Jay Bavisi is the Co-Founder and President of EC-Council, a global leader in information security education, training, and certification. Formed following the 9/11 incident, EC-Council addresses issues of cyber terrorism raised at the forefront of security of nations at large. It is the owner and developer of the world famous Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI), Secure Analyst (ECSA), and Licensed Penetration Tester (LPT) programs.

Jay led the efforts in establishing the partnership with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), an arm of the United Nations, via the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT) to develop sustainable knowledge and capabilities in information security awareness amongst government agencies in 194 member countries.

An information security evangelist and architect, he regularly shares his insights with law & policy makers at various international conferences and seminars such as, Interop Las Vegas, CSI, Techno Security, and Techno Forensics. Jay was also the Chairman of the Keynote Hackers Panel at Infosecurity Europe, the Closing Keynote Speaker for ITWeb Security Summit, South Africa, and also the combined Keynote Speaker for Techno Security/ Hacker Halted USA, Keynote for IDC Security in Finland. His key expertise is in the area of Ethical Hacking, Information Assurance and Computer Forensics with a special focus in the government space internationally having recently been invited to speak at the US Department of Homeland Security Software Assurance Forum, and Department of Defense Cybersecurity Conference.

His audiences include executives of multinational corporations like Dow Jones, Lloyd’s, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Shell, HSBC, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Standard Chartered, American Express, MCIS – Zurich, Schipol Airport Authority, KPMG, Deloitte Consulting, Trend Micro, IDC, S.E.A. Insurance, Sara Lee Philippines, American Express Bank Philippines, Makati City Hall, Philippine Airlines, Royal Australian Air Force, Government of Zhuhai, China Mobile and A&T Solutions, among others.

Jay has appeared regularly on several local and international television shows and print medias, including being interviewed by CNN and Fox Business News regarding information security and ethical hacking. His views have been sought by internationally acclaimed publications including Time, Washington Post, The Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Gazette and The Economic Times. His views were also featured by ABC News, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, Boston and Gulf News.

Having always championed Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures, Jay is a prolific writer. His most recent work can be seen in the Computer and Information Security Handbook published by Elsevier in 2009.

Jay Bavisi is a law graduate from the University of Wales, College of Cardiff, with an LLB (Hons), Barrister – at – Law from Middle Temple, London.

Vice President

 

Sean Lim is responsible for the deployment of EC-Council’s highly sensitive information security curricula and action plans to its training partners across 60 countries globally. He leads a team responsible in ensuring that all EC-Council technical trainers achieve the highest standard of training delivery and that all participants of EC-Council’s training programs benefit immensely from the training. 

 

Sean also leads the development of EC-Council University’s presence into Asia.  In that role, he is appointing partner universities in Asia’s rapidly growing education markets to deliver EC-Council University’s Master of Security Science program.  This role is taking him across Asia and this is where he sees tremendous opportunities for EC-Council University’s growth. 

 

With over 18 years of experience in the training and education industry, Sean was instrumental in introducing and developing quality international IT training and education businesses to countries across the Asia Pacific region including the Middle East and Africa regions.  He has worked with university partners from the USA, UK and Australia, bringing their education solutions to these markets.

 

He has vast experience in developing franchising and licensing solutions for the training and education market including online learning solutions, which saw him establishing over a few hundred learning centers in across more than 30 countries globally.  In the online education space, Sean contributed to the conceptualization, development, and marketing of an online learning environment which saw the introduction of the Asia’s first fully online Bachelor of IT which was hugely successful.

 

Sean travels widely and speaks at various information security events, education and technology conferences regionally touching on the latest trends and developments in these areas. He has been invited to speak at regional franchising and licensing platforms where he shares with business leaders and entrepreneurs on how quality education on any mode can be franchised and licensed as an effective learning and business model. 

 

 

Technical Director

 

Let's put it this way, he loves computers. Period. Haja lives in the world of binary languages. He has over 92 industry certifications ranging from Cisco, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Nortel, Motorola, Apple etc. He is a hard core Apple Fan. 

 

Director, North America

 

As a native New Mexican, Steven brings over 15 years of IT experience, 9 of which have been security focused, along with 7 years commercial training program management and development. Steve was previously a Program Director for one of the world’s largest training provider. Under his leadership are EC-Council | Education, EC-Council | Press, EC-Council | Media Services and EC-Council | Global Services.  

 

Since Joining EC-Council, Steve has lead multiple teams in North America in the creation of an online Learning Platform to serve remote Learners and Partners on EC-Council Certifications, as well as creating the Academic Solution (EC-Council | Press) in partnership with Cengage Learning. Steve has coordinated the launch of EC-Council Media Services including an online Newspaper with globally syndicated news, Online Information Security Magazine, and Security Blogs, as well has liaising with different Entities of the United States Government regarding program requirements ranging from City programs up to the Department of Defense teams coordinating Directive 8570.1m.   

 

 

 

Director – EC-Council North America

 

Eric Lopez began his career in the IT Certification field with New Horizons Learning Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was one of the first instructors hired by the brand new franchise in 1996. Eric began as an instructor and was quickly promoted to Training Manager. After much success with the training department Eric was promoted to Sales Manager, and finally, Senior Sales Manager. 

 

In late 1998, Eric left the New Mexico New Horizons franchise operation to help build a New Horizons franchise in Santa Cruz, CA as the General/Sales Manager and as the first and only employee of that franchise. Under Eric’s leadership, the New Horizons of Santa Cruz broke the first year start up records for both sales and collections, and earned the title of Rookie of the Year. 

 

After attaining his goals at the Santa Cruz New Horizons location, Eric continued to move around the country helping New Horizons build additional branch locations as a General Manager at New Horizons of Tucson and then as a co-owner of New Horizons of El Paso. 

 

Eric returned to the Albuquerque location in June of 2004 to reorganize the business and turn it from a “break even business” to a profitable corporate New Horizons center. Eric’s success with the Albuquerque center presented him the opportunity to co-own and re-franchise the center as New Horizons of New Mexico in August of 2006. 

After over a decade of computer training center management, Eric decided to apply his particular skill set to a larger market by joining the EC Council. 

 

As the Director of Education for EC Council | North America, Eric launched the iClass program. iClass is EC Council’s live, online, instructor-led training platform. The iClass program was designed and launched with two distinct directives in mind, the first was to develop a program that would augment EC Council’s large Authorized Training Center’s (ATC) schedule and aid them in providing their client base with a “guaranteed to run” schedule. The second was to make sure that any individual in North America who endeavors to earn an EC Council certification always has a course available regardless of whether or not there is an ATC in their local area. 

 

The iClass program began offering live, online, instructor-led trainings in October of 2008 and launched its official website in December of 2008. By July of 2009, the program has delivered over several hundred seats in conjunction with its iClass/ATC partner channel.  

 

 

 

Director of Marketing, Conferences & Events (EC-Council)
Director - Center of Advanced Security Training (CAST)

 

At EC-Council, Leonard's role as the Director of Marketing makes him responsible for all aspects of marketing for the group. He is responsible for designing and managing strategic marketing plans and initiatives, and is the key driver of all global marketing efforts. He is concurrently being appointed as Director of Conferences and Events, where he manages both the production and profitability of the international series of conferences. In line with EC-Council's mission to evangelize information security awareness and skills globally, Leonard leads a conference team that brings EC-Council events to a growing list of global markets annually. In addition, Leonard is the Managing Director for EC-Council’s Center of Advanced Security Training (CAST). A division that offers highly technical and advanced IT security training. He manages all aspects of the business unit, and while ensuring its profitability and market outreach, he also works closely with security authors, world-renowned experts, course developers and security vendors to design and develop very targeted training programs.

Prior to these appointments, he was the Director of Business Development, which requires him to develop and manage business partnerships across the globe and growing these businesses in line with EC-Council's vision. In addition to identifying global business opportunities, he is charged with leading the business development across various business units within EC-Council.

Leonard was instrumental in the conceptualization and organization of EC-Council's first Hacker Halted Conference in the United States in 2008 and has been the conference director for this conference series since then. From Myrtle Beach in 2008, he brought the event to Miami. 2011 will mark the 3rd year that Leonard will be directing this event in Miami. Following the success of Hacker Halted USA, he is charged with the design and production of another brand new technical conference series - TakeDownCon, which will make its debut in May in Dallas 2011. Having amassed in depth experience in organizing successful conferences and events, Leonard is serving on the board of advisors to all Hacker Halted conferences and EC-Council events globally.

Leonard possesses extensive field experience specializing in sales and marketing functions across industries including finance, conference, franchise, and as well as in training and education. With this experience, Leonard has successfully concluded key deals with numerous Fortune 500 companies. On the speaking front, Leonard was recently a keynote presenter at the first International Cyber and Economic Crimes (ICEC) Conference in 2010 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and also the conference chairman for the first ever Network Security session during CommunicAsia 2010, one of Asia’s largest ICT event that was held in Singapore.

 

 

 

Regional Director – EC-Council EMEA & India

 

Ms. Hanan Wagie is EC-Council's Regional Director responsible for managing and directing EC-Council’s business in Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) & India. Her primary role is to grow demand for EC-Council certifications by increasing sales, supporting distributors, appointing key training partners and driving the overall marketing and business development strategy.

 

Having joined EC-Council in the role of Certification Manager, Hanan went on to take management responsibility and played a key role in managing distributors and streamlining key processes. She occupied a number of senior operational and marketing roles, before being promoted as Regional Director of EMEA & India.

Prior to EC-Council, Hanan worked for five years at Shell.  Her exceptional record allowed her to occupy several managerial posts in such short period of time including Assistant Commercial Sales Manager, Territory Manager and Supply Chain Manager.

 

Hanan earned a Masters Degree in Business Administration and is currently pursuing her Doctorate of Business Administration studies.  At 30 years of age, she has amassed more than 10 years of working experience in various functions including sales, marketing, supply chain, operations and logistics. 

 

Michael Tamasi

 

Mr. Tamasi has over 25 years experience in the accounting and tax field.  Mr. Tamasi established Tamasi & Associates Ltd. in Boston, Massachusetts where his firm provided accounting, pre-audit services and income tax services to individuals and a wide variety of companies.  

 

Mr. Tamasi is currently employed by the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra where he been since 1994 as the Vice President of Finance and Administration.  In addition to his role at the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Tamasi maintains a consulting practice providing accounting and tax services for individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations such as EC-Council.

 

Mr. Tamasi has worked with a number of Albuquerque area organizations, including the Albuquerque Community Foundation, Chamber Music Albuquerque, Carrie Tingley Hospital Foundation, St. Martins Hospitality Center, VSA Arts of New Mexico and Albuquerque Arts Alliance to name a few.  For his dedication to community organizations, Mr. Tamasi was awarded “Top CFO” by the New Mexico Business Weekly in November 2007.  Mr. Tamasi also serves as Board Treasurer for VSA Arts of New Mexico.

 

Mr. Tamasi is currently completing his B.S. in Accounting at Western Governors University which is based in Salt Lake City.  Mr. Tamasi has completed various training and educational programs which include the Non Profit Management program and the Human Resource Management program by University of New Mexico’s Anderson School of Management.  Mr. Tamasi has completed the New Mexico 9000 (ISO 9001:2000) and Practice and Process of Auditing sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories, Honeywell FM&T (Kansas), Los Alamos National Laboratory and New Mexico Economic Development.