Optiv CEO and Leadership

Kevin Lynch is a seasoned executive with more than 30 years of strategic and operating experience, largely in professional and technical services, operating at scale within private and public environments, with a proven track record of delivering growth and exceptional financial returns. As Optiv’s chief executive officer (CEO) and a board member, Lynch is responsible for executing the company’s vision to challenge the status quo by delivering innovative cybersecurity solutions that create simplicity and confidence for clients around the world. Lynch joined Optiv from Deloitte, where he served in a variety of leadership roles for 20 years. Most recently, as a senior partner at Deloitte focused on substantially growing the firm’s mergers and acquisition services revenue and playing a key role in re-architecting the business. He served many of the firm’s largest clients as an overall advisory partner in the technology infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity and computing segments. Lynch was also Deloitte’s chief global officer, overseeing $1.2B of annual investment and optimizing the U.S. partnership’s global interests. Prior to Deloitte, Lynch was chief strategy officer at AECOM, a Fortune 150 global engineering and construction services firm, where he was tasked with driving growth across the company’s portfolio. Lynch was also a director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, focused on the intersection of strategy and technology. Lynch received a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Southern California and a MBA with honors from the University of Washington. He is a regular lecturer on the topics of growth and operational efficacy.

Innovative leader known for market-changing strategies and breakthrough corporate transformations in multiple countries. Twenty-two years of success for Fortune 500 companies across sectors. Ten years as a partner with Deloitte Consulting. Multiple global leadership positions. Proven ability to transfer these skills to different businesses through a participatory leadership approach, clear communication of vision, and shared accountability.

Heather Allen Strbiak is a Chief Human Resources Officer at Optiv.

Heather Rim is a global marketing and communications executive with more than two decades of experience building brands to fuel growth. As chief marketing officer for Optiv, she leads all aspects of marketing and communications to accelerate brand visibility, drive demand generation and inspire stakeholder engagement.

Rim joined Optiv from AECOM, a leading infrastructure consulting firm, where she served as chief marketing and communications officer. Previously, she held senior corporate communications, marketing and investor relations roles at companies including Avery Dennison, The Walt Disney Company and WellPoint.

Active in the community, Rim is a board member and immediate past president of the Downtown Women’s Center, an organization dedicated to ending homelessness for women in greater Los Angeles. She is also a member of the Board of Governors, Center for Public Relations Advisory Board and the Annenberg Alumni Advisory Board at the University of Southern California.

Rim earned a master’s degree in communication management from the University of Southern California and a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Azusa Pacific University.

Nate Brady has 20 years of public accounting, financial management and leadership experience. As Optiv’s chief financial officer (CFO), he is responsible for overseeing all financial aspects, including the company’s ongoing investment in expanding operations and presence across North America and Europe.

Prior to his CFO role, Brady served as chief accounting officer for Optiv, where he oversaw the company’s financial organization and provided insightful business analysis and intelligence to Optiv’s business-line managers, executives and board.

Brady has held several high-profile financial leadership positions in the cybersecurity, software and transportation industries. He joined FishNet Security in 2013 as controller and quickly ascended to chief accounting officer. While at FishNet, Brady was instrumental in steering the strategic and operational direction of the finance department beyond financial and transactional management; he further played a key role in the company’s transformation to strategic decision making based on real-time and accurate data.

During his three-year tenure as CFO for Waller Truck Company Co., one of the Midwest’s largest truckload carriers, he helped drive significant revenue and net income growth. Prior to Waller Truck, he was corporate controller for Ascend Learning, a leading-edge education technology company that serves healthcare and other high-growth career industries.

Brad Rager is a Chief Strategy Officer at Optiv.

Andrzej Kawalec is a CTO, Director of Strategy & Technology EMEA at Optiv and is based in London, United Kingdom. He has worked as Director of Innovation at Vistorm, an HP Company; Managed Services Principal at HP; and CTO, Head of Strategy & Innovation - Vodafone Enterprise Security Services at Vodafone Group. Andrzej studied at Carleton University and University of Bradford.