Nuspire CEO and leadership

As Nuspire's CEO, Lewie Dunsworth works closely with the leadership team to develop growth strategies and ensure the company consistently delivers on its vision, mission, purpose and strategic goals. Dunsworth is a visionary leader who is well-respected in the cybersecurity space, as both a practitioner and business leader. Bringing more than 20 years of industry experience to Nuspire, his experience and focus on innovating technology platforms-with the constant enhancement of service delivery processes-drives a vision of helping clients achieve their expected outcomes.

Prior to joining Nuspire, Dunsworth held positions including Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Executive Vice President of Global Security Services at Herjavec Group, CISO at H & R Block and Senior Vice President of Advisory Services and Managed Services at Optiv.

Dunsworth earned his bachelor’s degree in network and communications management from DeVry University and earned an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) from the University of Missouri. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

As Nuspire's COO, Greg Yarrington oversees the operations and is responsible for leading corporate operations, client on-boarding, logistics and inventory management, quality, training, program management and operational excellence across the entire business. Yarrington has more than 20 years of technology leadership experience.

Prior to joining Nuspire, he served as Global Program Director at IBM, Vice President Operations at Explorys, Vice President of Technology Services at Truven Health Analytics, and Vice President of Healthcare Technology and Infrastructure Service Management at Thomson Reuters.

Yarrington received his bachelor’s degree from Cornell and holds a Master of Healthcare Administration from the University of Michigan, a Master of Public Health from Yale and a Master of Business from SUNY Binghamton.

An accomplished innovator and premier thinker in cybersecurity and risk management with a proven track record of success, J.R. Cunningham has performed executive consulting, architecture, and assessment work across the globe and in a wide variety of industries, including finance, insurance, healthcare, education, the intelligence community, retail, and government. J.R. is noted for leveraging his IT, security and business acumen to build an industry respected consulting practice for Optiv. Prior to his work in security and risk, J.R. directed technology operations at MarketWatch.com, one of the world’s most visited websites. As VP of Strategic Solutions at Herjavec Group, J.R.’s areas of expertise include (i) building & running security programs (CISO & CIRO), (ii) Security Strategy Assessment & Consulting, (iii) Cyber Practitioner & Sales Force Leadership and (iv) creating successful product & services pipelines through strategic consulting.

As Nuspire's CRO, Joe Breen leads strategy and execution of all go to market and client engagement activities for bookings and revenue creation. Breen has a 20-year history scaling and building repeatable managed security services, client engagement outcomes and high growth revenue creation engines.

Prior to joining Nuspire, Breen led sales teams for Dell SecureWorks, Dell MessageOne, Simeio Solutions and PointClear. While at SecureWorks, Breen helped grow revenue from $1M to $166M leading to a $650M acquisition by Dell. Breen also drove consecutive year-over-year (YOY) record breaking booking growth at Dell MessageOne and PointClear and 33% YOY booking growth at Simeio Solutions.

Breen graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Management (Dean’s List) from the University of Memphis and attended Georgia Tech’s Scheller Graduate School of Business.

As Nuspire's CSPO and SecOps leader, John Ayers is responsible for organizational leadership specific to technology and security innovation, operations and threat intelligence. Ayers ensures the alignment of business and managed security product strategy across all domains of information networking and security.

Prior to joining Nuspire, Ayers was the Vice President of Product Management at Netsursion. He focused on proprietary software and product development of next generation cybersecurity solutions and SD-WAN. Ayers served as the Senior Director of Product Management for Global Enterprise Security Services at Level 3 and previously worked at Qwest and CenturyLink. In addition, Ayers served as a U.S. Army police officer and in federal law enforcement with special training in conflict resolutions and closed protection.

Ayers currently serves on product advisory councils for FireEYE, Palo Alto, Sophos, Cisco, Intel-McAfee and Symantec.

As Nuspire's CFO, Ken Carson is responsible for the overall financial strategy and direction of the organization in addition to leading human resources and other administrative functions. Carson has more than 20 years of finance and accounting experience, specializing in businesses experiencing rapid growth.

Prior to joining Nuspire, Carson held roles as a Vice President of Finance inside Walmart’s e-commerce division and served as COO and CFO of specialty retailer Moosejaw for over ten years. Additionally, he held roles as the Controller for Murray’s Discount Auto Stores and was a manager in Ernst and Young’s audit practice.

Carson received his bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Michigan State University and became a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in 2000.

Matthew Corney is a CTO at Nuspire and is based in Cincinnati Area.

I find fulfillment by curating exceptional talent and leading to build unique, innovative solutions. I believe that success is only found by constantly adapting and challenging existing thoughts and ideas. I work to combine my history of information security along with my passion for research and development to lead teams to create elegant solutions that ride the cutting edge of information technology.