Senior Management
John Wyatt, President/CEO
John Wyatt is a 25-year veteran of the technical and business consulting industry. He has an impressive career of increasing results in profit performance, process reinvention and innovation in technology, including a string of successes going back to the late 1980s and early 1990s as CEO of James Martin & Co. There, he transformed the company from a boutique methods consulting firm in North America to an innovative global solutions company in 18 countries with 800 staff and revenue of $100M.
John was also CEO of Ariel Research Corp., a services firm dedicated to safe & responsible handling, manufacture and transport of chemicals throughout the world, and CEO of OneSoft Corporation, an e-business software platform provider.
At Cigital, John is responsible for the business strategy and plan, and overall financial and operational management.
Gary McGraw, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer
Gary is a globally recognized authority on software security and the author of six best selling books on this topic. The latest, Exploiting Online Games was released in 2007. His other titles include Java Security, Building Secure Software, Exploiting Software, and Software Security; and he is editor of the Addison-Wesley Software Security series. Gary has also written over 90 peer-reviewed scientific publications, authors a monthly security column for informIT, and is frequently quoted in the press. Besides serving as a strategic counselor for top business and IT executives, Gary is on the Advisory Boards of Fortify Software and Raven White. His dual PhD is in Cognitive Science and Computer Science from Indiana University where he serves on the Dean's Advisory Council for the School of Informatics. Gary is an IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors member and produces the monthly Silver Bullet Security Podcast for IEEE Security & Privacy magazine.
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Stuart Dross, Vice President, Sales
Stuart brings over 17 years of technology sales and market development experience to Cigital. Throughout his career Stuart has successfully demonstrated an ability to identify and grow very profitable niche markets leveraging existing capabilities in unique ways. Prior to joining Cigital Stuart spent 6 years, as the director of sales, turning an internal division of Imation (NYSE:IMN)/DecisionOne into an outsourcing services provider with annual revenues in excess of $40 million and EBITA of 20%. Over a 5 year period as the OEM sales Manager of Seiko Instruments USA, Stuart helped convert a stagnate direct sales organization into a Multi-million dollar OEM division. Stuart has also held sales and management positions with TARGUSinfo, Praxisoft and ColorSource. Stuart earned his Bachelors degree from the University of South Florida and his MBA from University of Maryland University College.
Drew Kilbourne, Managing Principal
Drew brings over 20 years of software development and technology leadership to Cigital. Formerly, Drew was Chief Technology Officer at Provox Technologies, where he was responsible for software development, professional services and customer support. Previously, he was Vice President of Strategic Technology Initiatives at AvalonBay Communities, Inc., a $5.5 billion Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) in the business of developing, redeveloping, acquiring and managing luxury apartment communities. Prior to joining AvalonBay, Drew was Chief Technology Officer for IXI Corporation, a leading purveyor of market analysis data to the financial services industry. Drew has also held senior positions with Oracle Corporation, where he led the global financial services e-banking consulting practice, and TELE-TV, where he was responsible for developing consumer products in interactive television. Drew earned a B.A. in Computer Science from East Carolina University, and is a certified TQM facilitator through Qualtec Consultants, a subsidiary of the first US Corporation to have won the prestigious Deming Prize for excellence in total quality management.
Brian Mizelle, Managing Principal
Brian brings 20 years of full life-cycle software development experience and leadership to Cigital. As a Managing Principal, he is responsible for working with our clients as a trusted advisor to help them achieve business and technical goals and objectives around software security, testing and development. His experience has led him to work across various markets to include Financial, Healthcare, Retail, Utilities, Telecommunications and Embedded Systems. At Cigital he has overseen multiple full scale Software Security assessments, Test Process Improvement (TPI) assessments, Software Development Life Cycle improvement assessments, and large scale Software Development implementations. Prior to Cigital, Brian was the Vice President of Software Development at BNX Systems (acquired by Citigroup) where he was responsible for the overall development and quality of identity management and single sign-on solutions for the global market. As part of his tenure at BNX, he played a leadership role for one of the world's largest biometric technology deployments at a Fortune 10 bank. Additionally Brian has held technical leadership and staff positions at Landmark Systems (Performance Management of operating systems, databases and websites), MAXM Systems (Systems Management solutions), AT&T (Billing solutions) and EDS (Telecommunications consulting). Brian earned his B.B.A. in Computer Information Systems and Economics from James Madison University and is a graduate of the AFCEA Leadership program.
Florence Mottay, Managing Principal
Florence Mottay is a seasoned Business Manager and adept Security Expert. She is responsible for the long-term growth, stability, market leadership, and client satisfaction of the company's EMEA operations. At her former company, Security Innovation, she was the visionary behind Team Mentor, the company's first-of-a-kind software security knowledge management system that guides software development and test teams through the process of consistently developing secure applications. Other areas of expertise include Threat Modeling for the Enterprise and Customized Enterprise Security Solutions. Previously, Florence was a Software Test Engineer for JD Edwards. She was also a Project Leader at the Center for Software Engineering Research at the Florida Institute of Technology where she worked for Dr. Whittaker, the founder of Security Innovation. Florence has a BS in Applied Mathematics and an MS in Software Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology.
John Reilly, Managing Principal
John Reilly brings over 20 years of technology leadership experience to his role at Cigital. John has an impressive career of developing professional services practices, building large-scale systems, and hiring and developing teams of technology personnel. John has been CTO at several firms including the Interactive division of Chelsea Property Group, a $3.5 billion REIT. He started and grew a $20M/year professional services practice as Managing Director at Proxicom and led the development of key systems for the former Bell Atlantic's interactive television platform. John is responsible for the Northeast region, living just outside New York City in Mountain Lakes, NJ. John has his M.S. from George Washington University and his B.S. from Boston College.
Rajiv Sinha, Managing Principal
Rajiv brings over a decade of operational experience to Cigital. Prior to Cigital, at PricewaterhouseCoopers, he championed an array of capabilities from enterprise risk, data security and privacy strategy, and IT governance to business risk management for Fortune 100 companies globally. Prior to PricewaterhouseCoopers, he championed the operationalization of policies, processes and best practices in software crisis management, security testing and defensive programming for Oracle Corporation globally. Resident in San Francisco Bay Area, California, Rajiv holds an MS and BE in Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.
John Steven, Senior Director, Advanced Technology Consulting
John brings to this newly-created division of the company both depth and breadth in software security. His experience includes research in static code analysis and hands-on architecture and implementation of high-performance, scalable Java EE systems. John has provided security consulting services to a broad variety of commercial clients including two of the largest trading platforms in the world and has advised America's largest internet provider in the Midwest on security and forensics. John led the development of Cigital's architectural analysis methodology and its approach to deploying enterprise software security frameworks. He has demonstrated success in building Cigital's intellectual property for providing cutting-edge security. He brings this experience and a track record of effective strategic innovation to clients seeking to change, whether to adopt more cutting-edge approaches, or to solidify ROI. John currently chairs the SD Best Practices security track and co-edits the building security in department of IEEE's Security and Privacy magazine. John has served on numerous conference panels regarding software security, wireless security and Java EE system development. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University.
