At Threat.Technology we track over 100,000 infosec, cyber security, military and cyber startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Georgia, United States based President operating in the Security space. If you think a President is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
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Daniel Ingevaldson
Vice President of TechOperators
Daniel Ingevaldson is a Vice President at TechOperators and he has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Purdue University.
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About TechOperators: TechOperators is a venture capital firm which focuses on solutions in software, internet, cloud computing, security, and infrastructure.
Asif Ramji
President & CEO of Paymetric
Asif Ramji, Paymetric’s President and Chief Executive Officer, is a seasoned payments executive, with over 15 years experience directing companies within the software and payment transaction processing industries. Most recently, Ramji served as Chief Revenue Officer for Paymetric and led ten consecutive quarters of double-digit revenue growth. Ramji joined Paymetric in 2009 and was responsible for sales, marketing, business development and product strategy. Prior to joining Paymetric, Ramji was Senior Vice President and GM for the Royal Bank of Scotland Group’s RBS WorldPay Card Services and ATM Divisions. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is one of the largest payment transaction processors in the world and manages the largest off-premise ATM transaction processing businesses in North America. Ramji was responsible for the strategic double-digit growth of the respective divisions. Mr. Ramji has also held other positions including, North American Vice President of Sales with Ernex, the prepaid and loyalty card division of Moneris Solutions Corporation, a Bank of Montreal-Royal Bank of Canada joint venture, and one of North America’s largest electronic transaction processors. Ramji was instrumental in leading the growth of Ernex which led to the acquisition by Moneris Solutions Corporation. Ramji also successfully led the unprecedented growth of GiftCertificates.ca, a premier consumer and employee incentive marketing business and was CEO and founder of eCardSolution Inc. Ramji commenced his formal business education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada and holds an MTIS certification from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in Leading Teams for Innovation and Success. Ramji also attended Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts and holds an executive leadership certification on Strategic Negotiation.
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About FIS, Paymetric: The standard in integrated and secure enterprise payment acceptance solutions
David Mangum
President and Chief Operating Officer of Heartland Payment Systems
David E. Mangum is President and Chief Operating Officer of Global Payments Inc. (NYSE:GPN). In this role, he is responsible for accelerating the company’s global growth. Mr. Mangum oversees the company’s businesses in the United States, Canada, Latin America and Spain as well as the company’s global integrated payments and multinational digital commerce businesses. Mr. Mangum is also responsible for global product strategy and innovation, key strategic bank relationships, worldwide customer operations and enterprise risk management. Mr. Mangum served as Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer from 2011 to 2014. In that role, he was responsible for the company’s worldwide financial operations, information technology strategy, global product strategy, product development and its technology platforms and operations. Prior to joining Global Payments, Mr. Mangum served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of CheckFree Corporation, a leading global provider of financial electronic commerce services and products, from 1999 to 2007. CheckFree was acquired by Fiserv Inc. in December 2007 in a transaction valued at approximately $4.4 billion, and Mr. Mangum subsequently served as Executive Vice President of Fiserv. Mr. Mangum was named one of the best CFOs in America by Institutional Investor magazine. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta and as the 2015-2016 Campaign Chair for the United Way of Greater Atlanta.
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About Global Payments, Heartland Payment Systems: Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. – the fifth largest payments processor in the United States – provides payment processing services.
Cameron Bready
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Heartland Payment Systems
Cameron M. Bready is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Global Payments Inc. (NYSE:GPN), one of the largest worldwide providers of payment solutions. In this role, he is responsible for all of the company’s global financial operations including finance, treasury, accounting and tax, as well as corporate development, investor relations and internal audit. Prior to joining Global Payments in 2014, Mr. Bready served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for ITC Holdings Corp., the nation’s largest independent electric transmission company, where he was responsible for the company’s accounting, finance, treasury and other related financial functions, as well as its corporate development initiatives. Mr. Bready joined ITC Holdings in April 2009 as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer after serving as Vice President of Finance at Northeast Utilities in Hartford, Conn., where he was responsible for all financial policy matters and financial planning and analysis, including the financial assessment and structuring of the company’s transmission and distribution infrastructure investments in the Northeast. Mr. Bready was recognized by Institutional Investor as one of “America’s Best CFOs” in the electric utilities sector and by Crain’s Detroit Business as “CFO of the Year” in the $100 million to $1 billion revenue category. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta and is a Certified Public Accountant. He serves on the Board of Trustees of Oglethorpe University.
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About Global Payments, Heartland Payment Systems: Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. – the fifth largest payments processor in the United States – provides payment processing services.
David Green
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Heartland Payment Systems
David Green serves as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Global Payments Inc. (NYSE:GPN), one of the world’s leading payment processing companies. Global Payments, a Fortune 1000 company, generates in excess of $2 billion of net revenues annually and operates in markets around the globe through nearly 4,000 employees. Mr. Green is responsible for all of the company’s legal matters worldwide. Since joining in 2003, Mr. Green has provided legal support across the company’s corporate landscape. He most recently served as Senior Vice President and Division General Counsel, with primary responsibility for worldwide mergers and acquisitions as well as the company’s operations in the Americas. Prior to joining Global Payments, Mr. Green was an attorney at the law firm of King & Spalding LLP. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Duke University and earned his J.D. from the Emory University School of Law. Mr. Green serves on the Government Relations Committee of the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) and on the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Mitochondrial Medicine. He resides in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and two daughters.
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About Global Payments, Heartland Payment Systems: Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. – the fifth largest payments processor in the United States – provides payment processing services.
Guido Sacchi
Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Heartland Payment Systems
Dr. Guido F. Sacchi is a recognized leader in Information Technology and delivery of business value from IT, with a unique combination of strategic thinking and focus on results. He is currently EVP and CIO of Global Payments Inc. (NYSE:GPN), one of the largest worldwide providers of payment solutions. His responsibilities include IT strategies, worldwide technology infrastructure and operations management, application development and support, information security, customer experience, project portfolio management, platform integration and worldwide product. Prior to joining Global Payments, Dr. Sacchi was a Managing Director for Slalom Consulting, leading the firm’s Digital Commerce practice. Between 2008 and 2010, he served as CEO of Moneta, an innovative online payments company, establishing it as a leader in the alternative payment space. He led the company in building its customer base, revenue streams, service offerings and technology platform. From 2002 to 2008, Dr. Sacchi was the CIO of CompuCredit, an information and technology driven financial services company, where his responsibilities included setting and executing the company’s IT strategies, delivering business value from technology, managing innovation and running the company’s worldwide IT operations. He enabled the business to deliver unprecedented results through the execution of acquisitions, technology architectures and IT solutions. Dr. Sacchi’s experience includes senior management positions at Deloitte Consulting and PricewaterhouseCoopers, international experience across industries, degrees in engineering from the University of Rome (Italy) and appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a frequent speaker and magazine contributor on the topics of technology management, payments and financial technologies, leadership, innovation and organizational change. Dr. Sacchi is the previous Chairman of the Georgia CIO Leadership Association and serves on the Technology Association of Georgia’s Education Collaborative (TAG-Ed) Board of Directors. He was recognized as one of Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders in 2008 and as the 2004 GCLA National CIO of the Year, in addition to receiving multiple awards for excellence in technology management. Dr. Sacchi is a graduate of Leadership Atlanta’s Class of 2008. He and his wife, Ellen, enjoy living in Atlanta with their two children.
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About Global Payments, Heartland Payment Systems: Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. – the fifth largest payments processor in the United States – provides payment processing services.
Jane Elliott
Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Heartland Payment Systems
Jane M. Elliott is the Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer for Global Payments, one of the largest worldwide providers of payment solutions. In this role, she oversees human resources and is responsible for ensuring delivery of key strategic, high visibility initiatives. Ms. Elliott joined Global Payments in October 2001 with a dual role as Vice President of Financial Planning & Investor Relations. As the company grew, the necessity to manage Wall Street analysts and investors became a full time position in the fall of 2003. In mid 2010, Ms. Elliott’s role expanded to Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning & Investor Relations. She became Chief of Staff in November 2013 and Chief Administrative Officer in July 2016. Ms. Elliott has over twenty years of experience in the payment processing space, working at First Data prior to joining Global Payments. During the nine years at First Data, she held numerous positions including financial analysis, planning and SEC reporting in both Georgia and Nebraska before becoming Sr. Director of Investor Relations. Ms. Elliott started her career with Laventhol & Horwath Certified Public Accountants in New York City receiving her CPA. She obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting with high honors from Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Ms. Elliott serves on the Junior Achievement of Georgia Board of Directors and Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Board of Directors. She also serves on the Board for W.net, Women Networking in Electronic Transactions, the Large Processor Council for Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). She served on the Atlanta Board for National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) from 2007 to 2011, serving as President for three years.
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About Deluxe Corp, Heartland Payment Systems: Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. – the fifth largest payments processor in the United States – provides payment processing services.
Eric Hinkle
President and CEO of Ionic Security
Eric has over 30 years of experience, most recently as Operating Executive with Marlin Equity Partners, where he conducted operational due diligence and served as Chairman for multiple companies including Asentinel, CompassLearning, Logi Analytics, LogicBlox/Predictix, Longview/Tidemark, Mapp, Serenova, Verisae, and Vivonet. Previously, he served as CEO of Servigistics, an exited Marlin portfolio company and global provider of Service Lifecycle Management software; CEO of MediaOcean, a provider of web-enabled sales and order management, invoicing, and e-business solutions; and President and COO of Radiant Systems, a global provider of point-of-sale, store management, and headquarters management solutions. Additional experience includes key roles at AlliedSignal Aerospace, McKinsey & Company, and IBM Research. Eric earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Brown, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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About Ionic Security: Ionic Security, a data security platform, provides access control, intellectual property monitoring, data encryption, and policy management.
Megan Heinze
President of IDEMIA
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About IDEMIA: IDEMIA offers identity and security solutions for an increasingly digital and connected world.
Brandt Mackey
Vice President, Field Engineering of AttackIQ
Brandt Mackey serves as VP of field engineering at AttackIQ.
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About AttackIQ: AttackIQ is a security optimization platform that enables a seamless threat-informed defense across their security organizations.
Naveen Rajdev
Vice President & Global Head – Enterprise Business, Technology Partnerships & Marketing of ColorTokens
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About ColorTokens: ColorTokens simplifies, accelerates and automates micro-segmentation and zero trust security for all enterprise environments.
Debra Kladis
Vice President, Sales Operations and Treasurer of Cloudmark
In the role of Vice President of Sales Operations and Treasurer for Cloudmark, Debra Kladis leads Cloudmark’s treasury function and governs worldwide sales enablement, CRM development initiatives and compliance. Debra has over 20 years of broad experience in financial management positions across a variety of industries including telecommunications, energy, and consumer products where she was instrumental in re-engineering and driving increases in top line growth, profitability and sales productivity. Prior to joining Cloudmark in 2012, Debra held several executive management positions at Movius Corporation including Interim CFO, Vice President of Finance, Vice President of Sales Operations, and Director of Business Systems and Process. Debra also served in key financial and strategic planning positions at Square D Company, James River Corporation (acquired by Georgia Pacific) and Xerox Corporation. Debra holds a BA in Finance from Siena College.
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About Cloudmark: Cloudmark provides carrier-grade messaging security and infrastructure solutions for fixed, mobile, and social networks.
Clayton Fields
Vice President of Javelin Networks
Clayton Fields is the Identity Security Specialist of Simeio Solutions.
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About Javelin Networks: Protect Active Directory from every endpoint. Agentless.
Hamish Davidson
President & CEO of ProviDyn
As President & CEO Hamish Davidson has executive responsibility for the overall strategic direction as well as sales and marketing oversight for ProviDyn®. He brings over 25 years of IT experience and enterprise industry experience—leveraging a large enterprise approach and processes development ideology to the business. His expertise includes operational efficiency improvement, telecommunications, information security, disaster recovery and business continuity. Prior to joining ProviDyn, Hamish was a Managing Principal at Zyman Group where he led initiatives which drove growth from $10M to $65M and expansion from Atlanta to a global presence in less than three years. Throughout his career, Hamish has managed IT operations and projects for Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. including Walmart, MCI, Hewlett Packard, General Electric, Alcoa, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Acxiom UK Ltd, Norfolk Southern, and SunTrust Bank. He also ran his own consulting firm, Enterprise Consulting Services, for five years. Technically, Hamish is proficient in LAN/WAN architecture, Client/Server technologies, wireless technologies, web technologies, midrange systems, legacy systems and enterprise support. He’s also a Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), VMware Sales Professional (VSP), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), and Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCDA). Born and educated in London, Hamish also spent time in South Africa before crossing the Atlantic to America where he married and started a family. Outside of the workplace, he finds solace hiking, traveling with his wife and three children, and serving as a scout leader. He also enjoys classic European cars and motorcycling through the mountains.
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About ProviDyn: ProviDyn provides technology expertise, services and support to help small and mid-sized organizations sustain growth.
Michael Rothman
President of DisruptOps
Mike Rothman is President of Securosis and is the author of the “Pragmatic CSO”; Rothman’s bold perspectives and irreverent style are invaluable as companies determine effective strategies to grapple with the dynamic security threatscape. He specializes in the sexy aspects of security, like protecting networks and endpoints, security management, and compliance. Rothman is one of the most sought-after speakers and commentators in the security business and brings a deep background in information security. After 20 years in and around security, he’s one of the guys who “knows where the bodies are buried” in the space.
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About DisruptOps, Securosis: DisruptOps is a cloud security operations platform that helps customers find & fix security issues before they become incidents.
Jim Cushman
President of Commercial Markets & Chief Product Officer of Hypori
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About Hypori: Hypori provides mobility solutions with Virtual Mobile Infrastructure. We remote Android onto any mobile device.
Jan Spring
Vice President of Channel Development of eFolder
Jan Spring is the Vice President of Channel Development and is responsible for building the solution provider channel for the company’s award winning products and services. Since Jan’s arrival in 2006, eFolder has captured numerous channel accolades and awards from CompTIA, ASCII, CRN and HTG. Jan has extensive experience in IT solutions sales and technology channel building with several organizations. For six years Jan has been part of the CRN Power Women of the Channel and a CRN Channel Chief for four years. Prior to eFolder, Jan was Vice President of Sales at SafeNET, Inc., and she also served as Vice President of Sales for Computone System where she was responsible for generating sales leads, managing the sales teams and strategic initiatives, as well as closing deals. Additionally, Jan founded The Chaparral Group in 1992, a VAR located in Marietta, GA which worked with Fortune 500 companies primarily selling and managing infrastructure. Jan has a Bachelor’s degree in English and History from Murray State University.
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About eFolder: eFolder provides data protection services such as cloud file sync, data backup, business continuity, and email security solutions.
David Blizzard
President of Blizzard Data Recovery
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About Blizzard Data Recovery: Professional Data Recovery Services
Dan Duffy
Executive Vice President of Zyston
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About Zyston: Zyston, a new company providing strategic information security advisory services
Christopher Spencer
Vice President Of Engineering of Textron Systems
Chris joined Textron Specialized Vehicles in 2010. As Vice President, Engineering, Chris leads all aspects of the company’s engineering function, overseeing more than 200 engineers across numerous disciplines in both new product development and ongoing improvement and management of Textron Specialized Vehicles’ existing product lines. Before joining Textron Specialized Vehicles, Chris had a lengthy career at Bell Helicopter, where he served in leadership roles in Air Vehicle Design, Flight Test, Structural Analysis and Integrated Product Team Management supporting the V-22 Osprey Program as well other Bell products. Chris received his Master of Engineering in Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Engineering from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University.
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About Textron Systems: Textron Systems has been providing innovative solutions to the defense, homeland security and aerospace communities for more than 50 years.
Marci McCarthy
CEO & President/Founder of T.E.N.
Marci McCarthy, CEO & President of T.E.N., has over 20 years of business and entrepreneurial experience, including founding the nationally acclaimed Information Security Executive® of the Year (ISE®) Program & Award Series. As founder, she is responsible for driving the strategic direction of this widely respected, privately held company, remaining deeply engaged with a vast network of IT and information security professionals and solution providers. In 2015, she launched ISE® Talent, which provides exclusive information security leadership talent management solutions. McCarthy serves on the strategic advisory board for the International Consortium of Minority Cybersecurity Professionals, is a lifetime member of WIT and serves on the Board of Directors for TechBridge.
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About T.E.N.: T.E.N. is an information technology and security executive networking and relationship marketing firm.
Allen Barnes
Founder/President & CEO of Accushield
Allen Barnes is a President at AccuShield.
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