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Professionally, Mr. Thompson is a Partner with Rook
Consulting, a professional services firm providing
security, IT, and legal executives with discrete
advisory services focused on Security & Compliance.
You may read more about Rook at
www.rookconsulting.net.
Mr. Thompson also serves as the newly elected
President of the Silicon Valley chapter of the
Information Systems Security Association (ISSA).
Previously, as the Director of Business Development
for Emagined Security, Mr. Thompson focused on
Compliance Services, Channel Development, and
Marketing. Mr. Thompson joined Emagined Security
from Ernst & Young, LLP, where he led teams in
delivery of services for Fortune 100 clients. Mr.
Thompson focuses on IT compliance, IT controls
assessment & design, audit impact reduction,
incident response, security assessments, and risk
assessment projects. Mr. Thompson lead special
projects focused on financial system and control
failures where he developed triage and incident
handling methodologies focusing on the Financial
Services and Healthcare industries.
Outside of Information Security, Mr. Thompson has
held leadership positions for a variety of
organizations and has been published. He has served
as the Director of the Northern Region Conference
for the American Marketing Association, President of
the Management Information Systems Association &
Board Member on the Henry B. Tippie College of
Business Young Alumni Board. Mr. Thompson
specializes in stimulating process improvement &
organizational change by leveraging marketing,
psychology, and technology principles to business
and organizational challenges. By focusing on the
efficient, scalable growth by leveraging technology
and a thorough understanding of branding, Mr.
Thompson has increased scalability, decreased costs,
and increased brand recognition for a variety of
organizations and companies.
Personally, Mr. Thompson enjoys the great outdoors.
He likes to frequent remote trails, fish, camp,
hike, hunt, boat, bbq, and enjoys sporting clays,
playing baseball, working on his late model Jeep, &
chess.
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