Bio

SECURING TECHNOLOGY, PROCESSES AND ORGANIZATIONS TO ENABLE RAPID GROWTH As a Technology and Business Executive, I enable companies to keep pace with the demands of rapid growth through optimizing technical infrastructures and mitigating risk. I have a successful history of helping growing companies scale their products, operations and security while maintaining profitability and superior customer experience. My background includes senior roles where I built and led high performance teams, managed annual budgets exceeding $30M, and exceeded customer and internal service level agreements. I am an experienced information security leader protecting high-risk organizations from online and offline threats. Some of my accomplishments include: Rapid Growth: Scaled technical operations for e-commerce site growing >90% annually, expanding technical team by 400% and infrastructure by 800% while improving site performance, site availability and time to market for new releases. Customer Delight: Spearheaded a customer experience strategy resulting in net promoter scores consistently exceeding 90. Mergers and Acquisitions: Successfully led or participated in multiple M&A transactions, including the sale of majority stake of a data center company to NTT Communications for more than $350M. Security Leadership: Protected over $8B in online transactions by creating risk-based information security practices at multiple companies. Co-creator of the INCLUDES NO DIRT threat model. Contributing author of Back to Basics, Focusing on Fundamentals to Boost Cybersecurity and Resilience. Brand Evangelist: Frequent speaker and thought leader at industry conferences including Gartner, Structure, Uptime, Google Next, Data Center Dynamics, CA World, IMN, 7x24 Exchange, IAPP, Relate and DEFCON. Additional Competencies: • Team Development • Process Optimization • Operational Excellence • Risk Management • Business Continuity • Strategic Planning • Organizational Development • P&L Management • Budget and Cost Control • KPI/OKR Metric Creation • Program & Project Leadership • User Experience • Product Lifecycle • HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI, SOC2, FISMA, and SOX