Gary Fish is founder and CEO of Secure Passage LLC., headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, and of FishNet Security Inc., headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. With over two decades of experience in the information technology field he is regarded as a pioneer in the information security industry. Fish has a successful track record in creating prosperous companies with the founding of FishNet Security Inc. in 1996 and Secure Passage in 2004. Under Fish’s leadership, FishNet Security has become the largest and most successful Information Security Solutions Provider in the United States.

Fish has demonstrated his strengths as an entrepreneur and leader through organic growth, acquisitions, and fundraising activities. Fish has successfully acquired multiple competitors within the information security market and has successfully integrated them into FishNet Security. An industry recognized leader, Fish successfully raised $112 million dollars in private placements from two private equity firms.

Fish actively serves on the advisory boards for numerous national and global technology companies and actively participates as an Angel Investor and advisor to growth stage entrepreneurial companies. In 1999, he was named as one of the Top 25 Executives for the new millennium in computer-related fields. In 2001, Ernst & Young honored him as the Technology Entrepreneur of the Year for the state of Kansas and Western Missouri.

Fish holds a degree in electronics from DeVry University and is certified in many areas of technology and business. He also served in the Army and National Guard.

As Founder and CTO of Secure Passage, Jody Brazil is a seasoned entrepreneur with two decades of executive management experience and deep domain expertise in all aspects of networking, including network security design, network security assessment, and security product implementation.

Before joining Secure Passage in 2004, Brazil spent eight years at FishNet Security, serving as their Chief Technology Officer, where he was responsible for providing direction for solutions to their customers. Previously, he was president and founder of Beta Technologies, a Network Services and Internet Application Development company. A few of Brazil’s major accomplishments include his implementation of the first load balanced deployment of Check Point firewall software in 1997. A year later he engineered the security solution that allowed, for the first time, the transfer of criminal history data over the Internet as approved by the FBI. Brazil then released the first ever graphical firewall policy change view in 2001 and the first ever firewall rule usage analysis application in 2004.

Brazil holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Kansas State University.

Alin Srivastava holds deep domain expertise in IT security analysis and compliance solutions, experience in building high performance sales teams and a proven track record of generating positive revenue growth. He brings 14 years of security industry sales experience to Secure Passage.

Before joining Secure Passage, Srivastava directed strategic accounts at Crossbeam Systems, a company that provides enterprise and carrier-class unified threat management solutions. There he was responsible for increasing strategic account revenue with consistent sales growth. Prior to that he served at Nokia for six years where he was accountable for all business activities in the central United States region as well as Mexico. Before that he was channel manager at several leading security organizations and computer networking firms including RSA Security/Security Dynamics, Trusted Information Systems, Lantronix and Emulex.

Srivastava holds a Management Information Systems Degree and minors in Business Administration and Computer Science from Oklahoma State University.

Tim Woods has over two decades of experience in information security and data technology. With a proven track record of leading sales teams to success and deep domain expertise in security and technology he is a driving force of many thriving companies.

Before joining Secure Passage, Woods spent three years at Crossbeam Systems Inc., a company that transforms the way enterprises, service providers, and government agencies architect and deliver security service. There he was responsible for technical recruitment, and developing a top notch sales engineering team. Previously, Woods was the Security Engineer manager for Nokia Enterprise Solutions, where he managed the pre-sales technical resources and led a team of sales engineers supporting security and mobile enterprise sales. He spent ten years at Intrusion.com where he managed and supervised all aspects of technical personnel selection and department administration. Woods enjoys educating people on new and emerging technologies and has been a technical presenter and corporate speaker for seminars, technology conferences and sponsored events.

Woods proudly served 8 years in the Naval Intelligence community and attended the University of Maryland majoring in Information Systems.