Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022
The cyberthreat landscape is constantly evolving — creating new challenges, expanding vulnerabilities and resulting in more sophisticated hacks and breaches. Government and industry alike are in a never-ending fight to preemptively detect threats, constantly protect and actively defend systems, networks and enterprisewide IT infrastructures. And as the federal and private sectors modernize legacy systems and
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: GuidePoint Security’s Jean-Paul Bergeaux
Jean-Paul Bergeaux Chief Technology Officer, Federal, GuidePoint Security As a child growing up in a family of teachers, Jean-Paul Bergeaux internalized the idea of always learning and growing. Today, as chief technology officer of federal for GuidePoint Security, he sees growth as an absolute must in the dynamic world of cybersecurity. Bergeaux has worked about
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: Leidos’ Thomas Michelli
Thomas P. Michelli Cyber Operations & Cybersecurity Strategic Account Executive, Leidos Thomas P. Michelli works across the company’s business groups to align, enhance and increase the effectiveness of Leidos’ cyber-related portfolio of programs, services, solutions and investments. He also serves as the 2021-2022 WashingtonExec Cybersecurity Council Chair. Michelli works across all of Leidos’ groups —
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: Proofpoint’s Phil Fuster
Phil Fuster Vice President, Sales, Federal, Proofpoint Phil Fuster joined Proofpoint to lead its federal public sector practice, a unit built to address cyber mission needs of the federal government. In doing so, they work with channel partners, systems integrators and service providers to support adaptive security needs. “Joining Proofpoint as we were taken private
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: ManTech’s Steve Kapinos
Steve Kapinos Vice President, Cognitive Cyber, ManTech ManTech’s Steve Kapinos is proud of his work in supporting the internal rollout of a robust zero trust capability across the enterprise. The process accounts for shifts in adversary behaviors, includes further mitigating controls and notes key areas to enhance monitoring and alerting. “We are using lessons learned
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: Splunk’s Paul Kurtz
Paul Kurtz Chief Cybersecurity Advisor, Public Sector, Splunk Splunk acquired TruSTAR — a cybersecurity company Paul Kurtz co-founded — in 2021. Kurtz built TruSTAR to provide organizations with technology that helps prevent failure in cyberspace. Spunk’s acquisition of TruSTAR confirmed the vision and requirement to automate cyber intelligence management. And today, the cybersecurity landscape is
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: Microsoft Federal’s Jason Payne
Jason Payne Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Federal Jason Payne’s biggest recent achievement was supporting the Microsoft response to the national security memorandum on improving cybersecurity for critical infrastructure control systems. Microsoft’s government and industry partnership in response to the order have proven to Payne the combination of innovation and culture are foundational to solving hard
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: BeyondTrust’s Jonathan Veal
Jonathan Veal Director, Federal, BeyondTrust Jon Veal has worked with a team to lead and build a dynamic federal practice at BeyondTrust, and he’s passionate about helping federal agency partners achieve mission-critical results. Veal has shaped the BeyondTrust federal strategy by helping to align solutions with the challenges the federal government currently faces. He actively
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: Lookout’s Tony D’Angelo
Tony D’Angelo Vice President, Public Sector, Lookout At Lookout, Tony D’Angelo leads the public sector business unit, combining Lookout’s state, education and federal teams under one umbrella. In the past year, D’Angelo’s team more than doubled in size, making it one of the fastest-growing teams at Lookout. As a result of his efforts, D’Angelo and
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: Northrop Grumman’s Jennifer Walsmith
Jennifer Walsmith Corporate Vice President, Cyber & Information Solutions, Northrop Grumman For over 35 years, Jennifer Walsmith has been a mainstay in the intelligence industry as a leading expert in cyber and intelligence mission solutions. She spent 15 years specializing in offensive and defensive cyber at the National Security Agency, where she was a key
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: GDIT’s Matthew McFadden
Matthew McFadden Vice President, Cyber, General Dynamics Information Technology Launching GDIT’s zero trust accelerator has been an exciting achievement for Matthew McFadden and his team this year. This effort is positioning GDIT to lead the way in collaborating with government agencies to build and implement zero trust strategies that meet the challenges of their operating
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: Maximus’ Frank Aiello
Frank Aiello Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer, Maximus When Frank Aiello came to Maximus in 2018, the company was looking to bring on a seasoned security professional with a strong background in cloud migrations to help navigate growth across state, local and federal markets. While many IT and information security leaders have stories
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: SAP National Security Services’ Doug Lemott Jr.
Doug Lemott Jr. Vice President, Secure Cloud Engineering, Delivery, and Operations, SAP National Security Services Doug Lemott joined SAP National Security Services in July 2021 and leads the strategy, design and deployment of multicloud infrastructure. This includes compute, storage and network systems to support SAP Platform products, primarily SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud,
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: Guidehouse’s Marianne Bailey
Marianne Bailey Partner & Head of Advanced Solutions Cybersecurity Practice, Guidehouse As former deputy national manager for U.S. national security systems at the National Security Agency, Marianne Bailey brings over 30 years of experience in government leadership, spearheading IT security and information sharing initiatives across the Defense Department, the intelligence community and civilian government sectors.
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: Forescout Technologies’ Shawn Taylor
Shawn Taylor Vice President, Threat Defense, Forescout Technologies Inc. Shawn Taylor’s biggest achievement has been supporting the company’s customers in their critical moments during or immediately after a cybersecurity incident or breach. “It is in those moments where I can make a significant impact and difference to an organization which is incredibly fulfilling,” he said.
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: General Dynamics Mission Systems’ Ronald Moore
Ronald Moore Chief Information Security Officer, General Dynamics Mission Systems Ronald E. Moore joined General Dynamics Mission Systems as chief information security officer in 2015 and is the recipient of the prestigious Stephanie C. Hill Legacy Award for the 2022 Black Engineer of the Year Award. Upon joining General Dynamics Mission Systems, Moore began helping
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: Parsons’ Tim Potier
Tim Potier Chief Information Security Officer, Parsons Throughout a 25-year career, Tim Potier has built and worked with exceptional teams and support projects critical to U.S. national security. A recent accomplishment he’s most proud of was the establishment of the Business Information Security Office. The BISO has transformed security from a centralized corporate function into
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: AWS’ Victor Gavin
Victor Gavin Head, Federal Technology Vision & Business Development, Amazon Web Services In 2020, Victor Gavin stood up the Defense Department Strategic Development Team at AWS, which focuses on assisting DOD customers in their cloud journey. In 2022, his team continues to focus on supporting the DOD mission space and diving deeper into cyber operations.
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: SAIC’s Kevin Brown
Kevin Brown Senior Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer, SAIC Kevin Brown’s biggest achievement was creating a cybersecurity strategy and organization from the ground up, which included collaboration across the entire enterprise while demonstrating cybersecurity isn’t only about protecting the business but also enabling the business. After a few months on the job, Brown
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: CACI’s Kevin McNeill
Kevin McNeill Senior Vice President, Cyberspace Solutions, CACI Kevin McNeill’s biggest recent achievement was supporting his department leaders and their staff by advising and successfully advocating for the resources they need, and collaborating with business partners in business development, contracts and capture to achieve a 100% win rate on all of the company’s re-competes over
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: Palo Alto Networks’ Dana Barnes
Dana Barnes Senior Vice President, Public Sector, Palo Alto Networks In the fall of 2020, Dana Barnes became Palo Alto Networks first-ever senior vice president of public sector, a role that combines the U.S. federal, state and local and education businesses. The position enabled him to take advantage of his experience in building high-performing teams
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: Coalfire Federal’s Bill Malone
Bill Malone President, Coalfire Federal Over the last year, Bill Malone has led his clients through two of the most significant developments in cybersecurity: the federal adoption of cloud-first policies and the emerging Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, all while focusing on employee “connectedness” through these challenging times. Coalfire also received the Top Workplaces USA
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: Raytheon’s John DeSimone
John DeSimone President, Cybersecurity, Intelligence & Services, Raytheon Intelligence & Space In 2020, John DeSimone was named WashingtonExec’s Cybersecurity Industry Executive of the Year at its annual Pinnacle Awards. In January 2022, the Discovery Channel and Science Channel featured his cybersecurity business, illustrating its cyber innovations on an episode of “Tomorrow’s World Today.” DeSimone has
Top Cyber Execs to Watch in 2022: Accenture Federal Services’ Aaron Faulkner
Aaron Faulkner Managing Director & Cybersecurity Practice Lead, Accenture Federal Services For Aaron Faulkner, safeguarding the nation’s most sensitive data isn’t just a matter of detect and respond; it’s about predicting and preventing. As cybersecurity lead at Accenture Federal Services, Faulkner is putting that strategy into practice, developing transformative artificial intelligence, cloud and automation programs
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