Meet our leaders
Our leaders bring the operational and business expertise needed to help organizations rethink identity security.
Jared Atkinson
Chief Technology Officer
Jared Atkinson
Chief Technology Officer
As Chief Technology Officer at SpecterOps, Jared Atkinson leads the research and development organization with a focus on understanding real-world adversary tradecraft. His team is responsible for expanding the BloodHound graph across platforms and identities, translating attacker behavior into actionable attack-path insights. He drives the creation of new BloodHound use cases that help defenders reduce identity risk by constraining attacker movement.
Tim Bender
Chief Financial Officer
Tim Bender
Chief Financial Officer
A seasoned financial executive with a track record of guiding high-growth technology companies, Tim brings deep expertise in scaling SaaS business models, financial operations and capital strategy. His expertise encompasses financial operations, strategic planning, and organizational leadership, making him a pivotal addition to SpecterOps’ executive team.
Andrew Chiles
VP of Tradecraft
Andrew Chiles
VP of Tradecraft
Andrew is the Vice President of Tradecraft at SpecterOps, where he leads the Tradecraft Research and Capability Engineering (TRACE) and Training teams. Positioned at the critical intersection of offensive research and practical application, Andrew translates complex adversary techniques into actionable tradecraft, specialized tools, and industry-leading training. His mission is to empower organizations to move beyond reactive defense by mastering—and disrupting—the attack paths used by modern threat actors.
As a former member of a specialized DoD Red Team, he has spent years simulating sophisticated adversaries to secure critical assets across the defense, federal, and private sectors. This deep operational background allows him to bridge the gap between theory and practice, ensuring SpecterOps’ clients and students receive insights grounded in real-world experience.
Andrew is a dedicated advocate for open-source and community collaboration. You can find him engaging with the community on the BloodHound Slack or follow on X at @andrewchiles.
Kelly Coffman
Chief of Staff
Kelly Coffman
Chief of Staff
Kelly is responsible for running Human Resources, Finance, and backend operations for SpecterOps. She began her career in the cyber security industry when she joined Mandiant (FireEye), where she served as their managed services coordinator and eventually the internal and external and logistical training coordinator. Before joining Specter, Kelly served as the operations coordinator with Veris Group’s Adaptive Threat Division, where she was responsible for ensuring oversight, event logistics, management, and billing for $5+ million in services annually.
Jason Frank
Chief Operations Officer
Jason Frank
Chief Operations Officer
Jason Frank serves as Chief Operations Officer of SpecterOps, driving company-wide alignment and disciplined execution. He translates strategic objectives into clear priorities, operating cadence, and measurable results across every function. He ensures leaders are accountable, initiatives advance without friction, and critical decisions convert into durable operational progress. His focus is building a high-performing organization that delivers consistent outcomes while scaling with clarity and sustainability.
Denise Goforth
VP of Sales
Denise Goforth
VP of Sales
Denise is a seasoned sales leaders with more than 20 years of experience helping enterprises secure their networks. Denise has experience at high-growth early-stage companies including Lacework and ICEBRG, as well as large established companies including Palo Alto Networks. Denise’s passion is delivering meaningful cybersecurity solutions to the market that offer measurable ROI and support the critical work of security pros.
Bryce Hein
Chief Marketing Officer
Bryce Hein
Chief Marketing Officer
Bryce leads the efforts to raise SpecterOps’ profile in identity security and help customers understand the unique advantages delivered by our experts and technology. He has three decades of experience, most recently serving as CMO at Sysdig, a cloud security company. Prior to that he was CMO at ExtraHop, helping to establish it as a category leader in network security.
John Hopper
VP of Engineering
John Hopper
VP of Engineering
John is a software engineer with 15 years of experience stretching from low-level Linux implementation work to hyper scale services an industry cloud provider. He has experience in a wide array of technologies with a focus on systems and fleet management as well as distributed databases and storage solutions. He works on personal projects on GitHub at github.com/zinic and maintains them as a hobby.
Justin Kohler
Chief Product Officer
Justin Kohler
Chief Product Officer
Justin Kohler is the Chief Product Officer at SpecterOps, where he leads the strategy and development of BloodHound and other cutting-edge security solutions. With over 15 years of experience spanning product leadership and security, he has helped organizations strengthen defenses and operationalize operations at scale. Prior to SpecterOps, Justin held leadership roles at Gigamon, ICEBRG, and Microsoft Global Security, and served as a U.S. Air Force Airborne Cryptologic Linguist. He brings a unique blend of technical expertise, business strategy, and mission-driven focus to advancing the security community.
David McGuire
Chief Executive Officer
David McGuire
Chief Executive Officer
David specializes in building enterprise adversary-focused assessment teams, which have performed thousands of engagements for large private-sector organizations and major government agencies. David has extensive experience in conducting highly specialized, large-scale adversarial operations against a variety of targets. In addition, he has built several training courses focused on red team operations methodologies. In his previous life, David was a senior technical lead for the National Security Agency Red Team, providing mission direction through numerous large-scale operations.
Rachel Pepple
VP of Brand & Growth Marketing
Rachel Pepple
VP of Brand & Growth Marketing
Rachel is a seasoned marketing leader with a proven track record of building high-performing teams and driving brand growth, market visibility, and revenue impact across high-growth and enterprise organizations. She specializes in scaling integrated marketing functions that accelerate demand generation, strengthen category positioning, and expand market share in competitive sectors including cybersecurity, AI, and climate solutions.
Elad Shamir
VP of Research and Development
Elad Shamir
VP of Research and Development
Elad Shamir is the VP of R&D at SpecterOps, where he leads research spanning adversary tradecraft discovery, product innovation, and graph expansion, with a focus on modern identity security and Attack Path Management.
With over two decades of experience in information security, Elad has dedicated most of his career to offensive research, identifying systemic security weaknesses in complex environments and developing real-world adversary tradecraft that abuses intended functionality for offensive capabilities, particularly across Windows, Active Directory, and hybrid identity ecosystems. Over the years, his research has advanced the industry’s understanding of identity-based attack techniques and defensive strategy.
Pat Sheridan
Chief Revenue Officer
Pat Sheridan
Chief Revenue Officer
With nearly three decades of sales and leadership experience in the security industry, Pat joins SpecterOps to lead its worldwide sales organization. As SpecterOps enters a transformative growth phase, Pat will spearhead global revenue strategy, enterprise partnerships, and market expansion initiatives.
Russel Van Tuyl
VP of Services
Russel Van Tuyl
VP of Services
Russel Van Tuyl is Vice President of Services at SpecterOps, where he leads the team delivering offensive and defensive security services to enterprise clients. With over 20 years of IT and information security experience and as a retired United States Air Force veteran with 25 years of service, Russel brings deep operational and technical experience to strategic leadership. He oversees service delivery quality, drives cross-functional initiatives, and provides executive insights and forecasting to support C-suite decision-making. Currently, Russel focuses on artificial intelligence and security—helping organizations secure their AI implementations, enabling red team operations with these emerging capabilities, and addressing threats through Identity Attack Path Management. He actively contributes to the security community through open-source projects on GitHub, developing tools for red team operations, and has presented at conferences including BlackHat Arsenal.
Robby Winchester
Chief Global Professional Services Officer
Robby Winchester
Chief Global Professional Services Officer
Robby is an experienced threat hunter and penetration tester. Over the course of Robby’s career, he has developed and supervised penetration testing, physical security, and breach assessments for several private-sector and government clients. Previously Robby worked for the U.S. Air Force Information Aggressors, providing full-scope network and physical red team operational assessments and further worked integrating information security operations with traditional military operations for the U.S. Air Force’s RED FLAG exercise.
Michael Wright
Chief Security Officer
Michael Wright
Chief Security Officer
Mike has over 15 years of technical experience in the field of information security and technology specializing in advanced penetration testing, secure enterprise and infrastructure architecture, and engineering. He has supported major U.S. government agencies and Fortune 500 commercial clients as a subject matter expert in technically complex cloud and on-premise environments as well as led large-scale security assessments. Mike is an experienced developer in multiple static and dynamic languages and contributes to several open-source community projects.
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