Neupart Management Team
Management Team
Board of Directors
Advisory Board
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 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.
Jens
Bindesbøll, VP Sales
Jens Bindesbøll, VP Sales EMEA, Neupart A/S, internationally
experienced sales, project and people manager.
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.
Søren
Truelsen, Board Member.
Investor and experienced IT Business Developer with software
start-up and exit experiences.
Advisory Board
Jim
Reavis, Advisory Board Chair
Jim is the chairman of the advisory board to Neupart, Inc. 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.
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.