The Intelligent Data Platform for Observability

About Noel

Noel is an entrepreneur & investor with a 25 year track record of founding and building technology companies in the US and Ireland. In addition to Bronto, Noel is currently the founder at Conviction Capital. He was formerly co-Founder and Exec Chairman of voice-AI platform company Voysis (bought by Apple in 2020) and led eCommerce analytics leader Profitero (bought by Publicis in 2022).

As a venture partner at Polaris Partners he led investments in Boxever (acquired by Sitecore), LogEntries (acquired by Rapid 7) and Pointy (acquired by Google) and he also established the co-working and startup founder community Dogpatch Labs in Dublin in 2011.

Earlier in his career he spent 7 years in Silicon Valley in public & private sector roles, from securing major tech inward investment for the Government of Ireland to founding and scaling an email security platform company. He is passionate about company building and considered value creation.

About Trevor

Trevor is a repeat entrepreneur and founding CEO. He has over two decades of experience in building log management solutions. Following his PhD where he focused on building distributed tracing technologies and monitoring tools, he switched his attention and focus to log management as part of his post doctoral research.

In the mid-00's he led the team that built an on-prem log management solution for IBM's Websphere suite of products. Their subsequent RTLCE - Real Time Log Correlation Engine - designed in 2010 became the basis for LogEntries one of the first cloud-based log management solutions which came to market in the nascent enterprise SAAS era of 2011. A venture-backed company funded by Polaris Partners, RRE and Floodgate, Logentries scaled fast and was acquired by Nasdaq listed Rapid 7 in late 2015.

Trevor subsequently led the log search team within Rapid 7 where the Logentries technology operated at petabyte scale as part of InsightIDR. Bronto marks Trevor's fourth generation observability solution creation.

About David

David has 35+ years in senior leadership and R&D roles at startups and also major companies including Dell, Sun Microsystems and Rapid7. He was Chief Architect with Logentries and continued to lead this work after Logentries' acquisition by Rapid7.

In addition to holding a PhD in IoT and an M.Sc in Parallel Processing David has 12 U.S. patents and has published multiple research papers. David has also evaluated projects for the EU Horizon 2020 program in the areas of Distributed Systems, Big Data, Cloud, and IoT.

About Benoit

Benoit earned his Ph.D. in Control Theory and continued his research as a postdoctoral fellow in the same field. He then transitioned to industry, where he focused on observability and logs.

Over the past 13 years, he has led the design, implementation, and management of log management systems at scale. Benoit is an acknowledged expert in operating systems within the cloud, with a specific focus on infrastructure and cost optimization.