About Us
Who We Are
At Dover Microsystems, our mission is to immunize the world’s processors against all network-based attacks. CoreGuard®, our unique silicon IP with proprietary micropolicies, acts as a bodyguard to the host processor, monitoring every instruction executed to ensure it meets a set of security, safety, and privacy rules. With CoreGuard, a processor can actively stop entire classes of network-based attacks and prevent the exploitation of software vulnerabilities.
Dover’s CoreGuard silicon IP integrates with RISC architectures to protect against cyberattacks, flawed software, and safety violations. The technology originated as part of the DARPA CRASH program in 2010, was developed at Draper in 2015, and was spun out through Dover as a commercial entity in 2017. Learn more from our founding team below.
History
While Dover Microsystems may have been founded in 2017, the core components of our CoreGuard technology have been in development since 2010. In fact, Dover’s revolutionary CoreGuard technology started as a DARPA CRASH program proposal submitted by Dover’s Founder and CEO, Jothy Rosenberg, and Dover’s Chief Scientist, Greg Sullivan, during their time with a leading multinational defense and aerospace company.
The clean-slate computer architecture optimized for security that Rosenberg and Sullivan had envisioned was accepted into the DARPA CRASH program and, over the next five years, was turned into a reality.
With their research having wrapped up at DARPA, Rosenberg, Sullivan, and their small team were invited by Draper President, Kaigham J. Gabriel—former DARPA Deputy Director—to develop the technology at Draper. A true breakthrough came when, in February 2016, Dover’s founding team demonstrated a processor-based security FPGA proof-of-concept that was immune to the Heartbleed cyberattack.
This proof-of-concept—which evolved into Dover’s CoreGuard silicon IP—made it clear that this technology had broad commercial and defense potential.
Founder & Executive Chairman Jothy Rosenberg and former Chief Scientist Greg Sullivan have their project accepted into the DARPA CRASH program.
Rosenberg, Sullivan, and their team conclude their research as the largest performer in the DARPA CRASH program and join Draper to develop the technology further.
Rosenberg and his team demonstrated the technology at Draper that would eventually become CoreGuard 1.0. The processor-based security FPGA proved immune to the Heartbleed flaw that affected two-thirds of the Internet.
While developing at Draper, the founding team lands its first commercial customer, NXP Semiconductors.
Rosenberg leaves Draper early to legally incorporate as Dover Microsystems, Inc. and commercialize the technology.
Dover spins out of Draper with an exclusive license agreement and opens its doors with a founding team of nine.
Dover announces its flagship, silicon IP cybersecurity solution, called CoreGuard.
The Dover team commercializes CoreGuard 1.0. Working with commercial clients, the Dover team quickly concludes that the CoreGuard 1.0 is too large and too slow to make it commercially viable on a large scale.
The Dover team completely rewrites CoreGuard to break free from the initial design and open up the commercial market. The new design is 85% smaller and designed for the first time to operate at full processor speed to enable the first true real-time (instruction speed) solution.
Our Team
Collaborative. Driven. Creative.
Just three qualities that help define our high-performing and fast-growing team. Get to know the people who help make Dover a reality, today!
As a serial entrepreneur, Dover Microsystems is the 9th tech startup that Jothy has founded and/or run since 1988. Prior ventures include MasPar, Novasoft, Webspective, GeoTrust, Service Integrity, Ambric, Mogility, and Aguru; two of these companies sold for over $100M. Earlier in his career, Jothy ran Borland’s Languages division where he managed development of languages including Delphi, C++, and JBuilder. He earned his BA in Mathematics from Kalamazoo College and his PhD in Computer Science from Duke University (where he also had his first career as a professor of computer science for five years).
Jothy has written three technical books, but his pride and joy is his memoir, Who Says I Can’t; it tells his inspiring story of using extreme sports to regain self-esteem after being knocked flat as a teenager by a cancer that first claimed one of his legs and later one of his lungs. Bearing the same name as his memoir, Jothy founded and runs The Who Says I Can’t Foundation, a non-profit organization with a mission to help disabled individuals get back into life by getting back into sports. He also created and hosts the Who Says I Can’t TV series on YouTube, where he shares courageous stories of men and women who against all odds have used sports to rebuild themselves and their lives.
Jothy is a regular speaker at corporate events, universities, conferences, medical centers, schools, and clubs. Make sure to catch his Who Says I Can’t TEDx talk.
In his spare time (what spare time?), Jothy enjoys skiing, swimming, cycling, writing (currently a children’s book and his first novel), and playing with his Golden Retriever. He loves spending time with his family and recently welcomed his fourth grandchild.
Bryan Berthy is the Chief Operating Officer for Flight Transformation Technologies Corporation (FlightX) the makers of a revolutionary EVTOL vehicle under contract to the US Air Force AFWERX Agility Prime program. Bryan has more than 30 years’ experience leading technology and engineering development organizations. In addition to his role at FlightX, Bryan is President of BB Aerospace, a technology consulting firm that specialized in strategy, commercialization, and large-scale technology projects. He has been in the early stages of numerous key technology areas during his career including night vision, lasers, Internet, nanotechnology, advanced materials, cyber-physical systems, and many aerospace products. He has also successfully managed technology development programs of all sizes from small prototypes and research to a $7B international aircraft program.
Mr. Berthy was previously a strategic advisor to several Fortune 100 technology firms and on the Board of Directors and Advisor to the CEO of several startup and mid-size technology companies. For the 15 years prior to his consulting role, Mr. Berthy held numerous executive leadership roles with Lockheed Martin Aeronautics including, Director of Mission Systems, Avionics & Weapons, Director of Cybersecurity Engineering, and Deputy Director of the F-16 Block 60 program.
In his roles as Engineering Director, Mr. Berthy led numerous startup and turnaround activities across all programs and all Aeronautics sites. He also led Aeronautics corporate research planning aligning advanced technology research for the entire Lockheed Martin corporation. He was a member of the Intellectual Property Review Board and developed intellectual property strategies.
Prior to Lockheed Martin, Mr. Berthy was President and CEO of RIVA Technologies, a software development and simulation systems company which developed large scale web database systems for Fortune 500 Publishing clients and visual simulation systems for defense contractors, NASA, and the FAA. The simulation business of RIVA Technologies was sold to Zedasoft in 2002.
Early in his career, Mr. Berthy led various research and development programs for advanced infrared and laser systems. He led early infrared systems development on the Advanced Fighter Technology Integration (AFTI) F-16 that was instrumental in understanding helmet mounted display technology on fighter aircraft. He was also research lead and principal investigator on the research that created the EODAS 360-degree infrared vision system currently in production on the F-35.
Mr. Berthy has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, with Honors, from the University of Florida and more than 30 hours of Master’s coursework in Electrical Engineering, and Business Administration from the University of Texas at Arlington. He was also nominated for and completed several prestigious multi-year leadership programs at the Lockheed Martin Center for Leadership Excellence. He is certified as a Program Director to manage programs in excess of $1B.
Steve joined the Dover team as CTO in 2023. Steve’s career includes over 40 years in all levels of design and development of embedded computer systems in both DoD and commercial products. He will leverage his development, leadership skills and experience to continue to improve CoreGuard to enable DoD and commercial adaption of this technology to secure processor-based products against cyber-attacks.
Steve’s background includes security architecture, design, and implementation on multiple major DoD programs which represent multiple billions of dollars of development and production. This included programs at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics and at Raytheon Missiles and Defense where he was a technical fellow in both organizations. Prior to this he was a member of senior technical staff at Motorola Paging and Cellular systems developing telecommunications infrastructure, and at General Dynamics in systems, software, and test avionics engineering roles.
Steve’s education includes a BS in Electrical Engineering from The University of Florida “Go Gators”, a MSEE and a PhD in Computer Engineering at Southern Methodist University. Prior to attending engineering school Steve was in the U.S. Air Force as an avionics technician.
Outside of work Steve has been an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University in the Computer Engineering Department. At SMU he also created and taught an embedded cyber security design class, and at Raytheon he took this class and created an embedded security systems engineering class for the engineering staff. Steve has also served on executive board of the Fort Worth Section of IEEE and is a senior member of IEEE. He enjoys scuba diving, walking & hiking, and travel.
Board of Directors
As a serial entrepreneur, Dover Microsystems is the 9th tech startup that Jothy has founded and/or run since 1988. Prior ventures include MasPar, Novasoft, Webspective, GeoTrust, Service Integrity, Ambric, Mogility, and Aguru; two of these companies sold for over $100M.
Earlier in his career, Jothy ran Borland’s Languages division where he managed development of languages including Delphi, C++, and JBuilder. He earned his BA in Mathematics from Kalamazoo College and his PhD in Computer Science from Duke University (where he also had his first career as a professor of computer science for five years).
Jothy has written three technical books, but his pride and joy is his memoir, Who Says I Can’t; it tells his inspiring story of using extreme sports to regain self-esteem after being knocked flat as a teenager by a cancer that first claimed one of his legs and later one of his lungs. Bearing the same name as his memoir, Jothy founded and runs The Who Says I Can’t Foundation, a non-profit organization with a mission to help disabled individuals get back into life by getting back into sports. He also created and hosts the Who Says I Can’t TV series on YouTube, where he shares courageous stories of men and women who against all odds have used sports to rebuild themselves and their lives. Jothy is a regular speaker and has given a TEDx talk.
Bryan Berthy is the Chief Operating Officer for Flight Transformation Technologies Corporation (FlightX) the makers of a revolutionary EVTOL vehicle under contract to the US Air Force AFWERX Agility Prime program. Bryan has more than 30 years’ experience leading technology and engineering development organizations. In addition to his role at FlightX, Bryan is President of BB Aerospace, a technology consulting firm that specialized in strategy, commercialization, and large-scale technology projects. He has been in the early stages of numerous key technology areas during his career including night vision, lasers, Internet, nanotechnology, advanced materials, cyber-physical systems, and many aerospace products. He has also successfully managed technology development programs of all sizes from small prototypes and research to a $7B international aircraft program.
Mr. Berthy was previously a strategic advisor to several Fortune 100 technology firms and on the Board of Directors and Advisor to the CEO of several startup and mid-size technology companies. For the 15 years prior to his consulting role, Mr. Berthy held numerous executive leadership roles with Lockheed Martin Aeronautics including, Director of Mission Systems, Avionics & Weapons, Director of Cybersecurity Engineering, and Deputy Director of the F-16 Block 60 program.
In his roles as Engineering Director, Mr. Berthy led numerous startup and turnaround activities across all programs and all Aeronautics sites. He also led Aeronautics corporate research planning aligning advanced technology research for the entire Lockheed Martin corporation. He was a member of the Intellectual Property Review Board and developed intellectual property strategies.
Prior to Lockheed Martin, Mr. Berthy was President and CEO of RIVA Technologies, a software development and simulation systems company which developed large scale web database systems for Fortune 500 Publishing clients and visual simulation systems for defense contractors, NASA, and the FAA. The simulation business of RIVA Technologies was sold to Zedasoft in 2002.
Early in his career, Mr. Berthy led various research and development programs for advanced infrared and laser systems. He led early infrared systems development on the Advanced Fighter Technology Integration (AFTI) F-16 that was instrumental in understanding helmet mounted display technology on fighter aircraft. He was also research lead and principal investigator on the research that created the EODAS 360-degree infrared vision system currently in production on the F-35.
Mr. Berthy has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, with Honors, from the University of Florida and more than 30 hours of Master’s coursework in Electrical Engineering, and Business Administration from the University of Texas at Arlington. He was also nominated for and completed several prestigious multi-year leadership programs at the Lockheed Martin Center for Leadership Excellence. He is certified as a Program Director to manage programs in excess of $1B.
Motivated by the global COVID-19 crisis and by his personal ethic of service, in May 2020, he focused his attention on solving global challenges. Ken applies formal methods of innovation that he has successfully directed in government, public and commercial sectors . He sits on the board of companies delivering innovation in a variety of industries—Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB), Galvani and Seegrid.For half a decade prior, Ken was the President and CEO of Draper—an MIT spin-off engineering company, notably famed for developing the Apollo guidance computer. He drove double-digit revenue growth for four consecutive years and increased the diversity and number of technical staff from 1500 to nearly 2000 personnel. Ken expanded the company’s offerings to include control and guidance for autonomous vehicles & field robotics as well as in biomedical innovations such as end-to-end cell therapy production for treatment of cancer and engineered human organs-on-a-chip platforms for drug discovery. He also created an Initiative that made the company’s engineering expertise accessible to internationally recognized sponsors to tackle global and societal challenges such as creating the worlds first adaptive pediatric heart valve. Additionally, he spun out a number of start-ups, most recently Dover Microsystems, delivering hardware-based cybersecurity solutions and Dexai, fielding cognitive robots for the food service industry.Prior to Draper, Ken was the founding co-lead of the Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP)group at Google. Before that, he served as Deputy Director and Acting Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the U.S. Department of Defense. Throughout his career, Ken has delivered game-changing innovations to the private sector, government and academia.Ken has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is regarded as the “godfather” of MEMS. MEMS are miniaturized and integrated mechanical and electrical devices, which help cell phones orient themselves, air bags know when to fire, biomedical tools save lives, and makes a range of game-changing capabilities possible in smaller packaging. Ken’s MEMS work led him to co-found Akustica, a start-up that pioneered digital silicon microphones and shipped more than 6 million units globally before the company was acquired. A World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Ken is a visionary behind the concept of disciplined innovation, a proven leadership approach which increases the likelihood for delivering breakthroughs in any sector.
Vivjan is the Founder and Managing Partner of Hyperplane Venture Capital and the former Founder and Managing Partner of Boston Global Ventures. Current investments include Dover Microsystems, Tive, Indico, Soft Robotics, Vesper, and Elsen, amongst others. Prior to entering the world of venture capital, Vivjan was co-founder and CEO of ChromoGen, which was acquired in 2013. He is an active member of the Boston entrepreneurial ecosystem and serves as the director of various non-profit organizations.
Board of Advisors
Careers
While we’re a small, tight-knit group today, Dover is growing rapidly as we scale to meet our customers’ demands and push the frontiers of cybersecurity innovation. As we focus on growth, we also keep a keen eye on creating a work environment and culture that binds us together. That’s because, at Dover, we care about the person, not just the professional—and our attitudes toward work-life balance, benefits, and salary reflect that philosophy.
If you’re interested in working at Dover and believe in transparency, collaboration, and meritocracy, as well as bringing safety and security to our connected world, then we want to hear from you.
Current Openings
Interested in joining our team? Send your resume and cover letter to: careers@dovermicrosystems.com.
Investors
Dover Microsystems is a privately-held, venture-backed company based in the Greater Boston area. Our revolutionary technology and its development are happily backed by a creative and constructive group of supporters who share our passion for securing today’s embedded systems for a better tomorrow.
The issue of cybersecurity has never been more pressing. From businesses to government, maintaining the security, safety, and privacy of our systems and data is critical. As IoT continues to grow and the world becomes increasingly connected, Dover Microsystems is primed to deliver a proven solution for protecting embedded systems and fending off even the most sophisticated network-based cyberattacks
Without a doubt, Dover will revolutionize cybersecurity. As attackers become more sophisticated, defensibility of processors will become a fundamental requirement for every system.
The market for cybersecurity is crowded with vendors who approach the problem in the same way – with layers of inherently flawed software. Dover’s hardware-based approach is truly a novel advancement as it flips the conventional wisdom about security upside down and solves the problem in an entirely new way.