Mary Ellen Seale, Founder

The National Cybersecurity Society

Mary Ellen Seale is a leader in national cybersecurity strategy and cyber operations – and has held several executive-level positions with the federal government. She retired with nearly 31 years of federal service and continues her public service by contributing to the cybersecurity needs of the small business community. As Founder and CEO of the National Cybersecurity Society, a national nonprofit organization, she is leading efforts to assist small businesses in obtaining needed cybersecurity protection capabilities and services.

Previously she was Deputy Director, Cybersecurity Coordination, Department Homeland Security, (DHS), Executive Director of Modernization, Federal Communications Commission, Deputy Director, National Cybersecurity Center/DHS, and Chief of Administrative Operations, DHS Headquarters. 

Ms. Seale received an undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia and a master of business administration (finance) from the American University and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional. 

Peter Levett, Chief of Staff

SecureCircle

Peter has 20+ years of experience in business technology globally with a strong background in storage and security. Prior to joining the executive team at SecureCircle, Peter was a storage leader at Amazon Web Services in North America assisting large-scale strategic customers to migrate and modernize workloads to take advantage of public cloud scalability and economics. Peter has broad experience with customers working in many verticals and in recent years has been focused on understanding challenges customers face when leveraging new technology approaches to solve business problems.

Phil Bandy, Chief Information Security Officer

ShareVault 

Phil leads information security at ShareVault, including establishing security standards and controls, guiding the implementation of security technologies, and managing the establishment and implementation of security policies and procedures. Phil is a certified information systems security professional (CISSP) with 30+ years of experience in information security with companies such as NASA, SRI, Experian, Universal Studios, and LAM Research. He has a BA from UT Austin and an MA from Texas Tech University. 

Mike Liccardo , VP of Corporate Development & Chief  Financial Officer

ShareVault 

Mike leads financial planning and reporting, as well as corporate development. He is a senior executive with a background in storage/servers, semiconductors, networking, and multimedia.

Previously, Mike was CEO of Amnis Systems, VP and GM of Cirrus Logic, and CEO of Lexar Media. He has an MBA from Stanford University and B.S.E.E. & M.S.E.E. degrees from UC Berkeley.