Members of this community join an exclusive and influential team by adding value and
collaborating with top global C-Level executives to share peer insights.

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What is an SPJ Advisor?

Exclusive and Influential

SPJ Advisors are part of an exclusive and influential community of executive advisors providing feedback on pressing industry trends and adoption of emerging technologies – introducing peers to influential networked communities and resources lead by Tony Scott, Former Federal CIO for the US Government and Mark Tonnesen, CIO, Achieve.

Distinguished and Successful

As an SPJ Advisors, you will add significant value to the startup community through your relevant industry experience. SPJ Advisors have a distinguished and successful track record of leading operational and enterprise digital cloud and security technologies.

Value to the Entrepreneur Community

Your experience is of great value to the entrepreneur community, founders and their venture partners. Many of our Advisors have graciously helped startup founders in their spare time and are committed to performing research, developing solutions and providing critical feedback.

Advisory and Consulting Roles

Vital Feedback

SPJ will match you to the most promising startups coming out of Silicon Valley where you can learn about them as early as possible, provide vital feedback to them in their earliest stages and begin to grow along with them in a managed program that sees your input get implemented.

Unique Insight

As a C-level leader you have unique insights on how the technologies getting developed will be used in practice with the opportunity to look behind the curtain and get first hand knowledge of next generation technologies.  SPJ aims to be your Technology Agent & Scout Team so you can influence the direction of these startups with early access as they get developed.

Advisors Benefits

Exclusive CxO Community

Gain exclusive access to the SPJ Advisor Community where you will be given early access to peer-rated interactions and content as well as live lunchtime events with speakers like 4-star General (Ret.) Bob Brown.

SPJ SkySuite Advisors Events

When we are back flying to conferences again, SPJ hosts its private invite only SPJ Sky Suites for our Advisor Board members to gather and relax during the conferences to meet with leaders like Tony Scott, 4 star Gen (Ret.) Bob Brown, Maurice Stebila and many other of our Ambassador Board members.

Advisors Events and Webinars

Participate in local, national and online educational events while networking with experienced industry leaders on proven implemented solutions.

Early Access to Startups and Advisory Opportunities

Enhance your Personal Branding by influencing the direction of these startups with innovative ideas, providing meaningful guidance and advice.

Current Advisors

We invite C-Level  executives to join Chairpersons Tony Scott and Mark Tonnesen

Steve
CIO Chairman
Tony Scott
Former Federal
CIO for the
US Government
Founding Member
Steve Januario
Deputy CIO
Bill.com
FOUNDING MEMBER
Michael Keithley
CIO, United Talent
Agency
FOUNDING MEMBEr
Mark Tonnesen
CIO, Freedom
Financial Network
Steve
FOUNDING MEMBER
Gary Hayslip
CISO Softbank
Steve
FOUNDING MEMBER
Mark Grimse
VP of IT,
Robert Half
Tess
FOUNDING MEMBER
Bryan Muehlberger
CIO,
Vuori

FOUNDING MEMBER
Gretchen D. Ruck
Global Advisor on
Cybersecurity &
Information Risks
FOUNDING MEMBER
Ben Davis
EVP, CIO
Cambria
FOUNDING MEMBER
Anne Saunders  
Director, Cyber
Security at Capgemini
FOUNDING MEMBEr
Kris Lahiri
Co-Founder & CSO,
Egnyte

Steve
FOUNDING MEMBER
Joe Bernik
VP of Technology
Bank of America

FOUNDING MEMBER
Jay Ferro  
EVP
Chief Information & Technology Officer at Clario
SPORTS
Ian Gaffney  
CEO
Sports Leadership Institute
FOUNDING MEMBEr
John Kindervag  
Creator of Zero Trust
Steve
ai & analytics
Jonathan Hodges
VP AI and Enterprise Analytics
GHX
US PUBLIC SECTOR
4-Star Gen. (Ret.) Robert Brown, President & CEO, Association of the United States Army
PRIVACY
Johanna Baum Thomas
CEO and Founder
S3
dod
Lt. Col. (Ret.) Lou Zeisman
US Army. DOD
Military Relations
Steve
HOSPITALITY
Vaughn Davis 
General Manager 
Dream Hotel Hollywood
operations
Ruben Lechuga
Vice President
The Hollywood Partnership
MEDIA
Christopher Dix
CTO
UK Cabinet Office 
privacy
Lourdes Turrecha
Founder
The Rise of Privacy Tech
Steve
DIGITAL TRANSFORMAION
Dion Hinchcliffe
VP and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research
MANUFACTURING
Maurice Stebila 
Former CISO
HARMAN by Samsung
EDUCATION
Russell Kaurloto
CIO
University of Denver
Steve
FOUNDING MEMBER
Ernie Liu
Head of Information
Security,
United Talent
Agency
FOUNDING MEMBER
Linh Chung
CIO, Viant Inc.

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