LEADERSHIP

Ritu Gill

PRESIDENT

Cynthia Hetherington

CEO & FOUNDER

Bret Anderson

OPERATIONS

BOARD OF ADVISORS

Amber Schroader

Chris Brenner

Arno Reuser

Team Arrow

Tony Daly

Jason Jones

ADVISORY COMMITTEES

CERTIFICATION

Lead by Will Mechler

MEMBERSHIP ENGAGMENT

Lead by Margarita Giron

AMBER SCHROADER

CEO, Paraben Corporation

Throughout the past two decades Ms Schroader has been a driving force for innovation in digital forensics. Ms. Schroader has developed over two-dozen software programs designed for the purposes of recovering digital data from mobile phones, computer hard drives, email, and live monitoring services. Ms. Schroader has taught and designed the established protocols for the seizure and processing of digital evidence that have been used by numerous organizations throughout the world. Ms. Schroader has coined the concept of the “360-degree approach to digital forensics” as well as started the momentum and push to the “Forensics of Everything-FoE” with her focus to unique problems in digital evidence and solutions. Ms. Schroader has been a huge industry influence in pushing for a big-picture consideration of the digital evidence and the acquisition process and analysis techniques used. An accomplished curriculum developer and instructor; Ms. Schroader has written and taught numerous classes for this specialized field as well as founded multiple certifications. Ms. Schroader continues support through book contributions and other industry speaking engagements.

Chris

CHRIS BRENNER

Associate Managing Director + Director of Technology, 221B Partners

Chris is Associate Managing Director + Director of Technology for 221B Partners, a boutique investigations firm in Chicago. He has over 15 years of experience helping organizations identify risks, threats, and vulnerabilities that may impact their assets, people, or reputations. He has provided investigative and OSINT support for thousands of due diligence investigations, complex investigations, threat investigations, and security assessments for Fortune 500 companies, private equity, faith-based and non-profit organizations, government entities, academic institutions, private clients, and family offices. He has been a featured speaker for OSMOSIScon, the Defense Personnel and Security Research Center/National Insider Threat Task Force, the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM), and the SANS Institute. Chris holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Law Enforcement and Justice Administration from Western Illinois University and is OSMOSIS Institute Open-Source Certified (OSC).

ARNO REUSER

Owner, Reuser’s Information Services

Arno H.P. Reuser is an information professional, founder, manager (ret.) of the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) branch of the Defense Intelligence and Security Service of The Netherlands, and founder and owner of Reuser’s Information Services (2008-present). From 1990 onwards, Arno from the ground up designed and managed the OSINT capability by designing and developing what came to be known as Arno’s OSINT Methodology of systematic, planned and structured research in open sources. It was one of the very first OSINT branches in Europe.

In 2008, Arno founded Reuser’s Information Services to meet the increasing demand for worldwide talks, presentations, consultancy, workshops and training programs on OSINT, cybersecurity, and SOCMINT. In 2013, Arno resigned from the service to devote his time to his company.

Today, Arno teaches OSINT to a wide variety of customers home and abroad, universities, EU/UN/NATO missions, law enforcement, private sector, (semi) government and academia. Arno speaks at conferences, lectures, writes articles, book chapters, participates in radio interviews, runs several websites, podcasts and conducts OSINT research. Arno was awarded a Golden Candle Award and a Lifetime Award for his work.

MICHAL BLOCK

Director of Intelligence, Skull Games

After an amazing career as an Intelligence Operator in the Canadian Armed Forces, Michal retired to Israel to live out her days in the warmth of the Mediterranean Sea mastering Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Contrary to her plans, after six years she was offered the opportunity to help build a counter-sex trafficking, OSINT crowd-sourcing initiative in the United States. She accepted the challenge, failed retirement, and left her beloved land. Thankfully, this initiative grew into what’s now known as Skull Games, an organization that includes some of the best, brightest, and most dangerous OSINTers to exist. Sometimes, failure is a good thing.

TONY DALY

Managing Director of Seiber Ltd

Anthony is Managing Director of Seiber Ltd (www.seiber.co.uk), a U.K. based Information Security company who provide consultancy and training services to both the public and private sector in the United Kingdom and abroad. Seiber are authorised training partners for the delivery of ISACA, BCS, and NCSC Assured Training accredited courses.

He brings over 24 years’ experience from the Royal Navy where he specialised in Cyber Security, attaining the rate of Warrant Officer Class 1.

His deep, extensive and current operational experience makes him a highly-sought after trainer from clients who require practical training on current techniques in the Security Analysis, Information Security and OSINT fields.

Anthony is an accredited trainer for ISACA – CISM / CRISC / CISA , BCS – CISMP, PECB – ISO27001 Lead Auditor & NCSC Assured Training (Details available upon request) and has a plethora of experience in designing, developing and delivering cyber security educational programmes to a wide range of stakeholders ranging from junior employees all the way up to C-Suite level and is adept in training and learning needs analysis.

He has worked as part of the Ministry of Defence’s Incident Response Team and has carried out various roles in SOC environments & Governance, Risk & Compliance.

Previously, his Critical National Infrastructure course which he developed and taught to an international government client was featured as a flagship example of UK international capacity building within a major UK Government marketing campaign.

Anthony has also worked for a ‘Big Four’ consultancy in Risk Management and a global IT Services Organisation where he played a key role in getting their UK SOC deployed and operational.

Anthony holds a 1st class honours degree in Intelligence & Security specialising in Forensics and Malware alongside a Politics honours degree from The Open University.

JASON JONES

President, Hetherington Group

Experienced executive with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Product Development, Operations Management, Intelligence, Analysis & Targeting, Strategic and Operational Planning, Command, and Counterterrorism. A strong business development professional.