Jim Summers

Senior Vice President & General Manager, Data Protection

Jim Summers serves as the Senior Vice President and General Manager, Data Protection, as well as president of our government solutions subsidiary. Previously, he served as the general manager of our government enterprise data protection division.

Mr. Summers joined SafeNet in April 2004 and has held a variety of senior management positions in both the data protection and government solutions divisions, including Vice President of Program Management for Mykotronx, President of Mykotronx, and Senior Vice President and General Manager of Government Solutions. In these roles, Mr. Summers oversaw the successful acquisition and integration of SafeNet’s high assurance subsidiary, Mykotronx, Inc. (later renamed Government Solutions) into the SafeNet Data Protection division.

Mr. Summers has an extensive background in high assurance cryptographic systems, products and architectures. Prior to joining SafeNet, he served a dual role with General Dynamics C4 Systems as the Director of Engineering and the Director of Common Security Platforms Center of Excellence. Prior to General Dynamics, Mr. Summers spent a number of years at Motorola and served in several executive positions.Mr. Summers started his career at Sperry Flight systems where he served as a development engineer.

Mr. Summers holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration from Arizona State University.