Rohyt Belani

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Prior to starting the Intrepidus Group, Rohyt has served as Managing Director at Mandiant, Principal Consultant at Foundstone, and Researcher at the Software Engineering Institute. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

He is a contributing author for Osborne's Hack Notes – Network Security, as well as Addison Wesley's Extrusion Detection: Security Monitoring for Internal Intrusions.

Rohyt is a regular speaker at various industry conferences including Black Hat, OWASP, Hack in the Box, InfoSec World, and several forums catering to the FBI, US Secret Service, and US Military.

He has written technical articles and columns for online publications like Securityfocus and SC magazine, and has been interviewed by CNBC, CNN, BBC, Forbes magazine, eWeek, and other mainstream media.

Rohyt holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Bombay University, and a Master of Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Aaron Higbee

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder

Aaron has thirteen years of information security experience.

Prior to starting the Intrepidus Group, Aaron was a Principal Consultant and Lead Instructor at Foundstone, a division of McAfee.

Aaron is a contributor to Computer Forensics: Incident Response Essentials and speaks regularly at conferences such as Black Hat, Defcon, ShmooCon, InfraGard, and Hack-In-The-Box (HITB).

Not only does Aaron speak at the worlds top security conferences he also volunteers at local parent-teacher association meetings and offers presentations that aim to educate parents and teachers about internet abuse and protecting children online.

Aaron is a guest lecturer for the Information Security Technology and Management (MSISTM) graduate program at Carnegie Mellon University.

Aaron has attained the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification.

Ed Killeen

Vice President of Professional Services

Ed manages the professional services team at Intrepidus Group. His 20 years of information technology experience includes managing services organizations, sales, and product development.

Prior to joining Intrepidus Group, Ed has held senior management positions at a variety of technology companies, including Rapid7, Datawatch, Bottomline Technologies, Data Dimensions, and Digital Equipment Corporation.

Ed holds a Masters of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Connecticut.

Jim Hansen

Vice President of Sales

Jim has over twenty-two years experience in sales, operations and executive management primarily focused in information security. His eleven years as a federal agent provided the opportunity to work a variety of highly publicized cases both in the United States and globally. Jim specializes in helping early to mid-stage companies develop revenue though services and product sales, build effective sales organizations and manage explosive growth.

Most recently, Jim was one of the founders and the Chief Operating Officer of Mandiant, an information security start-up focused on incident response and computer forensics. He drove corporate strategy, initial revenue development and delivery, as well as building the sales program, resulting in an average of 90% revenue annual revenue growth over four years.

Previously, Jim held executive and management positions in both sales and consulting organizations to include Trident Data Systems (acquired by Veridian), Veritect (acquired by General Dynamics), Foundstone (acquired by McAfee) and Oakley Networks (acquired by Raytheon). Jim's last Law Enforcement position was serving as the Deputy Director of Computer Crime Investigations for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. In this role, he provided oversight and onsite investigation into the penetration of the Department of Defense's systems around the globe. He appeared as an expert witness in both the United States and the United Kingdom on highly publicized cases. Jim's field experience includes numerous undercover operations in counter-narcotics and specialized operations as a part of the national surveillance team.

Jim holds a B.S. in computer Science from St. Michaels College and is a regular presenter and guest lecturer on proactive information security and incident response. Jim authored a chapter in Hacker Challenge, and numerous articles in IT security publications.