RISK MITIGATION EXPERT & CYBERSECURITY LEADER
Who is Chad Nelley
At his core, Chad Nelley is a business professional with over 25 years of diverse management and leadership experience. Since 1999 Mr. Nelley has been directly involved in mitigating cyber-risk both at tactical and strategic levels. Mr. Nelley lives in San Diego, CA with his two daughters and is a graduate of CSU Fresno (Undergrad), UCLA Anderson (Grad) and University of San Diego (Grad). Mr. Nelley recently completed his MS in Cyber Leadership and Operations through the University of San Diego. In his free time, Chad is an avid motorcyclist and participates in various track day events to hone and improve his riding skills.
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His Story
From as far back as he can recall, Chad has been involved in Cybersecurity - if not directly, then indirectly. His interest in cybersecurity was initially spawned during his work on the Y2K project at a major medical network provider in San Diego. In 1999, Mr. Nelley left the corporate world to help build a start-up content provider for Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and then Macromedia - as the head of Operations & IT where he was charged with building and maintaining an e-commerce platform, data structure and network infrastructure to securely deliver content and provide 24/7/365 network operations for the start-up. In 2007 Mr. Nelley was hired on full-time with ESET LLC., in a strategic global project management role - after 3 in line promotions over 6 years, Mr. Nelley was appointed to EVP, Operations for ESET North America and has general oversight of NA Business Systems, Infrastructure IT, Research, Facility & R/E Operations, Public Affairs, Technical Support & Contact Center Operations, Manufacturing and Fulfillment.
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