BSS UNIT - Key Persons
Andras Patkai, the CEO of BSS Unit, brings decades of cross-pollinated core disciplines to the encyclopedic mission of resilience. Patkai's past and present duties include global involvement as a security analyst, cyber-crime prevention strategist, political lobbyist in the European Parliament, Commission and Council, and as a counterintelligence and weapons education consultant for the International Security Academy (ISA).
Rivka Tadjer spent 20 years as a business and tech journalist, covering privacy, security, identity theft, data mining, artificial intelligence and supply chains, focusing on the sociological implications of technology: how our behavior is changing in a TikTok/Dark Web culture. She has also served as both a Chief Marketing Officer and Chief of Staff for fintech companies, including building tech startups, and staffs of 500 in larger companies, and running an NGO. She holds a patent for co-inventing a payments app that replaces University Student ID cards. She also served as a Point of Contact for the White House National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC), on the Cyber Security research and working groups for critical infrastructure. She presently also serves on the Advisory Board of K-12 Six, a Global Resilience Federaton ISAC devoted to protecting U.S. schools.
Tadjer serves BSS Unit with her background in business infrastructure, development, vertical market vulnerabilities, market predictions and profiling. She helps companies build resilient and sustainable businesses.
Roberto Gottardello spent almost 30 years serving covert military operations for the United States Dept of Defense, Department of State, and other agencies. Prior to serving the U.S. military, Roberto served the SAS in the U.K. He is a helicopter and fighter jet pilot, and an intelligence analyst who speaks five languages, and has conducted U.S. operations all over the world. He is also a sniper, and trained Marines at Quantico.
Like BSS Unit's mission, Gottardello comes from a lifetime of crisis prevention and management, and brings those skills to cybercrime prevention, physical resilience, and secure automation.