Meet the Team
Completion of CyberFortress was not only made possible by combining the best in backup and recovery solutions. We’ve brought together a deep, talented leadership team, marked by industry experience, innovation and success.
Huw Edwards
Chief Executive Officer
Huw is CEO and Board Director of CyberFortress, a global company providing backup built for the world’s best recovery. Previously, he was Chief Financial Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, and a Director on Board for Jungle Disk. Prior to acquiring Jungle Disk from Rackspace Huw worked as a Senior Management Associate at Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund with $160bn under management. At Bridgewater he was Manager of Portfolio Compliance & Reporting within the front office, which included responsibility for Daily Returns reporting to the CIOs and for Bridgewater’s quarterly Form PF filings to the SEC. He also led front office efforts to outsource regulatory reporting activities to a third party. Before Bridgewater, Huw joined Rackspace after business school where, after a period leading acquisitions and strategic projects in the Corporate Development & Strategy team, he became the GM of Jungle Disk responsible for day-to-day operations. Earlier in his career he invested in and oversaw MBO and growth investments as a private equity investor at Bridges Ventures, and implemented hedging and risk management solutions for corporate clients while at Goldman Sachs. In addition to his role at CyberFortress, Huw is an executive coach to CEOs founders and entrepreneurs. Huw received his MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Ford Scholar (awarded to the top ranked student) and Baker Scholar. He also holds undergraduate and masters degrees in Mathematics from Oxford University.
George Israel
VP of Product, Engineering & Information Systems
George is a seasoned product leader with over 20 years of expertise in product management, storage, and cloud technologies. He has a proven track record of driving product strategy, leading cross-functional teams, and delivering innovative solutions that enhance customer experience and drive business growth. George's experience spans industry giants such as EMC, Amazon, Rackspace, Dell, and Cisco. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an M.B.A. in Marketing from Cornell University.
Scott Graham
Vice President Technical Operations
Scott serves as vice president of technical operations at CyberFortress, a position he previously held at Jungle Disk. He was formerly vice president of network operations and customer service for cloud backup at J2 Global, managing over 100 data centers globally and responsible for all cloud services’ technical operations. Before J2, he was director of enterprise infrastructure services for iRobot, driving the migration of all computing and mission-critical applications to the cloud. Scott brings over 30 years of senior-level experience to managing infrastructures and cloud strategies for global companies supporting customer-facing applications.
Ryan Tate
Chief Financial Officer
Ryan has 20 years of experience in finance and accounting; most recently serving as Chief Financial Officer for Tradeshift, a cloud-based supply chain platform company. Prior to Tradeshift, Ryan spent 12 years at Rackspace in roles spanning SEC reporting, investor relations and general corporate accounting functions. He served as the company’s Corporate Controller working closely with the Private Equity owners on transformation initiatives and he helped lead the company through its August 2020 IPO. Ryan began his career in public accounting at KPMG where he was an Audit Manager working with both public and private clients. Ryan, who is based in San Antonio, is a CPA and holds an M.S. Accounting from Trinity University.
William Alberts
General Counsel
William serves as general counsel and secretary at CyberFortress, a post he held for Jungle Disk. Previously, he served on the global legal team at Rackspace as general counsel, senior vice president and secretary. He led efforts to take Rackspace public in 2008 and through their $4.3 billion private transaction in 2016. During his tenure, he grew a legal team from four generalists to 45 functional specialty personnel. Before that, William was counsel at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld, LLP, a global law firm of over 900 lawyers, where he specialized in corporate governance, M&A and securities law.
Amanda Matthews
Vice President of Customer Experience
Amanda serves as Vice President Customer Experience, having previously held the Vice President of Business Operations position for Jungle Disk. She has an impressive history for surpassing goals and positioning businesses for success by building highly accomplished teams dedicated to operational excellence. Before Jungle Disk, she led multiple customer support teams at Rackspace focused on elevating the customer experience. She has an innate ability to quickly identify and actualize ideas, employing shrewd strategies to maximize organizational capabilities, operations, service offerings and team performance.
Steve Priolo, CCEP, CCEP-I
Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
Steve serves as the Vice President and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at CyberFortress, where he oversees the ethics and compliance programs for the company. This includes building the corporate ethics and compliance program, privacy program and security compliance program. Prior to joining CyberFortress, Steve spent 16 years at Rackspace where he built their ethics and compliance program and oversaw multiple components of the enterprise compliance program, including their law enforcement compliance program. Steve has also served as an Adjunct Professor at St. Mary’s School of Law teaching the Compliance, Ethics and Risk course for the Master of Jurisprudence program.Our Team is Growing
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