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Work Experience
2024
Senior Advisor
2024
Senior Advisory Council member for Momentum Cyber 3.0
2020 - 2024
President - Strategy & Development
2023 - 2024
Stairwell helps organizations take back the cybersecurity high ground. The Stairwell automation platform empowers security teams with automated threat detection and response capabilities as a force multiplier across security operations, threat hunting, and incident response to help outsmart any attacker. Acknowledged by Fast Company as one of the most innovative companies of 2023, Stairwell was founded by security industry leaders and engineers from Google and is backed by Section 32, Sequoia Capital, Accel, and Gradient Ventures, as well as angel investors Eric Schmidt and Michael Ovitz. For more information, visit www.stairwell.com As President - Strategy and Development - I am responsible for our go to market strategy and execution, including sales, marketing, customer success, and the Stairwell Threat Analysis team.
Advisor
2020 - 2024
Stairwell helps organizations take back the cybersecurity high ground with solutions that attackers can't evade. Its flagship product, the Inception platform, empowers security teams to outsmart any attacker. Stairwell is comprised of security industry leaders and engineers from Google and is backed by Sequoia Capital, Accel, and Gradient Ventures.
2022 - 2023
President
2022 - 2023
Spent the better part of a year after my exit from CYDERES doing my best to help an interesting company in the defense technology space with dual use applications, trying to help make their business more efficient and effective.
2019 - 2022
President - CYDERES
2019 - 2022
Fishtech is a data-driven cybersecurity solutions provider for any computing platform. We identify gaps and solutions to help organizations minimize risk, maintain compliance, and increase efficiency. Fishtech Group includes the Security-as-a-Service division CYDERES and the wholly owned security analytics firm Haystax of McLean, VA. Our venture investments include Perch Security and Foresite. Serving on the Fishtech Executive Management team, I am responsible for managing the overall operations, resources, and go-to-market strategy for Fishtech CYDERES. CYDERES is a human-led, machine-driven Managed Detection and Response service for cloud and on-prem environments. CYDERES integrates a client's existing security tools with our exceptional experts and the right orchestration and automation technologies to drive real outcomes -- not just more alerts -- via our custom-built Cyber Defense Platform.
2017 - 2018
CISO / COO
2017 - 2018
Fishtech is a data-driven cybersecurity solutions provider for any computing platform. We identify gaps and solutions to help organizations minimize risk, maintain compliance, and increase efficiency. Fishtech Group includes the Security-as-a-Service division CYDERES and the wholly owned security analytics firm Haystax of McLean, VA. Our venture partners include Perch Security of Tampa, FL, and Foresite of Overland Park, KS. Serving on the Fishtech Executive Management team, I am responsible for incubating the CYDERES Security-as-a-Service division as well as Fishtech's security, governance, and compliance initiatives.
2016 - 2017
Chief Information Security Officer
2016 - 2017
As Chief Security Officer for Netsmart, I lead the team responsible for all aspects of Information Security and Physical Security, including strategy, architecture, policies, and risk management. I work with the rest of the senior management team in the development, implementation and maintenance of company-wide information security best practices, and ensure appropriate control objectives for system integrity, availability and reliability, confidentiality, accountability and assurance within the context of the company's risk tolerance. Netsmart is healthcare's largest human services and integrated care technology provider. Our technology platforms and expertise are integral to the delivery of outcomes-based services and care to more than 25 million persons nationwide. Netsmart serves more than 500,000 users in more than 24,000 organizations across all 50 states.
2013 - 2016
Head of Customer Success
2013 - 2016
As a member of the Executive Leadership Team at RiskIQ, I built from scratch and continue to lead our world class Customer Success team (San Francisco, Kansas City). RiskIQ Customer Success provides technical services, strategic consulting, education and technical account management to our beloved customers, measurably increasing engagement, retention, and revenue. RiskIQ is an external threat management company. We protect external-facing digital assets – known and unknown – of any large organization from malicious actors. We help companies identify the internet assets that make up their Digital Footprint and map attackers' infrastructure to proactively defend against web, mobile, and social threats such as malware, malvertising, and phishing.
2012 - 2013
Chief Operating Officer
2012 - 2013
COO for a Security Solutions startup spun out of AOS to a separate organization, under the name Evertect and under the leadership of Duncan Alexander (CEO) and Eric Foster (COO). Evertect focused on security consulting services and specialized in regulatory compliance and best practices consulting, including PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, NIST and ISO 27001 / 27002. We built a world-class Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Consulting division focused primarily on the RSA Archer GRC solution. Under my direct leadership, Evertect achieved 3MM in services revenue and 113% of quota in our first year, dramatically exceeding expectations. The success of the first year led to significant expansion of the Evertect business plan. In 2013, Duncan Alexander, Robert Ash, and Eric Foster were charged with architecting a new organization, and under our combined leadership expanded Evertect to a full-fledged consulting practice, which was later absorbed back into the AOS parent company under the name AOS Consulting.
2011 - 2011
Director of Security
2011 - 2011
Specialist in Information Security, risk management, and security & regulatory compliance. Consultative areas of expertise are security program development, information security policy and procedure, solution architecture and design using the RSA Archer Smartsuite Framework, and information security regulatory compliance -- particularly financial services regulatory compliance -- including GLBA, Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI-DSS, HIPAA and ISO 27001 / 27002. Designing and overseeing the implementation of security solutions for a large base of clients including extensive experience in financial services and Fortune 500 industries.
2006 - 2011
Chief Technologist
2006 - 2011
MMAjunkie.com, the four-time World MMA Awards "Best Media Outlet" winner, is an independent news site devoted to the latest MMA breaking news, interviews, fight announcements and event information from the UFC, Strikeforce, Bellator, DREAM, Sengoku and other promotions. We are a content-partner site of Yahoo! Sports, HDNet's "Inside MMA" and FightNOW television programs. As co-Founder and Chief Technologist, I was responsible for everything from the ground-up development and operations of our extremely high performance Content Management System (CMS), ongoing daily operations of the business, SEO and internet marketing, display advertising management, and business development. The site and our content have been featured in "Time Magazine," "ESPN The Magazine," "The New York Times," "Dallas Morning News," "Dayton Daily News," "The Best Damn Sports Show Period" (FSN), "Shepard Smith FOX News Report" (FOX News national), "Inside MMA" (HDNet), "MMA Live" (ESPN), Yahoo! (main page) as well as radio stations and other media outlets around the world. MMAjunkie.com also hosts a daily MMA radio show from the world-famous Race & Sports Book at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino.