Management

Security Innovation is guided by professionals who are heralded pioneers, expert practitioners and seasoned veterans in the software security and quality industry.

EDWARD A. ADAMS - President & CEO

Ed Adams is a seasoned software executive with successful leadership experience in various-sized organizations that serve the IT security and quality assurance industries.

As CEO, Mr. Adams applies his information security and business skills, as well as his pervasive industry experience in the Application Quality space, to direct software security experts in helping organizations understand the risks in their software systems and developing programs to mitigate those risks. His organization has delivered high-quality risk solutions to the most recognizable companies in the world including Microsoft, IBM, Visa, Fedex, ING, Sony, Symantec, Nationwide and HP.

Mr. Adams is the founder and business owner of the Application Security Industry Consortium, Inc., an association of industry technologists and leaders establishing and defining cross-industry application security guidance and metrics. He is on the board of the National Association of Information Security Groups (NAISG).

No stranger to the podium, Mr. Adams has presented to thousands at numerous seminars, software industry conferences, and private companies. He has contributed written and oral commentary for business and technology media outlets such as New England Cable News, CSO Magazine, SC Magazine, CIO Update, Investors Business Daily, Optimize and CFO Magazine. Mr. Adams is in the process of writing a book titled “Information Security Management: Survival Guide”, which will be published by Wiley & Sons and is due out in November 2008. He also maintains a blog with CSO Magazine and is a columnist for CIO Update.

Topics of interest on which Mr. Adams has spoken:

• Considering IT security from a contextual standpoint; What security means to [my] business
• Assessing risks and vulnerabilities in an enterprise
• Marrying security with risk management frameworks
• Integrating security into the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Creating a security-aware organization: effective techniques for training and awareness programs
• Measuring/assessing security investments
• Understanding the leadership, staffing and ownership of security in an organization

Mr. Adams earned his MBA degree with honors from Boston College and has B.A. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and English Literature from the University of Massachusetts.
 

FLORENCE MOTTAY - Managing Director, EMEA

Ms. 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. Leveraging her pervasive technical and operational experience, Ms. Mottay often serves as a primary point of contact with customers, where she assesses their principal security concerns and ensures the Product and Services teams devise an operative plan designed to meet and exceed their stated objectives.

As a leader in the organization, Ms. Mottay is tasked with maintaining a pulse on key software security business and technical drivers. She uses this knowledge to continuously refine Security Innovation’s processes and solutions to ensure they address the real challenges of IT security.  Ms. Mottay was the visionary behind TeamMentor, 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. Her specialty areas include:

• Threat Modeling for the Enterprise. Through years of tight interaction with customers, Ms. Mottay has amassed an understanding of the wide array of software environments and threats our clients face. Subsequently, she played a key role in the development of the company’s Threat Modeling offering that allows organizations to better understand imminent threats to their software systems and enterprise and prioritize remediation efforts accordingly.

   

• Customized Enterprise Security Solutions. Our customers are often faced with unique challenges and in need of customized business solutions. Ms. Mottay successfully created flexible programs that enable Security Innovation to respond to these needs in a timely and effective manner.  She created a flexible training program platform that allows clients to customize training courses specific to key stakeholders as well as underlying technology and processes.   She also devised adaptable processes and methodologies that allow organizations to seamlessly integrate security at all phases of their development lifecycle.

Prior to joining Security Innovation, Ms. Mottay served as Software Test Engineer for J.D. Edwards. She was also Project Leader at the Center for Software Engineering Research at the Florida Institute of Technology where she worked with Dr. Whittaker, the founder of Security Innovation and world-renowned expert in application security.

Ms. Mottay earned a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and an M.S. in Software Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology.

NICK ALLEN - Vice President of Marketing

Nick Allen has more than 15 years of experience in high-tech marketing. He has managed multi-million dollar marketing budgets, with responsibility for strategic marketing activities that have delivered rapid customer adoption and revenue acceleration. Nick recently ran marketing for Klocwork, a prominent software development tools vendor. Previously, he held positions at Swingtide, Bowstreet (now part of IBM), and Forrester Research, a leading technology industry market research and consulting firm. He received his B.A. from Colgate University.

JASON TAYLOR - Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Taylor leads the strategic direction for all technology initiatives and manages world-class development teams for the company's product lines.   He has spent his career focused on application development and testing with a primary focus on application security. His unrivaled understanding of application behavior provided the impetus for Security Innovation’s industry pioneering fault injection tool, Holodeck Enterprise Edition, and critical enhancements to the company’s internal testing and development tools. Mr. Taylor was the visionary and designer of the Company’s “Creating Secure Code” methodology and course which has been taught to several of the world's largest technology organizations.

Prior to joining Security Innovation, Mr. Taylor served as test architect, security lead and development manager at Microsoft for various releases of Internet Explorer and Windows. He was the first member of the Internet Explorer security test team, and as the security team lead, he grew it from a solitary operation to the leading application security test team at Microsoft. Later, he built the Test Model Toolkit which became the standard model-based testing tool at Microsoft, winning a Best Practice Award along the way.

Mr. Taylor is an external reviewer, contributor and primary author for Microsoft patterns & practices security guidance. He has  published several whitepapers including “Web Services Risk Assessment and Recommendations” and  “Security Threats: Risks, Protection & Limitations" for CIO Update. He is co-author of "Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server"  and “Improving Web Services Security” with J.D. Meier of Microsoft. Mr. Taylor received his C.S. degree from Montana State University.
 

DAVE CURRAN - Vice President of Worldwide Channel Sales

David Curran has been named as Vice President of Worldwide Channel Sales. Curran brings more than fifteen years of international sales, management and business development experience to Security Innovation. He will be working to develop an international reseller presence for Security Innovation. Previously, Curran served as Vice President Sales EMEA for Ultimus, Inc., where he grew the company into one of the leading business process management vendors in the region.

 

PETER JENNEY - Vice President of Products

Mr. Jenney brings more than 20 years of high-tech experience to Security Innovation where he leads all product management and strategic vision for the firms cutting edge security testing and guidance products.  He works closely with Security Innovation's senior management, engineering and business development teams, as well as the company’s business partners to identify new opportunities that will further diversify the Company’s product portfolio and penetrate the security market.

Prior to joining Security Innovation as a full-time employee, Mr. Jenney worked with the Company as a consultant on product planning and development for Holodeck and other internal service tools. Previously, Mr. Jenney served as director of product management & strategy at such companies as Rational Software, Dataware, Ipswitch and Legato, where he successfully rolled out world-class products and managed technology relationships with industry leaders such as Cisco, IBM and Microsoft. Mr. Jenney received his B.A. degree from the University of Massachusetts.
 

STEPHANIE AZNOIAN - Vice President of Finance and Accounting

Ms. Aznoian joined Security Innovation in 2005, taking the financial reins of a growing company with an international presence and complex accounting and finance needs. She has managed all facets of company finances, from real estate to tax planning, from contract negotiation and administration to Human Resources and audit performance.

Prior to joining Security Innovation, Ms. Aznoian held positions at Wellesley Companies, Inc., LION Bioscience Research, Inc., and The Timberland Company. Aside from her professional accomplishments, Ms. Aznoian is very active in the her community, teaching Accounting in an adult education program, serving on the boards of a number of charitable organizations and acting as Treasurer for professional organizations.

Ms. Aznoian earned her BS in Accounting from Bentley College, and her Masters Degree in Taxation with distinguished honors from Northeastern University.