Chad Rikansrud is the Director of North American Operations for RSM Partners (www.rsmpartners.com) - a world leader in IBM mainframe security consulting services. Chad is an award-winning speaker, with appearances at: DEF CON, RSA, SHARE, DerbyCon, and other local conferences. Most of Chad's 20-year career has been in technology leadership for the financial services industry where he has held various senior leadership positions, including worldwide datacenter operations, infrastructure and recovery responsibility, as well as enterprise-wide system z storage. His current role has taken him back to his hacker roots, in which he gets to literally hack the Gibson for a living - performing mainframe security assessments, exploit development, and penetration tests for some of the world's largest organizations.
