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Huttan Holding LLC: Background

Ray Hutchins and Mitch Tanenbaum are the founders and partners of Huttan Holding LLC, the owner and operator of multiple risk management, cybersecurity and privacy business entities, assets, and brands. Huttan Holding LLC was established in 2015 with headquarters located in Denver, CO. Huttan Holding LLC encompasses the following entities:

Huttan Holding, LLC develops and markets a wide range of products and services for SMBs and larger companies, including the following:

  • Comprehensive, turnkey NIST and DoD compliant risk management, cybersecurity and privacy programs
  • Full-service risk management, cybersecurity and privacy consulting services for companies and high net-worth individuals
  • MSSP services
  • Compliance services and programs for all major compliance regimes, including NIST CSF, PF, SSDF, AI, NY DFS500, CMMC, GDPR, CCPR, and others
  • Board of Directors Support and Training
  • Virtual CISO services
  • Expert witness services
  • Valuation support
  • Enclave architectures and support
  • Cyber insurance policy reviews
  • Cybersecurity business certifications

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NOTE: Huttan Holding, LLC is interested in risk management, cybersecurity and privacy start-ups of all kinds and at all stages of development. We have the capability to evaluate all manner of cyber-related technologies, including those related to quantum computing and artificial intelligence. We will consider direct investment as well strategic and other partnerships in or with opportunities that support our mission and goals.

Partners Mitch Tanenbaum and Ray Hutchins: Background



Mitch Tanenbaum, CISO

From the very start, Mitch Tanenbaum seemed destined to become one of the country’s top IT and risk management professionals. Born into and nurtured by a family of intellectual heavyweights, Mitch’s ability to intake, store, and articulate information is matched only by the computational devices he loves and understands so well. Mitch (of course) whizzed through school and graduated with honors from Cornell’s renowned electrical engineering program.

He was immediately snapped up by Texas Instruments (TI), which at the time, was a top global technology powerhouse doing much technology work for the Department of Defense. As a software engineer, he was put on the team that built the first Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver for the United States Air Force. (That GPS receiver is the forerunner of the GPS in every cell phone today.)

Recognized as a leader, Mitch was quickly tasked with standing up a new, internal IT organization for TI Defense Systems. He led a team of over 350 technical personnel who developed and operated a wide variety of information systems from real time mission simulation hardware to mainframe data centers. Mitch brought virtualization technology (VMs) into mainstream use at TI decades before it became popular on PCs. The team also led TI’s cybersecurity engineering department IN securing classified DoD projects. Mitch then transitioned into financial services and assumed various CTO, CIO, and CISO positions in global mortgage service companies.

Living in the United States and having been bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and sensing that the vulnerable global IT infrastructure was very shortly going to require some serious help, Mitch decided to move into cybersecurity. He was a partner in a startup that built a security technology for the DoD–which is still in use today, including in the IoT and IIoT markets. Then, Mitch was snared by Ray’s network and they decided to tackle cybersecurity together.Today, Mitch leads all technical aspects of Huttan Holding LLC’s assets and also mentors thousands of people in risk management around the world.

Ray Hutchins, Managing Partner

As Ray Hutchins tells the story, he was born at an early age in Vienna, Austria. He has traveled extensively, and his various global experiences have shaped his mentality today. Always an eager and successful student, Ray studied at schools around the world, but his goal of law school was interrupted by the Vietnam war–and a life-long love of flying.

During his service as a U.S.A.F. pilot, he was recognized for his flying skills and trained both U.S. allies’ pilots and the first class of female aviators in the military. After serving, he decided to follow in the footsteps of his father and become an entrepreneur. Over the next several decades, he founded, operated, and exited a wide-range of SMB for-profit and non-profit ventures. Included in these, was the Austin Children’s Cancer Center, which treated children with cancer and their families–regardless of their ability to pay. It was also the first pediatric oncology out-patient clinic in the world to offer psychological support to patients and their families as a standard part of the care and treatment. In addition, Ray owned and operated companies in the retail, medical, import, and digital marketing spheres.

Always a futurist, Ray rightly perceived in 2014 the inherent vulnerability of the global IT infrastructure, so he shape-shifted one more time by self-schooling himself on the CISSP certification. This seminal event gave Ray the technical language and skills required to understand and manage a cybersecurity company…the entree into what was then a budding cybersecurity industry. Via Ray’s strong professional network (as President and Chairman of the Board, he orchestrated the renaissance and success of TiE Rockies) Ray was soon introduced to Mitch Tanenbaum. The two quickly teamed up, and the rest is history.

In addition to serving as leader of multiple companies offering a wide range of risk management products and services, Ray was successful in persuading the National Association of Certified Valuators (NACVA) to incorporate cybersecurity and privacy considerations into company valuations. Additionally, Ray led a public effort to persuade the Department of Defense to alter its published strategy to protect the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) from cyber attack. Today, he is focused on using Elon Musk’s five-step engineering methodology to reduce risk and increase valuation of client companies and to expand Huttan Holding’s asset base.

Both partners have extensive experience writing and presenting in front of all manner of business audiences–from smaller in-person groups to webinars reaching thousands of participants. They have produced a unique set of position papers, blogs, webinars, and other information resources designed to help anyone who considers themselves a leader better understand the cyber threat and what to do about it.

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