Executive Team

Dennis Kozak serves as Chief Executive Officer of Ivanti and is responsible for driving Ivanti’s overall strategic direction and accelerating growth through AI-driven innovation and SaaS transformation across global markets.

Prior to becoming CEO in January of 2025, Dennis was Ivanti’s Chief Operating Officer where he oversaw business operations including sales, marketing, professional services, customer success, and operations. Under his leadership, Ivanti advanced its SaaS transformation and unified its sales and marketing organizations, delivering exceptional outcomes for customers and partners.

With more than two decades of experience in customer and partner-focused leadership, Dennis has a proven track record of driving sales growth, integrating acquisitions, and fostering operational excellence through innovation and cultural transformation. Before joining Ivanti in April of 2022, Dennis held senior leadership roles at Avaya and CA Technologies, where he led global sales, channel strategy, sales operations, and business transformation initiatives to support next-generation portfolio strategies.

Peter is Ivanti’s Chief Financial Officer and oversees all areas of the company’s Finance structure as well as the Facilities teams. 

Peter has more than 30 years of experience in the software industry both in large scale organizations and in high growth environments. He brings a wealth of finance excellence and acquisition integration experience to Ivanti. Peter was most recently Chief Administrative Officer at Inovalon, provider of a cloud-based SaaS platform for the Healthcare industry. He has also served in multiple roles at CA Technologies, prior to its acquisition by Broadcom. In his last role at CA, he was the Chief Financial Planning Officer, where he led Global Financial Planning and Analysis for the company, as well as the Global Sales Finance organization.

Peter graduated from the University of Antwerp, Belgium with a degree in Business Administration and Economics.

Brooke Johnson, Ivanti's Chief Legal Counsel, Senior Vice President of Security and Human Resources, plays a pivotal role in directing Ivanti’s global legal, privacy, HR, and security functions. In her multifaceted role, Brooke manages and advises across a comprehensive scope of critical areas including legal affairs, privacy compliance, employee relations, and security protocols to support and protect Ivanti’s global operations. 

Since joining Ivanti in 2017 as Senior Counsel, Brooke’s strategic acumen and leadership have propelled her through the ranks. Her contributions have been instrumental in navigating complex global operations, acquisitions, and addressing privacy and security challenges. Her comprehensive approach ensures that all legal and operational dynamics are seamlessly integrated, promoting a robust and secure working environment. 

Before her tenure at Ivanti, Brooke honed her expertise as a partner at Manning Curtis Bradshaw & Bednar, where she successfully represented public and private entities in various business and commercial disputes. This background provided her with a strong foundation in handling complex legal matters, further enhancing her capacity to drive Ivanti’s success. 

Melissa is Ivanti’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and Senior Vice President Customer Success and Renewals and responsible for all aspects of the Ivanti customer journey, from initial awareness to purchase, adoption, expansion and renewal – ensuring organizations maximize the value of Ivanti’s solutions for greater outcomes.

Melissa is passionate about all phases of the customer experience and brings decades of experience to Ivanti with a strong track record of fueling growth through a customer-centric approach and integrated marketing strategies for acquired companies. She was most recently senior vice president and CMO at Avid. Prior to this role, Melissa also held CMO and marketing leadership positions with Optanix, Progress, Iron Mountain and Infor.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in communications and psychology from Franklin Pierce University.

Scott Hughes is SVP Revenue Operations and Corporate IT for Ivanti, responsible for overseeing the global revenue operations and corporate information technology organizations including business operations, data strategy and analytics, business transformation and planning, deal desk and strategic pricing, process and tools, infrastructure, enterprise services, and architecture.    
 
Scott joined Ivanti in July of 2022 with extensive experience in revenue operations, accounting, finance, and information technology, and led enterprise teams in delivering management systems, business transformation, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, go-to-market models, compensation, and sales and business process and automation. Scott has a Master of Business Administration from Dowling College and has served in global leadership roles at BeyondTrust, Avaya and CA Technologies driving revenue predictability and growth. 

Sterling Parker is Ivanti’s Senior Vice President of Global Solutions and Services, responsible for strategically and delicately handling all of the needs of Ivanti customers.

Sterling joined Ivanti in August of 2011 as a Technical Support Engineer and over the decade plus with the company, has served in numerous roles within the Support organization, working his way to the current leadership role where he has spearheaded numerous critical Support initiatives positioning Ivanti as an industry leader in customer satisfaction.

Sterling has 25 years of technical support experience and holds a BBA in Finance from the University of Phoenix.

Michael Mills is Ivanti Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), responsible for overseeing and aligning all revenue generating teams and functions for Ivanti globally. Mike has more than 25 years of global leadership experience in sales, customer experience, customer success, presales, and product management—and a proven track record of driving high-impact revenue strategies.

Mike has been a key member of Ivanti sales leadership for over eight years, most recently Senior Vice President of Enterprise Sales. Prior to that, he was with Ivanti predecessor companies LANDESK and AppSense.

Mike started his career serving nearly six years in the United States Army.

As Chief Corporate Development Officer, Radu has responsibility for all things acquisition related including: acquisition identification, deal execution, integration planning and execution. Radu has extensive experience driving growth and shareholder value creation. This role is instrumental in helping Ivanti evaluate and define growth opportunities.

Radu most recently was Sr. Director, Corporate Development for VMware, and also held corporate development and investment banking roles at Autodesk, Jefferies LLC, and Barclays Capital/ Lehman Brothers. Radu has led multiple high-performance teams and provided counsel on building and executing long-term inorganic growth strategies.

Radu holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BS from California State University Northridge.