Charles Givre, CISSP
CEO, DATA SCIENTIST
Charles Givre is a solutions-focused Senior Technical Executive and Data Scientist with 20+ years of success across the technology, data science, fintech, education, and cybersecurity industries.
Joshua Friedman, ESQ.
COO & GENERAL COUNSEL
Joshua Friedman is a practicing attorney in the state of Maryland. He is active in the legal community, presenting training seminars and publishing articles. In his role at GTK Cyber, he manages operations and serves as representation for the company in legal matters.
Curtis Lambert, CISSP
CTO & SENIOR INSTRUCTOR
Curtis is a Lead Data Scientist at DataDistillr who enjoys creating in both the digital and physical worlds. He has been everything from a heavy equipment mechanic to a linguist but has always fostered a love of technology. Before joining DataDistillr and GTK he conducted cyber security analysis for the U.S. Army and DOD in roles ranging from data scientist to malware reverse engineer. Even he doesn't know what he will be doing next.
Becky Reeves
Director of Business Development and Client Engagement
A natural communicator, Becky works closely with GTK’s business partners in development, client relations, marketing strategies, and logistics in order to ensure high quality solutions for GTK Cyber clients.
Scott Kerlin
Instructor
Scott is a Senior Security Engineer, System Administrator, and Instructor with 20 years of experience in various roles. A bit of a jack-of-all-trades, he done a little of everything with a consisent eye towards making security, data/statistics, and programming concepts accessible to everyone via training or well designed UX.
Avi Weinberg, PhD
Instructor
Avi is a Lecturer, Data Scientist and entrepreneur with experience of about 30 years in the fields of software and information systems. He has managed BI (Business Intelligence) units, data warehouse projects, and consulted on data science and cybersecurity projects for major corporations.
Brennan Lodge, CISSP
INSTRUCTOR
Brennan is the Head of Data Science for SIRT, Goldman Sachs, and a self-proclaimed data nerd. In his career, he has held cyber security, data scientist, and leadership roles at JP Morgan Chase, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Bloomberg, and Goldman Sachs.
Summer Rankin, PhD
Instructor
TBD
Brian Genz, CISSP
Senior Instructor
Brian leads the red team for Splunk Global Security. He also serves as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army Reserve with a focus on cybersecurity, and has experience in the defense intelligence, manufacturing, and financial sectors.
Paul Rogers, MBA
PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Paul Rogers is an Apache Drill PMC member and co-author of Learning Apache Drill. He brings many decades of experience (since the Bangles were at their peak) as a systems engineer. Paul was a co-founder of Actuate, an early BI-tools vendor, and was architect of the Eclipse BIRT project.