Leadership Team at Fortified

William, a retired Navy veteran, has 27 years of Information Security experience, including 17 in healthcare. He has led the successful execution of cybersecurity strategies and tactics for healthcare organizations, including leading the ISRM team at HCA Healthcare and serving as CISO at MEDHOST.

Russell’s three decades in Infosec span Healthcare, Pharma, Financial, & Tech sectors. A U.S. Army Intelligence veteran and former CSO/CTO at cybersecurity firms such as Mandiant, CyberTrust, & IBM, he’s also contributed his expertise to the White House National Cybersecurity Healthcare Strategy.

Greg brings three decades of financial leadership to Fortified, including serving as fractional and full-time CFO for cybersecurity and healthcare companies such as Avertium, Valera Health, and eMedApps.

Julia brings more than 19 years of experience to her role, 8 of which have been in healthcare cybersecurity. Throughout her career, she’s held key roles in sales, marketing, product management, global channel distribution, business development, and operations at organizations including Ingersoll Rand and Dentsply Sirona. 

Preston brings 16 years of IT/security expertise, spanning threat & vulnerability management, security engineering, security program development, digital forensics, and SOC. Previous roles include engineering/architecture at Community Health Systems & Information Security Officer at RCCH Health.

Mark has a proven record of leading healthcare cybersecurity strategy. He joined Fortified through the acquisition of Latitude, the healthcare-focused cybersecurity firm he founded. Previously, he served as EVP at a cybersecurity consultancy, CISO at a software development and consulting company, and an officer in the U.S. Air Force.

Spencer’s IT engineering and security career began 16 years ago at Apple. Since then, he’s applied his engineering, architecture, and platform development expertise in fields ranging from network engineering in the United States Marine Corps to healthcare as a security engineer at MEDHOST.

With 27 years of leadership experience, Craig’s focus is security across the entire Software Engineering realm. He’s advanced strategic initiatives to drive growth and innovation within multiple healthcare companies, including Medhost, Softserve, West, and FLEETCOR. Key technical areas include Data, Analytics, AI/ML, Cloud Architecture, DevOps, and SDLC. 

Summer brings 8 years of experience in Revenue Operations, Sales, and Client Success to Fortified. Her role involves optimizing sales processes, maximizing lead generation efforts, overseeing Fortified’s partnership program, and aligning business operations.

T.J. Ramsey is an IT security professional with 18 years of experience in healthcare and defense intelligence. He served as a U.S. Army Military Intelligence Analyst for the Department of Defense and held security roles at Obsidian Solutions Group and SAIC/Leidos.

Jake has 5+ years in Infosec and cybersecurity, including 3 years at Community Health Systems. His career has been dedicated to supporting healthcare environments, most recently focusing his operational and technical experience on overseeing the strategic operations of Fortified’s SOC Center.

Over his 16 years in healthcare information security, Don has developed and directed cybersecurity awareness & training programs, security strategic planning, IR programs, risk analysis, and business impact assessments. He possesses the SACP, GISP, GSTRT, GCCC, and CISSP certifications.

Over her 20 years in healthcare information security compliance, Melissa’s experience includes auditing and consulting within major healthcare organizations and individual healthcare entities such as HCA Healthcare, Ascension, and Community Health Systems.

Scott brings over 13 years of experience in IT audit, cybersecurity, and privacy risk management across healthcare, financial services, government, and technology industries. Today he leads the team conducting enterprise cybersecurity, privacy, and cloud security assessments aligned to leading frameworks.

Tamra is an accomplished CISO with more than 25 years in information security, compliance, regulatory risk, strategy, innovation, and technology transformation. For the past 8 years, she’s specialized in healthcare cybersecurity and building risk-based medical device information security programs.

Jason’s 25 years in cybersecurity, IT, and information security spans the healthcare, tech, manufacturing, and for the past 19 years, healthcare sectors. He’s held pivotal leadership roles at several hospitals and at Cerner, including CIO, CISO, Program Director, and Director of Operations.

Deanna brings more than 25+ years in healthcare and healthcare technology to her Controller role at Fortified. Throughout her career, she has held key financial leadership roles with Currie Medical Specialties, Qualifacts, and Spheris (now 3M HIS).