Our Leadership Team

Ed Adams is a software quality and security expert with over 20 years of experience in the field. He served as a member of the Security Innovation Board of Directors since its inception in 2002 and took over as CEO in 2003.

Before his work at Security Innovation, Ed held senior management positions at Rational Software, Lionbridge, Ipswitch, and MathSoft. He was also an engineer for the US Army and Foster-Miller earlier in his career.

Ed is a Ponemon Institute Research Fellow, Privacy by Design Ambassador by the Information & Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Forbes Technology Council Member, and recipient of multiple SC Magazine’s Reboot Leadership Awards. He sits on the board of Cyversity, a non-profit committed to advancing minorities in the field of cyber security, and is a BoSTEM Advisory Committee member.

Ed has presented to tens of thousands of security professionals at reputable industry events such as RSA Conference (the US and Asia), Ponemon Institute’s RIM Renaissance, Connected Security Expo, Mozilla’s Privacy Lab, Allstate CyberCon, Applied Materials Global Technology Conference, Insperity Security Conference, Levi Strauss Cybersecurity Conference, and others. He has contributed commentary for The Associated Press, CSO Magazine, Forbes.com, SC Magazine, Boston Globe, CIO Update, Wall Street Reporter, Cyber Defense Magazine, Investors Business Daily, and CFO Magazine. He also is the host of Ed TALKS, a monthly panel that debates risk-based approaches to securing software and its ecosystem.

Ed graduated from UMass Lowell with Mechanical Engineering and English Literature degrees and earned his MBA with honors from Boston College.

Fun Fact: Ed is obsessed with The Princess Bride, horse racing, Boston Sports, and the color orange.

Jeff brings strong financial, strategy, and management experience to Security Innovation, where he’s served on the company’s Board of Directors since 2008. Previously, he served as Chief Operating Officer for Robbins Kersten Direct, where he helped grow the company from $24M to $70M. Before that, Jeff was a Principal at Brook Venture Partners, serving as an active investor in growth-stage software companies. Before Brook, he was a founding team member at Tenor Networks, a firm focused on developing high-end optical networking equipment.

While at Tenor, Jeff built the finance and operations groups and assisted in raising over $120M of Venture Capital through three rounds of financing. He started his career in various finance and operations roles in 3Com Corp.’s Switching Division.

A Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College graduate, Emig received his MBA after graduating from the University of Massachusetts in Finance and Operations Management. Jeff will continue to serve on Security Innovation’s Board of Directors.

With more than a decade of experience in B2B technology sales spanning industries including healthcare, payments and security, Wasser leads sales, business development and channel partnerships at Security Innovation. He is responsible for driving revenue growth across the company’s portfolio of training products and cybersecurity testing services.

Prior to Security Innovation, Wasser held management positions in sales with PYMNTS, an interactive payment and commerce media platform, and Meltwater, and online market intelligence platform. Before beginning his career in sales, Wasser served as director of marketing and communications for White Pine Systems where he helped increase adoption of the company’s private label health record system and clinical applications. Wasser earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Boston University.

Boroyan is responsible for cultivating Security Innovation’s workforce culture, employee wellness and talent management. As lead of the company’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee, she oversees Security Innovation’s commitment to diversity and inclusion.

She has more than two decades of experience in employee relations, training and development, performance management and implementing human resources systems. Prior to Security Innovation, Boroyan was an associate at McGuire Associates, one of the country’s leading ADA compliance consulting firms. Boroyan has also held management positions in human resources and finance at technology companies including Breakaway Solutions and WebYES!. She earned a Diversity & Inclusion Certification from Cornell University.

Since 2012, Sandra has led product development and support efforts and helped vault Security Innovation to the pinnacle of the DevSecOps training world. Leveraging her deep experience in teaching, statistical analysis, and customer relationship management, Sandra ensures the company’s flagship e-Knowledge solutions meet the highest standards for quality and relevancy that our clients demand.

Before joining Security Innovation, Sandra served as Head of Customer Relationship Management for EMEA at Mergermarket, part of the Financial Times Group. Sandra managed a team of 24 Customer Relationship Executives supporting the region’s 1,500 clients. She has also held research and management positions at Dealogic, Institute Piaget, and Polytechnic Institute of Setubal.

Sandra holds a B.A. and a Post-Graduation in Statistics and Information Analysis from the University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Fun Fact: Drawing for her little girl helped Sandra uncover a previously unknown talent for painting and drawing, a passion she now pursues whenever she has a spare moment.

Aditya is responsible for Security Innovation’s Asia Pacific and Middle East business, leveraging a versatile cybersecurity career that spans two decades. This includes developing and marketing solutions to meet emerging market needs and successful delivery to clients.

Aditya’s interest in security began at Florida Tech, where he researched model-based and state-based testing, fault-injection, and fuzzing techniques as part of his Bachelor’s degree. He joined Security Innovation in 2003, working as a software developer, security instructor/lecturer, and penetration tester. In 2010, he returned to India to found and operate Redfort InfoSec, which Security Innovation later acquired in 2015.

With a B.S. in Software Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology, Aditya has presented at conferences and corporate workshops and has lectured at universities.

His latest obsession is with cybersecurity risk management.

Fun Fact: Ady’s fascination with apocalyptical themes only came to light when his better half noticed a pattern in his preference for movies, books, and art.

Fueled by his passion for practices that make software more secure, Zak leads the company’s Security Services organization to deliver world-class security assessments for Amazon, Microsoft, and other notable brands. He has extensive experience in software development, application penetration testing, and IT security.

As an avid participant in the secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) space, Zak has performed research on security maturity models such as BSIMM, as well as contributed to the OpenSAMM benchmarking initiative. Zak is also passionate about information security mentorship. He is a guest lecturer for the University of Washington and revamped the company’s internship program to increase opportunities for novice security engineers. Before joining Security Innovation, Zak worked at Leviathan, Microsoft, and Raytheon in a variety of security and engineering roles.

Zak earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Washington, and a master’s degree in Security Informatics from Johns Hopkins University. He has also completed Ph.D. coursework at the University of Washington.

Fun Fact: Zak has owned over 100 cats in his life. He currently only has three long-haired cats, and yes, he is constantly cleaning up fur.