Biography

I help companies develop effective go-to-market strategies to meet and exceed government cybersecurity needs to accelerate public sector revenue growth. I regular advise CEOs at companies of all sizes on how to do business with the U.S. Federal government.

Career Highlights

- Contributed to the Cybersecurity Solarium Commission Report, a bipartisan report to Congress and Senate on cybersecurity legislation. Twenty-six of its recommendations from the Report went into the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), making it one of the most comprehensive and forward-looking pieces of national cybersecurity legislation in the nation’s history (2021)

- Speaker at the Cloud Security Alliance September Conference, 2021 “Zero Trust Frameworks: The Major Approaches”, (2021)

- Advised Alex Gounares, CEO of Polyverse and former Technology Adviser to Bill Gates, on use of VC 
funding (2020)

- Wrote peer-reviewed papers on Moving Target Defense, and on the NIST Risk Management Framework which became the Henry Stewart Publications' most downloaded resource Henry Stewart Publications, (2020, 2019)

- Invited to speak on an international webinar series by Henry Stewart Publications on Zero Trust Security, (2019)

- FedScoop 50 Award; fellow recipient was Suzette Kent, former Federal CIO (2018)

- Testified before a Senate Panel on healthcare cybersecurity (2017)

- Panelist at Symantec Government Symposium, with Greg Decker (Booz-Allen Principal), Maria Roat (now Deputy Federal CIO), Cheri Caddy of NSA, and James Comey of FBI (2017)

- Spoke by invitation at the McAfee Empower conference (2016)