Management
Aaron Cohen
Aaron is an entrepreneurial leader known for ability to penetrate new markets, produce impressive results, and grow market share and profitability. Aaron has co-founded several companies and successfully assisted in the growth from start-up to multi-million dollar operations. He has developed growth strategies in both the private and public sector for a variety of companies including a leading information technology training company as well as assisted in successfully growing the government business of an international software firm. He also has over ten solid years of sales, marketing and business development experience. Aaron has been featured on CNBC, ABCnews.com, The Christian Science Monitor, Atlanta Constitution Journal, The Chicago Tribune and many others, across many forms media.
Dean Pace
Dean is responsible for Government and MAD products. Dean brings over 15 years of government sales and channel management experience while he has been an important contributor to the success of several industry-leading enterprise companies, including Cisco Systems, Symantec Corporation, and Check Point Software Technologies. While at Check Point Software, Dean grew the Federal sales over 40% per year for each year of sales effort while serving as the Federal Sales Manager, where he was responsible for developing and executing Check Point’s federal sales strategy. Most recently, he increased sales of his former company’s Federal division to over $6 million in a little under 18 months. Dean has a Ba Sci. from Virginia Commonwealth University and currently holds numerous Federal and Network IT certifications.
Mike Murray
Mike has spent more than a decade helping companies large and small to protect their information by understanding their vulnerability posture from the perspective of an attacker. From his work in the late 90’s as a penetration tester and vulnerability researcher to leadership positions at nCircle, Neohapsis and Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, his focus has always been on using vulnerability assessment through penetration testing and social engineering to proactively defend organizations. As well as running MAD Security’s services, Mike is also in charge of the advanced curriculum of The Hacker Academy, where he trains security professionals on the newest methods of computer penetration testing and social engineering to help better protect their organizations. Mike’s thoughts on security can be found on his blog at Episteme.ca, and his work on helping build careers can be found at InfoSecLeaders.com and ConnectedCareer.com.
