Gabe is a technologist at heart who has been tinkering from an early age. In addition to running ISSA-UK, he has worked in 14 countries and across numerous sectors, bootstrapped a cloud cryptocurrency crowdfunding platform into profitability, built security programs from the ground up, led multi-million pound security service transitions and performed in-depth security engineering in SCADA environments. His current passions involve security economics, shifting security left, and the changing perception of information security in both business and the public eye.