Trent Waterhouse
Vice President of Marketing
As vice president of marketing, Trent Waterhouse is responsible for all of the Enterasys worldwide demand-generation and customer communications activities. He joined Enterasys in May 2006 with more than 15 years of high-tech hardware and software marketing experience.
Most recently, Waterhouse was vice president corporate strategy for CA’s Enterprise Systems Management business unit where he was responsible for defining market strategy and technology architecture while also evangelizing future product direction to customers, prospects, industry analysts and trade media.
Previously, Waterhouse was vice president of marketing for Aprisma Management Technologies where he drove demand generation through industry tradeshows and customer face-to-face events which resulted in 95 percent software revenue growth. Aprisma began as a unit of Enterasys’ predecessor, Cabletron Systems, which Waterhouse joined in 1992. Aprisma was purchased in 2002 by The Gores Group, LLC, a leader in the private investment group that acquired Enterasys in 2006.
At Cabletron, Waterhouse worked in the federal sales division and subsequently held the position of senior architect where he was responsible for building and maintaining market leadership in the multi-billion dollar LAN switching business. Later, he co-founded the company’s product marketing organization, developing and executing a variety of high-profile marketing campaigns.
Prior to Cabletron, Waterhouse was a systems engineer with NYNEX Corporation (now Verizon), where he was responsible for the planning, design, implementation, management and application needs analysis of microcomputer-based local area networks.
Waterhouse holds a bachelor's degree in international management and marketing from Georgetown University and is listed in the millennium edition of Who's Who in The World.