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Management Team - Americas

The Integralis management team includes recognized leaders in information security and risk management, and expert consultants who bring hands-on, real world experience to our client engagements.

 

 

Cary Conrad
President, The Americas

 

Mr. Conrad is responsible for the overall strategic direction of Integralis in the Americas. An industry veteran with more than 20 years experience in managed security services, he began his career at Hughes Aircraft working on the development of airborne radar systems and signal processing technology. Mr. Conrad then joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory, where he developed distributed network systems built into high-resolution airborne radar systems. In 1991 he founded Object Systems, a distributed middleware company, where he recognized the growing importance of information security systems, and in particular, the growing need for smaller organizations to outsource information security and compliance services. Prior to joining Integralis, Mr. Conrad was president and CEO of MessageSecure Corporation, a managed services and professional services company focusing on the financial services industry, where he led customer acquisition efforts. He was instrumental in the sale of MessageSecure to Perimeter Security in January 2007.

 

William R. Yeack, CSE
Executive Vice President, Corporate

Mr. Yeack, is recognized as a resourceful, team-oriented executive with more than 25 years experience in driving rapid growth in Recurring Revenue sectors of the information technology industry. He has a demonstrated ability to create and implement successful marketing strategies and form synergistic business alliances that protect investment and assure attainment of targeted returns. Specializing in global transformational leadership he has a proven record of building global, hypervelocity growth organizations through revenue and profitability leadership. Bill has extensive experience with international development and operations and mergers and acquisitions. As one of the Internet luminaries from the 1990's, Mr. Yeack worked early and aggressively to establish the reality of the Managed and Professional Services vision in the industry as EVP of  Services at Exodus Communications and President of Tandem Services as well as leading emerging global financial services projects for Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting).  Mr. Yeack is a seasoned public industry speaker, and has published over 25 books and articles. Mr. Yeack has an MBA from Ohio State University, a B.A. in accounting and Physics and is a Certified Public Accountant.

 

Andrew Lev

Group SVP - Marketing, Alliances and Channels

Mr. Lev is responsible for global marketing and product management strategies and the development and expansion of strategic partnerships for Integralis.  Andrew has over two decades of experience actively growing innovative technology companies – bringing new products and services to market and forging strategic channel relationships.  
Prior to joining Integralis in 2007, Andrew was co-founder and EVP of sales, marketing and channels for Neohapsis/KSR, where he lead the go-to-market and customer acquisition strategy for this next generation  information-risk professional and managed services company.   Prior to Neohapsis/KSR, Andrew was the Founder and CEO of MetaTV where he led the company from start-up to the standard platform for interactive services for over 50% of the US market and a successful sale of the company to Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA).  Andrew was one of three Services Directors at Tandem Computers where he formed multi-company consortiums to win substantial (~$100MM) secure and high-availability infrastructure projects worldwide.  Based in Silicon Valley, Andrew began his career at Oracle in enterprise sales during the years of explosive growth in the late 80s.

 

James Brennan

Senior Vice President, Consulting

Mr. Brennan is responsible for our ProServ Consulting group across North America.  Mr. Brennan brings significant consulting experience, knowledge, a track record of success, relationship skills and leadership to our team.
Prior to joining us at Integralis he founded his own consulting firm where he served as a change agent who was brought into a number of companies as their President and/or COO to rebuild their operations, customer service, revenue, market share, supply chain and financial performance. As such, he is past President of two manufacturing companies, COO of a group of warranty, window film and building security companies, a member of the partner group at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and was also a senior member of the CEO’s team at Bank One. He is a business advisor who has been in executive roles at a variety of entrepreneurial companies, not-for-profit and for-profit companies.  He is a recognized change agent known for planning and driving major operational improvements that yield significant tangible results across a wide range of organizations, industries and cultures. Mr. Brennan’s experience includes leading numerous comprehensive business transformation programs that significantly improved operations, reduced total costs by 50%, removed $100M out of a $1B budget, and accrued merger savings of $1.7B. 

Karen Short
Vice President Finance & Operations

Ms. Short is responsible for all U.S. finance and accounting operations. Before joining Integralis in 2005 she was elected to five consecutive terms as Collector of Revenue for her local municipal government, overseeing collections for its $15 million annual budget. A certified public accountant (CPA), Ms. Short held various corporate financial reporting positions at Cigna, and gained extensive audit experience while working at Deloitte Haskins and Sells, and Coopers and Lybrand. Ms. Short is a member of Integralis's executive management team, advising on financial strategies, working closely with legal counsel on all corporate contracts, and overseeing the company's U.S. investment portfolio

Yinal Ozkan
Vice President of Sales Engineering

An expert in the field of corporate computer and network security, Mr. Ozkan (CISSP, CISA, CCSI, QSA) specializes in the design of strategic security systems for mid-sized to large corporations and government institutions. During his tenure with Integralis he has managed pre-sales, consulting and engineering teams, restructured pre-sales operations, and developed compliance programs. His extensive experience has helped him build a strong foundation of specialized knowledge in risk management, information security management systems, financial systems, managed security services and network security solutions. He has managed a number of large-scale security infrastructure projects, compliance initiatives, sophisticated firewall and intrusion prevention system (IPS) integration projects, and the implementation of authentication solutions, particularly in the financial services sector. Prior to joining Integralis in 2002, Mr. Ozkan consulted for several Fortune 100 companies. He is the co-author of the book "Advanced Check Point Configuration," published by Sybex Publications.