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Optiv Security Announces Key Executive Appointments Aligned to Global Services Expansion and Business Growth StrategyOptiv Security, the world's leading security solutions integrator, today announced it has named Chad Holmes as chief services and operations officer and Nate Brady as chief financial officer, two key appointments that support the company's global services expansion and business growth strategy. In this newly created role, Holmes is focused on further evolving Optiv's services offerings to enable clients around the world to better address risk across the entire business continuum - from third parties, to back office, straight through to front line employees. Brady is responsible for overseeing all financial aspects of the company, including its ongoing investment in expanding operations and presence across North America and Europe. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180612006022/en/ Chad Holmes, Optiv's chief services and operations officer. (Photo: Business Wire) "Since the emergence of the internet, many public and private entities across the globe have taken a reactive approach to cyber security, buying technologies based on the latest trends and vulnerabilities rather than investing in the right people, processes and technologies to balance security and business needs," said Dan Burns, Optiv's chief executive officer. "Optiv is committed to helping clients find a clear path out of the cyber security whirlwind by enabling them to optimize and rationalize their current investments, and allowing them to build sustainable risk-centric foundations for implementing proactive and measurable security. "Leveraging Chad's successes building and running world-class services organizations will allow our company to help even more clients achieve comprehensive, integrated cyber security programs that are radically simpler and stronger. I am very happy to welcome Chad to Optiv, and excited to work more closely with Nate as our company continues its next phase of growth, global expansion and industry leadership." Holmes brings to Optiv more than two decades of cyber security experience. He was most recently the managing partner/principal and chief strategy, technology and innovation officer for the cyber security practice of Ernst & Young LLP (EY), where he drove the technology, innovation, and overall strategy, for the global cyber security practice spanning 150 countries. Prior to EY, Holmes served as chief techology and intelligence officer for FireEye/Mandiant. During his career, Holmes has also held senior technical executive positions at McAfee, Check Point, and Intel (News - Alert). He currently operates The Holmes Research Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to academic research related to information technology, cyber security, and medical advancements. Brady has 20 years of accounting, management and leadership experience. He most recently served as Optiv's chief accounting officer, where he oversaw the company's financial organization and provided insightful business analysis and intelligence to Optiv's executives and board. Brady has held a number of other executive financial positions in the cyber security, software and transportation industries. Brady began his financial career with Ernst & Young LLP, where he worked with a mix of public, international and private-equity owned companies. He is a certified public accountant and Pittsburg State University varsity football letterman. Supporting Quotes:
"I am thrilled to be part of such a comprehensive and growing
organization, and very excited to have the agility in market to help
clients address important and rapidly evolving topics such as risk,
resiliency and digital transformation, among others."
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