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David is the Manager of Security and Compliance for KTL Solutions, a Microsoft Solutions Partner working with government contractors with GCC, GCC High, Azure Government and Dynamics Business Central and Dynamics 365 needs. David served as part of the team at KTL that initially worked to put together the concept idea of an enclave built completely within Azure Government used by the first authorized C3PAO to pass their DIBCAC assessment. His efforts and dedication have helped elevate KTL to where it is today and serves as the lead CCP/CCA for the KTL Compliance team.

Mark Berman is the CEO and Founder of FutureFeed, a modern compliance platform focused on NIST and other compliance standards. The product is part of the Continuous Compliance family where Mark builds products and services that translate from the server room to the board room. Design thinking, innovation and noise-free decision-making are principles driving impact in each organization where Mark has been able to have influence.

Mark served as a founding director of the CMMC Accreditation Body (CyberAB).

When not focused on FutureFeed and challenges facing the DoD supply chain, Mark supports the Baltimore community in which he lives and supports education initiatives when and where possible. Recently, appointed to chair the board at the nationally acclaimed Greenspring Montessori School. As in his business ventures, Mark strives to inject innovation in education in way to ignite creativity in every child.

Mark graduated from the College of William and Mary with a degree in Computer Science where he completed graduate work at NASA’s Langley Research Center. He later completed an MBA at Loyola College of Maryland.

Mark lives with his wife Tania and dog Millie in the Fells Point neighborhood of Baltimore, MD. They proudly cherish Tania’s daughter, Sasha, who lives and works as a reporter in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Dan Ciarlette is the CEO for CiaberTech LLC. Dan was one of the founding CMMC provisional assessors and has CMMC CCA, CCP, and Provision Instructor credentials as well as PMP, PMI-ACP, and ISC2 CISSP certifications. Additionally, Dan managed the project to create one of the first authorized C3PAOs in the CMMC ecosystem. For his foundational work with CMMC, he was awarded the President’s Volunteer Service Award, “For strengthening our nation and communities through volunteer time for the Department of Defense Cyber Security Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Standards Working Group.” Dan currently provides CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, 172, 53, 82, and RMF assessment and consulting efforts.

He is an active member of the CMMC Industry Standards Council, CMMC Stakeholder’s Forum, and the CMMC Coalition. Dan brings distinguished experience and operational excellence in providing cybersecurity, IT, organizational and cyber digital transformation, and industrial controls systems expertise, while ensuring cybersecurity compliance across the government and defense industrial base organizations in complex environments. Dan has 35 years of experience in cybersecurity, R&D, IT, computer science, operations, systems engineering, industrial control systems, and project management. Dan served in various roles at multibillion-dollar US government national laboratory facilities while architecting and building secure ICS, IT, and high-performance computing systems.

Dan has a master’s in computer science from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a master’s in project management from Penn State.

Regan Edens serves as the Chief Transformation & Compliance Officer and Co-Founder of DTC Global. Mr. Edens served as a founding Director on the CMMC-Accreditation Body, Board of Directors, as Chairman of the Standards Management Committee and Vice-Chairman of the Training Committee. He represented the CMMC-AB in the Federal CUI Stakeholder’s Working Group and led the CMMC Industry Working Group in collaboration with the DoD. He was one of four acting CMMC Certified Master Instructors.

Mr. Edens has served across various public and private capacities leading highly technical, complex, and extremely demanding DoD technology-driven transformation, operations, security, and intelligence activities. Mr. Edens has led the rapid implementation of over $4.5B integrated platforms systems. Mr. Edens is a plank holder member of the National Cyber Moonshot.

Mr. Edens led high performing organizations within the Special Operations and Intelligence Communities during multiple global deployments including Afghanistan and Iraq as a Senior DoD Intelligence Civilian, DoD contractor, and a US Army, active duty, Commissioned Officer. Under his leadership, activities were awarded 4 Defense Superior Civilian Service Awards (3rd highest award to a DoD Intel Civilian), 14 Bronze Stars, 12 Army Commendation Medals, and 6 Army Achievement Medals.

Tiffiney Groce is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in information technology, systems integration and business development. She excels in managing complex IT projects and building productive relationships. Currently, she serves as the IT Security and Compliance Manager at Qarbon Aerospace.

Stuart Itkin brings unique perspective to CMMC and the challenges organizations, both large and small face in satisfying government regulations and operating their businesses. As Vice President of NeoSystems, Itkin is focused on bringing managed services, software, and consulting to address the compliance, cybersecurity, and back office needs of small and medium businesses. Formerly Vice President of CMMC and FedRAMP Assurance at Coalfire Federal, Itkin led the company through its DIBCAC assessment and the process of becoming one of the first authorized C3PAOs. Itkin previously served as Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Exostar, a joint venture company between Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies, BAE Systems and Rolls Royce. There he had responsibility over the company’s compliance management, supply chain risk management, and secure collaboration platforms, and for establishing its CMMC practice area. Stuart has served in leadership roles with cybersecurity companies PivotPoint Risk
Analytics, SAIFE, and ThreatTrack Security; as lead mentor at the Virginia StateGovernment funded MACH37 cybersecurity product accelerator and as an advisor and board member to several early and growth stage cybersecurity companies. Stuart earned a BA and an MA and is ABD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Owner PEAK Complyance CyberAB RPO
A CMMC Coaching Company
Inventors of IMPLEMENT CMMC

Nancy Laney is President and Owner of PEAK Complyance in southern Oregon, a division of Laney ITC a CyberAB RPO. With over 30 years of expertise in compliance design and implementation, Nancy’s passion is bringing compliance realization within reach of the small to medium sized businesses in the defense industrial base. She is a CMMC Registered Professional-Advanced (RPA) and has professional certifications in Project Management (PMP), Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CPHIMS), and has implemented many certification standards including ITIL, HIPAA, CIS and NIST 800-53 & 800-171.

Nancy's mission is to make the complex understandable and distill experience based, best practice possibilities to precisely what is needed for small to medium sized businesses. To this end, she has invented the first CMMC Coaching program consisting of guided learning and active engagements aimed at both medium and small independent businesses seeking certification in the CMMC framework. Through her instructional videos, personal coaching, group coaching sessions, and with a proven suite of tools, compliance teams can get on the path to audit readiness immediately.

Prior to launching both her MSP, PEAK IT Security & Solutions, and PEAK Complyance, Nancy served as an IT vCIO Consultant, Corporate Regional IT Director, Program Manager, as well as New Construction IT Project Manager in healthcare related fields for national healthcare companies. Her experience includes serving county government as the IT Director with a focus on implementing NIST 800-53 compliance and PCI DSS.

Jerry is a trusted advisor and advocate for in-house counsel, compliance officers and senior leadership to ensure they can effectively navigate complex regulatory, legal, and contractual risks and obligations. He currently is a Strategic Alliance Manager at NeoSystems Corp supporting Defense and critical infrastructure suppliers of all sizes and cybersecurity postures. Prior to NeoSystems, Jerry was EVP & National Security & Compliance Director at CORTAC Group. 

He is an expert at risk-based approaches embracing right-size outcomes that are cost-optimized to meet an organizations required security and compliance requirements. He is closely aligned with industry and technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS and Google in delivering world-class solutions.

Jerry is active nationally as Co-Vice Chairman of the CMMC Standards Council (CISC), a Provisional CMMC Assessor (PA), Certified CMMC Assessor (CCA), and Certified CMMC Professional (CCP) and founding member of the CMMC AB Standards Workgroup.

Jerry speaks nationally on cybersecurity, DFARS/CMMC impacts and supply chain. He partners with private and public organizations to increase the Pacific Northwest Defense and Aerospace manufacturer awareness and adoption.

Leia Kupris Shilobod, CISM is the Founder and Chief Security Officer of CompliancyIT, author of Cyber Warfare: Protecting Your Business From Total Annihilation and co-producer of the documentary "Cybercrime: The Dark Web Uncovered." As a cyber security advisor and compliance subject matter expert, Leia is a sought-after speaker. To help empower companies to create functional Cybersecurity Compliance Programs, Leia created the IT Documentation Toolkit. She leads CompliancyIT in providing cybersecurity compliance, as well as compliant helpdesk, infrastructure and security services to help her clients meet their strategic goals.

Mr. Travis is the first chief executive officer of the Cyber Accreditation Body (the Cyber AB). Previously, Travis served as the first deputy director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation’s leading civilian cybersecurity agency. There he oversaw the day-to-day operations of the $2+ billion, 2000+ employee organization across the full range of its mission in cybersecurity, infrastructure protections and emergency communications. Prior to this position, he was the deputy undersecretary for national protection (NPPD) within the Department of Homeland Security.

Before entering government service in 2018, Travis served as vice president of homeland security for Cadmus, a security, energy, and environmental professional services firm. He joined Cadmus when the security consultancy he co-founded, Obsidian Analysis, Inc., was acquired by Cadmus in 2016.

A former naval officer, Travis served as an engineering auxiliaries officer aboard the guided-missile frigate U.S.S. CARR (FFG 52). He then served a tour as White House Liaison to the Secretary of the Navy and was also a White House Military Aide. He is a 1991 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and holds a master’s in national security studies from Georgetown University. He has appeared on both CNN and MSNBC in providing analysis of cybersecurity and homeland security issues.