Mitch Tanenbaum - Bio

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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.