Mobile Active Defense is made by Mobile Application Development Partners, a software development company headquartered in Atlanta, GA with offices in Mainz, Germany and London, England.
M.A. D. Partners, LLC has over 100 years combined experience in security hardware and software product design and development, marketing, sales and support. M.A.D. Partners’ mission is to create innovative, high quality and easy to use security solutions for smartphones, pads and tablets.
Officers
Spencer Cobb, CEO, Co-Founder
Spencer Cobb is an award winning strategic sales and marketing expert with over 15 years of successful experience providing Internet security and technology products and services to the Fortune 1000.
Mr. Cobb has held business development and strategy positions at multiple successful start ups and public companies: SecureIT, acquired by VeriSign in 1999, Air Defense, Inc. acquired by Motorola, Electronic Lifestyle Integration acquired by ANX Corp and Wave Systems Corporation (WAVX) working with global customers like AT&T, Earth Link, General Motors, Coca Cola and Home Depot.
Rob Smith, CTO, Co-FounderRob Smith brings over two decades of technology design, support and management experience to the company. He oversees daily operations of product design and development and sets the strategic direction of the company’s technology and engineering endeavors.
In his most recent role, before founding M.A.D. Partners, Mr. Smith was the Chief Executive Officer of MSS Security Services GmbH, one of the largest managed security services firms in Europe. Prior to MSS, Mr. Smith was the CEO for SNC Secure Networking Company AG which was Germany’s first dedicated managed services provider. While at SNC, Mr. Smith designed the industry’s first Unified Threat Management (UTM) device to protect consumers and small business from viruses, SPAM, Phishing attacks, and malicious hacking from the Internet. From this invention, Mr. Smith currently holds 7 patents.
In June 1998, Mr. Smith came on board as a product manager of VeriSign, Inc. During his time at the company, Mr. Smith designed several industry-first applications including the first ever reporting and diagnostic tools for Check Point firewalls. He also designed Go Secure!, a program that enables secure communications over the Internet by creating a Virtual Private Network (VPN), for both Cisco Systems and Check Point. In addition, he worked on several large-scale projects for such organizations as European Bank, Coca-Cola, AT&T, First Union and NASA.
Winn Schwartau, Chairman, Board of Directors
As a world-renowned author, lecturer, and information security architect, Winn Schwartau brings to this management team, a lifetime of achievement and notoriety that few senior executives can ever hope to match. His vast experience in start-up companies included the creation and successful sale of his own company, American Computer Security, Inc. (ACSI, Inc.), which produced the first hardware encryption device for PCs, in the late 1980s. Since then he has helped launch and has served on the boards of numerous highly successful information security companies.
Winn Schwartau thinks asymmetrically; some would say “Out of the Box”. If it’s originality in thought, writing, presentations or training, call Winn. He balances his time between writing, lecturing, teaching and building corporate and national security-awareness programs, as well as consulting on cyber-conflict and Infowar to organizations and government agencies, worldwide.
In addition to being called, “The Civilian Architect of Information Warfare,” he is one of the most sought after leading experts, on information security, infrastructure protection and electronic privacy. In 2002, he was honored as a “Power Thinker” and one of the 50 most powerful people by Network World; he was named one of the Top 25 Most Influential People for 2008 by Security Magazine and voted one of the Top 5 Security Thinkers for 2009 by SC Magazine.
Read Winn Schwartau Bio Updated Jan. 2012
Advisory Board
Phil Agcaoili, Chief Information Security Officer of Cox Communications
Phil has been a change agent and transformation leader in the Technology and Information Security industries for over 20 years. He co-founded several companies and sold them during the Dot.Com era and is now helping shape the direction of cyber security for US Telecoms through his appointment as the cyber security committee co-chair of the FCC CSRIC and is helping shape the direction of Cloud computing as a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance and as a co-founder and co-author of the CSA Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) and GRC Stack. He won the 2010 Information Security Magazine Security 7 Award in Telecommunications and the 2009 Information Security Executive of the Year Award. Mr. Agcaoili led security teams at Dell, Scientific-Atlanta, and VeriSign and has represented GE, VeriSign, Alcatel, Scientific-Atlanta, and Cox in their respective Corporate Security Councils and the Dell Global Privacy Steering Committee and Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Council. He is a co-founder of the Southern CISO Security Council, co-chairs the Evanta CISO Leadership Network, serves on the Advisory Council for the CISO Executive Network and serves on the boards of several companies.
Kirsten Bay Francissen, Principal, KBF-LTD
As the principal of KBF-LTD, Kirsten Bay Francissen develops and leads investment, policy, and thought leadership projects for national security initiatives. As a subject matter expert in financial services and risk management, Ms. Francissen leverages 15 years of strategic process and organizational policy experience through management positions held in financial institutions such as the Northern Trust Bank, Merrill Lynch and as a private fiduciary, and has managed over a billion dollars in assets.
Eric S. Green, President of ELG Consulting
Eric has been closely involved in the security industry for a decade. He has helped shape the marketing strategies of numerous security businesses and FORTUNE 1000 companies. His expertise and network of high-level contacts in both the public and private sectors make him an extremely effective business development and marketing leader in both the security and technology sectors. www.elg-consulting.com
Richard H. L. Marshall, VP Trident FSI
Mr. Marshall is the Vice President of Cyber Programs at Trident FSI and is an internationally and national recognized thought leader on cyber related issues. He has extensive leadership experience in formulating growth strategies, integrating policy, culture and training with technology issues, building relationships and delivering lasting results. He is also a strategic thinker who knows how to lead and very importantly, knows where to lead.
He previously was a member of the Senior Cryptologic Executive Service (SCES) and the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service (DISES). Prior to joining Triton FSI, he was the Director of Global Cyber Security Management, National Cyber Security Division, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by special arrangement between the Director, National Security Agency (DIRNSA) and the Secretary of DHS. Within DHS he directed National Cybersecurity Education Strategy; and the Software Assurance; Research and Standards Integration; and Supply Chain Risk Management programs.
Mr. Marshall was previously the Senior Information Assurance (IA) Representative, Office of Legislative Affairs at the National Security Agency (NSA) where he served as the Agency’s point of contact for all NSA Information Security (INFOSEC) matters concerning Congress. He devised the IA legislative strategy, helped shaped the passage of the revised Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and was instrumental in shaping the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative.
As an additional duty, Mr. Marshall represented NSA in the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Program in Boston, Massachusetts and the Detroit, Michigan areas where he led the effort to establish an International Consortium on Information Assurance. His successes were noted and praised by the Director, NSA.
In 2001, Mr. Marshall was selected by Dick Clarke, the Cyber Advisor to the President to serve as the Principal Deputy Director, Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (CIAO), where he led a team of 40 dedicated professionals in developing, coordinating and implementing the Administration’s National Security for Critical Infrastructure Protection initiative and the National Cyber Security Strategy to address potential threats to the nation’s critical infrastructures. He persuasively articulated the business case for enhancing information assurance in government and private sectors, and championed national outreach and awareness of information assurance issues to key stakeholders such as owners and operators of critical infrastructures, opinion influencers, business leaders, and government officials.
From 1994 to 2001, Mr. Marshall served with distinction as the Associate General Counsel for Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Office of the General Counsel, National Security Agency. In that capacity, Mr. Marshall provided advice and counsel on national security telecommunications and technology transfer policies and programs, national security telecommunications technical security programs, the National Information Assurance Partnership, the Common Criteria Mutual Recognition Arrangement, legislative initiatives and international law. Mr. Marshall was the legal architect for the Joint Chiefs of Staff directed exercise “Eligible Receiver 97″ that spotlighted many of the cyber-vulnerabilities of our nation’s critical infrastructures and helped bring focus on this issue at the national leadership level.
Mr. Marshall successfully represented the United States in two high profile cases in the United Kingdom: A civil matter for the United States Air Force with an amount in controversy of almost a billion dollars, and a criminal matter for Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and NSA where he appeared before the High Court of Justice in London as the lead US Counsel. In each case, in large measure through his efforts, the United States prevailed.
Mr. Marshall is a sophisticated senior executive level leader recognized and appreciated for his political savoir-faire and common sense coupled with a polished ability to build meaningful relationships and achieve positive results. Highly respected by White House (National Security Council) and Congressional staffers, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of the Treasury and private sector leaders, in particularly the financial services sector for his subject matter expertise and skills in policy formulation and ardent advocacy, Mr. Marshall commands a deep understanding and appreciation for the full range of Information Assurance-related legal, legislative and policy issues.
Mr. Marshall is highly sought after as a keynote speaker, panelist and moderator at information technology, legal and policy symposia and conferences at the domestic and international levels. He has addressed various international, Department of Defense, Army, Navy and Air Force legal conferences on information operations, information assurance and critical infrastructure assurance, twice sharing the podium with the Secretary of the Air Force and once with the former Vice-President of the United States.
He has testified before numerous Congressional subcommittees and has distinguished himself as a guest lecturer at the National Defense University (NDU), the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Stanford University, George Mason University, George Washington School of Law, Boston University, Duke University, the University of Virginia, University of Detroit-Mercy, The Harvard Club, The Cosmos Club, The University Club, and numerous graduate and law schools on a myriad of legal issues related to national security and information assurance. He has been a featured speaker at the Black Hat and DEFCON computer security conferences for several years.
In a recent edition of CS Magazine, Mr. Marshall was recognized as one the nation’s most influential cyber security professionals who helped shape the information security industry. The University of Detroit-Mercy also established the Richard H.L. Marshall Information Assurance Award in recognition of his contributions to INFOSEC education.
Mr. Marshall graduated from The Citadel with a B.A. in Political Science; Creighton University School of Law with a J.D. in Jurisprudence; Georgetown School of Law with an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law; was a Fellow at the National Security Law Institute, University of Virginia School of Law in National Security Law; attended the Harvard School of Law Summer Program for Lawyers; the Georgetown University Government Affairs Institute on Advanced Legislative Strategies and participated in the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and in the Privacy, Security and Technology in the 21st Century program at Georgetown University School of Law.
