Please Don’t Go – ESW #156

Paul Claxton has a history containing almost 20 years of professional successes as Honorably discharged U.S. Marine & accomplished visionary Technology Leader with strong experience in operations management, business development (sales hunter mentality), marketing, SaaS applications, solution delivery, project management. Excellent leader skilled at developing & maintaining relationships at all levels. He knows what it takes to create high-morale environments & foster rooms for well-oiled, machine-like teams who function in highly efficient manners. This approach has not only been something he has adopted over the years in the way he does things, but it has been a requirement during his time in the Marines. He functions best in high-pressure situations when he is left to decisively appropriate creative solutions to existing problems, & using the solutions in creating clarity & structure around chaotic situations. Paul is a businessman with access to financial platforms & resources to scale LEAN as he is an advocate of the bootstrapped startup approach. As a 3 year entrepreneur, 20 year business executive and market expert, some of his accolades and accomplishments include: >Produced opportunity for a 500 attendee, 50 booth exhibit Minneapolis Cyber Security Conference where he arranged for 2 people from his companies to speak on the conference panel next to an FBI keynote speaker and other panel speakers from Land O’ Lakes, Varde Partners and Stratosphere Networks. >Producing a 100 million dollar purchasing opportunity for venture capital funds >Scaling businesses from zero to over 20k in revenue within just a couple months >Scaling businesses in all operational areas >Secured approval for the teaming contract vehicle with the US Navy >Nominated for 2018 Entrepreneur Awards >Recognized in the Business Journal >Highly decorated Marine Veteran >International Entrepreneur with clients as far as South Africa >He consults on business acquisitions, as well >Paul is well known in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and San Diego >Multiple podcasts and video interviews on leadership and entrepreneurship >He has been nominated for Small Business Awards of 2019 by Corporate Vision Magazine; www.CV-Magazine.com

More than 15 years of experience developing advanced software to support offensive and defensive cyber operations led Matt Wyckhouse to co-found Finite State in 2017 to focus on the unique challenges of cybersecurity in the IoT era. Matt spent most of his career at Battelle, the world’s largest private R&D company, where he was the technical founder and CTO of Battelle’s Cyber Innovations Business Unit. In this role, Matt oversaw dozens of intelligence and security programs supporting strategic global missions, many of which were focused on discovering vulnerabilities in IoT and other embedded devices. Through that experience, he saw how devastating IoT device attacks can be, which is especially concerning given the explosive growth of IoT. Matt has a bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University.