Plurilock Security Inc. (TSX-V:PLUR) has announced the addition of Patrick Gorman to the company’s advisory board.
“We are pleased to welcome Mr. Gorman, a seasoned veteran, to Plurilock’s Advisory Board,” Ian L. Paterson, CEO of Plurilock said in a statement. “Given his extensive experience and successful track record in technology risk management and cybersecurity, he will provide us with expert guidance in growing our operations within both the public and private sector.”
Gorman has over 35 years of strategy, product development and risk management experience and was most recently an executive vice-president with Booz Allen Hamilton, the company said.
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He also served as the head of strategy and product at CyberGRX, a Cyber Third Party Risk Management company. Before joining CyberGRX, he was the chief security officer (CSO) for Bridgewater Associates, where he was in charge of cyber, physical, and staff security for the world’s largest hedge fund.
Gorman has a distinguished history in government, including holding the position of Asst. Director of National Intelligence and Chief Information Officer for the US Intelligence Community where he was responsible for IT transformation and cybersecurity for all national intelligence agencies in the US, it added.
He holds degrees in government and economics from the University of Maryland, a Master of Arts in Russian and Eastern European Studies from George Washington University, an executive program in Business Strategy at Harvard Business School, and is a graduate of the Defense Language Institute (Russian and Serbo-Croatian). He sits on numerous boards of firms focused on cybersecurity and privacy.
Plurilock said it has granted Gorman an option to acquire 150,000 common shares with an exercise price of C$0.20 per share, for five years. The options vest over a four-year period.
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