Bio

Steve's substantial leadership at Quad/Graphics has propelled him to the role of Executive Vice President.

As President of Direct Marketing, Steve manages the subsidiaries' business operations and sets strategic direction.

As Chief Information Officer, he guides the strategic direction of the company's Information Technology division. His duties include directing the development and deployment of Smartools, systems and applications that help employees and clients do their jobs better, faster and more cost-effectively, and development of advanced software applications to assist clients with workflow and data management needs.

Steve became acquainted with Quad while working in Finishing during college breaks. He joined the company's Information Systems division (later renamed Information Technology) full time in 1994 and was named into management two years later. He has held roles of increasing responsibility ever since. Steve worked as a systems integration manager at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).

A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Steve has a bachelor's degree in operations management.

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Brian helps partners build global identity practices. This includes defining markets, building identity strategies tailored to industry segment needs and implementing a plan to manage the full lifecycle of a proper IAM project.

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Shane Coleman is the Director of Systems Engineering for Forescout's Central US and Canada Region. With 20 years of Network and Application Security experience from organizations including CCC Information Services, Checkpoint Software and F5 Networks, he brings an interesting perspective to the evolving landscape of Cybersecurity. Shane holds a Master's of Science in Operations & Technology Management from the Illinois Institute of Technology, ISC2's CISSP Certification and is based in Chicago, IL.

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Bruce Potter is Expel's (expel.io) chief information security officer (CISO). He's responsible for cyber risk management and ensuring the secure operations of Expel's services. He also remains perpetually frustrated that employees pronounce CISO not-the-way-he-wants.

Previously, Bruce co-founded Ponte Technologies, a cybersecurity research and engineering company that worked with organizations ranging from hedge funds to intelligence agencies. Bruce sold Ponte Technologies to the KeyW Corporation where he served as CTO for two years.

In another life, Bruce founded the Shmoo Group and helps run the yearly hacker conference, ShmooCon (shmoocon.org), in Washington, DC. Bruce has co-authored several books and written numerous articles on security (or the lack thereof). He is a regular speaker at conferences including DefCon, Blackhat, and O'Reilly Security as well as private events at the United States Military Academy, the Library of Congress and other government agencies.

Bio

Bill Curtis

History

As an accomplished Information Technology leader, Bill offers a wealth of expertise garnered from a successful and progressive 30+ year career in Information Systems, Systems Auditing and Program Management.

Prior to working with SynerComm, Bill spent seven years with Caterpillar, Inc., a $65B publicly traded global enterprise, supplying strategic direction and tactical leadership for a team of domestic and international professionals supporting and executing IT, Information Security and 6-Sigma based projects.

Responsibilities

Bill began his tenure with SynerComm as an Information Assurance Consultant. His responsibilities in this role included conducting security audits and information security program assessment and development.

After 5-years with the organization Bill stepped into a Managing Consultant role. In this role Bill oversees the team engaging clients in the development, assessment and maturing of their information security program.

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Jeff Lemmermann

History

Jeff has more than 20 years of experience implementing and developing IT solutions with a proven record of accomplishment, developing a risk services practice for a public accounting firm, and working as a consultant in many industries including banking, healthcare, and construction. He worked for 21 years in public accounting, gaining valuable audit experience with clients of all sizes. He continues to assist in the development of the CPA and CITP credential programs.

Prior to joining SynerComm, Jeff served for 5 years as the CIO for a manufacturing company, delivering company-wide key performance Indicators through data integrations, developing IT audit and assessment programs, and securing environments to protect information assets.

Responsibilities

Jeff began his tenure with SynerComm as an Information Assurance Consultant. His responsibilities in this role include: conducting information program security audits, information security policy development, incident response and business continuity planning consulting, and security awareness training.

Jeff has experience working with a variety of frameworks and compliance requirements, including NIST, PCI, and SOC related audits.

He currently speaks on information security topics for several professional groups and is part of the editorial board for the Wisconsin CPA magazine, On Balance.

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Paul Hendler

History

Paul Hendler has over nineteen years of information technology (IT) experience, with additional experience in security controls from his time serving as a United States Naval Officer. Prior to working with SynerComm, Paul worked as a Security Consultant to advise and assess financial, state government and industrial institutions on all components within the area of information security. In addition, Paul spent several years as an Information Security Officer (ISO) with federal medical providers, delivering deployment of the entire NIST 800-53 control framework, to meet compliance with FISMA and the HIPAA security rule. Within his role as an ISO, he took part in leading the information security program and successfully passed multiple certification and accreditation (C & A) audits and inspections, resulting in recognition of several business best practices under his direct management. He has also worked in enterprise environments, assessing and enhancing defensive security postures.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Information Assurance Consultant with SynerComm, Paul reviews and advises on FISMA and NIST based security controls to assist with constructing System Security Plans (SSP). He performs information security audits, risk assessments, vulnerability assessments, PCI-DSS assessments and information security controls assessments. He also advises clients on the deployment of security controls, information security program management and how to use policy and procedures to support those efforts and programs.

Bio

History

Brian has over 20 years of information technology (IT) experience including 15 years in security with SynerComm. He holds a Master of Science in Information Assurance and continues to maintain his accredited certifications. Prior to SynerComm, Brian spent 4 years specializing in IP telephony and networking. He has also worked as a Network Consultant for the networking manufacturer 3Com after starting his career in structured cabling design.

Brian began his tenure with SynerComm as a Systems Engineer. His initial responsibilities included supporting and implementing security solutions from vendors like Check Point, Juniper, and Blue Coat. His information assurance interests quickly landed him a role in helping build SynerComm's AssureIT consulting and penetration testing practices.

Responsibilities

With a decade's experience performing IT audits, vulnerability assessments, and penetration tests, Brian's role transitioned into management. While keeping his technical edge, Brian now leads the AssureIT team of assessors, penetration testers, and consultants. Brian is also a member of SynerComm's executive leadership team.

Despite being in management, Brian still loves to "get his hands dirty". You will often find him helping out on penetration tests and volunteering his expertise in cracking passwords.

Bio

History

Jeff has more than 20 years of experience implementing and developing IT solutions with a proven record of accomplishment, developing a risk services practice for a public accounting firm, and working as a consultant in many industries including banking, healthcare, and construction. He worked for 21 years in public accounting, gaining valuable audit experience with clients of all sizes. He continues to assist in the development of the CPA and CITP credential programs.

Prior to joining SynerComm, Jeff served for 5 years as the CIO for a manufacturing company, delivering company-wide key performance Indicators through data integrations, developing IT audit and assessment programs, and securing environments to protect information assets.

Responsibilities

Jeff began his tenure with SynerComm as an Information Assurance Consultant. His responsibilities in this role include: conducting information program security audits, information security policy development, incident response and business continuity planning consulting, and security awareness training.

Jeff has experience working with a variety of frameworks and compliance requirements, including NIST, PCI, and SOC related audits.

He currently speaks on information security topics for several professional groups and is part of the editorial board for the Wisconsin CPA magazine, On Balance.

Bio

History

As an accomplished Information Technology leader, Bill offers a wealth of expertise garnered from a successful and progressive 30+ year career in Information Systems, Systems Auditing and Program Management.

Prior to working with SynerComm, Bill spent seven years with Caterpillar, Inc., a $65B publicly traded global enterprise, supplying strategic direction and tactical leadership for a team of domestic and international professionals supporting and executing IT, Information Security and 6-Sigma based projects.

Responsibilities

Bill began his tenure with SynerComm as an Information Assurance Consultant. His responsibilities in this role included conducting security audits and information security program assessment and development.

After 5-years with the organization Bill stepped into a Managing Consultant role. In this role Bill oversees the team engaging clients in the development, assessment and maturing of their information security program.

Bio

Aaron has participated in the complete project lifecycle for Information Technology projects, designing and implementing multiple solutions across various platforms. Aaron is a "Full Stack" consultant experienced with Scripting & Development, Cloud & Systems, and Network & Security.

Aaron designs, builds, implements, operates and supports a broad array of IT solutions and environments. Aaron has facilitated effective transitions from on-premises-only to hybrid on-premises/cloud infrastructure with SynerComm customers. He develops innovative and future-looking orchestration and automation solutions. Aaron's background, skills and innovation help SynerComm's customers solve some of their toughest IT problems.

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Justin P. Webb is co-chair of Godfrey & Kahn S.C.'s Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice Group and is the firm's Chief Information Security Officer. His work includes advising clients on compliance with national and international privacy and data security laws, data breach prevention and response, cybersecurity and privacy due diligence in M&A, and negotiating software and technology agreements. Justin holds the Certified Information Privacy Professional/US (CIPP/US) certification from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Prior to practicing law, Justin was the Information Security Officer for a national university, and held certifications in incident response, digital forensics, penetration testing, and website defense.

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Tom Wilburn is responsible for Mist’s global field operations. He has extensive experience in the wireless and networking industry.

Tom had earlier served as Vice President of Cisco’s global enterprise networking sales organization, responsible for routing, switching and wireless products. Tom was part of the leadership team for Airespace, a wireless company acquired by Cisco in 2005. Tom led sales for Cisco’s wireless business which at its peak achieved global share of 65% of the enterprise wireless market. In 2012, Tom was part of the team that acquired Meraki and was responsible for go-to-market of the combined Cisco-Meraki portfolio.

Tom previously held sales leadership roles at startups Xylan and CrossComm and served as Senior Vice President of Alcatel’s North American Enterprise Business.

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Scott is a 20+ year veteran of the cyber security industry, with a strong focus on optimizing workflows in the security operations center. In his current role as Director of Product Marketing for CrowdStrike, Scott works with organizations all around the globe to understand the biggest barriers to productivity, and to drive thought leadership on optimizing incident response and threat hunting. Prior to CrowdStrike, Scott spent 14 years as a technical leader for McAfee, gaining deep expertise in SIEM, incident response, threat intelligence, and other building blocks to a successful SOC. Scott is based in Minneapolis, MN.

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Richard Henderson is Head of Global Threat Intelligence, where he is responsible for trend-spotting, industry-watching, and evangelizing the unique capabilities of Lastline’s technologies. He has nearly two decades of experience and involvement in the global hacker community and discovers new trends and activities in the cyber-underground. He is a researcher and regular presenter at conferences and events and was lauded by a former US DHS undersecretary for cybersecurity as having an “insightful view” on the current state of cybersecurity. Richard was one of the first researchers in the world to defeat Apple’s TouchID fingerprint sensor on the iPhone 5S. He has taught courses on radio interception techniques multiple times at the DEFCON hacker conference. Richard is a regular writer and contributor to many publications including BankInfoSecurity, Forbes, Dark Reading, and CSO.

Bio

History

Brian has over 20 years of information technology (IT) experience including 15 years in security with SynerComm. He holds a Master of Science in Information Assurance and continues to maintain his accredited certifications. Prior to SynerComm, Brian spent 4 years specializing in IP telephony and networking. He has also worked as a Network Consultant for the networking manufacturer 3Com after starting his career in structured cabling design.

Brian began his tenure with SynerComm as a Systems Engineer. His initial responsibilities included supporting and implementing security solutions from vendors like Check Point, Juniper, and Blue Coat. His information assurance interests quickly landed him a role in helping build SynerComm's AssureIT consulting and penetration testing practices.

Responsibilities

With a decade's experience performing IT audits, vulnerability assessments, and penetration tests, Brian's role transitioned into management. While keeping his technical edge, Brian now leads the AssureIT team of assessors, penetration testers, and consultants. Brian is also a member of SynerComm's executive leadership team.

Despite being in management, Brian still loves to "get his hands dirty". You will often find him helping out on penetration tests and volunteering his expertise in cracking passwords.

Bio

History

As an accomplished Information Technology leader, Bill offers a wealth of expertise garnered from a successful and progressive 30+ year career in Information Systems, Systems Auditing and Program Management.

Prior to working with SynerComm, Bill spent seven years with Caterpillar, Inc., a $65B publicly traded global enterprise, supplying strategic direction and tactical leadership for a team of domestic and international professionals supporting and executing IT, Information Security and 6-Sigma based projects.

Responsibilities

Bill began his tenure with SynerComm as an Information Assurance Consultant. His responsibilities in this role included conducting security audits and information security program assessment and development.

After 5-years with the organization Bill stepped into a Managing Consultant role. In this role Bill oversees the team engaging clients in the development, assessment and maturing of their information security program.

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With more than 20 years experience in strategy and marketing for high tech companies, Melinda is VP of Marketing for Armorblox. She is passionate about building strong brands and driving revenue, most recently serving as VP of Marketing for Styra, and previously launching container security vendor StackRox out of stealth mode. Previously, she led product marketing and strategy teams at Tenable, influencing product roadmap, acquisition plans, business development, and sales. She also led global communications for Qualys, up to and following its IPO. Prior to Qualys, she spent six years at VMware, where she led PR for its full portfolio of virtualization solutions, built the company's customer reference program, and served as a core member to the VMworld planning team. Melinda is a board member for the Synopsys Outreach Foundation, a member of IEEE, and has led media training workshops for engineers and researchers. Melinda has a bachelor's degree in English from U.C. Berkeley.

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Ashur Kanoon is a senior director of product management at Pulse Secure. He is an industry veteran with more than 15 years of experience across a broad range of platforms and technologies with a primary focus on network security, mobility, and access. His current work focuses on secure remote access, policy enforcement, and mobility. He manages the new SDP product along with Pulse One. He also advises on licensing. In this role he has worked with some of the world’s largest private and public organizations across all verticals. Prior to Pulse Secure, Ashur spent many years at Juniper Networks and Cisco Systems. Ashur has a bachelor's degree in computer information systems and a master of business administration.

Bio

Bill Curtis

History

As an accomplished Information Technology leader, Bill offers a wealth of expertise garnered from a successful and progressive 30+ year career in Information Systems, Systems Auditing and Program Management.

Prior to working with SynerComm, Bill spent seven years with Caterpillar, Inc., a $65B publicly traded global enterprise, supplying strategic direction and tactical leadership for a team of domestic and international professionals supporting and executing IT, Information Security and 6-Sigma based projects.

Responsibilities

Bill began his tenure with SynerComm as an Information Assurance Consultant. His responsibilities in this role included conducting security audits and information security program assessment and development.

After 5-years with the organization Bill stepped into a Managing Consultant role. In this role Bill oversees the team engaging clients in the development, assessment and maturing of their information security program.

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Jeff Lemmermann

History

Jeff has more than 20 years of experience implementing and developing IT solutions with a proven record of accomplishment, developing a risk services practice for a public accounting firm, and working as a consultant in many industries including banking, healthcare, and construction. He worked for 21 years in public accounting, gaining valuable audit experience with clients of all sizes. He continues to assist in the development of the CPA and CITP credential programs.

Prior to joining SynerComm, Jeff served for 5 years as the CIO for a manufacturing company, delivering company-wide key performance Indicators through data integrations, developing IT audit and assessment programs, and securing environments to protect information assets.

Responsibilities

Jeff began his tenure with SynerComm as an Information Assurance Consultant. His responsibilities in this role include: conducting information program security audits, information security policy development, incident response and business continuity planning consulting, and security awareness training.

Jeff has experience working with a variety of frameworks and compliance requirements, including NIST, PCI, and SOC related audits.

He currently speaks on information security topics for several professional groups and is part of the editorial board for the Wisconsin CPA magazine, On Balance.

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Paul Hendler

History

Paul Hendler has over nineteen years of information technology (IT) experience, with additional experience in security controls from his time serving as a United States Naval Officer. Prior to working with SynerComm, Paul worked as a Security Consultant to advise and assess financial, state government and industrial institutions on all components within the area of information security. In addition, Paul spent several years as an Information Security Officer (ISO) with federal medical providers, delivering deployment of the entire NIST 800-53 control framework, to meet compliance with FISMA and the HIPAA security rule. Within his role as an ISO, he took part in leading the information security program and successfully passed multiple certification and accreditation (C & A) audits and inspections, resulting in recognition of several business best practices under his direct management. He has also worked in enterprise environments, assessing and enhancing defensive security postures.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Information Assurance Consultant with SynerComm, Paul reviews and advises on FISMA and NIST based security controls to assist with constructing System Security Plans (SSP). He performs information security audits, risk assessments, vulnerability assessments, PCI-DSS assessments and information security controls assessments. He also advises clients on the deployment of security controls, information security program management and how to use policy and procedures to support those efforts and programs.

Bio

Aaron has participated in the complete project lifecycle for Information Technology projects, designing and implementing multiple solutions across various platforms. Aaron is a "Full Stack" consultant experienced with Scripting & Development, Cloud & Systems, and Network & Security.

Aaron designs, builds, implements, operates and supports a broad array of IT solutions and environments. Aaron has facilitated effective transitions from on-premises-only to hybrid on-premises/cloud infrastructure with SynerComm customers. He develops innovative and future-looking orchestration and automation solutions. Aaron's background, skills and innovation help SynerComm's customers solve some of their toughest IT problems.

Bio

History

Jeff has more than 20 years of experience implementing and developing IT solutions with a proven record of accomplishment, developing a risk services practice for a public accounting firm, and working as a consultant in many industries including banking, healthcare, and construction. He worked for 21 years in public accounting, gaining valuable audit experience with clients of all sizes. He continues to assist in the development of the CPA and CITP credential programs.

Prior to joining SynerComm, Jeff served for 5 years as the CIO for a manufacturing company, delivering company-wide key performance Indicators through data integrations, developing IT audit and assessment programs, and securing environments to protect information assets.

Responsibilities

Jeff began his tenure with SynerComm as an Information Assurance Consultant. His responsibilities in this role include: conducting information program security audits, information security policy development, incident response and business continuity planning consulting, and security awareness training.

Jeff has experience working with a variety of frameworks and compliance requirements, including NIST, PCI, and SOC related audits.

He currently speaks on information security topics for several professional groups and is part of the editorial board for the Wisconsin CPA magazine, On Balance.