Our Team

Jeff Schmidt
Vice President and General Manager, Managed Security Solutions Group
As Vice President of BT's Managed Security Solutions Group in North America, Jeff Schmidt is responsible for the direction and vision of BT's Threat Monitoring and Ethical Hacking services. With over twenty years of network and IT management experience, Jeff leads the team that protects BT's customers from hackers, malevolent insiders, and virus attacks.

Before joining BT, Jeff was the vice president of INS's Ethical Hacking Solutions where he developed their Secure Enterprise Mobility Solution and Service Oriented Security Architecture solutions. Jeff brings over 20 years of experience in information technology across at several leading companies including Home Savings and Loan and Paramount Pictures.

Mike Barch
Vice President Sales, North America
Mike Barch is responsible for the sales and sales engineering teams for BT's Managed Security Solutions Group in North America. He brings to BT more than 20 years of experience in selling network security solutions to the Fortune 1000 and federal government customers. Before joining BT, Mike ran the sales organization at IBM Internet Security Systems and was Regional Director of Sales at Network General Corp and 3Com. Mike holds a BS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.

Scott Behm
Vice President, Service Delivery
Scott is responsible for Global Operations, Engineering, IT and R&D for BT's Managed Security Solutions Group. Scott is focused on the planning and execution of BT's Managed Security Solutions Group's service delivery strategy, providing customers the services and intelligence necessary to defend against constantly changing network threats.

Prior to joining BT, Scott was Director of Engineering at Counterpane and was responsible for Engineering Program Management at Qualys. Scott also had the position of Director of IT Operations at PeopleSoft and held several leadership positions in Software Development and IT at Network Associates.

Scott began his career as a Naval Aviator flying carrier-based jet aircraft. Scott holds a BS degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder and holds several technical and professional certifications including MCSE and CISSP.

Toby Weir-Jones
Vice President, Product Development
Toby is responsible for the strategic planning and execution of BT's Managed Security Solutions Group roadmap, combining BT's vision for managed security solutions with feedback from customers and employees. In this role, he defines a roadmap of upcoming offerings and ensures the various development and delivery groups within BT's Managed Security Solutions Group are working towards these common goals. He travels frequently to meet with customers, gather intelligence on their problems and needs, and attends industry events in speaking and observing capacities to keep a robust perspective.

Toby joined the BT team when BT acquired Counterpane Internet Security in 2006. Toby was one of Counterpane's founding employees in 1999 and had worked in several different capacities within the organization including leading the sales engineering and product management groups. Toby's involvement in the cyber security field began in 1995 with his initial work in cryptography and security policy, and he has been involved in a number of technical and strategic roles since then. Prior to joining Counterpane Toby oversaw the customer service organization at ValiCert (now Tumbleweed) while organizing the company's intellectual property portfolio and assisting with the filing and prosecution of its key technology patents. Toby also worked at Walker Digital, a patent think tank responsible for developing properties such as Priceline, where he was a patent researcher and inventor.

Toby is a named inventor for five patents, and holds a BA cum laude in engineering ethics from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He is also completing two MBA degrees -- one from Cornell, another from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario -- and expects to finish those programs in 2010.