Chad M. Larsen

77 Spyglass Consulting LLC

Founder & Principal Consultant

March 2026 – Present

Independent cybersecurity consultancy providing virtual CISO services, AI security strategy, offensive security (in partnership with Critical Assets), and compliance advisory. Direct engagement with enterprise clients on security program design, risk governance, and board-level reporting.

Praetorian

Managing Director & Field CISO

July 2025 – March 2026

Engaged as a CISO-level peer with enterprise clients on offensive security, AppSec, and AI-driven security operations. Worked with Engineering, Product, and Sales to ensure technical findings translated into actionable product and delivery improvements. Reported directly to the CEO with strategic ownership across Praetorian's Professional Services and Continuous Offensive Security practices.

Client Engagement & Business Development

• Led engagements that used automation and AI to keep pace with nation-state actors in detection, exploitation, and defense against vulnerabilities
• Owned go-to-market strategy and financial performance for Praetorian's High-Tech industry vertical (AI, Cloud, IoT, and Automotive)

AI & Automation

• Built the first AI-assisted workflows for the Field CISO function, shipping production systems for ROI reporting, threat intelligence, and business analytics
• Automated revenue tracking, pipeline reconciliation, and multi-repository management
• Served as HITL on AI-driven board-level deliverables, providing the strategic judgment AI alone cannot

Internal Collaboration & Team Development

• Member of Praetorian's executive leadership team
• Fed market insights from direct C-level client engagement to Product and Marketing teams
• Mentored internal staff on CISO engagement strategies, cybersecurity priorities, and AI-enabled workflow design

Thought Leadership & Industry Presence

• Represented Praetorian at industry forums, conferences, and CISO peer networks
• Led C-Suite roundtable discussions on AI-driven security strategy for CISO peer audiences
• Translated offensive security and AI/ML assessment findings into board-level risk narratives that tied remediation to business outcomes

Synopsys Software Integrity Group / Black Duck

October 2017 – July 2025 (8 years)

Senior Director, Professional Services Consulting

September 2022 – July 2025 | Synopsys → Black Duck (Oct 2024)

Managing Principal, West Coast Region

October 2017 – September 2022

Promoted from one of 12 Managing Principals to one of 3 Senior Directors globally. Led application security, secure SDLC, and software composition analysis delivery across a 400+ enterprise customer portfolio.

Strategic Influence

• Co-led company-wide delivery model overhaul, establishing the Delivery Management organization across global teams
• Built a centralized business analysis platform that informed go-to-market strategy and service viability decisions

Team Leadership

• Managed 19 direct reports across four states, including 9 Delivery Managers, with oversight of 450+ consultants globally
• Restructured the DM function from middle-management overhead into a client-facing solutions architecture role
• Led the organizational shift from individual-contributor consulting to a team-based delivery model, building out knowledge-sharing practices and a structured career and mentorship track along the way

Client Engagement

• Executive ownership of 3 of the company's top 5 strategic accounts and 137 named enterprise accounts
• Partnered with 5 Regional Sales Managers on account strategies focused on DevSecOps adoption

Leviathan Security Group

April 2013 – September 2017 (4.5 years)

Director of Technical Services

January 2015 – September 2017

Senior Technical Program Manager & Acting Director of Technical Services

April 2013 – December 2014

Senior Leadership Team member reporting directly to the COO. Grew the business from unpredictable short engagements to annual contracts, increasing average contract value by over 75%.

• Directed technical delivery across Leviathan's 35 largest engagements
• Led architectural security assessments, red-team simulations, and incident response engagements, including nation-state-level attack forensics
• Directed 38 staff members across FTEs and subcontractors
• Overhauled technical services delivery across two phases

Amazon

December 2010 – March 2013 (2.5 years)

Lead Technical Program Manager & Security Architect | Global Payments Security

Led third-party assessment and AppSec programs across Amazon's critical payments infrastructure, serving 35 teams within Global Payments Services. Security lead on the Amazon Local Register initiative. Security architect for the launch of Amazon India (amazon.in).

Amazon Inventors Award recipient for a patent in Global Payments Security. Top TPM in Payments Security (2011). Security Architect on the top 3 Global Payments initiatives (2012–2013).

Trustwave

November 2006 – December 2010 (4 years)

Senior Security Consultant | Enterprise SE | Regional BD Manager | Pacific Northwest

Delivered PCI DSS compliance, penetration testing, secure architecture, and code review across Fortune 500+ enterprise clients spanning British Columbia through Nevada.

Top-performing Security Engineer. President's Club (2009).