Jim O’Connor serves as President & Chief Executive Officer of Surety where he leads the company in executing against its business and technology strategies and oversees the day-to-day management of the company. Mr. O’Connor has over twenty years of executive management and leadership experience primarily in information systems security-related companies. He joined Surety in 2003 and initially served as Vice President of Engineering before assuming his current role as President & CEO.
Prior to joining Surety, Mr. O’Connor served as Vice President of Engineering at TruSecure Corporation, a global leader in managed security services (now part of Verizon Business). Prior to TruSecure, Mr. O’Connor was Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Parabon Computation, where he led the development of the Frontier distributed computing platform. Before that, Mr. O’Connor was Vice President of Software Development at CyberCash, where he managed the development and deployment of several pioneering e-commerce products. As Vice President of Engineering at Infosystems Technology, Inc., Mr. O’Connor led the development of Trusted Rubix, a high-assurance, multi-level secure database server product. He also held engineering and research positions at Software Productivity Consortium and Unisys Defense Systems, respectively.
Mr. O’Connor holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Maryland at College Park, and a Bachelors degree in Financial Management from The Catholic University of America. He has published numerous papers in technical journals and proceedings in the areas of software engineering, database management and computer security. Mr. O’Connor holds a Certified Information Security Professional (CISSP) credential and is an active member of IEEE.