At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top New York based CFO’ operating in the Security space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Bart Hacking
CFO of BetterCloud
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About BetterCloud: The SaaS Operations leader: Transform employee experience, centralize data protection, and maximize operational efficiency.

Tom FitzSimmons
Chief Financial Officer of Prove (formerly Payfone)
Tom FitzSimmons serves as the Chief Financial Officer at Payfone.
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About Prove (formerly Payfone): Prove is the modern way of proving identity with just a phone.
Thomas Gustafson
Chief Financial Officer of SOS Security LLC
Mr. Gustafson has over 25 years of financial experience, which include public accounting, distribution and manufacturing. Mr. Gustafson holds a B.S. from the University of Scranton, is a Certified Public Accountant and a current member of both AICPA and the Knights of Columbus.
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About SOS Security LLC: SOS Security is one of the largest privately-owned security companies in the U.S.
William Wilson
Chief Financial Officer of Celframe Corporation
William Wilson is the chief financial officer of [Celframe](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/celframe), a software company that develops office and business management and administrative software.
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About Celframe Corporation: Cellframe is a software company developing office and business management and administrative software.
Tracy Mehr
Chief Financial Strategy Officer of Arqit Limited
Tracy Mehr is the Chief Financial Strategy Officer at Arqit.
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About Arqit Limited: Arqit develops a quantum encryption platform.
Robert B. Peck
Chief Financial Officer of MENTIS
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About MENTIS: Gartner Peer Insights: Customer’s Choice for Data Masking 2020

Ivan Dittrich
CFO of Westcon-Comstor
Ivan Dittrich is the Group CFO at Datatec Limited.
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About Datatec, Westcon-Comstor: Westcon-Comstor is a value-added technology distributor of category-leading solutions in security.
Callum McGregor
CFO of Westcon-Comstor
With over 10 years of tenure with the Datatec Group, Callum McGregor serves as Chief Finance Officer for the Westcon-Comstor International EMEA & Group regions. He joined Westcon-Comstor International in 2014 in the role of Director of Finance in the Services business unit and has held several roles over the past 4 years including VP of Finance for Cloud and VP of Finance & Operations for Group. Callum joined Datatec in Johannesburg in 2007 serving multiple roles including Group Finance manager and CFO for the Consulting Division. Callum began his career with the South African Accounting firm Deloitte, where he completed his financial training and qualified as a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (CA(SA)). Callum has also qualified as a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA, currently non-practicing) and holds international affiliate membership with CPA Australia and the American Institute of Certified Public Accounting (AICPA). Callum spent 6 years living in the United Kingdom and currently resides in New York.
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About Westcon-Comstor: Westcon-Comstor is a value-added technology distributor of category-leading solutions in security.

David Lapter
CFO of Dashlane
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About Dashlane, Techstars: Dashlane is an app that lets access and shares business and personal passwords anytime, anywhere.
Roy A. Ceccato
Chief Financial Officer of Atlantic Metro
Mr. Ceccato joined Atlantic Metro in December 2012, as a financial consultant and is now the acting CFO of the Company. His primary focus has been on preparing the Company’s financial statements for full audit by providing best practices and effectively presenting the Company’s assets and professional strengths to the financial community. He is the principal architect of our current financing activities which include major capital leases from OEM’s and a credit facility with a tech-centric commercial senior lender. He also heads up our strategic acquisition plan and provides requisite due-diligence expertise. Prior to joining Atlantic Metro, Mr. Ceccato was the Vice President of Finance for DecisionPoint Systems, Inc., (“DPSI”) a position he held from July 2007 through October 2012. He played a key role in DPSI, a publicly traded company where he was responsible for Mergers and Acquisitions, major contract reviews, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and external financial reporting for SEC public reporting requirements. From April 2004 until June 2007, he was a Director and CFO of a tri-state environmental remediation contractor. He has also served in various prior roles as Director and Treasurer, Chief Financial Officer and Director of Finance of several publicly traded companies in service and manufacturing industries and listed on all the major stock exchanges.
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About Atlantic Metro: Atlantic Metro delivers custom-tailored IT solutions like cloud hosting, nationwide network connectivity, and secure data center colocation.

Beth Gaspich
CFO of NICE Systems
Beth Gaspich, Chief Financial Officer of NICE Actimize, leads the company’s financial and business operations. Ms. Gaspich has more than twenty years of combined experience in the software and financial services industry. Prior to joining Actimize, she was Chief Financial Officer for Archive Systems, Inc., a privately held document management software provider. She has also served as VP of Finance at RiskMetrics Group, Inc., a risk management software company. Ms. Gaspich was one of the founding members of RiskMetrics Group and assisted in taking the company through a successful public offering on the NYSE in January 2008. Previously, Ms. Gaspich has held several other senior positions throughout her career at large global financial institutions, including JP Morgan and Price Waterhouse. Ms. Gaspich holds a BA in Accounting from the University of Missouri.
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About NICE Systems: NICE Systems provides intent-based solutions that capture and analyze client interactions and transactions for businesses.

John Worthley
CFO of ICOToday
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About ICOToday: ICOToday is the secure, reliable platform for launching and directly investing in ICOs.

Brian Kuritzky
CFO and Treasurer of TMForum
Brian Kuritzky began his career with TM Forum 10 years ago and is currently the Vice President, Finance. During that time he has held various positions within the finance group. Brian is located at the headquarters office in New Jersey, USA. From there he oversees all financial processes and transactions for the global organization as well as all internal and external reporting. Brian holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the Pennsylvania State University (Go Lions!) and a MBA from Centenary College.
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About TMForum: TM Forum is a global trade association that connects enterprises, service providers, and suppliers in the digital ecosystem.

Robert S. Lynch
Executive Managing Director & Chief Financial Officer of Stroz Friedberg
Executive Managing Director & CFO at Stroz Friedberg.
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About Stroz Friedberg: Stroz Friedberg is a technical consulting and services company, providing solutions for clients to manage digital risks.

Miki Katz
Chief Financial Officer of Qognify
Miki Katz joined Qognify in 2016. He has over 20 years of experience in Finance and business operations across global, public and private companies. Prior to joining Qognify, Miki was the VP finance and Business Operations for Radware Inc., CFO and COO for Ness Technologies North America and VP Finance for Verint Systems Inc. Miki holds an MBA and BA in economics and business administration from Bar Ilan University.
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About Qognify: Qognify helps organizations mitigate risk, maintain business continuity, and optimize operations

Charles Albanese
CFO of ID Global Solutions
Charles Albanese has more than 25 years of financial and operations experience in both public and private companies. He cultivated his senior management experience as part of the business team at AT&T Wireless Services for over 16 years. Charles’ leadership skills coupled with his knowledge of finance, audit, tax, security and real estate helped enable this start-up to become the premier wireless telecommunications carrier in the nation. Among his most significant contributions was the development and implementation of “bucket plans” which changed the way the industry billed customers for talk-time across the nation. Charles also worked in other start-up ventures such as Opticality Corp. which developed and sold 3-D advertising displays, where he managed finance and created an account services team to support all domestic and international client relations. When Opticality transferred operations to North Carolina, he moved over to its sister company, Accoona Corp., a start-up internet company where he facilitated the acquisition and integration of three e-commerce companies valued at $87 million. At Cambridge Management Group LLC, one of the leading pre-settlement finance companies, Charles served as COO/CFO, securing a $30 million line of credit and in a two-year time period doubled the revenue of the company and re-built the entire infrastructure including IT, policies, procedures, staffing, facilities and telecommunications. When the company suffered a catastrophic fire, his disaster recovery experience enabled the company to be up and running within one week without loss of business or data.His key strengths include financial management, turnaround management, facilities administration, team / project leadership, security operations and systems implementation.
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About ID Global Solutions, Keiretsu Forum: ID Global Solutions desarrolla y simunistra soluciones de indetificación automática a los procesos de producción.
Alan Miller
CFO of Frequency Electronics
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About Frequency Electronics: Frequency Electronics, Inc. was founded in 1962 and is now a well-established public company in Long Island, New York.