Leadership
Neal Creighton, Chief Executive Officer
As co-founder, president and CEO at GeoTrust, Mr. Creighton lead a $24 million financing round, and selling GeoTrust to VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for $125 million.
Other ventures Creighton has spearheaded include GeoTrust spin-off ChosenSecurity, acquired by PGP, Corp. (now Symantec), and AffirmTrust LLC, acquired by Trend Micro.
Mr. Creighton serves on advisory boards for OneID, Comodo and the Army Cyber Institute, is Chairman of Robly and Chairman of Shield Capital Partners technology advisory board. Neal speaks regularly at industry conferences including RSA, Gartner Security & Risk Summit and America’s Growth Capital.
Mr. Creighton is a graduate of the USMA at West Point, and holds a JD and an MBA from Northwestern University.
Rick Miller, Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Miller received a master’s degree in information systems from Oakland University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Michigan.
Thalia R. Gietzen, Chief Financial Officer
Mrs. Gietzen started her professional career in public accounting at Grant Thornton and continues to be a licensed CPA. Mrs. Gietzen graduated Cum Laude from Cal State Northridge with a degree in Business Administration and Accounting.
Mathieu Grignon, Chief Administration Officer Canada
Prior to GoSecure, Mr. Grignon had the opportunity to hone his skills leading professional services teams across North America during his tenure at Westcon Group, focusing on Fortune 500 clients. He held the same position at one of Canada’s largest IT consulting firm, where he also acted as the company CISO.
Mr. Grignon holds an MBA and a degree in governance, audit and security of information systems from Sherbrooke University along with several industry certifications. Mr. Grignon is a thought leader in the industry and regularly presents at industry conferences, publishes articles and is invited to talk about cybersecurity in various broadcast media.
Travis Barlow, Senior Vice President of Managed Detection & Response
Prior to building and leading the MDR practices at GoSecure, Mr. Barlow led multiple Incident Response initiatives for other companies. He started his career as a security systems administrator having performed a multitude of security solution implementations for private and public sector organizations.
Mr. Barlow holds a diploma in Network Security and has held the CISSP certification since 2006. Furthermore he founded the AtlSecCon Security Conference in 2010, one of the top 10 of 100 conferences to attend globally.
John Randall, Senior Vice President of Product Management
Mr. Randall brings deep technical and market expertise driven by his diverse background. Prior to joining GoSecure, Mr. Randall has held several leadership positions at many cybersecurity companies across both Product Management and Marketing.
Eric Rochette, Senior Vice President of Global Services
Prior to leading professional services at GoSecure, Mr. Rochette built and led the company’s Advisory team where he managed the delivery of a variety of assessments, audits and security architecture design projects. He started his career as a security analyst having performed a multitude of security solution implementations for private and public sector organizations.
Mr. Rochette holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Montreal’s Polytechnique University.
Tom Ross, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Mr. Ross has a diploma in Computing Science from Algonquin College.
Thomas Wallace, Senior Vice President of Engineering
Prior to joining GoSecure, Mr. Wallace had a long career at IBM, most recently as the Global Engineering lead and CIO of the Managed Security Services business. His wide-ranging accomplishments include building the industry’s first 24×7 Managed Security Services Provider Security Operations Center as well as scaling an engineering team from six to 200 people across four continents.