Sector Experience

Aerospace & Defense
Business Services
Consumer Goods
Social & Public Sector
Technology

Languages

English
Fortune 500

Experience

Fathom Cyber Start-Up
CEO and General Counsel
7/2019 - Present
Founded consulting company that helps organizations create defensible cybersecurity programs by implementing technical controls as well as proper governance and management. Created go-to-market strategy, business and financial plans. Designed marketing marketing and communications pieces. Created sales and delivery collateral.. Evaluated technology and services partners for potential synergies and negotiated corresponding deals/agreements.
Drexel University Other
Adjunct Professor
11/2019 - Present
Designed and taught curriculum that focuses on cybersecurity as a business and legal issue rather than the purely technical approach that most courses take. The course is now being taught in both the Kline School of Law and the LeBow College of Business.
ClearArmor Corporation Start-Up
Board Member, VP, GC, CTO
5/2016 - 6/2018
Co-founder of angel-backed cybersecurity tools company. Created business, financial, and go-to-market plans. Designed company’s core offering and lead development teams. In the realization of the offering Functioned as pre-sales technical contact. Identified partnering and licensing opportunities and negotiated corresponding deals..
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Corporate Strategy & Development
Senior Associate General Counsel for IP
3/2015 - 5/2016
JHU/APL is a USD $1.2+ billion think-tank that does R&D for the US government. I worked with the senior executives to completely redesign the organization’s approach to innovation and technology licensing/transfer. I created a business-focused, streamlined set of processes that identified valuable inventions earlier in the pipeline to ensure they were properly protected and aligned for commercialization. I continue to serve as a technology commercialization and licensing advisor.
Unisys Corporation Corporate Strategy & Development
Senior Intellectual Property Counsel
5/2008 - 3/2015
Worked with senior executives to define corporate priorities and strategy, and developed a comprehensive intellectual property protection strategy that aligned with these core priorities. This program increased morale and more than doubled the number of invention disclosures, ensuring we were properly protecting corporate assets, while significantly reducing legal spend.
Greenberg Traurig LLP Corporate Strategy & Development
Associate Attorney
10/1999 - 5/2008
Created corporate IP strategies for a wide range of organizations from large government contractors to venture-backed start-ups to solo inventors. Worked with clients to ensure the IP strategies were in line with their corporate goals and objectives.
United States House of Representatives Management Consulting
Information Systems Analyst
6/1996 - 10/1999
Assessed and automated government processes. Created the software that allowed draft legislation to be distributed in electronic form throughout Congress (everything until that point was paper-based). Designed and implemented network architectures and security systems. Provided desktop technical support.
Lockheed Martin Operations
Satellite Test Engineer
5/1994 - 12/1994
Designed and created test equipment and test procedures for antenna arrays for communications satellites.