Senior Director Technology & Solutions

ADT has been providing physical security to businesses and residents for over 145 years. As a leader in security, we’re constantly adapting to meet the needs of our customers and evolving the products and services we offer to stay on the cutting edge of security. This is why ADT Cybersecurity started its Channel Program.

Through our Channel Program, we’re meeting the cybersecurity requirements of small and mid-sized businesses with comprehensive, enterprise-level cybersecurity infrastructure and solutions – at a cost that’s affordable to the SMB market and easy for our partners to incorporate into their RMR service model. Our partnership provides opportunities for partners to grow and scale, while protecting their customers from these threats.

We do all the heavy lifting from our US-based SOC and NOC operations, staffed with diversely skilled and continuously trained cybersecurity experts. We operate as a seamless extension of our partners’ existing teams, equipping them with a portfolio of managed cybersecurity services to protect their customers and their networks. Businesses need a multi-layered cyber defense (aka Defense in Depth) to protect their network from the evolving threats that impact us on a daily basis. The ADT Cybersecurity Partner Program provides layers of security—ranging from proactive and preventative to network monitoring, threat detection and full-scale NOC/SOC operations—coupled with 24/7/365 monitoring by highly skilled professionals. Hackers don’t sleep, and neither do we.

Ron Joined ADT Cybersecurity upon ADT’s acquisition of Secure Designs, Inc in August of 2018. As the Senior Director Technology and Solutions Ron is responsible for the design and architecture of the systems employed by ADT Cybersecurity to deliver Cybersecurity solutions to their customers.

Ron was the founder of Secure Designs Inc., and served as the CTO, technology architect, MSS visionary and security evangelist for the company. Ron has more than 30 years of experience in the technology, channel and security fields, starting in the US Navy as part of the Naval Security Group which he served for 10 years. After transitioning out of the Navy he started work at and later owned a successful nationally recognized solutions provider business until they formed their Managed Security Services Provider in 2000.

Ron is an out-of-the-box thinker actively engaged in expanding the understanding of security and technology for businesses of all sizes. Ron's expertise as a security consultant, technology innovator and industry thought leader is in high demand with companies, business councils and technology associations. A regular speaker and writer on channel issues, technology legislation, cloud and internet security, he is particularly known for his thought leadership role in encouraging small and mid-sized businesses to protect their data and personal assets from the growing body of IT threats and breaches.

He is an active member of multiple industry advisory councils and boards and has served as the Chair of CompTIA’s IT Security Community, Member of CompTIA’s Cybersecurity Advisory Council, and CompTIA ISAO SME Champions Council.  Ron is also an active member of the North Carolina Technology Association where he has served as an Advisory Council member.  In addition to the many industry councils and boards he also provides mentorship to several entrepreneurial organizations.

Ron has won multiple industry awards and honors including the MSPmentor 250, ChannelPro 20/20 Visionaries, and the 2017 CompTIA Tech Champion award for leadership in the technology sector.