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Chris Cole

Former Sr. Director, Enterprise Sales Architect/Technical Strategist/Pre-Sales Leader (2016–2021), McAfee

Chris has over 15 years of experience in IT security & infrastructure specializing in providing security solutions to protect Fortune 500+ businesses, commercial, healthcare and state/local government verticals. In the past 14 years with McAfee/Intel Security & BlueCoat, Chris has primarily focused on security sales for critical infrastructure in the energy sector, public/private and healthcare organizations. In Chris’ previous role he specialized in creating effective solutions for customers that has the right balance of cost and product that effectively meets business objectives for the customer. Chris focused on solutions at the datacenter, security operations (SIEM & EDR), cloud (CASB & device protection) and overall product strategy. At McAfee, Chris has been a security advisor to various organizations providing strategic security solutions that reduces cost and overhead while driving up the security posture for customers. Chris has been Sales Engineer of the year for North America and SE Manager of the year for North America and recently the World Wide Pre-sales Director of the year. Chris is an active member of InfraGuard and the Houston Chapter of ISSA.