Optiv + ClearShark

Chief Technology Officer

• Apply industry knowledge and expertise to cultivate relationships with C-suite executives of our customers.
• Navigate seamlessly between business and technical contexts, ensuring comfort in both settings.
• Play a strategic role in industry leadership events to enhance our presence and influence.
• Drive thought leadership initiatives in collaboration with marketing and field teams.
• Gather, distill, and articulate customer needs and product requirements to cross-functional teams, including product management, engineering, marketing, and sales.
• Collaborate closely with Product Marketing and demand generation teams to raise awareness and support pipeline development through various customer touchpoints (round tables, workshops, etc.), conferences, strategic events, thought leadership blogs, webinars, and white papers.
• Contribute to the development of reference architectures, technical materials, and best practices based on field experience, continuously elevating and enabling our internal stakeholders.
• Develop and communicate Optiv +Clearshark’s product and technology strategy.
• Lead efforts to prioritize and launch or update products or solution offerings based on identified market needs.
• Lead efforts on detailed research and development for technologies that Optiv +Clearshark is partnered as well as provide analysis of competing or disruptive technologies.
• Create and maintain lab environments to assist with rapid prototyping of partner solutions for market or customer validation activities.
• Manage vendor sponsored resources that support technical initiatives and other Optiv +Clearshark objectives.
• Strategically add innovation partners by doing analysis on their overall technical merit and overall alignment to Optiv +Clearshark’s strategy.
• Develop and maintain ecosystem of Venture Capital, Private Equity firms, leading universities and research institutions for alignment on overall technology trends and to influence investment strategies that are beneficial to Optiv +ClearShark.

VP, Chief Technology Officer – Federal