Board of Directors

Board of Directors

The following members make up the CyberDefender Board of Directors.

Gary Guseinov

Chairman of the Board / Chief Executive Officer


A seasoned technology-marketing executive, Guseinov founded web development and ecommerce firm Digital Media in 1994, where he served as the chief executive officer. When Digital Media merged with Synergy, Guseinov served as the president and chief technology officer. During his tenure at Synergy he generated over $2 billion in revenues for its clients including GoToMyPC/Citrix, Oracle, Chase, Nortel, HP and Conseco. He holds a BS in Psychology and Business from Cal State Northridge.

Ben Van De Bunt

Board Member


A graduate of Harvard Law School and UCLA, Mr. Van De Bunt was an attorney at the law firm Allen Matkins prior to joining Guthy-Renker in 1993. Earlier this year, he played a key role in developing the Media and Marketing Services Agreement between Guthy-Renker affiliate GR Match, LLC and CyberDefender, under which GR Match will advance CyberDefender up to $16 million to create a radio and national television marketing campaign featuring CyberDefender products and services.
Igor Barash

Chief Information Officer, Secretary and Director


Barash co-founded CyberDefender Corporation with Chief Executive Officer Gary Guseinov in 2003. An expert in Internet hosting technologies and infrastructure implementation and design, Barash developed and grew the Internet hosting infrastructure for HostPro Internet Services, one of the largest Internet Service Providers in the world. He was pivotal in the firm's acquisition by Micron and after managing the integration of the two firms, he provided due diligence of three subsequent acquisitions.

Kevin Harris

Chief Financial Officer and Director


Harris joined the Company as its CFO on January 1, 2009. Prior to working for CyberDefender, Harris served as the Chief Operating Officer for Statmon Technologies Corp. (OTCBB: STCA). Additionally, Harris has worked as the Senior Vice President of Finance for RKO Pictures, LLC, Finance and Controller for Pop.com, LLC, and Director - Corporate Financial Planning at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. Harris began his career with KPMG and is a licensed CPA in the State of California.

Bing Liu

Advisory Board


A leader in emerging technology development, Liu is responsible for CyberDefender's product technologies, architecture and standards. Liu was the creator of award-winning products FirstAID and GuardDog, software utilities for PCs, which were acquired by McAfee for over $200 million. He holds five different software patents in the United States, and formerly served as the senior software architect for CyberMedia, Inc. Liu holds Masters and Bachelors Degrees in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, Beijing China.

Sean Whiteley

Advisory Board


Formerly the CEO of Guthy-Renker Home, Mr. Whiteley oversaw the company’s day-to-day operations and dictated the overall strategic direction for its primary site HurryHome.com.   Before taking his position with Guthy-Renker Home, Mr. Whiteley was the driving force behind the inception and growth of RealtyTracker; a leading online real estate lead generation service which serviced over 15,000 real estate agents nationwide. After a successful testing period, in March of 2007, RealtyTracker was acquired by Guthy-Renker. Prior to starting RealtyTracker, Mr. Whiteley was with Universal Music Group as a Senior Director of Operations, where he managed the launch of the Universal Music Store, the company’s new avenue for selling music and memorabilia to the public. Mr. Whiteley also served as Vice President of Operations of Xdrive Technologies, where he was instrumental in supporting the company’s growth from zero to ten million customers with over 265 employees. Mr. Whiteley is a co-creator of several pending patents including a  shared Internet storage resource, user interface system, and method and a Method and system for tracking real estate transactions.  Mr Whiteley has an M.B.A from the University Of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, as well as a B.A. in Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.


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