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As a driven and passionate Cybersecurity Executive, Shawn Ershad is the founder of Forecight Cybersecurity, a pure–play cybersecurity advisory and technology services firm. He holds over 22 years of cybersecurity industry expertise, including extensive experience driving revenue and scaling organizations across cybersecurity advisory and technology portfolios covering Information Security, Incident Response, GRC, Security Integration, and Managed Security Services. His entrepreneurial spirit and ability to commercialize nascent technologies have enabled him to drive innovation to market throughout his career. Prior to founding Forecight, Shawn led profitable growth across multiple cybersecurity firms where one of the firms was acquired by Deloitte. Shawn is a visionary executive and Influential participant in setting both short– and long–term strategies as part of the executive team. He has the proven ability to lead across organizations and partners, regardless of direct line–of–sight management to secure complex and multi–million–dollar agreements. Shawn holds fostered CIO/CISO alliances within Enterprise organizations positioned as a trusted adviser. His extensive cybersecurity knowledge across public and private sector industries has enabled his team and partners to effectively compete in mature and competitive landscapes. Shawn defines success criteria by leading teams in motivation, collaboration and overall organic growth focused on positive client outcome. Shawn is a true believer of social responsibility to strengthen the connections between people, technology, and communities. He is a proud supporter of Canuck Place Children’s Hospice and Muscular Dystrophy Canada, and an active sponsor for Faly Football Academy, and West Vancouver Football Club. Shawn contributes his personal time as a mentor associate with Creative Destructive Labs, and serves as an advisory board member at Mulgrave School, and Permex Petroleum Corporation. Shawn is passionate about mentoring and teaching up-and-coming cybersecurity professionals. He hopes to elevate and encourage future cybersecurity experts who will help secure our digital world for years to come.
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies. CDL’s mission is to enhance the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind. The nine-month program employs an objectives-based mentoring process to enhance the performance of technical founders who learn from the insights of experienced entrepreneurs, with the goal of maximizing equity-value creation. The program combines 5 elements to help companies transition from science projects to scalable and financeable companies: • An emphasis on objective-setting, helping companies focus on what’s most important to their business • Focused mentorship from experienced entrepreneurs who have founded, led, and sold significant tech companies • Technical advice from world-leading scientists, engineers, and economists • Hands-on support from top business students, who embed within the company to provide business support • Opportunities to raise capital, including angels and VCs from Europe and North America .
Forecight is a pure – play cybersecurity advisory services and solutions provider conceived to address the dynamic challenges of cyberthreats faced by organizations. Through our extensive capabilities in cybersecurity strategy, risk, identity, response, and technology, we safe guard an organization’s most critical assets, its data. Forecight’s comprehensive range of advisory services, technology alliances, and certified expertise–on–demand capabilities, supports organizations to mitigate risk, so they can focus on their business. We ensure risk mitigation through strategic planning, implementation of leading technologies and building and operating resilient cybersecurity programs. Our mission is to exceed expectations while ensuring unprecedented value to our client’s objectives with success and measurable results. .
Mulgrave’s technology advisory board is committed to enhance learning through the innovative use of technology, provide school leaders with a broader perspective on educational technology priorities to meet future needs. The technology advisory board encompasses the skills, experience and perspectives of the full community and prepares students to thrive in a culturally diverse and interdependent world. .
Permex Petroleum Corporation is a Junior Oil & Gas Company with a focus on low risk producing oil and natural gas assets with significant upside growth opportunities in the State of Texas & New Mexico. The Corporation is seeking to be a listed on the Canadian Stock Exchange through an Initial Public Offering (“IPO”) in the fourth quarter of 2017. The Corporation focuses on creating shareholder value from the start by acquiring producing assets at a discount to market, increasing production and cashflow through recompletions and re-entries, secondary recovery (“EOR”) and low risk infill drilling and development. .
Herjavec Group is the largest privately held cybersecurity firm delivering 24.7.365 Managed Security Services supported by a state-of-the-art, PCI Compliant SOC 2 Type 2 Certified Security Operations Center. Herjavec Group is a global leader across 24.7.365 Managed Security Services, Governance & Compliance, Incident Response, and Identity & Privileged Access Management. • Reporting to the Founder, and Co-Founder & Senior Vice President, full P&L responsibilities for developing, directing and executing the company's sales strategy and operations across all cybersecurity business units. • Featured in Goldcorp Inc., Mogo Financial, and A&W Food Services Canada Testimonial Case Studies • Responsible for doubling Managed Security Services, Security Consulting, and Incident Response profitable revenues in less than 12 months. • Pivotal in fostering trusted relationships with maintaining C–Suite / Board level relationships with responsibility to present cyber Threat Landscape, Leading Security Technologies and Services. • Responsible for strategies for market capture to exceed company’s aggressive profitable revenue objectives by leading a major role in key account relationships, closing complex agreements and fostering ongoing relationships. • Participate in the executive strategic planning and responsible for innovative ideas and plans to bring the company to the next level. • Facilitates successful implementation of new programs through the sales organization by fostering an organization of continuous process improvement and extensive marketing initiatives with leading Security partners. • In–Depth knowledge of cybersecurity life – cycle and dynamic threat vectors to address client's cybersecurity Governance and Compliance requirements. • Hire, train, organize and effectively deploy a high performing sales and delivery organization to ensure resources, processes and operational capabilities are optimized .