Pete has 32 years of Security, Network, and MSSP experience and has been a hands on CISO for the last 17 years and recently joined Check Point as Field CISO of the Americas. Pete’s recent experience and leadership was at Cybraics Defense as CISO. This company developed an advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Analytics platform that was born as a DARPA funded project. Pete is the former CISO of Hertz Global, successfully protecting the brand in over 150 countries, 20,000 employees and 10,000 locations. At Virtustream’s (now a Dell company) pete led efforts to achieve FedRAMP and NIST 800-53 certification in record time and hosted dozens of US Federal Agencies on its most secure cloud hosting design. Pete started the MSSP, security consulting, Penetration Testing /Vulnerability Testing Teams as VP of Security engineering at Terremark and successfully guided these services migration in the Verizon purchase and then managed portions of the MSSP business. Pete has been a local South Florida trailblazer for many years, starting a wireless ISP, a network engineering company and an award winning CRM-telephony Integration Company.

Pete is a founder, leader and member of numerous security groups including the ISSA, ISACA, US Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force, the FBI Infragard, and the Cloud Security Alliance and is a Board Member and Board Advisor. In 2017, Pete was honored to be selected as a “Top 100 Global Chief Security Officers.” Pete’s cloud security deployments and designs have been rated by Garter as #1 and #2 in the world and he literally “wrote the book” and contributed to secure cloud reference designs as published in Intel Press: “Building the Infrastructure for Cloud Security: A Solutions View.”