Partner @ Fortium Partners providing fractional CISO services.

Information security consulting providing virtual and fractional CISO roles (remote and on-site, respectively) to help businesses with transitional or additive CISO guidance, based on years of experience as a CISO.  Current clients include Corsa Technology, CyberNetix, Nor1, and SecBI, and two other entities.


About us

  FORTIUM PARTNERS is an IT turnaround and technology services firm focused on providing world-class IT leadership to clients focused on finding solutions to complex IT infrastructure issues or difficult-to–solve operational challenges. FORTIUM serves public and private companies across a variety of industries, placing expert project teams and operational leadership resources in technology-related roles. FORTIUM resources have 25 or more years of technology experience, most recently in a senior leadership role.

Headquartered in Dallas, TX, FORTIUM PARTNERS also operates offices in Atlanta; Los Angeles; Orange County; San Francisco; Phoenix; Las Vegas; New York; Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia; Chicago; Detroit; and London, U.K.

Fortium Partners, LP


      SecBI - AI for automated threat detection, hunting & response. 
  

Advisor on the Corsa Technology Steering Committee.


Corsa Technology

Providing advice to the firm related to investments in Israeli cybersecurity start-ups.


YL Ventures

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, GhangorCloud is a leading provider of next-generation Information Security & Compliance solutions. The company was founded by Silicon Valley security veterans and is backed by a team, board and advisors that include leading authorities from companies like Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro, VeriSign, Cisco, Juniper, Alteon & Array Networks. (Formerly named NexTier Networks.)
    
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GhangorCloud

Occasional lecturer on information security for the Center for Executive Education.


UC Berkeley Haas School of Business is an internationally top-ranked business school offering a Full-time, Evening & Weekend,and Executive MBA programs, a Master's in Financial Engineering, a PhD, and undergraduate programs.​ The school's distinctive culture is defined by four defining principles:

Question the status quo
Confidence without attitude
Students always
Beyond yourself

University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

Helping to bring artificial intelligence (active machine learning) to information security through the near real-time analysis of massive quantities of log data (e.g., syslog, Bro, DNS)..


About us

  PatternEx is an Artificial Intelligence security company that has developed a platform to identify malicious user intent.  The PatternEx solution enables our customers to predict and prevent cyber attacks in real time, anywhere across the enterprise. 

Led by a team of AI, security and systems experts, PatternEx takes the concept of ‘security’ far beyond current UEBA and SIEM solutions by combining artificial intelligence algorithms with the human intuition of InfoSec analysts.


      PatternEx
  

CISO at a leading EDA (electronic design automation) company.  (EDA is a category of software tools for designing electronic systems such as integrated circuits and printed circuit boards.)  Very strong focus on IP (intellectual property) protection in a company with a significant emphasis on R&D, a global presence, and > USD $1.5B in annual revenue.
    
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About us

  Cadence is a leading provider of EDA and semiconductor IP. Our custom/analog tools help engineers design the transistors, standard cells, and IP blocks that make up SoCs. Our digital tools automate the design and verification of giga-scale, giga-hertz SoCs at the latest semiconductor processing nodes. Our IC packaging and PCB tools permit the design of complete boards and subsystems. 

Cadence also offers a growing portfolio of design IP and verification IP for memories, interface protocols, analog/mixed-signal components, and specialized processors. And reaching up to the systems level, Cadence offers an integrated suite of hardware/software co-development platforms. In short, Cadence® technology helps customers build great products that connect the world.


      Cadence Design Systems
  

CSO for a leading API (application programming interface) management platform vendor.


About us

  Apigee provides the intelligent API platform for digital business acceleration. Many of the world's largest organizations select Apigee to enable their digital business, including 30 percent of the Fortune 100, five of the top six Global 2000 retail companies, and five of the top 10 global telecommunications companies. Apigee customers include global enterprises such as Walgreens, Burberry, Morningstar, and First Data. Apigee is now part of Google. To learn more, go to apigee.com


      Apigee (APIC)
  

Dual-role of chief information security officer (CISO) and vice-president of security & compliance markets.  As CISO (internal-facing), I work with the CIO and IT personnel to secure Splunk's own IT infrastructure, information, and intellectual property, as well as expanding Splunk's own use of its product for security purposes (“eating our own cooking”).  As VP of Security & Compliance Markets (external-facing), I coordinate the security and compliance market-related activities of product marketing, product management (and R&D) , and the field (sales, education, professional services).
    
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Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) helps organizations ask questions, get answers, take actions and achieve business outcomes from their data. Organizations use market-leading Splunk solutions with machine learning to monitor, investigate and act on all forms of business, IT, security, and Internet of Things data.

Splunk is the world’s first Data-to-Everything Platform. Now organizations no longer need to worry about where their data is coming from, and they are free to focus on the business outcomes that data can deliver. Innovators in IT, Security, IoT and business operations can now get a complete view of their business in real time, turn data into business outcomes, and embrace technologies that prepare them for a data-driven future.

With more than 5,000 employees in 27 offices worldwide, we’re focused on creating lasting data outcomes for our customers.


      Splunk
        
  

Responsible for developing and delivering cloud adoption and security services to cloud users and cloud service providers (CSPs).


About us

  KPMG is one of the world’s leading professional services firms and the fastest growing Big Four accounting firm in the United States. With 90 offices and more than 29,000 employees and partners throughout the US, we’re leading the industry in new and exciting ways. Our size and strength make us much more agile and responsive to changing trends.


      KPMG US
        
  

I-4 (International Information Integrity Institute, part of KPMG UK) focused on information security, including 'big data' and cloud computing.


Graduate student at Brandeis University working on a Master's of Science in Information Assurance.



      Brandeis University
  

V.P. & Chief Security Strategist assigned to the vendor-agnostic RSA Conferences, responsible for keeping abreast of security industry trends, technology, and threats.


Responsible for the company's technical and intellectual property strategy, reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO).


Symantec Enterprise Security Products are now part of Broadcom. The consumer division of Symantec Corp. is now NortonLifeLock Inc. -- a standalone company dedicated to consumer cyber safety.


      VERITAS Software
  

Was responsible for information security (enterprise-wide), privacy compliance (enterprise-wide), audit & compliance within IT (SOx, PCI, etc.), the company's "eating our own cooking" program, and assisting business development with M&A opportunities.  Reported directly to the CIO.


Was responsible for all aspects of security at an Internet electronic commerce enabling company.


About us

  Verisign, a global leader in domain names and internet security, enables internet navigation for many of the world’s most recognized domain names and provides protection for websites and enterprises around the world. Verisign ensures the security, stability and resiliency of key internet infrastructure and services, including the .com and .net top-level domains and two of the internet’s root servers, as well as performs the root zone maintainer function for the core of the internet’s Domain Name System (DNS). Verisign’s Security Services include Distributed Denial of Service Protection and Managed DNS. To learn more about what it means to be Powered by Verisign, visit Verisign.com.


      VERISIGN
  

Was responsible globally for network, communications, and Internet applications-related security issues.


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Note: Apple benefits programs vary by country and are subject to eligibility requirements.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. Visit jobs.apple.com to learn more.


      Apple
  

Brandeis University

Georgetown University is the oldest and largest Catholic and Jesuit university in America. Georgetown today is a major student-centered, international research university, offering programs in Washington, DC; Doha, Qatar; and around the world.

Georgetown University

Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

Inter-disciplinary major of political science, economics, and history.

A wellspring of innovation, the school occupies a 1,232-acre campus near downtown Berkeley. UC Berkeley, also known as Cal, was established in 1868 as the flagship of today’s 10-campus University of California.

Partner at Fortium Partners, LP

Partner

Advisor

Advisor

Venture Advisor

Advisor

Visiting Lecturer

Chief Security Strategist

Chief Information Security Officer

Chief Security Officer

CISO & VP of Security & Compliance Markets

Advisory Director (Information Protection)

Senior Advisor

graduate student

V.P. & Chief Security Strategist

Vice-President, Technology Strategy

V.P. & Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

Manager of Security

Manager of Information Security

Information Assurance

M.S.

National Security Studies

M.A.

International Policy Studies

M.A.

Political Economy

B.A.