Company information

Welcome to GFI Software, helping your business to succeed

GFI Software pioneers powerful, award-winning IT solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) – and we make them affordable and easy to use.

We understand the challenges and opportunities you face. And it’s our business to help you to succeed, while saving you time and money. We keep technology simple where possible, and provide expert help and resources when you need them.

Find out more about why GFI is the right choice for your business

Quality technology, designed for you

At GFI, our aim is for you to access all the IT solutions you need from a single source: We provide web and mail security, archiving, backup and fax, networking and security software, and hosted IT solutions. We’ll keep pace with you, as your business grows.

You can trust our solutions. They work together seamlessly, reducing the risk of different services clashing or leaving gaps. With GFI, you can get everything you need. And we’re making our solutions even better, all the time.

Our solutions have won top awards - take a look

Our Microsoft partnership meets the Gold standard

GFI Software has a strategic partnership with Microsoft. We are a Gold Certified Partner and a member of various limited access Microsoft groups such as the Exchange Server JDP program. Microsoft has presented us with the Winning on Windows Award as well as the Microsoft Fusion award.

We’re a global company that understands local needs

GFI is an international success story. However, we’ve kept our feet on the ground – in lots of countries. We have offices in the USA (North Carolina, California and Florida), the UK (London and Dundee), Austria, Australia, Malta, Hong Kong, Philippines and Romania. We also have partners and customers the world over, so we can provide localized customer service, see the big issues, spot emerging trends and provide solutions ahead of the market.

We’re committed to providing outstanding support. We design our solutions to be simple to install, configure and run. But on the rare occasions when help is needed, our highly-skilled technical team provide a quick response. We also offer a wealth of online resources and even free-of-charge support for products during evaluation.   

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Executives

Walter Scott Chief Executive Officer Walter Scott most recently served as the CEO of Acronis, a provider of scalable storage management and disaster recovery software, where in the space of three years he increased revenues from less than $20 million to approximately $120 million for 2008. Prior to joining Acronis, he was the CEO of Imceda Software where he executed a combination of leadership and marketing strategies that resulted in a successful sale of the company to Quest Software for $61 million. Walter was also instrumental in Embarcadero's successful IPO in 2000. He started his career in sales with Banyan Systems where he contributed to the growth and success that lead to Banyan's IPO. Walter holds a Bachelor's degree in Marketing and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Maine.

Dan Kossmann Chief Financial Officer Dan Kossmann has served as our Chief Financial Officer since April 2011. From March 2010 to September 2010 he served as the CFO of IBM, Initiate Division upon the sale of Initiate, a master data management company, to IBM. Dan served as the CFO of Initiate from 2008 to 2010. Prior to his tenure at Initiate, Dan served as CFO for OutStart Inc., from 2001 to 2008. Dan has also served as the CFO of Servicsoft Inc., Infinium Inc., Datalogix and National Education Training Group, and held an audit position at Price Waterhouse & Company. Dan holds a B.A. in Accounting from Niagara University.

Pierre-Michel Kronenberg Chief Technology Officer Pierre-Michel "Mike" Kronenberg has two decades of experience in IT, security and business development. Prior to joining GFI, Mike served as Chief Technology Officer at Webroot, PC Tools/Symantec, and Kroll/Ontrack and has also been the founder of several successful startups. In addition to his extensive technical expertise and entrepreneurism, Kronenberg is tri-lingual, speaking English, French and German. He holds a Ph.D. ABD and Master’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Ingo Bednarz General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Ingo Bednarz has served as our General Counsel and Corporate Secretary since June 2011. From March 2007, he was corporate law associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, private equity and venture capital investments. He was a key advisor on a number of billion dollar acquisitions. Prior to that, he was corporate law associate at Clifford Chance, in Frankfurt, Germany. Ingo has a degree in law from Saarland University, Germany and an LL.M. advanced law degree in US Corporate and Commercial Law, from Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco, CA. He is a member of the Frankfurt, Germany Bar Association.

Jens Bauch Group VP Finance and Treasurer Jens Bauch has over 18 years of managerial experience in the sphere of finance and controlling, working in both small and medium-size businesses as well as international groups across diverse industries. An important chapter of his career was spent at Dassault Systemes Group, most recently as CFO, Central and East Europe, and previously as a Director in various sections of the group. Prior to that, he held the post of Manager, Statutory Audits and Due Diligence both at Ernst & Young, Stuttgart and at Dr.Vaih&Partner, Stuttgart. He holds an MBA from the Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen.

Holger Felgner General Manager, TeamViewer Holger Felgner has served as General Manager of TeamViewer since October of 2010 and is responsible for GFI’s Remote Access and Collaboration software, TeamViewer. Prior to his appointment as General Manager, Holger was Chief Operating Officer. Between 2002 and 2006, Holger worked at Rossmanith GmbH, a company providing solutions for quality assurance and ISO 9001 certifications, holding various sales and development roles before becoming Chief Operating Officer. He started his career in sales for Zeta Software GmbH. Holger has a Diploma in Industrial Engineering from Stuttgart Media University.

Alistair Forbes General Manager, GFI MAX Business Unit As General Manager of the GFI MAX Business Unit, Alistair Forbes is responsible for GFI’s solutions serving the company’s IT Support and Managed Service Provider customers. Alistair joined GFI following the acquisition of HoundDog Technology, which he co-founded in 2004. He has extensive technology leadership experience in both SMB and large corporate environments, defining and delivering high tech solutions in a number of vertical markets. He has particular expertise in Internet technologies and has been responsible for delivering a range of innovative online solutions over the last 10 years. Originally qualified as a research scientist, Alistair has also held senior roles in consulting organizations through which he has gained insight into a broad range of business sectors. Alistair has a B.Sc. from Aberdeen University and a Ph.D. from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Phil Bousfield General Manager, IT Infrastructure Phil Bousfield has over 15 years of software development experience. He has held a variety of engineering and commercial roles and prior to joining GFI he was Head of International Operations for VERITAS. This was a multi-national sales role with a strong focus on Channel business at both enterprise and SMB level. He was also head of engineering for Insignia Solutions where he was responsible for compilation and emulation technologies.

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