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Adam Lipson - President and CEO

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Adam Lipson has more than a quarter of a century of experience building and managing information technology consulting businesses. He co-founded Network & Security Technologies (N&ST), a private technology and strategy consulting firm that assists primarily energy sector companies with their critical infrastructure protection (CIP) needs. As the President & CEO, Mr. Lipson is responsible for defining and implementing the firm's growth strategy.

Mr. Lipson brings repeated field proven experience building businesses that help clients to reduce their enterprise-wide IT security risk. As CyberTrust's EVP for Client Services he assisted Fortune clients identify and evaluate their security risks while improving their overall security posture. By providing practical solutions to complex problems, Mr. Lipson was responsible for the growth of their Professional Services business revenue 50% quarter over quarter.

Prior to Vigilinx, Mr. Lipson was the Vice President and General Manager of Verizon's Global Professional Services organization (formerly GTE). At Verizon, he built a high growth, world class consulting organization from the ground up that was involved in assisting many large worldwide enterprise customers developing new security and network strategies, architecting and designing secure e-commerce infrastructures and ultimately implementation of the strategic recommendations.

Prior to working at Verizon, Mr. Lipson was at both Equant Network Integration where he was Vice President of Professional Services for North America and at Compaq Computer Corporation (formerly Digital Equipment Corporation), where he directed all network consulting activities for the Mid-Atlantic states and their worldwide United States Government network consulting practice. At Compaq, Mr. Lipson built their most profitable consulting business globally.

Before joining Compaq Computer Corporation, Mr. Lipson held various positions within AT&T in the United States. Mr. Lipson's previous appointments include CEO of the Campus Computer Corporation as well as performing network consulting for a variety of Fortune 500 companies.

Mr. Lipson is an honors graduate of the State University of New York at Albany.



NEWS & EVENTS

January 2012 Customer Testimonial
"Anyone can come in and point to where the problem is, but N&ST was part of the team and worked just like we did. They were working consultants which is exactly what a small to medium size utility needs." - Responsible Entity in the SERC region
February 2012 Customer Testimonial
"I have never seen our technical staff actually ask for the same consultants again and again!" - Responsible Entity in the SPP region
March 2012 Customer Testimonial
"N&ST never sat around waiting for us to tell them what to do and came to us when they had questions, but never overburdened us. We are looking forward to working with them again in the future!" - Responsible Entity in the ERCOT region
4/19/2012 - FERC approves Version 4 of the NERC CIP Standards
As many of you are aware, CIP Version 4 was on this morning’s agenda at FERC’s public meeting.  This morning, FERC approved agenda item E-6 without comment.  For your information, HERE is the item from FERC’s meeting summary.