LEGALNET - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate
- ZRA As a Cybersecurity Consultant
Brennan Lucas joined ZRA as a Cybersecurity Consultant in June of 2021. As an Associate at ZRA, Mr. Lucas serves as a strategic advisor for federal and private sector clients' risk management decisions, provides support on the development of cybersecurity risk management programs, and monitors/reports on national and international regulatory trends related to cybersecurity, compliance, policy, and reporting requirements.
Dustin joined ZRA in May 2016 and currently serves as a Senior Associate. In his current role, he provides program management and strategic communication support to clients on issues at the intersection of technology and public policy. His subject matter expertise includes analytics development, cloud security, data strategy, and digital transformation.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- ZRA As an Associate
Elizabeth McCarthy joined ZRA as an Associate in February 2023. At ZRA, Elizabeth conducts strategic research to produce high-quality deliverables for a non-technical audience, including briefings, research reports, and white papers. She focuses on helping clients address complex risk management decisions.
Prior to joining ZRA, Elizabeth worked for the Senate Sergeant at Arms under the Chamber division. Before that, she gained experience in the legislative process at the Office of the Parliamentarian (House of Representatives) and in strategic communications at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Elizabeth earned her M.S. in National Security and Intelligence Analysis from the University of New Hampshire, where she also earned her B.A. in Political Science. During her undergraduate career, she represented her home state of New Hampshire twice at the Henry Clay College Student Congress and attended multiple National Model United Nation conferences.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President
- Vice President of Cybersecurity Strategy and Public Policy at Zeichner Risk Analytics
Emily Rosendall is the Vice President of Cybersecurity Strategy and Public Policy at Zeichner Risk Analytics (ZRA). Ms. Rosendall provides policy, legal, and strategic counsel to private sector and federal government clients on cybersecurity, privacy, and other technology issues.
Job Titles:
- Vice President
- ZRA As an Associate
Jason joined ZRA as an Associate in November 2017. At ZRA, he focuses on advising clients on issues at the intersection of technology, law, and public policy. His subject matter expertise includes cloud security, digital transformation, data strategy, and secure architecture design.
Joseph Chen joined ZRA in April 2010 and currently serves as a Vice President and Chief Security Officer. Mr. Chen manages most of the Analytics and End User tasks for Sandia National Laboratories, and oversees all facility and personnel security related activities for ZRA. Most recently, he served as an integral member to the Director of Budget and Finance, and the Chief of Acquisitions. Mr. Chen has taken a significant role in development and implementation of new policies, procedures, processes, tools, and reports for budget, finance, procurement, performance metrics, and strategic planning. He also provided technical support, guidance, and analysis to key decision-makers at NCSD with program development, governmental resource controlling, and reporting responsibilities.
Joseph Chen graduated from University of Maryland in 2007 with a bachelor's of science in mechanical engineering.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- ZRA As an Associate
John Arterbury joined ZRA as an Associate in July 2022. Mr. Arterbury's work focuses on research and evaluation, strategic research planning and execution, and producing high-quality deliverables for a non-technical audience.
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Chief Financial Officer at ZRA
Julie Addison is the Chief Financial Officer at ZRA. Julie's original work with ZRA was with the commissioners and staff at the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP) in the development of the Legal Authorities Database. During Year 2000 preparations, Julie organized several initiatives as part of ZRA's support for the Cyber Assurance National Information Center.
Job Titles:
- Creative Director
- Associate Creative Director With an Expertise in Communication
Larry Ohaka joined ZRA in June of 2018 as Associate Creative Director with an expertise in communication, research, graphic and visual arts. Through a cybersecurity lens, Mr. Ohaka provides a multitude of creative templates and visuals that communicate the principles presented by the policies, strategies, and risk management within the cybersecurity field. By incorporating his graphic, communications and research skills, Mr. Ohaka works on Sandia based documents that include areas of cloud research, security analysis, business models, and other areas. For these areas, Mr. Ohaka develops visual analogies and metaphors to bring out a more digestible meaning with the purpose that it will meet ZRA's clients from both the private and public sectors in a more comprehensible presentation.
Laura Young joined ZRA in January 2022. Ms. Young serves as an Executive Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer which includes performing clerical duties including the creation of ZRA's policies and procedures, billing, recruitment and onboarding, organization and record keeping of corporate files, assistance with special projects, and provides support to the ZRA team. Additionally, Ms. Young supports ZRA's consultant staff and assists in providing technical assistance, quality management, and quality analyses. Ms. Young conducts research and writing, and ensures quality standards on project deliverables. Ms. Young provides support to senior consultants, managers, and supervisors on implementation of ZRA's development, implementation, and process improvement initiatives.
Job Titles:
- President
- Founder and President of Zeichner Risk Analytics
Lee M. Zeichner is the Founder and President of Zeichner Risk Analytics. Since his service as senior counsel to the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection from 1996-1998, he has led development of cybersecurity policy and operations for both leading public and private sector clients. Mr. Zeichner has published extensively on multiple aspects of cybersecurity law and is the author of Cyber Security & Corporate Liability, a guide for corporate counsel on cybersecurity and risk management, published by LexisNexis Publishing in 2001.
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President
- Executive Vice President at Zeichner Risk Analytics
Lindsay Gold serves as the Executive Vice President at Zeichner Risk Analytics (ZRA) and oversees the public and private sector practice. Mrs. Gold focuses on cybersecurity strategy, operations, engineering, policy, and risk communications and manages engagements with a range of cybersecurity policy stakeholders, including CEO and Boards, senior executives, White House National Security Staff, DHS, and national laboratories.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- ZRA As an Associate
Matthew Kostman joined ZRA as an Associate in January 2022. At ZRA, Mr. Kostman advises on issues covering technology and public policy, and has assisted clients in project management, program development, and building relationships and collaboration opportunities with CISA and other industry partners.
Matthew Piscitello joined ZRA in October 2014 as an Associate. Mr. Piscitello supports management of projects that develop cutting edge solutions to network security that leverage existing and emerging technologies. Such work includes the creation, articulation, and visualization of notional architectures and conceptual frameworks for guidance documents to a diverse set of stakeholders.
Job Titles:
- Executive Assistant
- Executive Assistant to the President of ZRA
Michelle McGovern joined ZRA in November 2020. Michelle serves as the Executive Assistant to the President of ZRA. Mrs. McGovern performs clerical duties, coordinates and maintains records, and assists in special projects. Additionally, Mrs. McGovern supports ZRA's consultant staff and assists in providing technical assistance, quality management, and quality analyses. Mrs. McGovern conducts research and writing, and ensures quality standards on project deliverables. Mrs. McGovern provides support to senior consultants, managers, and supervisors on implementation of ZRA's development, implementation, and process improvement initiatives.
Morgan Allen, PMP has served as the Chief Operating Officer since 1998 and serves as Assistant Security Officer. Ms. Allen has over 20 years' experience in cybersecurity as well as other homeland security disciplines, was a junior member of the Team during the Year 2000 transition and when the Department of Homeland Security was formed in 2002 - but, since then has experienced over a decade of deep experience working with Government and the critical infrastructure community.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- ZRA As an Associate
Nick Winstead joined ZRA as an Associate in March 2020. Nick provides threat assessments, policy briefs, and technical research to support Federal cybersecurity programs. In addition, Nick helps with the implementation and management of Federal programs focused on developing operational tools for USG stakeholders.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- ZRA As an Associate
Rebecca Winslow joined ZRA as an Associate in July 2021. At ZRA, Rebecca advises and supports clients on challenges within technology, public policy, and digital transformation. She assists clients in project management, program development, stakeholder engagement, strategic communication, and research projects.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President
- ZRA As a Senior Associate
Rory McGuire joined ZRA as a Senior Associate in February 2016. Mr. McGuire provides strategic oversight in leading ZRA support for a number of long-running federal cybersecurity initiatives areas like malware reverse engineering, secure cloud transitions, strategy development, technology transformation, tool development, and risk-informed approaches to cybersecurity. His work focuses on ensuring that technical development activities directly support mission and leadership objectives, and meet appropriate metrics for success.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- ZRA As an Associate
Sheryl Goldberg joined ZRA as an Associate in November 2020. Sheryl analyzes proposed and implemented changes to cybersecurity policies, directives, and leadership, and implications; provides strategic insight concerning direction, vision, policy, and technical impacts; ensures strategies and mission objectives are met against those considerations, facilitates development of technical deliverables; provides recommendations on approaches, and contributes directly to work products; and contributes directly to the development of risk-informed methodologies and metrics for cybersecurity.