About Us

NTRglobal delivers on-demand IT automation and remote support solutions that make IT accessible, anytime, anywhere.

Founded in 2000 by Tomàs Casanovas and Joan Pons, NTRglobal is now a worldwide leader in on-demand IT automation and remote support software. Used daily by more than 17,000 organizations in over 60 countries, NTRglobal’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) remote desktop solutions, including NTRsupport, NTRadmin and NTRconnect, provide individuals, small and mid-sized businesses, and large enterprises with easy-to-use, rapidly scalable and secure remote access, support and system management solutions.

SaaS-Savvy Team

Headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, NTRglobal is led by Gilles Samoun and a global management team with strong backgrounds in successful software-as-a-service (SaaS) and technology firms, such as Qualys, Computer Associates, Sun Microsystems, HP and Cap Gemini, cloud partnership development, and an IT customer and managed services focus that permeates all aspects of NTRglobal's business.

Gilles Samoun

CEO

Gilles Samoun is CEO of NTRglobal and its leading software-as-a-service solutions (SaaS) for on-demand IT automation and remote support including NTRsupport, NTRadmin and NTRconnect.

He joined NTRglobal with a track record of 20 years of leadership in international companies in the U.S and Europe.
Pioneer and strong advocate of software-as-a-service (SaaS), Samoun founded Qualys in 1999. As its CEO he managed record growth and established it as a market leader in on demand vulnerability assessment. Samoun has been CEO of Mediapath, Solsoft and Fotopedia. He started his career leading the growth of Verity in Europe.

Samoun serves as independent director on the board of Agiliance, Criteo, Realease and Jolicloud. He holds a degree in Physics from Orsay University, and a Masters in Computer Science from Paris Jussieu University.

David Hurley

CFO

David Hurley is CFO at NTRglobal and its leading on-demand IT automation and remote support software-as-a-service solutions (SaaS) including NTRsupport, NTRadmin and NTRconnect.

With more than 15 years IT industry experience, David is a UK chartered accountant with in-depth experience managing software companies. In addition to having held senior international finance positions at 3 US software companies, prior to joining NTRglobal, he was responsible for global software operations at Sun Microsystems Inc. He holds an honours degree in Business Law.

Management Team

Gilles Samoun (CEO)

David Hurley (CFO)

Domenick Lionetti (VP Sales, Americas)

Jan Bastiaans (VP Sales, EMEA)

Michael Kessler (VP Customer Sales and Services)

Domenick Lionetti

VP Sales, Americas

Domenick Lionetti is a seasoned sales executive in Information Technology and Security for over 20 years. Mr.Lionetti has consistently expanded sales and empowered Enterprise and Managed Service Providers around the world to Streamline their IT management processes with software automation solutions.

Prior to NTR Global, he was VP Sales and Business Development at Exaprotect (acquired by Loglogic) where he successfully launched a French based software security company in United States, South America and ASIA.

As Director of Business Development at Safenet, he worked on security integration with strategic partners focused in the Government, Financial and Health Care industries.

He served six years in the United States Navy as a Cryptographic Technician onboard submarines and holds multiple degrees, including an Executive MBA in Finance and Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Rutgers University and Associate of Science degree in Electronics Technology from Gavilian College.

Jan Bastiaans

VP Sales, EMEA

Jan Bastiaans, leads the NTRglobal EMEA Sales Team which is focused on selling NTRsupport, NTRadmin and NTRconnect on-demand IT automation and remote support software-as-a-service (SaaS). As VP of Sales, EMEA, he joined NTRglobal with a successful 15 year track record of global sales and growth strategy at international technology and software- companies.”

Before joining NTRglobal, he founded Bryte, a company focused on bringing natural language to websites. Under his direction, Bryte became a strong partner and distributor of NTRglobal products at the company’s inception. His continuous collaboration and involvement with NTRglobal eventually brought him inside the company itself.

He also served as director of Bit-IC, one of the largest Dutch technology enterprises, taking part in the first wave of Internet success in the Netherlands. In addition he was a vice president at Cap Gemini, where he created DareStep, a Web agency devoted to the creation of large Web portals with a strong focus on usability.

Michael Kessler

VP Customer Sales and Services

Michael Kessler leads the Global Customer Accounts and Customer Support Services Team at NTRglobal. He is focused on the delivery of NTRsupport, NTRadmin and NTRconnect for on-demand IT automation and remote support software-as-a-service (SaaS).

As VP of customer operations, he joined NTRglobal with a successful 12 year track record of optimizing operations, strategy and service delivery to customers and partners at international technology and software-as-a-service companies.

Before joining NTRglobal in 2004, he served as General Manager of Fertig Consulting GmbH, responsible for the CRM market in the main German office for Maximizer Software - which had more then 1 million users. His responsibilities were Key Account Management and Product Management serving customers in Germany, Austria, Switzerland such as Siemens, Bank of New York and Schroders.