The Tech Innovation Network was founded by Anyck Turgeon as a forum for showcasing
and discussing the latest innovation issues in areas such as high tech, cleantech,
biotech, healthcare, data privacy, and data security. Through a unique archive of
Internet Radio Shows and other educational content, the Tech Innovation Network
brings some of the foremost innovators to your desktop. Founded in 2009, the Tech
Innovation Network has interviewed notable figures that help shape our future.
Anyck Turgeon
Founding Principal
Tech Innovation Network
LATEST AWARD RECOGNITIONS:
#1 Female Energy Executive in 2011 - Global
#1 IT Executive in 2010 - International
#3 Hero of the Year in 2011 - Canada
Top 3 Women Executives in 2011 - America
Top 4 Energy Executive in 2011 - International
Top 9 TurnAround Executive in 2011 - America
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With more than 24 years of technology innovation experience, Anyck Turgeon is a highly-recognized executive with an impressive track record of business and IT accomplishments. In order to encourage the rapid development of a better planet, Ms. Turgeon founded an exciting collaborative forum called the Tech Innovation Network (TIN). This online platform has brought some of the foremost industry leaders to introduce their latest discoveries in areas such as high tech, cleantech, biotech, healthcare, security, privacy and nanotech. Since TIN’s first recorded radio show aired in 2009. Ms. Turgeon has been interviewing eminent thought leaders about ground-breaking solutions leading to cleaner air, intelligent automation and, most importantly, economic growth.
Additionally, Ms. Turgeon has assisted CoreClean Group, LLC – one of the largest US cleantech security conglomerate - as Chief Executive Officer and Chief of Information, Strategy and Security. Being a key executive (CEO & CISS) with a strong technology background, Ms. Turgeon used security as a key differentiator and led a legendary business turnaround towards unprecedented repeated revenue sales, phenomenal profitability and savvy environmental progress through/at CoreClean, CoreAgri, CoreSulphur, CoreFluids and CactusBD1. Delivering clean air, enabling global growth as a result of larger food supplies, and providing a more efficient environment through safe technological recycling of toxics and explosives worldwide, Ms. Turgeon designed and implemented stellar sales programs, enhanced customer-focused offerings, improved operational and financial practices – leading all towards an exciting future and resulting in 4 premier international honorary award recognitions in 2011 including “Executive of the Year in Energy Sector” worldwide, “Women Executive in Americas”, “TurnAround Executive of the Year” and “Hero of the Year”
From 2005 to 2010, Ms. Turgeon served as a senior executive at public data storage, security and protection Crossroads Systems, Inc. As an international data management, data protection and storage-security expert, Ms. Turgeon joined Crossroads in 2005 to lead strategic storage, security, marketing, investor relations and corporate communications efforts. From 2000 to 2005, she oversaw three key strategic departments at the head office of Oracle Corporation: Oracle Portal, Oracle Industries and Oracle On Demand/Outsourcing. Ms. Turgeon also served in various senior management, executive and strategic roles at Sysix, Prism Solutions and Platinum Technology.
A highly accomplished business executive who has a lengthy record of U.S. and international industry recognitions, Ms. Turgeon is recipient of the prestigious 2011 International Business Distinguished Honorary Award Recognition as Executive of the Year in Energy, the 2011 ABA Distinguished Honorary Recognition as TurnAround Executive of the Year and the impressive 2010 International Stevie Award for “IT Executive of the Year”. She also has received the 2010 and 2008 “Industry’s Most Valuable Performer” Awards, the 2011, 2009 & 2008 “Women of the Year in Information Security” Award from Who's Who, the 2008 “Shaping Information Security People” Award, and obtained finalist recognition for the 2009 and 2008 “Best Executive” from the American Business Awards.
She has designed, deployed and managed revolutionary solutions for small to large organizations worldwide, including General Motors, JP Morgan Chase, Visa, Nike, Thomas Newspaper, the Toronto Stock Exchange and the United Nations. Ms. Turgeon holds an extensive educational background, serves on the board of several organizations, plays an active role in numerous charities, and is an member of highly-reputable associations such as Department of Homeland Security/Stanford Research Institute (DHS/SRI), SINET and the High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA).
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Richard Scott Draughon
Co-Host and Producer
Tech Innovation Network
President and
Chief Executive Counsel
Draughon - Attorneys at Law
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As the President and Chief Executive Counsel for Draughon - Attorneys at Law, Scott handles high technology matters involving the Internet, software, hardware, multimedia and telecommunications. He also maintains a traditional intellectual property practice providing copyright, trademark and patent legal services. Scott established his law practice in 1989, several years after completing his Juris Doctor and LL.M. degrees from the George Washington National Law Center. He earned his B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of North Florida and is a native of Jacksonville.
Additionally, Scott is the founder of MyTechnologyLawyer.com, an online interactive resource for technology law services. The site was launched in 2001 and provides extensive free legal advice on technology law issues, as well as industry news updates, access to a national network of technology lawyers, as well as forms, instructions and video supporting complete contract templates for more than 200 technology transactions. The Web site has more than 7,000 subscribers and members with more than two million visitors to date. |
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Rebecca Herold
CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI
Rebecca Herold & Associates, LLC
Privacy
Professor
www.theprivacyprofessor.com
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Rebecca is an information privacy, security and compliance consultant, author, instructor
and management tools creator with her own company, Rebecca Herold & Associates,
LLC. Rebecca has provided information security, privacy and compliance services
to organizations in a wide range of industries throughout the world for over 17
years. In October 2007 Rebecca was named one of the "Best Privacy Advisers" in two
of three categories by Computerworld magazine. Rebecca was also named one of the
"Top 59 Influencers in IT Security" for 2007 by IT Security magazine. Rebecca is
also an Adjunct Professor for the Norwich University Master of Science in Information
Assurance (MSIA) program.
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David Hill
Data Storage, Data Protection, and Security Expert & Principal Analyst
at Mesabi Group
www.mesabigroup.com
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Through his writing, speaking, and research, David Hill has become a recognized
thought leader in the field of storage and storage management. He looks at how enterprises
can best go about adopting new and improved storage and storage management policies,
practices, and technologies that not only meet immediate requirements, but also
help position themselves for future growth. Hill created the Mesabi Group in order
to focus on as the underlying dynamics that will drive the evolution of the storage
infrastructure to better serve business. Prior to founding Mesabi Group, Hill was
an industry analyst at the Aberdeen Group where he served as the Vice President
of Storage Research and founder of the Storage & Storage Management practice. Before
Aberdeen, he spent many years at Data General where, among other activities, he
directed Data General's internal IT data centers as well as managed the introduction
of new analytical tools and business systems. David holds an advanced degree from
the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Humphrey Polanen
Board Member at Veeple
Former Chairman of the Board and Director
at St. Bernard Software
Board Member at Heritage Commerce Corp
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Humphrey Polanen is a private equity and technology company executive with a portfolio
of invested companies. He currently serves as Board Member at Veeple, Former Chairman
of the Board and Director at St. Bernard Software, and Board Member at Heritage
Commerce Corp. He formerly served as Trustee at Geohazards International, General
Manager of the Security and Internet Commerce Business Units at Sun Microsystems,
and head of Global Business Development and Ventures at Tandem Computers. Recognized
as a leading venture capital and private equity strategist specializing in global
markets, Polanen is a graduate of Hamilton College and Harvard Law School.
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Russ Finney
CIO
Tokyo Electron
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Russ Finney currently serves as the U.S. Vice President and CIO of Tokyo Electron
(TEL), one of the world's largest semiconductor production equipment manufacturers
providing chip making machines to companies such as Intel, IBM, AMD, Texas Instruments,
Motorola, Fujitsu, NEC, Phillips, and Samsung. He now divides his time between Austin,
Texas and in Tokyo, Japan. While at TEL, Russ served as a part of the core U.S.
start-up team which achieved a growth in annual U.S. revenues from $200 million
to more than $1 billion from 1994 to 2000. TEL now has revenues in excess of seven
billion dollars worldwide.
Russ also currently serves on the Board of Directors for several central Texas technology
and education organizations, including the AusTech Alliance, a part of the Greater
Austin Chamber of Commerce, and Austin AITP. He is a past advisory board member
for both the Austin Technology Council as well as the University of Texas Professional
Development Center. Russ is also currently serving under an appointment from the
Texas Supreme Court on the "Task Force to Ensure Judicial Readiness in Times of
Emergency," which is chartered to begin the design and implementation of an emergency
program to prevent or manage disrupted court operations throughout the State of
Texas.
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Sam Coursen
CIO
Freescale
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Sam Coursen is Vice President and CIO of Freescale Semiconductor. He is responsible
for the discovery, development, and delivery of quality information technology services
and solutions that optimize the operational effectiveness and market performance
of Freescale. Sam joined Freescale in August 2005.
Prior to Freescale, Sam was vice president and CIO of NCR Corporation, a global
technology solutions provider. Sam joined NCR in 1993 and held various senior management
positions within the company. In 1995, he was appointed vice president of Services
Development, responsible for development and global deployment of external NCR service
offerings (professional services and customer support services). In 1997, he was
appointed vice president of Global Applications, responsible for development, global
deployment, and support of the IT applications supporting NCR's internal business
operations. In 1998, he was appointed VP & CIO of the company. Prior to joining
NCR, Sam held various technical and management positions at AT&T.
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Rob Sims
President, Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Directors
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As an international storage and data protection veteran with in-depth engineering
expertise, Rob joined Crossroads Systems' development and operations team in 1999.
Given his outstanding business acumen, success and leadership, Rob rose quickly
to the position of President, CEO and Board member. Rob currently leads the Crossroads'
corporate vision and growth strategy. An accomplished speaker and technologist,
Rob brings more than 20 years of hands-on experience in IT design, development and
manufacturing, operational management and engineering. Amongst his numerous accomplishments,
Rob is a recipient of the Technology Industry's 2008 Most Valuable Performers Award
and has been honored with numerous industry recognitions including the Stevie Award
Top Executive finalist. Prior to joining Crossroads, Rob managed the advanced manufacturing
and product test organizations at Kentek Corporation. Rob also managed the manufacturing,
engineering and quality organizations at Exabyte. He holds a B.S. in Electrical
Engineering from Colorado State University.
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Sean Lowery
Executive Director and organizer
InnoTech Conference
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As Founder & President of Prospera Events, LLC, producers of InnoTech, Sean is responsible
for the growth, direction and success of InnoTech, the regional Business & Technology
Tradeshow & Conferences. With over 15 years of tradeshow and event production experience,
producing events from Portland, Oregon to the Midwest. Sean blends his down-to-earth
sales style and his natural collaboration expertise to provide IT professionals
the most current education and hands-on technology experiences in their respective
regions through InnoTech. Under Sean’s leadership, InnoTech has seen steady growth
each year (both in revenue and attendance) since 2003 and his company’s portfolio
of events continues to grow progressively.
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Joe Ward
Chairman & CEO of Groovy Corp
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Over the past 21 years, Joe has provided leadership to four successful Internet
technology companies, three of them as CEO or Managing Director.
As Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO of Workstar (2003 - 2007), Joe led Workstar to becoming
the leading provider of HR SaaS Solutions in Asia-Pacific with flag ship clients
including McDonald's Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. During his time at Workstar,
Joe grew revenues from $300K in FY 2004 to $19M in 2007. During this time, Workstar
was the fastest growing company in Australia and the fastest growing SaaS company
in Asia.
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Justin Drain
CISSP, CISM
Information Security Officer and Data Security Manager
Fremont Bank
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Justin Drain, CISSP, CISM is one of the industry's most seasoned data privacy, security,
compliance and e-governance practitioners. With more than 13 years of experience
at organizations such as NASA, Raytheon and Silicon Valley Bank, Justin serves as
the Data Security Manager for Fremont Bank. Justin and his team are responsible
for protecting and securing all corporate information - including heavily regulated
customer data. With an extensive portfolio of industry accomplishments, Justin rose
to serve as a member of the board of directors for the Information Systems Security
Association’s Silicon Valley chapter.
Justin is recognized by his peers as one of the most talented policy and governance
experts specializing in expert communication techniques and plans that enable organizations
to effectively manage business-critical challenges from the corporate board-level
to administrative staff and vendors. Justin holds a B.S. in Information Technology,
participates in ongoing training programs, and is an active member of industry organizations,
including the Department of Homeland Security /Stanford Research Institute Technology
Council and FBI Infragard.
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Curtis Breville
Data Storage Evangelist
Crossroads Systems
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Curtis Breville is the Data Storage Evangelist at Austin, Texas-based Crossroads
Systems, a provider of solutions that connect, protect, secure and restore data.
Curtis formerly served as the senior analyst for storage management at Enterprise
Management Associates (EMA). He offers more than 20 years of high-tech experience
in the data storage arena. Curtis has played a large role in implementing solutions
in some of the largest data centers in the world and has extensive knowledge of
database architecture, backup / recovery strategies, tiered storage, and archiving
solutions. His many years of hands-on experience with disk, SAN, tape, and software
offer organizations meaningful and effective insights and guidance in the area of
data storage. A speaker at numerous industry events, Curtis also serves as a frequent
source for articles in industry publications. He holds a B.S. in Computer Information
Systems and an M.S. in Management.
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Debasmita Roychowdhury
Senior Product Manager
Crossroads Systems
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With more than 12 years of intensive IT industry experience, Debasmita serves as
the senior product manager for a portfolio of Crossroads Systems’ data security
solutions. She is a recognized specialist in encryption, as well as database, file,
tape and disk security strategies. Through frequent participation at industry events,
she provides the IT community with insightful strategies for data security solutions,
regulatory compliance, encryption and key management. Debasmita holds an advanced
degree from the University of London and is nearing completion of a PhD program
at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Pascal Levensohn
Founder and Managing Partner
Levensohn Venture Partners
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Pascal Levensohn is the founder of Levensohn Venture Partners. A professional equity
investor since 1983, he has worked actively with portfolio company management teams
since 1990.
Outside of blogging, Mr. Levensohn has published numerous articles on trends in
venture capital, with a particular emphasis on best governance practices in the
boardroom. In additional to receiving international attention from the media and
the venture industry, he has assisted in creating curriculum at several U.S. business
schools, including the Harvard Business School, the Stanford Graduate School of
Engineering, and the Center for Venture Education’s Kauffmann Fellows Program.
Mr. Levensohn received a bachelor’s degree in government from Harvard University.
He is a former vice president of Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco and a former director
of the American Friends of Hand in Hand: Center for Bilingual Arab-Jewish Education
in Israel.
He was elected to the board of the National Venture Capital Association in April
2007, where he serves as Chairman of its education committee. Mr. Levensohn is also
currently the Chairman of the Business Leadership Council of the San Francisco Jewish
Community Federation, co-chair of the Aspen Institute’s Socrates Society Advisory
Board, and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Robert D. Rodriguez
Chairman and Founder,
Security Innovation Network
IT Security
Entrepreneurs' Forum
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Robert Rodriguez is the Chairman and founder of the Security Innovation Network,
a 501 (c3) not-for-profit focused on the advancement of innovation through collaboration.
Previously, he spent more than 22 years as a Special Agent with the United States
Secret Service. During this tenure he held a number of leadership roles within Executive
Protection, Protective Intelligence and Criminal Investigations. He served as a
supervisor on the Presidential Protective Detail, Counter Assault Team and Criminal
Investigations. His executive protection experience included 11 years at the White
House, serving Presidents Ronald W. Reagan, George H. Bush, William J. Clinton,
George W. Bush, Vice President Dan Quayle and numerous Heads of State.
For the last two and a half years of his career, Mr. Rodriguez managed Secret Service
operations for the Northern District of California and spearheaded the development
of the Secret Service's first public-private partnership initiative in the Bay Area.
He was at the forefront of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) effort to
establish partnerships with key government, public, private and international stakeholders
relative to the IT security of their critical infrastructures. In 2003, Mr. Rodriguez
chaired a DHS and Secret Service sponsored National IT security symposium at Stanford
University and he continues to lead executives of Fortune 500 companies to engage
in public-private partnerships. Since 2005 he has been coordinating the public private
partnership outreach for the DHS SRI International Cyber Security R & D Center.
As an advisor to these programs Mr. Rodriguez brings together representatives from
disparate groups (academia, science, private industry, government, system integrators,
solution providers, DoD, law enforcement and venture capital) to collaborate on
IT security challenges and needs.
He was the catalyst behind private industries input toward the design of a Computer
Security academic module/curriculum for Stanford University and assisted in the
coordination of a National Science Foundation supported academic internship program
with industry partners. He is the Chairman of the third annual DHS - Kauffman Foundation
IT Security Entrepreneurs' Forum (ITSEF) www.publicprivatepartnerships.org held
each year at Stanford University. The ITSEF is designed to educate, create awareness
and social networks that assists in the acceleration of IT security solutions into
the commercial and government markets. Last year he was tasked by DHS - NCSD - US
CERT to assist in the coordination of the annual DHS GFIRST Conference and is an
advisor to TRUST, a NSF trusted computing grant program that includes seven of our
nation's top universities.
Mutually beneficial relationships, two-way sharing of information, a top-down approach
and trust are key components to his success. Mr. Rodriguez is one of six recipient
of the 2009 CSO Magazine CSO Compass Award in recognition of outstanding leadership
in the security field. The award highlights honorees who have helped improve security's
effectiveness and standing in the business world.
He is on the Advisory Board for The First Responder Foundation and is a certified
graduate of the Federal Government's Senior Executive Service Program. Mr. Rodriguez
presently serves on the Board of Directors for the San Francisco-based Emerald Bowl,
Crime Stoppers, Boys and Girls Club and Santa Clara Goodwill Industries.
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Craig Tobias
Chief Technology Officer
Wiikno
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Craig Tobias is currently CTO at Wiikno Inc., a collaboration systems integrator,
and is acting Solutions Architect for the (NCSC) National Cyber Security Center
for the Department of Homeland Security where cyber defense is coordinated across
the Federal Government. Craig is responsible for the design and deployment of collaboration
platforms to connect the major cyber security centers protecting U.S. interest.
Prior to this, Craig spent more than 10 years with Cisco Systems where he held a
number of key positions, including serving as Web 2.0 architect. There he was responsible
for the deployment of customer facing Web 2.0 applications as well as several highly
successful Web 2.0 collaboration systems internal to Cisco. In addition while working
at Cisco and other organizations such as Internal Network System, Craig has accumulated
nearly 15 year of experience designing and deploying many of the largest network
management systems worldwide.
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Bill Leake
CEO
Apogee Search Marketing
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A former McKinsey consultant and Dell veteran, Bill Leake draws on deep expertise
in both business and marketing to help increase revenues for a wide range of clients.
He has been involved in driving provable revenues through Internet marketing techniques
since the early 1990s when, as part of the management team at Power Computing, he
built the first company to sell $1 million of product over the Internet. Bill has
guided Apogee Search from inception to its current position as the most prominent
search engine marketing firm in the Southwest, and one of the 20 largest in North
America.
Bill received an MBA with honors from the University of Texas at Austin and his
B.A. from Yale.
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Thomas E. Lorentzen
Former Regional Director of Region IX The 451 Group
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Mr. Lorentzen served as Regional Director (Region IX) at the U.S. Department of
Health & Human Services (HHS) from December of 2006 to January of 2009. The states
in Region IX include California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii and the Pacific Trust Territories
(Guam, Western Samoa, Micronesia, etc.).
As Regional Director Mr. Lorentzen served as the senior Federal health official
in the Region and served as representative and spokesperson for the Secretary of
HHS. He also served as Chair of the Federal Regional Council, which plays a coordinating
role among Federal departments and agencies in Region IX and was a member of the
Policy Committee of the San Francisco Bay Area Federal Executive Board.
Mr. Lorentzen has served in three Presidential administrations (Ronald Reagan, George
H.W. Bush and George W. Bush). Prior appointments included: Consultant to the Under
Secretary of Education; Special Assistant and Speech-Writer to the Secretary of
Health & Human Services; Director of Private Sector Initiatives and Associate Administrator
for Business Development at the U.S. Small Business Administration; Senior Advisor
to the Regional Administrator for the U.S. General Services Administration; and
National Board Member to the Institute of Museum & Library Services. He also served
as the senior consultant to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Foundation.
Mr. Lorentzen presently serves as a trustee to the California State University,
East Bay Educational Foundation and is a former member of the Advisory Board to
Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon. He also serves as a member of the
Advisory Board to the "Health Initiative of the Americas" that operates under the
auspices of the Office of the President of the University of California. He is also
a principal with the Global Intelligence Network, which is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Mr. Lorentzen earned an M.A. degree from the University of Nevada, Reno and a B.A.
degree from California State University, East Bay (both degrees are in Political
Science). He is a resident of Castro Valley, California and was born in Brooklyn,
New York.
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Tomi Miller
Principal
Deloitte Consulting LLP
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Tomi Miller is a Principal in Deloitte’s Technology, Strategy, and Architecture
practice. She has 23 years of experience in consulting and corporate leadership
roles with large Fortune 500 clients as well as emerging growth companies. Tomi
specializes in IT strategy, IT operations and organizational effectiveness, enterprise
data management, and business intelligence. She also holds a Six Sigma Black Belt
certification. Tomi’s client work is focused on aligning IT opportunities such as
cloud computing with business imperatives for operational excellence and strategic
growth, and defining and executing transformation and solution roadmaps. In addition
to working closely with Deloitte’s Center for the Edge research around the impacts
of cloud computing on the Technology industry, she sponsors a number of CIO and
IT leadership forums.
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Irfan Saif
Principal
Deloitte & Touche LLP
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Irfan I. Saif is a Principal with Deloitte & Touche, specializing in Security &
Privacy. He serves as the national Technology industry lead for the practice and
also leads the enterprise risk aspect of Deloitte's Cloud Computing services. Irfan
has over fifteen years of professional experience, helping many major US and global
technology clients address their information security, data privacy, and technology
risk challenges. His areas of focus span strategy and governance, business process
design, and technical implementations, tackling challenges such as PCI, intellectual
property protection, identity and access management, secure software design and
implementation, vulnerability assessments, and data privacy. Irfan speaks frequently
on various information security and data protection topics. He holds the CISSP,
CISM, and CSSLP information security certifications.
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Glenn Haley
Senior Product Manager
Crossroads Systems
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Glenn is a data security and storage professional who has spent the more than 11
years defining and managing network security and data protection solutions. At Texas-based
Crossroads Systems he leads the company’s data protection and virtual tape products.
Prior to joining Crossroads, Glenn held senior product management positions at Britestream
Networks and Hifn. While at Hifn, Glenn helped to shape the direction of compression
processing being used within tape drives and security processing within VPN based
routers. He started his career as an application engineer and as a Member of Technical
Staff for Toshiba America Electronics Components (TAEC). Glenn holds a Bachelor
of Science in Electronic Engineering Technology from DeVry University with an emphasis
in microprocessor and communication systems design.
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Jason Hoffman
Deputy Director
Technology
Security Innovation Network (SINET)
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Jason Hoffman is an accomplished, information technology, security, and risk management
leader with a compelling record of success over his 18 year career working for large,
complex organizations in the healthcare, financial services and e-commerce industries.
Mr. Hoffman is currently Vice President - Technology & Operations for the Security
Innovation Network (SINET), a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) founded in San Francisco
to enable increased collaboration between public and private entities to defeat
global cyber security threats. Mr. Hoffman has also served on SINET's IT Security
Entrepreneurs' Forum (ITSEF) Steering Committee since its inception. Mr. Hoffman
is also CEO of Visionary Intelligence, a consulting firm he founded to help companies
build and mature their information security and risk management programs. Prior
to SINET, Mr. Hoffman was Kaiser Permanente’s Director of Information Security Assurance
and Risk Management. He was responsible for development and delivery of Kaiser's
enterprise security risk management program, as well as, its security awareness
and training program.
Prior to joining Kaiser Permanente, Mr. Hoffman served as Vice President and Chief
Information Security Officer (CISO) of Greater Bay Bank, N.A. (acquired by Wells
Fargo Bank in 2007). He has also held security and audit positions at VeriSign,
Inc., Wells Fargo Bank and the University of California, San Francisco.
Mr. Hoffman is also one of the founders of a talented working group of security
executives and university professors that have volunteered for Team for Research
in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST) to create a college-level IT security curriculum
that would bring information security education and awareness from the boardroom
to the classroom.
In 2006, Mr. Hoffman was the recipient of the Information Security Executive of
the Year West People's Choice Award, a selected finalist in the Information Security
Executive of the Year West Award and nominated for the Information Security Executive
of the Year National Award.
Mr. Hoffman has earned several accreditations and certifications in the information
technology field, including CISSP, CISM, CISA, and CIA. He graduated from the University
of California, Santa Cruz with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Legal
Studies.
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