Strategic Advisory Board
Crossroads' Strategic Advisory Board is comprised of premier business and technology leaders that bring in-depth industry expertise and knowledge to the company. The group was created and announced in February 2006 as an invaluable resource to provide Crossroads with critical insight, which will help shape business and product developments. Crossroads’ Strategic Advisory Board will help the company meet emerging customer requirements across all of its products lines—storage routing devices, SurePath and StrongBox®. The initial focus for the Strategic Advisory Board will be business information assurance topics including information security, data privacy, business continuity, disaster recovery, corporate governance and regulatory compliance.
Members of Crossroads Strategic Advisory Board include:
Ann Cohen Cohen is an executive business consultant with more than 25 years of experience. During her tenure at EDS, she served as the Vice President of several business units, generating in excess of $4B. Cohen was named to the "Federal 100,” which honors the top information technology executives from government and industry. She was the acting Executive Director of United States-Israel Science and Technology Commission. She is now the CEO of Ann Cohen & Associates and Philanthropic Solutions.
Andrew Heller Heller brings more than 30 years of leadership to the Strategic Advisory Board. He was a member of the IBM Executive Committee on Technology and the Executive Technical Review Board. He was a consulting partner for renowned venture capital firm, Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield and Byers. Heller was also Chairman and CEO of HAL Computer Systems, Chairman of Smart Technologies and Chairman and CEO of Clearcube. He currently runs the consulting firm of Heller Associates and is acting CEO of NexQl, Inc.
Rhonda MacLean MacLean is an information security leader who was the CISO for Bank of America and responsible for information security at The Boeing Company. In 2002, MacLean was appointed as the chairperson of the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security by the Secretary of Treasury. Additionally, in December 2003, she was named as one of the 50 most powerful people in the network industry by Network World Magazine. MacLean is now the CEO of MacLean Risk Partners, LLC, and is Distinguished Senior Fellow at Carnegie Mellon’s CyLab.
Carolyn Purcell Purcell is an executive consultant with the Internet Business solutions Group, Public Sector at Cisco. In 2000, Purcell was named among "The Most Powerful Texans in High Tech" by Texas Monthly biz and served nine years as the CIO for the state of Texas where she was responsible for information security across the enterprise. Carolyn Purcell is now the Founder and CEO of Purcell Ventures.
John Stenbit Stenbit is an information assurance executive and veteran. During his career, he was as the Assistant Secretary of Defense (C3I, Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence) and as the Chief Information Officer at the US Department of Defense, Pentagon. Additionally, Stenbit represented the United States at NATO on issues relating to communications and Information Assurance.
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