About The Instructor
As CEO of Whitehat Virtual Technologies, founded in 2012, and Ascent Portal, founded in2015, Val is responsible for day-to-day operations and leading product development and Technology strategy.
Val consults with client leadership teams outside of day-to-day operations to help them understand and manage IT from the C-Suite, secure their organizations, and extract maximum value from their IT investment.
Val embraces an unconventional approach towards IT Operations, prioritizing user experience over infrastructural excellence as the key IT operations benchmark. In today's fractured cybersecurity landscape, Val stands apart, advocating for collective action over solitary pursuits. Val states that isolated investments in security by individual companies are not sufficient to ward off advanced, organized cybercrime organizations.
Val lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, and father of two daughters.