Company :: Neupart Team

Neupart Management Team

• Lars Neupart
• Jim Reavis
• Bo Nørgaard

Board of Directors

• Stig Bøgh Karlsen

Advisory Board

• Paul Kurtz
• Karen Worstell
• Pamela Fusco

Neupart Management Team

Lars Neupart, Chief Executive Officer

Lars Neupart is a recognized information security expert with nearly a decade of corporate leadership experience. Over the years, he has been instrumental in defining, developing and delivering information security products and services that have helped a number of international businesses in various industry sectors.

His expertise includes information security strategies, risk assessments and - analysis, policy development in accordance with International standards (ISO17799, ISO2700x, BS7799, etc.), awareness programs and vulnerability assessments. Most Danish financial institutions and many government bodies have purchased information security products or services from Mr. Neupart.

Lars Neupart is the founder, CEO and board member of the Danish information security firm Neupart A/S. His patent pending system of using database objects to build information security policies and awareness programs is the basis for the flagship product of Neupart A/S. He also serves on the board of ITEK, an IT Business Association, in which more than 150 well known international and Danish companies are members, is an appointed member of the IT-security committee of the Confederation of the Danish Industries, and serves as an elected board member of the Danish ISACA chapter Founding member of the ISSA Nordic chapter.

Prior to founding Neupart A/S, Lars worked with Ericsson, Dataco, Case and Olicom (acquired by Intel) and was a founder of IT security firm Vigilante.com, Inc.

Jim Reavis, President

Jim is the President of Neupart, Inc., and is responsible for North American Operations. For many years, Jim Reavis has worked in the information security industry as an entrepreneur, writer, speaker, technologist and business strategist. Jim's innovative thinking about emerging security trends have been published and presented widely throughout the industry and have influenced many.

Jim has been an international board member of the ISSA, the world's largest not for profit association of information security professionals and formerly served as the association's Executive Director. Jim was a co-founder of the Alliance for Enterprise Security Risk Management, a partnership between the ISSA, ISACA and ASIS, formed to address the enterprise risk issues associated with the convergence of logical and traditional security. Jim currently serves in an advisory capacity for many of the industry's most successful companies, and is editor of the Risk Bloggers website.

Jim founded SecurityPortal in 1998 and has been an advisor on the launch of many industry ventures. Jim is widely quoted in the press and has worked with hundreds of corporations on their information security strategy and technology roadmap. Jim was also formerly Chief Marketing Officer for VIGILANTe, a European security software company. Jim received a B.A. in Business Administration / Computer Science from Western Washington University in 1987 and began his career shortly thereafter as the MIS Manager for InterWest Bank, now part of Wells Fargo.

Bo Nørgaard, Chief Technology Officer

After receiving a Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from Copenhagen University College of Engineering in the early 1990's, Bo Nørgaard co-founded RDI, a Danish software development and consulting firm, offering consulting for businesses and consumer application bundles. In 1994, he co-founded Winet, on of the first commercial full service Internet Service Providers, which specialized in building custom Internet solutions, including hosting, mail and connectivity services. Subsequently, Mr. Nørgaard worked with Fourth Dimension International Inc., building an environmental management information system for major clients in Denmark and USA; and with Psion and Motorola, building a secure communication protocol for use in police cars in Denmark. Recently, Bo served as a professional white-hat hacker at Vigilante (www.vigilante.com) and was the lead developer through the first three version of their SecureScan product.

Concurrent with his consulting and engineering career, Mr. Nørgaard has acted in a teaching capacity, beginning in 1991, while working at the Copenhagen University College of Engineering, where he taught Microelectronics Programmable Logic Design (PLD), a specialized circuit design discipline. Starting in 1995, Bo worked with National Theatre School of Denmark, teaching technicians to take advantage of advances in computing, hardware design, communications and networking. He has served as a lecturer at numerous technical events. As CTO at Neupart, Mr. Nørgaard fosters a love of technology and knowledge-sharing, developed over the course of 20+ years spent matching leading technologies to diverse client needs.

Board of Directors

Stig Bøgh Karlsen, Chairman of the Board

Mr Karlsen is Chairman of NOKA, a venture company engaged in shaping venture development in Denmark.

For many years in the early part of his career, Mr Karlsen served as CEO of Magasin du Nord, a leading Scandinavian Department Store Group. He joined the AEGIS Group in 1992 and developed the activities of CARAT in Scandinavia and the Baltic countries, so that it became the leading media buying and planning company in the area. In 1996 he moved to New York as head of strategy to build up Carat in North America. In the course of his time there Carat acquired 7 regional companies in USA and Canada to form Carat North America, which is now one of the leading media-buying and planning companies in the region. He handed over to a US management team before returning to Denmark in 2001.

Advisory Board

Paul Kurtz

Paul Kurtz is a Partner and COO of Good Harbor and a recognized cyber security and homeland security expert. He served in senior positions on the White House's National Security and Homeland Security Councils under Presidents Clinton and Bush.

Individual: Paul Kurtz is the COO of Good Harbor, advising clients on cyber-security and homeland security issues. Kurtz joins Good Harbor, Kurtz after serving as the founding Executive Director of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), an advocacy group dedicated to ensuring the privacy, reliability and integrity of information systems through public policy, technology, education and awareness. Prior to joining CSIA, Kurtz most recently was special assistant to the President and senior director for critical infrastructure protection on the White House's Homeland Security Council (HSC), where he was responsible for both physical and cyber security.

Before joining HSC in 2003, Kurtz served on the White House's National Security Council (NSC) as senior director for national security of the Office of Cyberspace Security and a member of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, where he developed the international component of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. Previously, he was a director for counterterrorism in the NSC's Office of Transnational Threats from 1999-2001.

Prior to his White House work, Kurtz served in several bureaus in the State Department, specializing in weapons of mass destruction non-proliferation policy and strategic arms control. He also served as political advisor to Operation Provide Comfort in Incirlik, Turkey, and as science attaché in Vienna, Austria. He participated in several arms control inspection teams, traveling to Iraq and North Korea.

Kurtz received his Bachelor's degree from Holy Cross College and his Master's degree in International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

Karen Worstell

Karen Worstell is a principal of W Risk Group. W Risk Group provides Information Security Management System (ISMS) Pre-certification services, Information Assurance and Security Program Design, Financial Risk Management, and Litigation Readiness Services. They assist clients with all elements of the ISO 27001 requirements, including business continuity and disaster readiness, incident handling, records management, secure data management, IT Operations, governance, integrated policy development and security architecture.

Karen's twenty years of information security and IT Risk Management experience spans multiple sectors, most recently in the last 3 years as CISO of Microsoft and the VP of IT Risk Management/CISO for AT&T Wireless/Cingular. At both Microsoft and AT&T Wireless, Karen played a key role in the successful implementation of general computer controls for Sarbanes-Oxley in their respective IT organizations.

Pamela Fusco

Pamela Fusco has accumulated over 20 years of substantial experience as an Information Security and Risk Management Professional. Her extensive background and expertise expand globally encompassing numerous facets of enterprise security inclusive of logical, physical, personal, facilities, systems, networks, wireless, compliance and auditing, risk management and forensic investigations.

She was founder of SAFE Bio Inc. and a strategic player in the development of the Company, serves as BOD, supporting the Pharma industry. She has held prestigious positions as the Chief Security Officer, for Merck & Co., Inc., Digex Inc and MCI Security Solutions and Executive Vice President, Global Information Security, Citigroup. Fusco developed company security platforms with key methodologies and technologies and further designed, implemented and executed the Systems Security Operations, Architecture, Policy and Compliance departments and security strategies. Technically astute, Pamela developed robust and cost effective intrusion detection devices, real-time analysis tools; automated systems and application security patch configuration processes and launched the security collaboration inspection engine. This combined with the responsibility of authoring policy and ensuring the vast business requirements of her customers in the healthcare, finance, retail, government, education and manufacturing arenas are met 24-7-365 have moved Pamela to top levels within the industry.

Prior, Pamela was the Security lead for EDS where she initiated firewall operations for a DoD network operations center. Previous to EDS, she was a Cryptologist where her focus was supporting security events for government intelligence operations and SPECOPS (special operations).

Fusco is certificated and accredited as a CISSP, CISM, CHS Level III, National Security Agency INFOSEC Assessment Methodology Auditor (AIM Auditor), National Cryptologic School Adjunct Faculty Certified Instructor (NSA/CSS/NCS), and has a MS in Information Management. She is an active member of the Council of Advisors, American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), American College of Forensic Examiners Institute, Global, Chief Information Security Officers Executive Forum (CISO Executive), Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), Women in Technology International (WITI), member and consultant for Computer Security Institute (CSI), Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), Awarded via CISO Magazine and EWF's Executive Women in influence award for 2005, served on the Board of Directors for SAFE, resides on the founders board for the Executive Women's Forum (EWF), Presidential Advisor for ISSA, Founding Member of RSA's Executive Security Action Forum (ESAF), Chairman of the Executive Advisory Council for Mirage Networks, Instructor for CMU and InfoWorld's Monthly Technology Panel as well as several security consortiums, which include major technology vendors. She is well known within the speaking circuit. Her technical and immense security and risk management experience identifies her as an internationally known speaker at industry symposiums and conferences.