Strategic Guidance to Change the Game on the Adversary
The Advisory Council provides strategic guidance and executive advocacy in support of the Center's mission. Advisors apply their executive experience to guide the Center as we evolve our strategy, model, and approach to advancing threat-informed defense. Advisors increase the Center’s impact and support the Center’s growth leveraging their connections and influence.
Council Goals
Impact
Focus on visibility, accessibility, and applicability of projects.
Growth
Advise on growth strategy and membership goals.
Model
Evolve the business model and shape new programs.
Focus
Recommend and Evaluate new Focus areas.
Advisors
Advisors are senior level executives from the Center's Founding Participant organizations and Research Partner organizations.

Carl Wright
Chief Commercial Officer
AttackIQ
Founding Research Partner

Brian Carvalho
Head of Cyber Security Architecture & Innovation
Bank of America
Founding Research Partner

Garrettson Blight
Vice President, Global Government
Booz Allen Hamilton
Founding Research Sponsor

Elvis Veliz
Global Head of Vulnerability Assessments and Cloud Security Operations
Citi
Founding Research Partner

Joel Spurlock
Vice President, Data Science
CrowdStrike
Research Partner

Michael Daniel
President and Chief Executive Officer
Cyber Threat Alliance
Founding Non-Profit

Derek Manky
Chief Security Strategist & VP Global Threat Intelligence/ Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs
Fortinet
Research Partner

Syoichi Kanzaki
Senior Expert, National Security Business Unit
Fujitsu
Founding Research Sponsor

TJ Bean
Chief Information Security Officer
HCA Healthcare
Founding Research Partner

DeKovan Lewis
Sr Lead Cybersecurity Architect – Cybersecurity & Tech Controls
JPMorgan Chase Bank
Founding Research Partner

Derek Whigham
Chief Product Owner, Chief Security Office
Lloyds Banking Group
Research Partner

Karthik Selvaraj
Partner Director Security Research
Microsoft
Founding Research Partner

Dr. Martin Otto
Head of Cybersecurity Research US
Siemens AG
Founding Research Sponsor

Alex Pinto
Associate Director, Security Research - DBIR
Verizon Business
Research Partner