Bio

Who: Cybersecurity operations, engineering and product management leader with 17+ years of domain experience. Passionate about security, innovative technologies and leveraging them to solve business problems. Advisory Board Member @ Security startups Cybersecurity public speaker; Member of a CISO’s investment club/syndicate in cyber security startups; What: Building high-performing security organizations. Keeping the business secure & compliant and the risk down. Enabling the business progress by optimizing efficiency and making pragmatic business tradeoffs. How: Analytically tackling strategic complex problems into ‘bite-size' deliverables. Abstracting the tech complexity into bottom-line business decisions that can be presented in plain English. Bringing the business context, objectives and required tradeoffs into the tech discussions and vice-versa. Characteristics: ● Delivering bottom-line results with business impact is above all. ● Goal and solution-oriented - eternal can-do approach. ● Highly passionate and inspiring the team with a shared vision and dedication to achieve it. ● Sharp and effective decision-maker. ● Practical and straightforward approach. Working around obstacles with flexibility, creativity and determination to deliver on time, scope, quality and budget. ● Believing in teamwork, direct, transparent and honest communication, collaboration, active listening and idea exchange. Creating trust relationships and win-win situations. ● Growing and grooming a layer of accountable leaders that share your passion.