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Fleming Island, FL, US

New York, NY, US

Designing the next generation of AI-enhanced cybersecurity vulnerability management technology, alongside force-multiplied service offerings in the MDR and XDR markets. Helping enterprise and government customers make the right decisions to reduce material cybersecurity risk effectively.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Helping to solve the $4b+ of digital currency fraud.

Sterling, Virginia, US

Helping National Cyber Group in its mission to address the cybersecurity skills shortage through training and boot camps accessible to all.

Riverside, US

Helping Garblecloud realize their vision of multi-cloud data security.

Boulder, Colorado, US

Helping Resurface Labs in their mission to prevent API attacks against online services, to protect the systems we rely on in the modern connected ecosystem.

New York, New York, US

• How can we expect companies we rely on to make wise cybersecurity decisions when criminals change tactics overnight, and the technology we rely on is overcomplex, vulnerable, and subject to human misconfiguration?.
• Migrated from ad-hoc to full standardized product roadmap tracking and prioritization, leading to predictable on-time delivery and tracking of projects
• Stabilized and de-duplicated competing functional asks to free up velocity for productive work
• Launched material net new products to increase revenue and TAM diversification
• Established in partnership with UX team, the strategic product portfolio user experience direction, migrating from pages to repurposable, reusable widgets
• Responsible for Product Management, Program Management, UX Design, and UX Research

Vancouver, BC, CA

Supporting Hyas’ mission to mitigate cybersecurity risks at the network level.

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

Honoured to join co-founders Kelly White and Eric Blatte on the acquisition of their Company into Mastercard.

Purchase, NY, US

• Helping Mastercard deliver on their vision of "A World Beyond Cash" through robust cybersecurity solutions which facilitate transactions, reduce fraud and keep our money and information out of the hands of.
• Executive Sponsor for the December 2019 acquisition of http://RiskRecon.com, an AI first and third party cyber risk rating startup
• Lead the team who delivered Cyber Secure to market, providing actionable cyber risk intelligence to every merchant and bank who touches a Mastercard transaction
• Exec sponsor of our Cyber Launch program, taking non-cyber graduates through 18months of "experiences" to give them cyber skills applicable to the business environment.

Menlo Park, CA, US

Sift Security provides enterprise security incident response and investigation technology, leveraging big data and advanced analytics to enable enterprises to efficiently identify, prioritize and investigate risks inside their enterprise. Sift helps you prioritize and investigate, using novel graph visualizations to help you understand the connections.

Mississauga, Ontario, CA

• 20 years after WinMagic and my previous company SafeBoot started offering solutions to data loss problems, we're still faced with daily news about data breaches from lost devices. Whether it's a stolen laptop, a.
• Headhunted by CEO and Founder to help modernize processes and improve product quality, delivering several on-time product releases, reorganizing the development and QA organizations to an agile, flat structure, and.
• Built out a complete multi-year technical strategy including short and long-term objectives, investment model and staffing estimations.
• Lead and mentored initiatives which resulted in a 5x increase in output from automated QA, improving the ability to find product bugs without waiting for manual QA investigation.
• Initiated and delivered product innovations which lead to reduced product deployment times, reduced reliance on professional services, decreased product "brittleness" and increased product stability.

Santa Clara, California, US

• From its inception in 2011 within my Innovation team, nurtured, defined and executed on building McAfee's Secure Home Platform - a solution to how to secure the ever connected smart home from cyberattack and hackers..
• In 2015 Transitioned Secure Home Platform into full production for launch at CES 2017 in partnership with Arris as part of their future connected home strategy.
• Responsible for product design, architecture, industry outreach, field support and training, and industry alignment both externally and within the greater Intel portfolio.
• Presenter and thought leader at industry keynotes on the topics of smart home cybersecurity, how homeowners can protect themselves, and what manufacturers of devices can do to ensure their "things" don't compromise our.
• Part of the Intel Platform Architecture Group, a team which works across Intel to establish internal and external relationships - I work with hardware platforms, software services, smart home strategy, and security.
• Prolific Inventor (over 50 patents filed), mentor of junior inventors and member of the security committee charged with building a robust defensive portfolio of IP for Intel and McAfee.

San Jose, California, US

• Responsibility for the portfolio of business and consumer endpoint products at McAfee. Anti-virus, anti-malware, spam, network access control, and many others, a multi-Billion USD business, while maintaining sales of.
• Innovation team of developers and consultants, creating blue-sky developments for production in the 18month + window
• Technical due diligence for the Mergers and Acquisitions Team, and synergy with McAfee roadmap and goals - completed 15 successful acquisitions.
• Representing the Office of the CTO in the Patents and IP group, encouraging innovators to create patents for new IP. Most prolific inventor 2014.
• Principal developer for "AutoDomain" a deployment package designed to ease massive-scale deployments of full disk encryption products, generating ~$67m sales.

San Jose, California, US

• Intel group acquired McAfee, Inc. in August 2010 for $7.8B - The largest security acquisition in the market at that time.
• Responsible for the ongoing technology vision and coordination for McAfee / Intel Security while we searched for a new global spokesperson.
• Coordination of the "Office of the CTO" team, our leading technologists, aligning them with business goals, and being on constant watch for cross-business synergy and duplication. And of course, being the go-to person.

San Jose, California, US

Following McAfee's successful acquisition of SafeBoot N.V. for $350m, I continued my responsibility or the encryption portfolio and added McAfee's DLP and mobile technologies.

US

• SafeBoot solved the problem of "what happens if someone steals my laptop?" combining strong encryption with user friendly multi factor authentication and world-class central management, SafeBoot was one of the most.
• Grew development staff from 2 to 15, founded 9 regional support sites and managed technical relationships with over 40 partner companies.
• Took product sales from $250k pa to over $67m pa from 2001 to 2007.
• Brokered acquisition of SafeBoot by McAfee in 2007 for $350m.

Naples, Florida, US

Responsible for pre and post sales activities, advising customers on product implementation, and coordinating support efforts for the non-USA market. Helped grow sales from circa $50,000 to over $250,000 by end of 2000, along with architecting product features to give scaleability and supportability. Led the team who ultimately acquired the product IP, and.

Pre and Post Sales product engineer, helping implement security software on customers site, product pitches at board level meetings, and helping support existing customers.

RU

Responsible for both engineer technical knowledge, and also soft customer facing skills for upwards of 300 PC engineers, both consumer and corporate facing. I was responsible for both creating course materials, and presenting across the UK and europe.

Automated stock control systems for a multi-store business. Architecture and programming plus report generation using QBasic, GEM, Windows 3.0 etc.