Russell Dietz joined SafeNet in February 2009 as vice president and Chief Technology Officer (CTO). In this role, Mr. Dietz, who has more than 25 years of industry experience, leads the strategic positioning and migration of new technologies into SafeNet, assuring the continued impact of new technologies on the Company’s highly successful solutions portfolio.

Mr. Dietz has held multiple CTO positions for high tech companies including Hifn, Inc. where he led company efforts in defining the next generation of security, service and network processing solutions, and Apptitude where he drove the vision, strategy and architecture of the application and flow classification solutions, MeterFlow and MeterWorks.

Mr. Dietz was the founder and VP of engineering for Technically Elite, and previously held various management and technical spots at Magnavox Electronic Systems and Digital Equipment Corporation. He is an active member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), IEEE, Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) and the Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF) and was the chairperson of the Network Processing Forum. 

To date, Mr. Dietz has been awarded 20 patents in the fields of data communications traffic analysis, behavior, security and data protection.