Tech & Main Presents

In today's episode, we will be talking with our good friend, Ralph de la Vega. Ralph de la Vega is the founder and chairman of the De La Vega Group. Mr. de la Vega is the former Vice Chairman of AT&T Inc. and CEO of Business Solutions & International. In that capacity, he had overall responsibility for the company’s integrated Business Solutions group which, at the time served more than 3.5 million business customers in nearly 200 countries and territories, including nearly all of the world’s Fortune 1000 companies. He also had overall responsibility for AT&T’s wireless business operations inMexico and DIRECTV in Latin America.

Previously, he was President and CEO of AT&T Mobile and Business Solutions, where he had overall responsibility for the company’s wireless and business services operations. Before that, he was President and CEO of AT&T Mobility. Under his leadership, AT&T Mobility became one of the world’s leading smartphone and mobile Internet providers and expanded into new growth areas such as connected cars, and home security and automation.

During his career he has held numerous executive positions, including COO of Cingular Wireless and President of BellSouth Latin America. As the COO of Cingular Wireless, Mr. de la Vega was responsible for the integration of AT&T Wireless and Cingular Wireless, following the largest all-cash merger in U.S. history at the time. As President of BellSouth Latin America, he was responsible for wireless operations in 11 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Uruguay.

He serves on the boards of American Express Company, New York Life Insurance Company, and Amdocs Corporation. He is the former Chairman of Junior Achievement Worldwide and continues to serve on its board of directors. He also served as the Chairman of the 2017 Jamboree for the Boy Scouts.

He has received numerous awards recognizing his leadership, including induction into the U.S. Wireless Hall of Fame, the Atlanta Business Hall of Fame, and the prestigious Global Innovation Award from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.

Mr. de la Vega has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Florida AtlanticUniversity (FAU) and a master’s degree in business administration from Northern Illinois University. He completed the Executive Program at the University of Virginia and received a Doctor Honoris Causa from FAU.

He is the author of the best-selling book Obstacles Welcome: Turn Adversity to Advantage in Business and Life (Thomas Nelson, 2009).

He is a native of Cuba and resides in Florida.

Please read Ralph's article that discusses board level diversity: (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/strategies-increase-board-diversity-ralph-de-la-vega/)

Get Ralph's book Obstacles Welcome: https://www.amazon.com/Obstacles-Welcome-Adversity-Advantage-Business/dp/1401605362

At Tech & Main, we want to be YOUR technology partner. Let our 20+ years of expertise help you achieve the outcomes that are best for your business: cybersecurity.  We have engineers and project managers available to assist you. Call our office at 678-575-8515, email us at [email protected] or visit us at www.techandmain.com.  Thanks for listening!

In today's episode, we will be talking with our good friend, Mitzi Hill, for a 2nd time. She is the chair of Taylor English’s Data Security & Privacy Department. She works with executive management from businesses of all sizes on data and information matters including breach response; creating policies and practices that reduce their risk of consumer privacy claims; security and privacy requirements in customer, vendor, and insurance contracts; and diligence of privacy and security matters in the M&A context. Mitzi will be sharing about CPRA, Federal Privacy Laws and Nick Saban among other things.  

You can connect with Mitzi in the following ways:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mitzihill 

Twitter: @mitzilhill

Email: [email protected].

ALS Georgia: http://webga.alsa.org (Please consider making a donation in memory of Mitzi's dad)

At Tech & Main, we want to be YOUR technology partner. Let our 20+ years of expertise help you achieve the outcomes that are best for your business: cybersecurity.  We have engineers and project managers available to assist you. Call our office at 678-575-8515, email us at [email protected] or visit us at www.techandmain.com.  Thanks for listening!

In today's episode, we will be talking with our good friend, Roger Hale for a 4th time. He is the CSO at BigID, a cybersecurity startup based in the New York metropolitan area.  Listen as Roger shares about SVCI, a group of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) that operates as an angel investor syndicate, and how they are making a difference in the cybersecurity ecosystem.

You can connect with Roger in the following ways:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rogerhale

Twitter: @haleroger

Web: https://bigid.com

Twitter: @bigidsecure

Medium: https://medium.com/bigid-on-id-privacy

Email: [email protected]

At Tech & Main, we want to be YOUR technology partner. Let our 20+ years of expertise help you achieve the outcomes that are best for your business: cybersecurity.  We have engineers and project managers available to assist you. Call our office at 678-575-8515, email us at [email protected] or visit us at www.techandmain.com.  Thanks for listening!

In today's episode, we will be talking with our good friend, Tia Hopkins. She is the Vice President, Global Solutions Architecture at eSentire, a leading cybersecurity firm based in New York City.  Tia is also the Founder and CEO of Empow(H)er Cybersecurity, is an inclusive organization focused on diversifying the cybersecurity talent pipeline by empowering, mentoring, educating, and providing career guidance and opportunities for women of color.  Listen as Tia talks about playing and coaching football, her journey in cybersecurity, being a professor at Yeshivah University and the power of happy accidents, among other things.

You can connect with Tia in the following ways:

LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/yatiahopkins

Website: www.esentire.com and www.empowhercyber.org

At Tech & Main, we want to be YOUR technology partner.  Let our 20+ years of expertise help you achieve the outcomes that are best for your business: cybersecurity, cloud or anything else.  We have engineers and project managers available to assist you. Call our office at 678-575-8515, email us at [email protected] or visit us at www.techandmain.com.  Thanks for listening!

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In today's episode, we will be talking with our good friend, Jurijs Rapoports. Listen as Jurijs talks about how security issues are the same in Latvia and around the world.

LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/jurijs-rapoports-1261bb54

At Tech & Main, we want to be YOUR technology partner.  Let our 20+ years of expertise help you achieve the outcomes that are best for your business: cybersecurity, cloud or anything else.  We have engineers and project managers available to assist you. Call our office at 678-575-8515, email us at [email protected] or visit us at www.techandmain.com.  Thanks for listening!

In today's episode, we will be talking with our good friend, Curtis Guider.  Curtis is the Director of IT for a healthcare provider.  Listen as we talk with Curtis about being a hands-on IT director and what it was like growing up in Wichita, Kansas among other things.   You can connect with Curtis in the following way: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/cdguider At Tech & Main, we want to be YOUR technology partner.  Let our 20+ years of expertise help you achieve the outcomes that are best for your business: cybersecurity, cloud, SD-WAN and data center services.  We have engineers and project managers available to assist you. Call our office at 678-575-8515, email us at [email protected] or visit us at www.techandmain.com.  Thanks for listening!

In today's episode, we will be talking with our good friend, Matt Freemyer.  Matt is a security consultant based in Atlanta, Georgia.  Listen as we talk with Matt about his experience selling cars, thoughts on cybersecurity and the impact of his kindergarten teacher among other things.  

You can connect with Matt in the following way:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/matt-freemyer

At Tech & Main, we want to be YOUR technology partner.  Let our 20+ years of expertise help you achieve the outcomes that are best for your business: cybersecurity, cloud, SD-WAN and data center services.  We have engineers and project managers available to assist you. Call our office at 678-575-8515, email us at [email protected] or visit us at www.techandmain.com.  Thanks for listening!