Jay Gagne – Chief Technology Officer, Razor Technology

Jay Gagne is the Chief Technology Officer of Razor Technology. As CTO, Jay shapes and implements Razor Technology’s overall Company strategy. Jay assesses new technologies, develops process frameworks to fuel growth and translates technological capabilities into strategic business decisions for future services and solutions.

As a technical business leader, Jay has over 16 years of networking, voice and storage experience. It started in the early 90’s where he was Founder and Chief Technology Officer of MondaNet Corporation, an Internet Service Provider based in New Hampshire. The company grew to over 45,000 subscribers and 200 business customers in 6 years before the company was sold in 1999 to AOL. Jay then joined the Hartford Insurance Group (HIG) as Director of Voice and Data Networking and went on to be Managing Director of Global Storage and Severs, overseeing a team that managed 4PB of disk and nearly 6PB of tape in both mainframe and open systems and over 6000 servers. While at The Hartford Jay lead many initiatives for Storage, Networking and Server efficiencies including VOIP rollout, MPLS network adoption, Server Virtualization and Storage Tiering. After leaving The Hartford, Jay was Global Director of Solutions and System Engineering at Copan Systems. During his tenure at Copan Jay traveled throughout the US, Europe and Asia as a business technology consultant assisting global 5000 companies in managing backup, recovery and archive. Copan sold to SGI in 2009. Jay is a member of the Board of Trustees for the New Hampshire IT Fund, and member of the Society for Information Management (SIM) and a graduate of Keene State College.

Knowledge Expertise

  • IT and Infrastructure Finance
  • Well versed on industry trends, adoptions, and emerging technologies
  • IT Strategy
  • ITIL
  • Infrastructure technology including networking, storage, servers, virtualization, security and backup and recovery.
  • Business Continuity and Disaster recovery.

Specialties

  • Leadership, communication, strategic planning, tactical problem resolution, ITIL process development, financial management, vendor management, team building, relationship management, and metric based service level management.

Dave Snyder, CISSP, CISA, CRISC, CICP, Chief Information Security Leader, Director of Information Security and Risk Management Offices, Independence Blue Cross, Philadelphia, PA

Dave brings over 35 years of IT experience into his role as the Chief Information Security Leader and Director of Information Security and Risk Management at Independence Blue Cross, a southeastern Pennsylvania regional Blue Cross Plan servicing approximately 3.2 million members with annual revenue of $12B.

Dave has been with Independence Blue Cross for 25 years and currently leads a multi-disciplinary information security team that includes Security Operations, Governance, Risk Management, Compliance, and User Access Provisioning. Beyond managing the information security organization, Dave shaped the Security Leadership Team to integrate information security practices in business and IT operations. He further chartered the Corporate Security and Privacy Council to increase corporate sponsorship and visibility bringing the information security program to the forefront of the Executive Operating Committee objectives.

Outside of Independence Blue Cross, Dave has served on IBM,s Security Solutions Board of Advisors for the past two years, as well as Lower Merion School Districts Technical Advisory Council.

Dave began his career in Information Systems in the mid-1970’s programming in Fortran and Cobol; he managed his first data center in the late 1970’s in an Academic environment. His career continued to develop working though the early-1980’s in Manufacturing to Aerospace and Defense in the mid-1980’s. During that time he programmed in various languages including Pascal, C, RPG, Cobol, Basic and many others. He gained expertise in various operating systems Operating Systems, Databases, and Communications systems.

Today, he is the Chief Information Security Leader which is responsible for components of Security Operations (Computer Forensics, IDS/IPS Management, Firewall Management, Proxy Services, Security Architecture, etc), Disaster Recovery, Risk Management (Vulnerability Management, Risk Analysis, Vendor Assessments, Audit Coordination and Review, Security Awareness, etc), and Logical Security Administration.

Dave is a certified Computer Information Systems Security Professional, Certified Information Systems Auditor, and Core Impact Certified Practitioner; he is active in the ISSA, ISACA, and Infragard (The FBI’s Interface with Corporations focusing on Information Technology Infrastructure).