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Sal Sferlazza is the co-founder of several companies including Lasso Logic, PacketTrap and Ninjaone where he is CEO.

History
Sal Sferlazza graduated SUNY Albany in 1996 and while attending school he worked for his uncle in New York City as an IT consultant. After receiving his degree he went to work at Accenture as a software consultant before deciding to become a founder.

In 2001, Sal founded Realm Interactive, the first of four startups sold, with current NinjaOne President, Chris Matarese. They were working on a game called Exarch, a follow up to the popular game Trade Wars when the company was sold in 2004 to NCSoft. Sal had hired Marvel comic book artist Joe Madureira to do the artwork and the game was later releases as Dungeon Runners.

Lasso Logic
In 2005, he co-founded Lasso Logic, a company that pioneered continuous data protection and redundant off-site data backups. The firm was sold to SonicWall in 2005 and became known as their Business Continuity Unit.

PacketTrap
AIn 2006 Sal co-found IT network management company PacketTrap, with Steve Goodman and raised a $5M from August Capital in a series A financing round. They sold the company to Quest Software which was also bought out by Dell in 2009.

After PacketTraps, Sal founded cloud managed service provider Anchor Networks which, was sold to EFolder in 2013.

NinjaOne
In 2013, Sal and Chris started NinjaRMM, originally based out of San Francisco, the company would rebrand as NinjaOne and relocate to Austin, Texas in 2021. NinjaOne raised a $30M round from Summit Partners and a $231M round valuing the company at $1.9 billion, led by ICONIQ in 2024.