About Us Our Team

Leadership Team

CHRISTIAN FERENZ

CEO

Christian started his entrepreneur journey as a measurement instrumentation distributor in 2003 and soon realized that there was a market for producing better network monitoring solutions.

Along with some of his business partners, Christian established Cubro Acronet and started developing TAPs and Packet Broker lines. Within few years, the company spread its wings in the international market. Today Cubro is among the leading vendors of TAPs and Network Packet Brokers and partner of the world’s largest Telcos and Enterprises with installations on all continents.

Tel: +43 1 2982666-301 | Fax: +43 1 2982666-399 | Mobile +43 664 2666301
c.ferenz@cubro.com

SASCHA NAUNOVIC

CFO

Sascha is a highly dedicated Chief Financial Officer (CFO) with 20 years of progressive accomplishments. He’s been working as Cubro’s CFO since the origin of the company and has been an effective organisational leader and a key member of senior management.

As an expert in logistics, Sascha always finds a solution to make sure the delivering is on time, no matter which part of the world. Sascha loves watching/playing soccer in his spare time.

Tel: +43 1 2982666-302 | Fax: +43 1 2982666-399 | Mobile +43 664 2666302
s.naunovic@cubro.com

GABRIEL GURIENCU

CTO - HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT

Gabriel, one of the co-founders of Cubro, is a technology leader with over 23 years of experience in hardware development. Gabriel’s technical expertise and business knowledge has helped Cubro in achieving the company objectives. A perfectionist in his field, Gabriel believes that only the best is good enough! Gabriel is a hobby photographer and looks at the world through his lens in his free time.

Tel: +43 1 2982666-300 | Fax: +43 1 2982666-399 | Mobile +43 664 2666300
g.gabriel@cubro.com

HERBERT ETLINGER

HEAD OF PRODUCT & SOLUTION ENGINEERING

Born and raised in lower Austria, Herbert comes with more than 25 years of experience in the telecom industry. Herbert has an in-depth understanding of the complex technical issues and is extremely solution oriented. He is passionate and dedicated to delivering innovative solutions and customer services. Herbert’s inspiration comes from the phrase ‘together we can manage it’. Herbert loves dogs and can train them well with some of his fun tricks.

Tel: +43 1 2982666-309 | Fax: +43 1 2982666-399 | Mobile +43 664 2666309
h.etlinger@cubro.com

Global Teams

EMEA

Manfred Lang

VICE PRESIDENT SALES EMEA

m.lang@cubro.com

Manfred Lang brings 30 years of sales and sales leadership experience running world-class teams within networking, which spans software, hardware and cloud solutions. He has a proven track record of building and scaling sales organizations at industry leaders including Apcon, Fluke Networks (Danaher), MRV as well as at startups including Deutsche Landtel. Manfred has extensive experience leading teams that serve customers across commercial, enterprise, government and telco/service provider segments.

Björn De Jong

CHANNEL MANAGER EMEA

b.dejong@cubro.com

Born and raised in the Netherlands, Björn has over 20 years of experience in the industry, mostly in sales. As Cubro’s Channel Manager EMEA, Björn is responsible for sales and project management for channel partners in EMEA.

Håkan Holmgren

GLOBAL KEY ACCOUNT DIRECTOR

h.holmgren@cubro.com

Håkan Holmgren, based in Stockholm, Sweden, has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications and IT industries. Hakan has held positions and gained experience at Ixia Technologies (nowadays Keysight) and Polystar as well as other privately owned companies. Starting as a technical support engineer in the 90s, Hakan has since then held both management and sales positions. As Cubro’s Global Key Account Director, Hakan is responsible for managing the business relationship with a few selected key accounts.

UK & IRELAND

Paul Brett

DIRECTOR UK & IRELAND

p.brett@cubro.com

Paul is an industry veteran with 30 years of experience in the IT networking and security industry. He is responsible for growing Cubro’s business in the UK & Ireland. In the past, he has held leadership roles to successfully grow businesses in the UK and internationally for both major corporations and start-up businesses, including HP, Newbridge Networks and Ascom Timeplex. Paul has extensive experience working with both Service Providers and Enterprises to provide them with successful networking, network monitoring and network security solutions.

APAC

Joe Lim

VP SALES APAC

jl@cubro.com

Joe has over 20 years of OSS/BSS Sales and Solutions experience in the industry. He is responsible for driving Cubro Network Packet Broker solutions in Enterprise Strategy, OEM/Joint Technology Alliances partnership/offering and Channel Sales in APAC. He brings an extensive expertise in the telecom market environment which includes IN-based service solutions for the fixed and mobile network and Enterprise Network Security environment. Prior to joining Cubro, Joe ran APAC Sales at VSS Monitoring.

Markku Takala

ARCHITECT

m.takala@cubro.com

Markku Takala is a high calibre Architect with a strong experience in programming, consultation and solution selling for over 30 years. Before joining Cubro, Markku worked at Nokia for 25 years in several countries and positions. His last posting was in Singapore. Markku has a successful track record in the applying industry standards (NGOSS, ITIL, TMN). He has a thorough understanding of Telecom Infrastructure especially in the OSS domain and an ability to combine telecommunications and IT worlds that solves the business problem. Markku has excellent knowledge of the trends and technologies such as AI / ML, storage, virtualisation, DevOps, Big Data, Security, business insights (HBR).

JAPAN

Koichi Masuda

JAPAN COUNTRY MANAGER

k.masuda@cubro.com

Koichi has over 20-years of experience in network and security monitoring and testing market as sales engineer and marketing specialist. He has a long track record of network monitoring and testing industry in Japan. As Japan’s country manager, Koichi is responsible for expanding Cubro market in Japan.

Tomo Suenaga

JAPAN SOLUTION ENGINEER

t.suenaga@cubro.com

Tomo has over 10-years of experience in fault-tolerant server solution as a development engineer using C language and UNIX environment. Tomo also has several years of experience in many types of network device deployment with high redundancy. As Cubro Japan solution engineer, Tomo is responsible for solving customer issues and supporting customer success with specialized product knowledge.

NORTH AMERICA

Dave Burns

VP STRATEGIC ALLIANCES

d.burns@cubro.com

Dave Burns is our Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Cubro. He has worked creating and developing ecosystem partner solution integrations and go-to-market strategies with large Global System Integrators, Reseller Channels and worldwide Technology Partners over the past 28 years. Dave has developed multiple best breed practices on how ecosystem partnerships leverage joint integrated solutions with innovative Marketing and Solution selling techniques.

David Holmes

VICE PRESIDENT SALES

d.holmes@cubro.com

David brings 20 years of experience to Cubro in the Service Provider, Government and Enterprise Markets. He has had tremendous success in product development with test and measurement and network visibility solutions. Born in Canada, he has close ties to both the US and Canadian Channels.

Project Management

Franz Bauer

PROJECT MANAGEMENT - MONITORING AND PROBING

f.bauer@cubro.com

“With my extensive experience in telecom and probing, I look forward to involving with the nitty-gritties of the telecom sector and solving technical challenges that arise within the field.”

Marketing & Communications

Tamanna Bhatia

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER

t.bhatia@cubro.com

“Telling stories and communicating our brand values is my passion.”

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We understand that it can be stressful to do business in a different language. Cubro has a diverse team of professionals who can speak with you in your preferred language.

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