Rocco Donnino

As Executive Vice President for Corporate Development, Donnino leverages his combined expertise in sales, strategic business planning, corporate and OEM development to deliver strong and sustainable revenue gains for AppRiver's current and future growth. In his role, he is focused on increasing corporate value and revenue by developing and growing AppRiver's global reach through strategic partner channels, OEM licensing, as well as mergers and acquisition. Donnino comes to AppRiver from AVG technologies where as SVP of Global Strategic Alliances, he was responsible for the development and execution of AVG's worldwide business development for the consumer and SMB market. His leadership helped the company grow and build strategic alliances with market leaders such as Google, Yahoo, Zynga, Microsoft, VeriSign, AMD, HSBC, Opera, and Virgin Mobile. Donnino also initiated new AVG product/OEM technologies that helped AVG reach new and emerging markets such as SaaS, PC optimization, managed security services, hosted web and email services and mobile security. Donnino joined AVG from McAfee, where he was responsible for global OEM sales and strategic partnerships in the US and EMEA. He has previously held executive sales, channel and business development positions at Secure Computing, Shavlik Technologies, SurfControl, Microsoft and was among the earliest employees of Sybari Software, which was later acquired by Microsoft. Donnino has a BA in Sports Medicine and Physical Education from Ohio Wesleyan University and has participated in a variety of speaking engagements, and seminars on technology, partnerships and sales/channel communication.