REALCISO - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Project Management Team
- Operations Director
Ana is a bilingual professional with more than 25 years of experience. She graduated from the Universidad Central de Venezuela where she completed a Bachelor in Computer Science. She has worked in different business areas driven by her ability and enthusiasm to create, combined with a high level of curiosity. From being a scientific programmer at INTEVEP, the Research Institute of PDVSA (Venezuelan main oil company), to then transitioning as Social Media/Digital Marketing Manager for a variety of brands and organizations. After moving to the USA, she expanded her expertise in project managing as the World Language Coordinator in Victory Production. Before joining SideChannel, she completed the coach training to be awarded by the International Coaching Community. Her role as Operations Director at SideChannel is to make sure team members' work -together with partner vendors' support- gets well integrated to provide a high-quality service to clients and organizations. She also coordinates the Marketing team on the SideChannel educational goal-driven on cybersecurity.
For the last 25 years Bill Roberts has built out a comprehensive cyber security programs and continued as a leader in all aspects of information technology within the Life Sciences sector. He has extensive experiences with security, privacy, and compliance Frameworks, such as NIST CSF, HIPAA, SOX ITGC and GDPR. In addition, he has participated in 10+ M&A due diligence and integration projects including 2 divestitures of company assets.
He has most recently served as the VP, IS & CISO for Hologic, Inc a global medical device company where he established Hologic's Cyber Security and IT Compliance Programs. In addition, he led the Infrastructure Services, International IS and served in IS Divisional Leadership role for the Surgical Division.
Previously to Hologic he was VP of IS for Cytyc Corporation which was acquired by Hologic in October 2007. At Cytyc he managed Global IT as the company grew from 140 employees to over 1500 and revenue of $40 million to over $750 Million.
Brian has been driving security programs for two decades and brings a true practitioner's approach to the industry. He creates a more realistic way to address information security and data protection issues for organizations. He has led programs for the DoD, Pentagon, Intelligence Community, Fortune 500, and many others. Brian is a renowned speaker and expert on NIST guidance, threat intelligence implementations, and strategic organizational initiatives.
Brian is the contributing author for the latest book from Wiley, "Cybersecurity Risk Management: Mastering the Fundamentals Using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework".
Lastly, he is a professor at Boston College, in the Woods College of Advancing Studies, Master's Program in Cybersecurity.
Chris has nearly 30 years of experience in technology, operations, and leadership positions with a focus on Cyber Security. Most recently he held the position of CIO & CISO at Absolute software working closely with customers and partners. Previously, he held several executive roles within the retail, financial services, and securities industries.
Before Absolute, Chris served as Chief Information Officer at Boston Pizza where he managed the entire IT infrastructure and security functions. He also held executive roles at Best Buy, Indigo, and spent 10 years in senior leadership positions at TD Bank/TD Securities.
David has been a leader and communicator in national security and information security for two decades, with a particular focus on NIST framework, critical infrastructure security and advanced threat intelligence. He has built best-in-class, collaborative programs at local, federal and nonprofit institutions and has a passion for community service, change leadership and fostering inclusive organizational cultures. He currently supports San Francisco area clients as their virtual CISO.
David was most recently the CISO for the San Francisco Police Department and previously served as the Executive Officer of the CIA's Covert Action Staff, a CTO at L-3 MPRI and a founding member of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. He was technical consultant for Amazon's Jack Ryan.
Mr. Dele Owoye has over five years of experience delivering successful projects of varying sizes and complexity in IT and Cybersecurity. He began his career as an IT Business Analyst and evolved into the cybersecurity Project Manager role within a short period, having delivery responsibility of critical, high visibility initiatives. He has experience successfully implementing endpoint, detection, and response (EDR) solutions, email security platforms, and an incident response platform to name a few. Dele has a demonstrable understanding of key IT operations, cybersecurity, and business functions. Dele is passionate about leading project teams to deliver top-notch results, having keen attention on schedule, cost, and seamless delivery. He fosters an environment of teamwork and discipline in execution details while maintaining morale and overseeing performance. His strong communication and client service skills lead to the achievement of project goals. Dele is a graduate of the University of Connecticut with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and holds the Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), Kanban Management Professional (KMP), and Project Management Professional (PMP) certifications.
Job Titles:
- Principal Consultant
- Security and Risk Management Executive
Gregory Crabb is a security and risk management executive focused on helping organizations improve their cybersecurity practices. Until March 2021, Greg led the information security practice at the US Postal Service as the Chief Information Security Officer. As a component of the US critical infrastructure, Greg protected the organization from a variety of nation state led attacks; including securing the 2020 election. For twelve years, Greg was a principal sponsor for applied security research at Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute. Greg has developed and applied proven methods to secure your most critical information and technology assets, including NIST 800-171 controls.
Joe Klein is a cybersecurity executive with 20+ years of experience working to improve the overall security posture of organizations and ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of IT infrastructure. Seasoned at serving as a trusted advisor to senior executives, Mr. Klein is skilled at assessing cybersecurity maturity, long-term strategic planning, security product evaluations, project management, incident response planning (IRP), data protection, identity & access management, and security awareness training.
He has previously served as CISO for the financial technology SasS company, Billtrust, as well as the industrial battery manufacturing firm, EnerSys.
Mr. Klein has earned a Master's Degree in Cybersecurity from the University of Delaware, a Masters Degree in Information Systems from Drexel University and holds both CISSP and PMP certifications.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Project Management Team
- Financial Operations Director
Kim has been the Financial Operations Director for SideChannel since 2017. Her responsibilities are focused on tracking business activities and financial health. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Equine Science and Management, and an Associate's Degree in Veterinary Science Technology. Before SideChannel, Kim lived her passion for animals working as a Licensed Veterinary Technician in Virginia until her daughter was born in 2009, when she decided to be a full time mom. Kim lives in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts with her husband Brian, their daughter Juliana, and their two cats. In her free time, Kim enjoys horseback riding and spending time with family.
Laura is a cybersecurity and information technology professional with extensive experience in global security operations. With a breadth of technical and leadership skills, Laura's background includes diverse responsibility for establishing and directing security and compliance programs, overseeing risk management, and advancing technology architecture in retail and financial industry sectors.
Laura's prior roles include serving as Head of Information Security for a large international retailer, with more than 400 stores in 4 countries and a large ecommerce site, Laura was responsible for aligning security initiatives with enterprise programs across the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil. Prior to that she was Senior Director, Global Security Compliance for Equifax and prior to that she spent 15 years in IT as a hands-on professional. Recognized as a solution-oriented leader, Laura embraces a collaborative management approach to work across platforms to deliver IT security and compliance solutions that ensure the protection of information assets and technologies. Laura's functional expertise extends to governance, security risk assessment and operational execution, security awareness programs, and enterprise policy and standards development.
Laura is a graduate of Oxford University in England where she earned a degree in Biochemistry, and her security certifications include CISSP, CISM, CCSP and PCIP.
Lee Yowell is a proven and dedicated sales professional with over 20 years of sales and management experience. As Sales Director at SideChannel, Lee is committed to developing the most efficient and effective action plan for each of his client's unique needs. Lee holds a Bachelor of Arts in Social Science and a Master of Science degree in Organizational Management. He lives in Portland, IN with his wife Bridget (his high school sweetheart) and four children. In his free time, he enjoys woodworking, reading and traveling abroad.
Job Titles:
- Director, Risk Management
Matt Farry has over 15 years of experience in information security program creation, adoption and maintenance. Specializing in risk assessment and management, he has evaluated hundreds of organizations security postures and worked with executive leaders and boards to collaboratively create plans of action for the reduction of information security risk to acceptable business levels.
As the Director of Compliance and Risk Management, Matt is responsible for the development and delivery of compliance and risk assessments from all members of the Compliance and Risk Management team.
Job Titles:
- Board Advisor
- Management Consultant
- Partner
Miguel is a management consultant and security practitioner with over 2 decades of experience, he also recently led business intelligence and enterprise security efforts at a large healthcare system based in the Pacific Northwest. Most recently, he was involved with a healthcare start-up in the medical device and services segment.
Miguel is a Board Advisor (Board Member Emeritus) of the San Francisco Bay Area InfraGard Chapter after he served on the Board of Directors from 2018-2019. Miguel was also previously the Chapter President and served on the Board of Directors of the Oregon InfraGard, a partnership between the FBI and the private sector, which aims to prevent, detect, mitigate and investigate attacks on the nation's financial infrastructure and other critical infrastructures, and is also a member of the US Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force (USSS ECTF) established in 2001 with the USA Patriot Act, with the common purpose of the prevention, detection, mitigation, and aggressive investigation of attacks on the nation's financial and critical infrastructures.
Mike Waters has more than 20 years broad experience in information technology and cyber security. As a CISO, he built the cyber security defenses for a major global defense and intelligence contractor from the ground up. He has provided strategic and tactical consulting for multinational defense contractors, manufacturers, law firms, and software companies.
Mike is particularly skilled in helping clients achieve both regulatory compliance and real security. He has led and managed teams of managers, consultants, incident responders and analysts.
He has a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and holds a CISSP certification.
Myrna has over 28 years of focused information technology/cybersecurity experience and accolades within various industries, including financial services, hospitality, insurance/risk management, and gaming/entertainment. Myrna founded Apogee Executive Advisors, and as the CEO, she provides a range of advisory and consulting services in corporate governance, technology risk, cybersecurity, merger acquisitions, and public & private board service.
Myrna serves on these boards: CMS Energy (NYSE: CMS) and Consumers Energy, Spirit Airlines (NYSE: SAVE), TriNet (NYSE: TNET), and Popular Inc., which operates under the brand names of Banco Popular, and Popular Bank (NASDAQ: BPOP). She is one of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) governance and board leadership fellows.
She most recently served as the Chief Strategy & Trust Officer for Forcepoint. Forcepoint is a global cybersecurity technology leader that operates in over 150 countries. She has served as COO of an award-winning managed security service provider (MSSP) focused on providing world-class cybersecurity operations to customers and partners. Myrna was also an investment Partner at ForgePoint Capital (Formerly known as Trident Capital Cybersecurity), focusing on cybersecurity organizations.
Before these roles, Myrna served as Corporate SVP & Global Chief Information Security Officer for Comcast Corporation and was responsible for all security & technology risk management for the enterprise. Her scope of responsibility included over 54 business lines within the Comcast portfolio valued at over 163B, with over 160K employees and an 800 person team.
Myrna also served as CISO & Vice President of Information Technology Governance for MGM Resorts International (formerly known as MGM MIRAGE).
Nick has more than 15 years of experience creating technologies spanning network security to artificial intelligence and robotics. He has served as the founder, majority owner and CEO of a network security firm and as a technical director within US Cyber Command. As CTO, Nick is responsible for the creation of repeatable processes and to drive the technical direction of the technologies.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Project Management Team
- Security Engineer
Patrick Dubois has over ten years of IT experience. He began his career as a Help Desk Technician and worked his way up to become a Senior Security Engineer. Patrick Dubois has worked for multiple companies such as Freedom Mortgage, Princeton University, Billtrust, and Novo Nordisk, helping build and implement different technologies to keep companies safe and secure. He has managed Endpoint and Email Security, Incident Response software, and IT Security Assessments. His hands-on experience allows him to communicate the needs for the implementation process. Patrick is eager to fulfill his role as Security Engineer at SideChannel to guide our clients to implement their cybersecurity program, and at the same time equipped to fight against cyber-attacks. Patrick has a bachelor's degree in Sociology from The College of New Jersey and a master's degree in Information Systems Management from Walden University.
Ramsey has more than 15 years of experience leading and driving cybersecurity programs within both investor-owned and public utilities. He has extensive experience with risk management, security, and compliance frameworks, such as NIST RMF, NIST CSF, and NERC-CIP.
Previously, Ramsey has gained experience as the CISO for Energy Utility, Regional Water Authority, and a Wastewater Utility, including GE Power Services, a global GE tier 2 business focused on operational environments and industrial control systems (ICS) with revenue of $9 billion annually.
Over the past 20 years Ray McDonald has worked developing comprehensive cyber security programs in the financial and retail verticals. He is an accomplished results-driven senior security leader with multi-faceted information technology and operations experience. He is a proven security professional and leader of security teams and programs within both Data Center and Cloud Service environments. He has deep, technical experience in Information Security Architecture, Networking and Segmentation, and Security Operations. He has compliance expertise on the application of NIST, GLBA, SOX, CCPA/CPRA, and PCI-DSS and served as a Principal Consultant for ZENSAR/Akibia Technologies as a Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) performing PCI-DSS assessments and audits.
He has most recently served as Senior Director/Deputy CISO at Dick's Sporting Goods where he worked to hire and build the Information Security Program over an 8-year period. As a Senior Director he was directly responsible for the evaluation and implementation of security tooling, demand and capacity requirements, budget management, as well as serving as an interface to internal leadership and the Board of Directors for security integration in support of Dick's Sporting Goods business objectives. He is skilled at guiding both technology and business professionals through the complexities of security architectures, and engineering security solutions to ensure metric driven, repeatable information security programs.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Project Management Team