joining WatchGuard, Aarrestad served as Director of Product Marketing and Worldwide Marketing for Microsoft in the Mobile and Embedded Devices Division. There he led the global product and business segment marketing strategy and execution from early stage start up to a $300M+ P&L business group. While at Microsoft, he led mobile business application, messaging, and security and infrastructure marketing and execution. As Vice President of Marketing at Sightward, Aarrestad was responsible for the launch of the company's predictive analytics and hosted services solutions. Prior to Sightward, he served as Director of Product Marketing for N2H2 and as a management consultant in the strategy practice at Edgar, Dunn & Company in San Francisco, California. |