Tech Edge hosted a fireside chat on Oct. 23 at Nasdaq MarketSite with Kevin Lynch, Chief Executive Officer at Optiv. The in-person interview was joined by Editor-in-Chief John Jannarone and they discussed how AI is reshaping the landscape of election security, cyber defense strategies and the concepts of technology consolidation and rationalization, among other topics.
Watch the full recording below:
About Kevin Lynch
Kevin Lynch is a seasoned executive with more than 36 years of strategic and operating experience, largely in professional and technical services, operating at scale within private and public environments, with a proven track record of delivering growth and exceptional financial returns.
As Optiv’s chief executive officer (CEO) and a board member, Lynch is responsible for executing the company’s vision to challenge the status quo by delivering innovative cybersecurity solutions that create simplicity and confidence for clients around the world.
Lynch joined Optiv from Deloitte, where he served in a variety of leadership roles for 20 years, including: chief global officer, overseeing $1.2B of annual investment and optimizing the U.S. partnership’s global interests; leading and doubling the scale of the firm’s technology, media and telecommunications industry practice; revolutionizing the firm’s strategy practice to compete and take substantial share from deeply entrenched incumbents; and as senior partner, re-architecting and substantially growing the firm’s mergers and acquisition services revenue, serving many of the firm’s largest clients as an overall advisory partner in the technology infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity and computing segments.
Prior to Deloitte, Lynch was chief strategy officer at AECOM, a Fortune 150 global engineering and construction services firm, where he was tasked with driving growth across the company’s portfolio. Lynch was also a director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, focused on the intersection of strategy and technology.
A board director for Optiv, Kevin also serves as an advisory board member for Ten Eleven Ventures. Lynch is a member of the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council, the Forbes Technology Council, CNBC’s CEO Council and is a regular lecturer on the topics of growth, strategy and cybersecurity. He has enjoyed a long career as a board-level advisor with a wide array of public and private organizations on subjects like capital allocation, emerging trends and strategic choices.
Lynch received a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Southern California and a MBA with honors from the University of Washington.
About Optiv
Optiv is the cyber advisory and solutions leader, delivering strategic and technical expertise that allows you to secure your full potential. We advise, deploy and operate complete cybersecurity programs from strategy and managed security services to risk, integration and technology solutions.
Optiv is consistently recognized by leading industry analysts such as Gartner, Forrester and IDC for our end-to-end capabilities across security consulting and MSS/MDR.
Optiv has robust capabilities across applications, data, identity, infrastructure, offensive security, operations, privacy, physical security and risk. Whichever challenge you’re facing, we’ll meet you where you are. Leverage the full power of Optiv, including reference architectures, case-backed best practices and seasoned experts, to drive positive outcomes for your business.
