Jeremy Rabson
- Chairman
Jeremy Rabson is a director at the SANS Institute where he oversees the teams that create SANS courses, GIAC certifications, and SANS Cyber Ranges, and is Chairman of the SANS Technology Institute. Previously, Jeremy held several senior roles at SANS, including General Manager of GIAC Certifications and Global Head of Marketing, where he was responsible for driving operational performance and business growth. His career spans executive advisory and leadership positions at both startup organizations and large companies such as Eastern Bank, Prodigy Finance, and Capital One. A strategic thinker with expertise in education, financial services, and management consulting, Jeremy is committed to innovation, leadership, and closing the cyber skills gap. Jeremy graduated Summa Cum Laude from Yale University with a BA in History and earned an MBA from Stanford Business School.
Thomas Johnson
- Vice Chairman
- Higher Education Community Representative
Dr. Johnson is Associate Vice President and Chief of Strategic Initiatives at Webster University. Dr. Johnson also serves as co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the California Sciences Institute, a non-profit-public benefit corporation located in Livermore, California and dedicated to research and science education. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Michigan State University and his Doctorate from the University of California - Berkeley.
Dr. Johnson has published 6 books, 13 referred articles; holds copyright on 4 software programs and has lectured at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College. In addition to lecturing at the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, he has also lectured at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, and numerous universities.
Marc Niketas
- Chief Administrative Officer, SANS
Marc Niketas serves as the Chief Administrative Officer at the SANS Institute. He began his career as an AH-1 Cobra Attack Helicopter Pilot in a Cavalry Squadron and held various platoon, troop and squadron level roles ranging from Platoon Leader to Executive Officer. After graduate school, he joined Price Waterhouse (later PwC Consulting) as a consultant and led many large process change and systems implementation efforts where he was later promoted to Associate Partner. Upon acquisition by IBM, Marc became a Client Executive where he had overall responsibility for a cluster of key customers in the Aerospace & Defense and Electronics industries.
Marc holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Mechanical Engineering (with highest distinction) from West Point.
Jay Bhalodia
- SANS.edu Alumni
Melissa Bischoping
- SANS.edu Alumni
David Hoelzer
- SANS Faculty Fellow and SANS Technology Institute Dean of Faculty
David Hoelzer, a SANS Fellow, author of more than twenty days of SANS courseware, and Dean of Faculty of the SANS Technology Institute, is an expert in a variety of information security fields, having served in most major roles in the IT and security industries over the past twenty-five years. Currently, David serves as the principal examiner and director of research for Enclave Forensics, a New York/Las Vegas based incident response and forensics company. He also serves as the chief information security officer for Cyber-Defense, an open-source security software solution provider.
David Kennedy
- Information Security Community Representative