Ron Nixon has over 30 years of operational and technical leadership in IT and Cybersecurity. He currently serves as a Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer for the Federal business unit at Cohesity where he supports sales, engineering and product development efforts. Prior to being at Cohesity he served as the VP for Sales and Customer support at Polyverse, a Seattle based cybersecurity startup. He has also served as both the Chief Technology Officer for the Army business unit and the Division Lead for Cybersecurity, Defense Division of General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT).