Dan is Director of Cisco’s CISO Advisors team in the Americas.

He has nearly 30 years of experience in technology, cybersecurity, and business development. He rejoined Cisco in 2020 to build a CISO Advisory program from the ground up. Dan recruited former Fortune 100 and Federal CISOs to his team with a mission focus of elevating Cisco’s relevance in the executive security community. Outside of hundreds of direct CISO engagements, Dan is the architect of an intensive internal training program using real CISOs for roleplays and a pioneering leadership development program focused on building the next generation of CISOs.

Dan started his technology career as a Chief Technology Officer of two Midwest-based Internet Service Providers where his responsibilities ranged from building carrier-class data centers serving tens of thousands of customers to partnering with the United States Secret Service on a financial crimes task force. It was in this crucible that Dan’s operational experience with cybersecurity was forged.

During his tenure at Cisco and other cybersecurity organizations, he has formed deep and lasting ties with numerous CISOs and other senior security executives.

Dan is on the Advisory Council of the Security Advisor Alliance (SAA) and is a member of FIRST.ORG. He works extensively with organizations like the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) and various Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) including Health, Retail & Hospitality, ACTRAAZ.ORG and the Northeast Ohio Cyber Consortium.

Dan is passionate about cyber workforce development and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion through his work with the SAA, Cisco’s Women in Cyber program and the leadership development programs he launched which are now a pillar of a number of the aforementioned ISAC communities.

Dan has maintained his CISSP certification through various activities and training since 2007.