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Management Team
Brian M. Ahern
President & CEO Brian M. Ahern is president and chief executive officer of Industrial Defender, Inc. Under Ahern's leadership, Industrial Defender has become the world's fastest growing SCADA security company, and the only global company positioned to offer a complete security lifecycle solution to mission critical industrial operations. With more than 17 years of executive management, international business and engineering experience, Ahern is responsible for ongoing strategic direction and business execution. He is a seasoned technology executive with strong operational skills, who has demonstrated a track record of success through his leadership, vision and understanding of strategic market issues. Prior to Industrial Defender, Ahern was president of Invensys Process Solutions, where he led consolidation and business growth activities for a portfolio of seven software and engineering services companies acquired by Invensys. During Ahern's seven-year tenure, he held several executive management positions including president and CEO, Simulation Sciences, Inc.and vice president, worldwide utility sales and marketing, and an international assignment in Saudi Arabia with responsibility for Middle East utility industry business development. In the five years prior to joining Invensys, Ahern honed his skills while at Parsons Main and Stone & Webster. At Parsons Main he worked as a control system design engineer. His work included a number of US power stations. At Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation Ahern worked in the nuclear power generation industry and had a field assignment at Commanche Peak Nuclear Station in Glen Rose, Texas. Ahern graduated from University of Vermont with a B.S. in electrical engineering as well as the Harvard Business School Executive Education Program.
Donald Simoneau
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations Donald Simoneau, senior vice president of worldwide operations is responsible for worldwide global sales, consulting and product delivery for Industrial Defender, Inc. Simoneau brings more than 20 years experience in finance and operational leadership with global high-tech companies to Industrial Defender, Inc. Simoneau began his career in the technical workstation business at Apollo Computer and HP before becoming CFO of Intellution, where he was first introduced to SCADA software technology. Prior to joining Industrial Defender Inc., Simoneau was CEO at Longwatch, Inc., where he was responsible for raising venture capital, establishing company operations, building the brand and instituting a North American distribution channel. Simoneau has an MBA from Bentley College and a B.S. in finance and computer science from Boston College.
Todd Nicholson
Chief Marketing Officer Todd Nicholson, chief marketing officer, is responsible for leading Industrial Defender Inc.'s global marketing and product strategy, including branding, advertising, corporate communications, product marketing and market positioning. Todd brings more than 16 years of experience in corporate and product marketing, product strategy, business development and sales working for emerging and mature technology companies including Digital Equipment, EMC, IBM and InfiniSwitch. Todd joined Industrial Defender from EMC, where he was responsible for directing product marketing and product management for the company's grid and utility computing business unit. At InfiniSwitch, Todd led the corporate marketing and product management efforts for the InfiniBand switching and host-channel adapter business. Prior to that, he oversaw worldwide product marketing for IBM's xSeries Intel-based server product portfolio. Lastly, at Digital Equipment, Todd was responsible for leading product management for the commercial desktop PC product line and monitor product lines. Todd holds a B.S. in business administration from Nichols College with a major in marketing.
Andrew Ginter
Chief Technology Officer Andrew Ginter brings more than 24 years of security and systems software development and technical leadership to Industrial Defender, Inc.. Ginter is responsible for all of Industrial Defender, Inc.'s product development, product technical support, and corporate IT. Most recently, Ginter was the product architect for Industrial Defender, Inc.'s Industrial Defender 2.0 product. Prior to that, Ginter's background includes technical management roles at Agilent and Hewlett-Packard, and technical leadership of teams for Honeywell and Develcon. Ginter's primary focus throughout his career has been on the development of high quality, reliable, and secure systems software -- everything from compilers, to real-time operating systems, network components, SCADA systems, message-passing middleware and consolidated alert management systems. Ginter holds a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Calgary. He also holds professional accreditation as an Informations Systems Professional (ISP) from the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS), and as a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) from the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC2).
Walter Sikora
Vice President, Security Solutions Walter Sikora, vice president security solutions, brings more than 26 years of experience in the industrial security field and leads the Industrial Defender Co-managed Security Services team. Sikora provides technical business leadership to the Industrial Defender sales and service teams assisting clients with developing, and implementing world class industrial security solutions for SCADA, DCS and PCS systems. Prior to joining Industrial Defender Inc., Sikora spent 21 years with Invensys Inc. as director of service engineering and development. In this position, Sikora's responsibilities ranged from developing services and tools to support UNIX and Windows NT control systems to providing security solutions to Foxboro's Intelligent Automation customers. Sikora holds an associate degree in engineering technology from Massasoit Community College, a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University and is currently an MBA candidate at The Gordon Institute of Tufts University, concentrating in engineering management.
Jonathan Pollet
Vice President, North American Operations Jonathan Pollet, vice president of North American operations is responsible for product and service revenue generation in all North American markets for Industrial Defender, Inc. As founder of PlantData Technologies, Pollet brings over 12 years of experience in both SCADA systems and cyber security to Industrial Defender. In addition to developing and growing PlantData Technologies as a leading industrial consulting firm, Pollet also led physical and cyber security teams on more than 70 SCADA and DCS vulnerability assessments for critical infrastructure facilities. In his current role, Pollet is responsible for North American operations in addition to growing the consulting practice for Industrial Defender.Prior to founding PlantData Technologies, Pollet was the director of operations for a systems integration and SCADA design firm in Bakersfield, California. Pollet also worked as an automation engineer for Chevron USA, where he designed and implemented SCADA Systems for both offshore and onshore oil and gas production fields in Louisiana and California. Throughout his career, he has been actively involved with the IEEE, ISA, ISSA, UTC, CSIA and other professional societies. Pollet has given several presentations and training sessions on SCADA systems, systems integration, and SCADA security to the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, the United Telecom Council, and has spoken at many other conferences and workshops for government and professional organizations. Pollet has also authored several white papers including "Innovative Defense Strategies for Securing SCADA and Process Control Systems" and "SCADA Security Threats and Vulnerabilities". Pollet graduated from the University of New Orleans with honors, and earned a B.S. degree in electrical engineering. << Back to Top |
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