Management Team
Doron Grinstein - CEO and co-Founder
Doron co-founded BiTKOO in 2006 after spending eight years with the Walt
Disney Company. At Disney Doron designed and led the development of
several key technologies. One of the technologies was an early version
of Keystone – now a BiTKOO flagship product. Doron is a serial inventor
with numerous U.S. and internationally-issued and pending patents. His
passion and focus is fine-grained authorization, federation, large scale
distributed systems and cloud computing. Doron enjoys spending time with
his wife and his two boys and writing code in his spare time. Prior to co-founding BiTKOO, Eric worked at the Walt Disney Studios on large,
complex IT projects. He has been recognized as an exceptional technologist with deep technical savvy and an exceptional
attention to detail. Eric brings years of innovation and product excellence to the BiTKOO family. Eric Kotler earned his M.S. Computer Science from USC.
Eric enjoys traveling and spending quality time with his wife.
Michele brings a diverse set of skills to the BiTKOO team with over 15 years of experience designing and implementing enterprise systems, along with valuable management experience. Having held senior executive positions throughout her career Michele has assembled and organized software development teams from the ground up, implemented processes for all aspects of the software development lifecycle, facilitated many successful large-scale enterprise application deployments, and helped to drive capital fund raising, sales, and business development efforts. Michele is also Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego, a Microsoft MVP, and a highly respected and recognized leader in several technology fields including the design and implementation of service-oriented applications, integration and interoperability, security, federated identity, and cloud computing. She shares her passion and insight on federated identity and cloud computing presenting at conferences around the world and through her publications including many contributions to MSDN Magazine and online developer centers, and a monthly column dedicated to federated identity in Dev Connections magazine. Michele also wrote the best-selling book Learning WCF, published by O’Reilly, 2007 – the second edition to be published in 2010. Michele graduated with a double-major in Accounting/Finance and Software Engineering from Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Canada. She moved to San Diego, California in 1992, where she lives now with her husband and son.
Dan Vrebalovich joins BiTKOO as Executive Vice President of Sales after 5 years at Computer Associates
(CA) working across sales in the Security Management segment, and most recently as Director of Sales for
the Identity and Access Management segment. He has over 10 years of management and sales experience in
enterprise software at both BMC Software and CA. Prior to his career in technology sales, Dan was a professional volleyball athlete. He was a founding
member of the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP). He spent 15 years with the AVP, the first 12
as one of the top athletes in the sport and later in an executive role as President and COO.
Dan graduated from UCLA with a BA in History and lives in Costa Mesa, California with his wife and son. Bob Myer spent decades as an accomplished television producer and brings to the BiTKOO team execution, precision, and a
vision of excellence. Bob is responsible for the company’s internal controls including A/R, A/P, licensing management,
contract management and partnership management.
Eric Kotler - Chief Technology Officer and co-Founder
Michele Leroux Bustamante - Chief Security Architect
Dan Vrebalovich - Executive Vice President, Sales
Bob Myer - Chief Operating Officer