Mr. Dakin provides strategic management IT security program guidance for Coalfire and its clients. As Coalfire's Senior Security Strategist, he is actively involved in helping clients develop balanced approaches for effective IT governance and regulatory compliance programs. Mr. Dakin's experience results from more than 25 years in senior management with leading IT firms. Mr. Dakin combines an in-depth knowledge of IT controls with a comprehensive understanding of organizational needs and the rapidly emerging legislation affecting information technology.

After serving in the U.S. Army following graduation from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Mr. Dakin began his management career at United Technology Corporation. Prior to co-founding Coalfire, he was President of Centera Information Systems, a leading e-commerce and systems integration firm with clients throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Mr. Dakin guided the sale of Centera to a global application service provider, where he assumed the role of President.

Mr. Dakin is recognized nationally as a leader in IT risk management and information security solutions for regulated market sectors. He presents regularly to regional and national audiences on IT security solutions meeting privacy and confidentiality requirements for legislation covering financial services, healthcare, government and public corporations. Mr. Dakin currently serves as President of the FBI's InfraGard program, Denver chapter, and he is a member of a committee hosted by the U.S. Secret Service and organized by the Joint Council on Information Age Crime.

Mr. Ferguson guides Coalfire's sales and marketing team and account management practices. Prior to co-founding Coalfire, he served as Vice President of Centera Information Systems, a leading e-commerce and systems integration firm with clients throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Under his leadership, Centera was repeatedly recognized by Deloitte & Touché as a Fast 50 award winner recognizing companies with superior revenue growth.

Mr. Ferguson began his career with IBM, and he has more than 25 years experience in delivering information technology solutions to enterprise and government clients. Under Mr. Ferguson's sales and marketing management, Coalfire has grown rapidly and has successfully delivered more than 200 IT audit and information security engagements to public and private companies and government clients throughout North America.

Mr. Westby is a founding partner with Coalfire and serves as its Vice President of Operations and a Senior Security Strategist. Mr. Westby brings 15 years of IT security and IT controls design and implementation experience to the team. His broad industry experience also includes application development, e-business and business process integration. He has served as Chief Operating Officer for a global managed application hosting company with secure data centers located in Europe, Asia and the US where he provided both technical and operations leadership. Mr. Westby has also served as the COO and CIO for the world's largest pharmacy e-business network and portal.

At Coalfire, Mr. Westby has guided development of Coalfire's project methodologies based on IT audit and IT security best practices from COSO, COBIT, NIST and ISO. Mr. Westby has managed more than 200 risk-based compliance programs and IT audit engagements across multiple industries for government, public and private clients. Mr. Westby is an expert on IT compliance programs meeting information technology requirements under Sarbanes-Oxley, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, HIPAA, and the Visa CISP initiative.

Mr. Westby was selected as one of the nation's top 100 CIO's by CIO magazine. He is considered an industry leader in e-business and IT audit, and he has presented as a keynote speaker at some of the largest industry forums including Internet World and Comdex. Mr. Westby has worked with Microsoft on numerous key projects including the Security Auditing Framework for Microsoft partners.

As Coalfire's Director of Security Services, Mr. Baer provides expertise on technical assessment practices and risk mitigation controls. He combines an extensive knowledge of cyber security best practices with expertise in IT control technologies, policies and procedures to develop solutions that mitigate risk to critical computing assets and sensitive information.

Prior to joining Coalfire, Mr. Baer served as the lead network and systems engineer for an Internet Service Provider with operations in Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. He has also served in senior technical positions with Nupremis where he led the technical design and implementation of data centers located Hungary, Germany, England, the U.S. and the Philippines.

Mr. Baer holds numerous industry certifications for Network, Systems and Security Engineering. He is an authority on the Payment Card Industry security standard, including Visa's Cardholder Information Security Program and MasterCard's Site Data Protection (SDP) initiative. Mr. Baer has designed more than 100 enterprise programs that comply with the privacy and security requirements found in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.