Sam Van Ryder
Sam Van Ryder is co-founder of CYBR.SEC.Community, Director of Strategic Accounts at Dragos, and an industrial cybersecurity and community advocate. With an engineering background and more than 20 years of experience, Sam is passionate about helping organizations secure critical infrastructure and reduce cyber risk across IT and OT environments.
He has worked with CIOs, CISOs, and CSOs at owner/operator organizations across energy, oil and gas, and other critical sectors to improve risk management outcomes through a consultative, customer-success-focused approach. His experience includes turning around at-risk projects and product implementations, selling to Fortune 1000 companies, building and managing sales teams and channel partners, developing sales processes and MSSP channel programs, launching new solutions and services, and establishing distribution in the U.S. and internationally.
Sam is fluent in German and Swiss German and has working knowledge of Spanish.