Eric Hipkins

Experienced executive, entrepreneur and founder with significant experience in building and leading high-performance teams across the computer and network security industry. Focused on overachieving metrics including revenue, retention, product development, innovation, and overall market share growth. Skilled in strategic business operations across the public and private sector product and services portfolio. Senior Intelligence professional with expert skills in cyber product development, cyber operations, cyber defense, threat intelligence and network security operations. As a pioneer in cybersecurity, Eric first introduced the concept of threat hunting to commercial markets as early as 2013 with the development of the Edison award-winning ORION HUNT platform and Edison award-winning Hunt-as-a-Service (HaaS). A military veteran, Eric is an accomplished cybersecurity, intelligence, linguistics and cryptology professional with more than 25 years of specialization in advanced cybersecurity and technical intelligence operations for the defense, Intelligence and commercial communities. Among various senior positions in U.S. Intelligence, special programs and special operations, his assignments included direct support to the President of the United States of America and members of Congress. Eric is graduate of NSA’s premier internship program and is professionalized by the National Security Agency (NSA) as an Intelligence Analyst and adjunct faculty. He is the recipient of the distinguished Knowlton Award for significant intelligence contributions to the United States of America. He is a former member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council’s Cybersecurity subcommittee and currently serves as a member of the Forbes Technology Council. He holds a master’s degree in computer resources and information management and maintains numerous professional cybersecurity certifications.