Pete Herzog
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As Managing Director, Pete is the co-founder of ISECOM and is directly involved in all ISECOM projects.  His main objective is for ISECOM to assure truth in security application and deployment.  Pete focuses on scientific, methodical testing for controlling the quality of security, countermeasures, access controls, and business integrity.  In addition to managing ISECOM, Pete teaches the Masters for Security at La Salle University in Barcelona which accredits the OPST and OPSA training courses and Business Information Security in the MBA program from ESADE which is the foundation of the OPSA. Other than security, Pete reads a lot.  He reads pretty much everything he can get his hands on and most often is seen with a book, a magazine, and a pen for marking them up.

Marta Barceló
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Marta is the co-founder of ISECOM, and is responsible for ISECOM business operations.  She maintains the media presence of all ISECOM projects, provides technical server administration for the websites and runs  ISECOM's advertising campaigns. She attended Mannheim University of Applied Sciences in Germany and graduated with a Masters in Computer Science. In addition to running ISECOM, Marta has a strong passion for the arts, especially photography and graphic design, and her first degree is in music from Conservatori del Liceu in Barcelona. Marta had worked in mainstream IT corporations before settling down with ISECOM.

Nicolas Mayencourt

Nicolas Mayencourt has 20 years of professional experience in Information Technology and 15 years in Information Security Practice. He is an experienced and recognised practitioner, with a comprehensive knowledge of Information Security both technically as well as business-orientated. He is the founder and CEO of Dreamlab Technologies Ltd, a Switzerland-based company specializing in Open Standard IT.  As senior consultant Nicolas Mayencourt has played a variety of security-related roles, including Technical Direction of Corporate Security Management and Controlling Frameworks, Supervision of Security Competence Centers of Major International Companies as well as Coaching of SOX and BS7799 Compliance Projects. Within ISECOM he is responsible for Business Development and Academic Alliances. He launched the OPST and OPSA courses at Universities in Switzerland and regularly promotes the OSSTMM at Major European Security Conferences.

Raoul "Nobody"  Chiesa
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Co-founder and C.T.O. of @ Mediaservice.net   - a vendor-independent and "on-the-edge" security consulting firm based in Torino, Italy -  Raoul Chiesa hangs out with IT security since 1986, being for more than a decade one of the most worldwide-known hackers on the X.25 and IP networks. Nobody describes himself now as an ethical hacker and he seriously works for the promotion of the genuine hacker's philosophy and the Open Source visions, helping with his knowledge in the development of security solutions and culture  - both on the public and the private sector - worried for the national's and european infrastructures security flaws and exposures; back in 2002 Raoul brought the OSSTMM Professional Certifications to Italy, being the first private partner to believe in ISECOM's views. Raoul belongs to the Executive Board of CLUSIT  (Italian Security Association) for the 2001-2002 and 2003-2004 terms, and he's a referral member of the Telecom Security Task Force); he certified as OPST and OPSA trainer in December 2002. His contributions to the OSSTMM especially refers to the Communications section.

Richard Feist

Richard has been working in the computer industry since 1989 where he started as a programmer. He started Nyx Technologies in 1996 with the crazy vision of 'doing the job properly' and to this day continues to beat his head against an apparent brick wall. He currently holds various vendor certifications (CISSP, MCSE, CCNA, dah di dah...) and is in the process of doing a MSc in Information Security (to fill the 25'th hour every day). He certified as an OPST and OPSA trainer in 2003. Richard is always available for conversation and can be found at the keyboard if he isn't emmersed in 'another' book or out trying to kill himself in his latest outdoor activity.

Jaume Abella

Jaume Abella (Barcelona, 1970) is Electronic Engineer (La Salle, URL). He is Head of the Networking Section and Associate Professor in the field of Networking at La Salle Engineering School of the Ramon Llull University (URL), where he teaches Communication Networks, CCNA and CCNP certifications within the Networking Academy Program of CISCO Systems, and directs La Salle-URL's Master in Security. His research interests are security systems in computer networks and their improvement through artificial intelligence techniques, working within URL's research group of Intelligent Systems.

Kim Truett

Kim started tinkering with computers on an Apple II, where she discovered that if she coded in machine language she could sneak additional programming instructions into memory addresses that the Apple OS had reserved, but wasn't actually using. From there she has made a career out of programming computers with a focus on management of accurate, secure data warehouses. Today, she is Director of a global Data Management department, but she still does her own programming and still explores with what's "beyond the obvious" in her spare time.

Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee got his start into computers at an early age with his first computer being a VAX 11/780 running BSD UNIX. After entering the professional work force in 1992 he has built his career as a Business Survivability consultant with a focus on Security, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery. In 2003, Robert founded Dyad Security, Inc. in Newport Beach, CA. In 2006 he sold Dyad to Swedish based Outpost24 AB and now serves as their Chief Security Officer.

Robert is a regular face at security conferences world-wide and is always up for friendly engaging conversation. If you happen to bump into him at an upcoming show, be sure to say hi.

Christoph Baumgartner

Christoph is the founder and CEO of OneConsult GmbH, a Swiss-based, internationally operating, vendor-independent IT security consulting firm. OneConsult specializes in technical and organizational security audits, as well as strategic consulting, providing services for clients in all kinds of sectors. Christoph holds a Master's degree in Information Technology & Business Administration (University of Zurich) and is an OPST. He has been working as a security and strategy consultant since 1996 and has been applying and promoting the OSSTMM from 2002 onwards. Christoph is author of numerous articles in the specialist media and regularly delivers speeches at major IT security conferences. Based on OneConsult's wealth of experience with over 250 OSSTMM-compliant audits, he is a valuable contributor to the methodology from a practical and commercial perspective.
 

Dru Lavigne
Manager of the OPRP

Dru Lavigne entered the networking world in 1996 and soon discovered the joy of protocols, encapsulations, RFCs and penetration testing utilities. She now spends her working hours developing security curriculum and providing instruction in all manner of networking, routing, and security technologies. The rest of her time is spent experimenting with her network of FreeBSD systems. www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/15

Chris Griffin

I live in Indiana, USA. I have certifications for CISSP and CNDA. I have been in IT for 13 years and ITSEC professionally 5 years with much dabbling in the past. Currently working in a Government subcontractor environment as a Sr Security Analyst. While always trying to stay on top of all aspects of Information Security, lately I have been trying to learn more in Web Application Security. Im also considering going to college for a BS in INFOSEC.

Hernán Marcelo Racciatti

Hernán Marcelo Racciatti, is a collaborator of ISECOM in Argentina. System Analyst, Microsoft Certified Profesional and NSP (Network Security Program).
Hernán is an independent security researcher in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Nowadays he carries out as Systems and Technology chief in a Retail enterprise, leader in its business area. In his spare time, he works as security consultant, advising public and private companies, conducting controlled vulnerability tests and as orator in conferences related to his speciality. Along this last ten years he has worked actively in different areas related to computing and Communications. Colaborator in some of the ISECOM projects, GNU/AULA and diverse tecnical documents compiled for some publications of the computing underground. He can be contacted at:
 http://www.hernanracciatti.com.ar

Colby Clark
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Senior IT Security Professional
Colby Clark has many years of IT consulting and security experience. He has served Fortune 500 companies, law firms, financial institutions, educational institutions, telecommunications companies, and middle market organizations throughout North America. Projects include comprehensive security assessments, risk evaluations, incident response, and business continuity activities. Mr. Clark has also obtained numerous certifications from companies such as ISC2, ISECOM, Checkpoint, Cisco, and Microsoft including: CISSP, OPSA, CCSA, CCNP, CCNA, MCSE, MCP+I. Mr. Clark received an advanced degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California where he graduated Cum Laude and was the Vice President of the Student Consulting Association.

Thomas Bader

Thomas Bader is working at Dreamlab Technologies Ltd. as a trainer and solution architect. Since the early summer of 2007 he is in charge of the ISECOM courses throughout Switzerland. As an OSSTMM trainer he is also participating in the development of the OPSE certificate courses and the test network for the OPST courses.

As from the time when he first came into contact with Open Source software as a student preparing the federal certificate in computer sciences in 1997, he began specialising in network and security technologies. In the upcoming years he professionally works in that field and gains a lot of experience with different firms which occupy him as a consultant and also as a technician. Since 2001 Thomas Bader has worked on the development of the LPI training course which he teaches himself. Since 2006 he works for Dreamlab Technologies Ltd. who is the official ISECOM representative for Switzerland, France and Germany.

Manuel Krucker  

Manuel works as a Security Consultant for OneConsult, a Swiss-based, internationally operating, vendor-independent IT security consulting firm. His areas of expertise range from technical to conceptual security consulting with a special focus on penetration tests and application security audits. Manuel has always been interested in formal methods, cryptography and legal aspects of information technology. He graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich with a MSc in Computer Science and a specialization in information security. Thereafter he worked for a big Swiss insurance company where he was faced with the challenges of making security work on the employee level. Manuel is involved in the OSSTMM from a practical tester's perspective, which allows him to provide valuable input to the methodology.

Michael Menefee

Michael is the President& CEO of WireHead Security, a consulting firm in Raleigh, NC. He is also the Founder and President of Infosec Island, a free online information security community.

He has 15 years of direct Information Security consulting experience, working with clients in all verticals, markets and mentalities.

Michael is keenly interested in "Trust" and it's role in Operational
Security, regularly speaking on the topic and contributing to the Trust research for OSSTMM4 at ISECOM. Coincidentally, he is also fond of risk, having been married in Las Vegas, NV, gone sky-diving 12 times and fathering 2 sons with his wife.