Merritt Security

Meet Our
Team

Our Program Directors are deeply involved in the day-to-day aspects of the program, while our Advisory Board Members provide invaluable guidance and input on a regular basis, and our Career Services team works with students on getting them ready for internships and full time employment).

Program Directors

Beverly Brooks

CIS Department Chair
Merritt College

Jim Cates

President
LOBI Group LLC

Mark Egan

Partner
StrataFusion

Advisory Board

Selim Aissi

Senior Vice President & Chief Security Officer
Ellie Mae

Todd Barnum

CISO
GoPro Inc.

Jorge Mario Barrantes Alvarez

Chief Information Security Officer
Viamericas Corporation

Ethan Berry

CEO
Ethan Berry Inc.

Eddie Borrero

CISO
Blue Shield

Husam Brohi

Partner
Cybersecurity & Privacy at PwC

Bruce Burroughs

EVP, Chief Technology Officer
AAA Northern California

Natasha Ellis

Director
PwC Advisory

Abbas Faiq

CIO
PTC

Kwame Fields

SVP, CISO
Federal Home Loan Bank

Satish Gannu

SVP, CISO
ABB Digital

Ed Glover

VP, CISO
Five9

Nikhil Gupta

CEO, Co-Founder
ArmorCode

David Hahn

CISO
CDK Global

Mike Hallinan

Founder
Mission Finance

Lance Harris

SVP, CISO
Everi Holdings, Inc.

Chris Houlder

CISO
Clarivate Analytics

Tolgay Kizilelma

Chief Information Security Officer
University of California Merced

Nate Lee

CIO, Head of Technical Operations
Tradeshift

Dr. Sarah Lewis Cortes

Privacy Assurance & Engineering
Netflix

Shokie Lopez

CIO
Basic American Foods

Etay Maor

Chief Information Security Officer
IntSights

Tim Mather

Chief Security Strategist
Fortium Partners

Michael McAlphen

CISO
8x8

Michael Montoya

CISO
Equinix

Rand Morimoto

President
Convergent Computing

Izak Mutlu

ex-CISO Salesforce (ret.)

Mary Nakahara

Marketing Consultant
Deep Mountain Consulting

Tim O'Neil

Information Security and Risk Management Executive
Amazon

Tom Pankey

Consultant
PRO Unlimited

Vitaliy Panych

CISO
State of California

Ralph Pyne

Head of Security
NextRol

William Rowe

Principle
William Rowe Design

Terence Runge

Chief Information and Security Officer
Reltio

Jimmy Sanders

President
SF Bay ISSSA

Art Scott

Advisor

Justin Somaini

Chief Security Officer
Unity Technologies

Walt Thinfen

CEO
Visioneer Inc.

David Tsao

VP Security Engineering
Marqeta

Ravi Varma

CIO
Platform 9

Patrick Wilson

CIO, CISO
Contra Costa County Health Services

Lokesh Yamasani

Former CISO
Satellite Healthcare

Career Services

Armen Abnous

GTM Cybersecurity Advisor
TechPosite

Tom Alcock

Co-Founder & Partner
Code Red Partners

Dan Carrol

Regional Sales Manager
Anitan

Sham Chatterjee

Chief Information and Technology Officer
Satellite Healthcare

Jim Stoch

Business Liaison Consultant
Stoch Consulting

Betty Szeto

Director of Human Resources
Horsley Bridge Partners

Frank Tawil

COO/CTO
Kaisen Technology Partners

Bao Vo

Account Manager
CrowdStrike

Privacy Policy

GENERAL

The Merritt Security Program respects the privacy of every individual who visits our websites or responds to our interactive advertisements. This privacy statement outlines the information The Merritt Security Program will collect and how we will use that information. This statement will also instruct you on what to do if you do not want your personal information collected or shared when you visit The Merritt Security Program websites or respond to our advertisements.

PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION

The Merritt Security Program will not collect any personally-identifiable information about you (that is, your name, address, telephone number, or email address) unless you provide it to us voluntarily. If you do not want your personally-identifiable information collected, please do not submit it to us. If you have already submitted this information and would like for us to remove it from our records, please contact us at the Web site, listed at the bottom of this statement. We will use reasonable efforts to delete your information from our existing files. When you do provide us with personally-identifiable information, we may use that information to improve our program going forward.

NON-PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY

In some cases, we may collect information about you that is not personally-identifiable. Examples of this type of information include the type of Internet browser you are using, the type of computer operating system you are using, and the domain name of the website from which you linked to our site or advertisement.

INFORMATION WE MAY PLACE AUTOMATICALLY ON YOUR COMPUTER'S HARD DRIVE

When you view one of our websites or advertisements, we may store some information on your computer. This information will be in the form of a "cookie" or similar file and will help us in many ways. For example, cookies allow us to tailor a website or advertisement to better match your interests and preferences. With most Internet browsers, you can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions.

WHO TO CONTACT

Further questions? Contact us info@merittsecurity.com