Coaching startup founders in technology, AI , and consumer products. Focusing on Lean and Agile methodologies. Giving direct feedback, challenging concepts, developing MVPs, testing, re-working, and partnering during crucial stages of their businesses.

The main goal of the CSA CxO Trust Advisory Council is to provide CSA members overseeing this initiative with strategic advice on its roadmap and critical deliverables and related offerings.

Secberus is a cloud configuration governance platform built on a data lakehouse, making it easy for enterprise cloud architects to implement a cloud-agnostic security and compliance strategy, ensure controls are in place, and prevent any misconfiguration of cloud services.As Technical Co-founder & CEO;- Successfully led the technical strategy and development as co-founder and CEO.- Raised initial pre-seed and seed capital and grew the team from 2 to 15 engineers.- Established company vision, product roadmap, and go-to-market strategy.- Built a culture focused on agility, innovation, and achieving ambitious goals. Empowered engineers to make critical technical decisions and built trust.- Managed key stakeholder relationships including investors, partners, and customers. Provided visibility through metrics and reporting.- Led company to hit key milestones: launched MVP, BETA and Enterprise, $10.3M in funding, first enterprise 6-figure deal

▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ZENEDGE is a leading global provider of cloud-based, artificial intelligence (AI) driven Web Application Firewall (WAF), malicious bot detection and DDoS cyber security solutions. ZENEDGE protects over 800,000 web applications and networks for organizations in eCommerce, Energy, Entertainment, Financial Services, Gaming, Government, Healthcare, Media and Technology industries.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬*I joined the Zenedge team to build the DDoS infrastructure, it's service offering and the automation platform. Also assembled a team of Cybersecurity rock stars while assisting the sales team in achieving revenue growth.* Responsible for enabling business growth through trusted DDoS infrastructure, systems, and business processes. Also responsible for all aspects of information risk and security at ZENEDGE, as well as customer facing activities to improve the understanding of security best practices for managing and mitigating cyber risks. * Responsible for building strong relationships with our customers, understanding their ongoing security posture and help their needs into Zenedge products and service offerings* Responsible for managing the risk, controls, privacy, security, and other related compliance activities for all of Zenedge information assets, products and services by achieving PCI DSS 3.1 for the first time in company history.

▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Akamai helps businesses connect the hyper connected, empowering them to transform and reinvent their business online. We remove the complexities of technology so you can focus on driving your business faster forward – enabling you to embrace trends like cloud, mobile, and media while overcoming the challenges presented by security threats and the need to reach users globally.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬During my career, I have been able to accumulate a broad range of Risk Management, Cybersecurity, Incident Management, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability remediation, Security Operations Center (SOC) experiences. These experiences resulted in milestone achievements.An example is managing and enhancing the effectiveness of security tools and applications including firewall infrastructure, web content filtering technologies, VPN/network gateway infrastructure, and File integrity application across a multi Data Center environment. I have held several roles in my time with Prolexic Technologies & Akamai:►Sr. Infrastructure Security Engineer► Security Operations Manager►Sr. Security Operations Engineer III►Security Operations Engineer I & IIDuring my tenure, I have had the opportunity to develop many products and initiatives, including:» Training and mentoring newly hired employees regarding security protocols, in-house applications, best practices, and also coaching those engineers transitioning to upper-level tiers» Implementing Emergency Turn-up projects to meet customer contract SLAsDetecting all types of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks including Layer 3, 4 and 7 (SYN/UDP/ICMP/GET/POST) to customer's infrastructure

▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬NationsHealth are experts in highly-compliant member enrollment, service and administration support (Medicare, Medicaid, and Commercial). For over a decade, our people and technology have managed very large-scale end-to-end health insurance processes for our business clients▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬As the system administrator, I was responsible for the maintenance software, customer server, and network performance, set up IT meetings, setting up clients, and deploying applications.Additionally, I supervised local LAN on the day to day activities, including giving support to over 700 clients throughout the entire facility with a variation of over 15 different applications.

Key initiatives:» Administered, maintained, developed and implemented policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of the company database enforced corporate security policies» Administrated Citrix Meta-Frame XP & Secure Server» Managed seven servers running Windows 2000 & Windows 2003» Responsible for the implementation, performance, availability, and support of the network infrastructure; this includes LAN, WAN, firewall, and related web services» Configured DHCP, DNS, WINS Servers and tuned them regularly for better network performance