A cyber security maverick and entrepreneur, Curt Vincent has dedicated his career to helping companies and organizations minimize risk and thwart would-be attackers.  Curt is well-known for his work as Executive Director at Morgan Stanley where he founded, defined, built and lead the 400-person Cyber Security Division over a 15-year period.  Curt has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the Operations Command Center at Bank of America and as VP of a Dev/Ops team at Goldman Sachs.  Curt is also a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel who was recalled to active in a by-name request following 9/11 to be the Operations Officer of the Army’s Global Network and Security Operations Center.  Curt also teaches Cyber Security as an Adjunct Professor at Mercy College.

Curt is a lifelong learner.  Through a set of events he was forced to leave high school to join the Army but later earned both an Electrical Engineering degree and a Master’s in Digital Communication. When he’s not working, Curt spends time as a musician and restoring vintage microphones.  He and his wife Maria currently live in Connecticut.