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Thomas is currently the co-founder and CEO of NetRise, a cybersecurity company focusing on protecting firmware across complex environments. Prior to NetRise, Thomas served as the Global Vice President of Enterprise Solutions at Cylance (now BlackBerry) where his responsibilities ranged from conducting incident response investigations to product marketing, public speaking, and analyst relations.

Thomas was also responsible for ICS security at the Department Of Energy in 2013. As veteran of the United States Marine Corps, Thomas served in both Iraq and Afghanistan from 2004 - 2008. Thomas has spoken at numerous security conferences including Black Hat and RSA, and was recently interviewed on 60 Minutes for his efforts related to ransomware.

As CTO & Chief Architect of NetRise Mike is responsible for creating and implementing the technical strategy and ensuring the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. Michael started his career in the Marine Corps, where he served nine years with two deployments to Afghanistan, in a variety of roles ranging from five years in Special Operations to four years in the Cyber Warfare Group in Maryland.

Most recently, Michael served as both the Director of Endpoint Detection and Response and Senior Software Developer at Tanium where he created and researched detection and response solutions used to aid in combating malicious cyber activity as well as prototyped some of the first ML capabilities at Tanium.