I had the privilege to speak to students of two classes at Kennesaw State University on “Digital Privacy, Crime, and Law.” I thank Professor Brown for graciously hosting me and I thank the students of both classes for their warm reception, keen attention, and insightful questions. The future of our great country and our

It was a pleasure to sit on a panel with Brian Benn and Jake Sherill to talk about trending technologies that are impacting the Datacenter Space as well as future technologies. Technology Association of Georgia’s Infrastructure Society for the 9th Annual Data Center Summit. We will be discussing data center sustainability and water scarcity,

When Steve approached me back in August of last year to give a presentation at AiTP, I was honored. Then, Steve said that he wanted to keep the topic of Digital Privacy “interesting,” and not boring. I decided not to give a standard wooden presentation on GDPR, local and state laws, and pure-play technology.

It was a pleasure to sit on a distinguished panel to discuss cybersecurity. The discussion covered a series of topics related to cybersecurity and governance. Moderator: Randall Toussaint, Georgia Department of Economic Development Tommy Marshall, Georgia Fintech Academy Kevin McInturff, Deluxe Corp Stephen Pair, BitPay Dean Malis, MARTA Because it was a panel, there

Before COVID locked down the world, I had the great opportunity to participate in two great panels with DataConnectors. On the last panel, I had the opportunity to moderate the discussion. It’s always a great opportunity to meet with fellow CISOs and CIOs from various industries. Some of the topics we discussed were: Cyberthreat

In 2019 I had the distinct privilege to speak before a criminology and cybersecurity class at Kennesaw State University. The class focused. A couple of years later, I had the opportunity to speak with Professor Brown on the presentation and the more recent Colonial Pipeline cybersecurity breach. Please see the attached video interview of

With Hearts and Spades, I have completed one of my life’s milestones of writing a novel. I’m also a believer that everyone has a book in them. I can promise that if you write a novel and really think about what you are doing, the project will fundamentally change your life and outlook on

Back in 2008 after my postgraduate work on economics and international affairs, I delivered a controversial presentation before the 31st gathering of the International Energy Economics Association global meeting in Istanbul Turkey. At the time the inflation-adjusted price for oil was slightly above $150 per barrel, and even the smallest disruptions or threat of geopolitical instability would push oil prices higher. The thesis of my argument was that it wasn’t high prices that the world and nascent energy industries should be concerned with but that the real danger was volatility.

Back in the spring of 2008, a short piece from my postgraduate work was published in the Transatlantic Affairs Bi-Monthly Journal. The piece called for closer alignment of energy policy between the Trilaterals: North America, Japan, and Europe. From Transatlantic Bi-Monthly, Spring 2008 The economies of the United States, Europe, and Japan comprise 50%

Back in 2007, while doing some postraduage work at Texas A&M University, I focused some of my efforts on the geopolitics of energy security resulting in a paper that was published in the Atlantic Affairs Journal. If you’re interested in a broad canvassing of the energy field and some of the challenges that we