Steve Pace
- Vice President of Sales and Services, Chosen Security
- Advisory Board Member, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State
Biography
Steve Pace is responsible for overseeing Core Security’s global sales,
services, and support initiatives. Pace has more than 20 years’
experience in information technology, including enterprise software,
network management, storage management, security management, and managed
application and data center services.
Prior to Core Security,
he served as senior vice president of worldwide operations for
ChosenSecurity, a leading provider of on-demand digital identity
services where he was responsible for all sales, marketing, support, and
service operations.
He also was vice president of worldwide
sales with GeoTrust, where he was responsible for direct and channel
sales efforts, leading the company though an explosive growth phase that
culminated in its acquisition by VeriSign.
Pace’s experience
also includes executive roles at application service provider,
Surebridge, Inc., where he built the sales and marketing organization
from the company’s founding through its sale to NaviSite, Inc. He
continued with responsibility for worldwide sales and marketing at
NaviSite, where he directed the integration of sales and marketing
efforts across multiple lines of business, including Software as a
Service (SaaS), Microsoft Business Solutions, Oracle/JDE/Siebel and
PeopleSoft applications – growing each unit to record levels within the
company.
Pace also gained extensive sales, marketing and
operational management experience while at Seagate Software, Wall Data,
NetScout and IBM.
Pace graduated from Penn State with honors and a
degree in Electrical Engineering, and he also studied at the University
of Arizona while at IBM. He also serves on the Customer Advisory Board
with the College of Information and Technology at Penn State.
