Ed Adams is a software executive with successful leadership experience in various-sized organizations that serve the IT security and quality assurance industries. As President of Security Innovation, Mr. Adams applies his security and business skills, as well as his pervasive industry experience in the software quality space, to direct software security experts to help organizations understand the risks in their systems and develop programs to mitigate those risks. The company has delivered high-quality risk solutions to the most recognizable companies in the world including Microsoft, IBM, Fedex, ING, Nationwide and HP. Prior to Security Innovation, Mr. Adams held executive management positions at Ipswitch, Lionbridge, Rational Software, and MathSoft. He also spent several years working for the US Army and Foster-Miller (now QinetiQ).
Mr. Adams is on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Information Security Groups (NAISG) and the International Secure Software Engineering Council (ISSECO.) In 2004, Mr. Adams founded the Application Security Industry Consortium, Inc. (AppSIC), a non-profit association of industry analysts, enterprise technologists, and security leaders established to define cross-industry application security metrics and best practices. The non-profit eventually morphed into SAFECode at which point Mr. Adams got more engaged with other industry initiatives, including OWASP.
No stranger to the podium, Mr. Adams has presented to thousands at numerous seminars, software industry conferences, and private companies. He has contributed written and oral commentary for business and technology media outlets such as New England Cable News, CSO Magazine, SC Magazine, CIO Update, Investor's Business Daily, Optimize and CFO Magazine. Mr. Adams earned his MBA degree with honors from Boston College and has B.A. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and English Literature from the University of Massachusetts.