Founders
Roaring Penguin Software is directed by its two key founders, David Skoll and Bill White. Together, they lead a team of development, sales and marketing staff headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.
David Skoll, President & CEO
David Skoll As founder and president of Roaring Penguin Software Inc., David Skoll directs the business vision and technological direction of the company. With more than 17 years' experience in technology management, custom software development, network design/security and more, David ensures that Roaring Penguin remains focused on high-quality, high-performing solutions to real enterprise needs.
Prior to founding Roaring Penguin in 1999, Skoll served as R&D Project Leader at Chipworks, Inc., where he led the automation of the process of reverse engineering state-of-the-art integrated circuits. As Product Architect at Cadabra Design Libraries, Skoll implemented most of the company's software tools used to compile and synthesize library cell layouts from netlists.
Skoll is the developer of MIMEDefang, the acclaimed open-source e-mail inspection software, and creator of rp-pppoe, a PPPoE implementation for Linux that is deployed across Linux servers and clients worldwide. Roaring Penguin’s industry leading CanIt® antispam solutions are based on MIMEDefang.
David earned his MEng. in Electronics at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He has received numerous science and engineering awards, is author of Caldera OpenLinux Unleashed and has published industry papers on leaf cell synthesis, Milters and PPPoE for Linux, as well as penning numerous articles for technology magazines.
Bill White, VP Marketing & Sales
Bill White Bill White is VP Marketing & Sales at Roaring Penguin Software and a key member of the team responsible for setting the strategic direction of the company, its products and markets, as well as for building and leading the Sales and Marketing teams.
Bill has managed sales and marketing activities in the high-technology arena for more than 20 years. Most recently he worked as Business Development Manager at Beyond 20/20, where he led all business development efforts within the Statistical Agencies of the US Federal Government, and prior to that within the market research community. He has also served as VP of Marketing and Sales at Plaintree Systems, Inc. and KOM Inc.
Bill began his technology career a software programmer, moving into sales and quickly taking on more senior sales roles at Interwork Technologies, Gallium Software and ELSID Software Systems LTD.
Bill is a graduate of Carleton University with a B.A. in English Literature.