Executive Leadership

The Team

Meet The Team Robert Johnston edgesecurity 2017

Robert Johnston

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Previously Mr. Johnston worked in the private sector as a principal consultant at CrowdStrike, Inc as an incident response expert conducting engagements against nation state, criminal, and hacktivist organizations across a variety of industry sectors. Previously Mr. Johnston served as the Director for U.S. Marine Red Team.

Robert Johnston

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Previously Mr. Johnston worked in the private sector as a principal consultant at CrowdStrike, Inc as an incident response expert conducting engagements against nation state, criminal, and hacktivist organizations across a variety of industry sectors.

Previously Mr. Johnston served  as an officer in the United States Marine Corps. As a Marine Officer he was the Team Lead of 81 National Cyber Protection Team, Cyber National Mission Force and the Director of the Marine Corps Red Team.  He is an accomplished leader and technical expert within the cyber security community. Mr. Johnston is a 2008 United States Naval Academy graduate with a degree in Information Technology.  

He has published multiple projects and articles in industry relevant magazines and peer reviewed journals. An avid speaker within the cyber security community ISC2 awarded him runner up for the best up-and-coming cyber security professional in North, Central, and South America and the winner of the 2015 Community Awareness Government Information Security Leadership Award. Mr. Johnston can be followed on Twitter at @dvgsecurity.

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Meet The Team Timothy Evans, J.D, LL.M. APHSA ISM 2017 Technology Conference

Timothy Evans, J.D., LL.M.

Co-Founder, Senior Vice President & Chief of Strategy

Colonel Evans (Ret) commanded the 175th Network Warfare Squadron at the National Security Agency (NSA) for six years.  Additionally, he represented NSA  as a member of the White House National Security Council Sub-Interagency Policy Committee on both offensive and defense cybersecurity issues.

Timothy Evans, J.D., LL.M.

Co-Founder, SVP, Chief of Strategy

Tim Evans co-founded Adlumin, a cybersecurity software development company in 2016.  Prior to that, Tim was the Senior Advisor, Cyber Strategy & Policy, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.  Colonel Evans (Ret) commanded the 175th Network Warfare Squadron at the National Security Agency (NSA) for six years.  He spent two and ½ years representing NSA on the White House National Security Council Sub-Interagency Policy Committee on both offensive and defense cybersecurity issues.  While Commander, he served as the Director of Operational Policy, Tailored Access Operations (TAO) (2008 to 2012) and Senior Adviser, NSA Threat Operations Centers (NTOC) (2006-2008).  He currently serves on the George Washington University Active Defense Task Force.

Prior to that, then Major Evans spent fourteen years on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps.  He served with the Western Area Counsel Office (WACO), Navy Office of the General Counsel for six years as litigation counsel.  As a Marine Corps Captain, he spent two years as the Commanding Officer, Headquarters and Service (H&S) Company, H&S Battalion, at Camp Pendleton, California during Operation Desert Storm/Desert Shield.

Tim is married, has a nine year old son and lives in Arlington, Virginia.  He has completed ten (10) Marine Corps Marathons. 

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Meet the Team Jody A. Ruth

Jody A. Ruth, CPA, CGMA

Chief Financial Officer

Ms. Ruth has served as Adlumin’s Chief Financial Officer since its inception in 2016.  She is a member of the leadership team and focuses on matters including pricing strategy, business development, growth assumptions and forecasting, customer lifetime value, and valuations and is responsible for all financial matters and internal controls.

Jody A. Ruth, CPA, CGMA

Chief Financial Officer

Ms. Ruth has served as Adlumin’s Chief Financial Officer since its inception in 2016.  She is a member of the leadership team and focuses on matters including pricing strategy, business development, growth assumptions and forecasting, customer lifetime value, and valuations and is responsible for all financial matters and internal controls.

She is the founder of Redstones LLC and its spin off, AccuMetrics LLC, consulting firms working with start ups to Fortune 50 companies.  Projects focus on M&A support, litigation support, forecasting, raising debt and equity, pricing and customer lifetime value analyses, as well as financial operations.

Previously she held senior operating or finance roles with AOL, GTE Wireless, GTE, and Trans World Airlines and prior to that was a leader in KPMG’s air transportation practice as well as running the computer audit group in KPMG’s Washington, DC and Phoenix offices.  She was instrumental in billions of dollars of M&A transactions (both buy and sell side) as well as billions of dollars of debt and equity raises as well as innovative financing transactions.

She is a mentor at Mach 37 Cybersecurity Accelerator and speaks regularly on M&A activity and how to increase business value.

Ms. Ruth is an NACD Governance Fellow and a CPA in Virginia and Pennsylvania.  She is on the membership committee of the Washington Capital chapter of Association of Corporate Growth.

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