Dan Rubianes is an IT business leader with 25+ years of experience in cybersecurity, cloud, compliance and modernization. His first cybersecurity role was Y2K compliance project lead at The Vanguard Group in '99, where he successfully validated systems compliance for the world's largest mutual fund. He has subsequently served hundreds of companies of various size and complexity inclucing healthcare, lifesciences, defense contractors, finance, commercial real estate, manufacturing, aerospace, engineering and automotive including Honeywell, General Dynamics and Electrameccanica. Dan is the founder and CEO of Cloudience a Managed IT Services and has written, taught, and spoken on IT modernization, compliance, and cybersecurity. He is the author of the book "Email Invasion" along with an online "Cybersecurity for Healthcare" security awareness training website "LearnComply.com." As a solutions architect and vCIO at Cloudience, Dan personally hires, trains and manages Cloudience's dedicated IT service and security team and vets top rated parters and vendors. Additionally, he has developed a comprehensive cybersecurity solution, CloudSentinel, to enable small to mid market businesses quickly stand up a cyber protection team to guard endpoints, networks and cloud. Dan's achievements have made a major impact on both local and national businesses. He has set up secure infrastructure for an ASU life science spinoff which allowed them to receive a record series B funding to develop a cure for cancer. Furthermore, his expertise has helped multiple healthcare startups expand patient care on a national level. In addition, he has positioned a variety of entities for successful exit strategies, facilitating a number of successful mergers and acquisitions with data migrations and system consolidation.Dan is trained as a CISSP and holds certifications in Microsoft, Google, Sophos, Sonicwall, Fortinet, A+ and multiple Cybersecurity and Cloud domains. As a trusted advisor to many business leaders, he is passionate about empowering teams to reach their potential as well as innovating the IT and cybersecurity industry.