Executives and Board of Directors

Peter Bello

Senior Vice President, General Manager, U.S. Federal Government; Sales & Services for Canada, Asia Pacific and Latin America

Peter Bello is the senior vice president and general manager of U.S. Federal Government for Entrust, as well as the leader for the Canadian, Asia and Latin America sales markets. He has responsibility for the company's U.S. federal sales team and government relations. Bello has 21 years in the industry, and is noted for his strong combination of technical and business acumen.

In late 2007, Bello added the responsibilities of the Canadian, Asia and Latin America (CALA) sales markets. As part of his sales territory, Bello facilitates the growth of revenue in some of Entrust's fastest-growing and emerging markets, as well as further penetrating the company's two largest customers — the United States and Canadian governments.

Bello joined Entrust as director of North American Professional Services in February of 1998 to help build the Professional Services Practice and organization. He successfully grew North American Professional Services from a startup to a $6 million business over a four-year period of time.

Bello was promoted to vice president of North American Professional Services with additional responsibilities for Latin America and Asia Pacific. He joined CygnaCom Solutions as president in March of 2002. CygnaCom Solutions has provided professional information security services and cryptographic solutions to government and business clients since 1994. This business includes U.S. federal government accredited security test laboratories. The U.S. federal consulting business has grown by 30 percent since Bello joined.

In July of 2004, Bello took on responsibility for the federal sales organization, and became general manager of U.S. Federal for Entrust. Bello was promoted to senior vice president and general manager of U.S. Federal, and has the added responsibility of government relations and new service offerings.

Prior to joining Entrust, Bello held various positions of increasing responsibility at Nortel Networks from 1985-1998 in engineering, technical support, marketing and order management. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering.

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