Responsible for Instabase’s overall security posture and risk management. Fostering a culture of security-mindedness, individual responsibility and accountability at all levels.Founded, hired and led the Trust Team, an independent business function that fully integrates Security, Compliance, Privacy and IT with shared roadmaps, goals and metrics.Achieved compliance with and auditor attestations for SOC2 Type 2 and HIPAA, and readiness for GDPR as controller and processor, enabling the launch of Instabase’s first SaaS product.Direct engagement with the world’s largest banks to address Security & Compliance gaps and close deals. Close partnerships with Engineering to build security into innovation; with Product to design safe user journeys; and with Legal to rightsize customer agreements.Driving increased productivity by modernizing IT with SSO, RBAC, MDM, BYOD, and automating everything.

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Led Butterfly’s Software and Security Teams from pre-revenue startup to publicly traded company (NYSE: BFLY) with >$60MM ARR, a burgeoning enterprise SaaS business and tens of thousands of customers.Responsible for all Software, Quality, Security and IT functions, growing the in-house team from 25 to 80+. Hired and led Butterfly’s inaugural Security and IT teams, establishing a secure and compliant company-wide foundation, gaining SOC2 certification, satisfying rigorous due diligence, and enabling remote work via a Zero Trust workspace architecture.Shipped the Butterfly iQ and iQ+ products, portable ultrasound devices comprising a proprietary probe (ultrasound-on-a-chip), modern mobile apps (iOS, Android), and a HIPAA-compliant cloud (AWS, GCP).Launched Butterfly’s Enterprise SaaS platform, providing secure connectivity to healthcare EMR and PACS systems, modern workflow and QA apps, IT transformation programs, and support for third-party devices. Integrated Quality Management Systems (QMS) with agile methodologies, enabling Engineers to double the release frequency while maintaining compliance with Class II Medical Device Software requirements.

Architected and led the development of a new cloud architecture for next-gen automated detection and response capabilities, providing the foundation for anomaly detection based on patterns of life. Created the Meta-Inventory, an unconventional security control inspired by Google’s BeyondCorp whitepapers that acts as a single source of truth for the state of the network. Applied research on Zero Trust Networking, Software-Defined Perimeters, Dynamic Trust Repositories, Access Control Engines, and Advanced Data Exfiltration techniques.Broad and deep exposure to Security practices including Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), Application Security (AppSec), Risk Architecture, Security Operations, Threat Intelligence, Red/Blue Team Exercises and Incident Response. Advanced the overall Security posture at Bridgewater by codifying Security Policies and managing them under an SDLC. Developed proprietary controls that implement real-time effects based on these policies and can simulate the impact of policy changes before they are rolled out.

Global Head of Securities Sales Technology, a business unit that develops technology solutions for Sales and Management within the Securities Division. Created a next-generation Business Intelligence platform that provides self-service and automation features for non-engineers to develop and share sophisticated BI dashboards built with Qlikview and Tableau. Drove migration to a new web app technology stack based on open-source software. Global management of staff spanning New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Bengaluru.

Founded the Dow Jones R&D Department, an entrepreneurial team of expert software developers that created foundational technology for the company’s next-generation digital platform. Designed and built the communication center for the company's new institutional platform, enabling secure exchange of content and communications between users with push messaging to mobile and desktop. Pioneered the development of high-availability cloud-based systems and networks at Dow Jones via a new platform based on node.js, NoSQL databases, redis, and nginx on AWS.

Global management of >250-person technology department developing Bloomberg's complete suite of Equity Analytics & Data, Financial Research, Charts & Technical Analysis, Real-Time Market Alerts, and Quantitative Ratings & Valuations products. Key roles in technological design, UX design, business development, organizational development, recruitment and compensation. Oversaw the $45M acquisition and integration of Brainpower SA, a financial technology firm in Lugano, Switzerland.

Design and development of large-scale C++ infrastructure for componentized, object-oriented, cross-platform device drivers. The company's first unified driver framework served as the foundation for the NI-DAQmx device driver package that powers >400 different hardware products and remains in place 15+ years on. Co-authored two U.S. patents.