Richard Ford Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

As VP of Engineering at CyberCube I have the pleasure of leading an outstanding Engineering team focused on delivering the world's leading analytics to quantify cyber risk.

Austin, Tx, Us

Hired by the CEO as CTO in order to accelerate product development of Chariot, Praetorian's Attack Surface Management platform, and to create a single technical culture throughout the company. * Restructured engineering, increased team NPS scores, team velocity, and overall product quality while hiring and enabling a new development group.* Collaborated closely with the business to beat revenue targets for our new MSSP offering. * Increased the "virtuous cycle" that exists between our services business and our product business, helping both sides of the business work as one to deliver compelling customer value. * Thought leadership and vision for development of the Chariot platform. * Managed the Labs Research organization, a team that is credited for multiple vulnerability discoveries.* Managed the Machine Learning team, helping to deliver our machine learning driven secrets scanner, Nosey Parker.

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Recruited by the previous CEO to provide executive and technical leadership for the company in the threat detection space. Took on responsibility for development globally, and worked closely with product and sales to increase customer satisfaction and retention. Managed teams in Berlin, Iceland, and Israel, restructuring to provide increased ownership and execution velocity.

Austin, Tx, Us

Conceived, designed and implemented next-gen product strategy focused on adaptive risk-based protection. As interim CTO restructured research and technology team, improving both product velocity and quality. Recruited current Security Labs leadership using personal network. * Bootstrapped technical side of patent program; quintupled patent filings throughout company; author of over 20 granted patents during tenure. * Appointed by CEO to lead hand-picked team delivering all aspects of Forcepoint’s new user and data-centric product strategy leading to two consecutive years of 50%+ YoY growth in sales within the business unit. * Primary press spokesperson globally, handling video, radio, and written interviews, plus large venue (RSA, BlackHat, SXSW) live talks. * Drove collaboration between departments, working with entire management team (HR, Legal, Sales, IT etc.) to break down silos and deliver cross-team innovation.* Executive accountable for all technology due diligence (M&A) and technology innovation, through newly created Forcepoint Innovation Labs.* Provided hands-on leadership to turn around troubled customers, plus delivered successful pitch for several multi-million-dollar sales.

Austin, Tx, Us

Hired by Raytheon just after acquisition of Websense to provide technology leadership and innovation for new technology asset. This company was later renamed Forcepoint (see above).

Melbourne, Florida, Us

Hired to transition existing college-level Research Center to global leader. Grew security funding by 300%, recruited current Institute leader. Founded and facilitated funding of $5M Harris Institute for Assured Information, granted endowed Chair in Cybersecurity, PI on over $6M of research funding.* Student-elected “Teacher of the Year”.* Multiple patents and papers published in the field of Cybersecurity* Instrumental in helping spin out “Security Innovations” startup, later acquired by Raytheon Corp.* Member of Raytheon “DeepRed” DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge team, placing 4th worldwide.* Handled external industry relations for Department and Institute.

Helping improve the state of the art in anti-malware testing.

Co-founder of regional venture capital fund and technology incubator. Screened deals for company and regional VC partners. Established entire IT infrastructure for Cenetec and incubated companies from “green field” site, providing management and technology mentoring for a wide portfolio of high-tech companies. * Designed, procured and deployed end-to-end IT infrastructure across the entire company. * Accelerated raise of $20M in initial funding round for company. * Worked closely with all business functions to define strategy for all incubated companies. * C-level participation in Cenetec’s investment bank relations, worldwide.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Researched 'leap ahead' anti-malware technologies, and testing efficacy for entire IBM AV Product line. Public speaking to represent team and technology.

Ph.D., Physics

Bachelor'S Degree And Master'S Degree, Physics