Richard B. Horton

• Provide strategic management and leadership of technology/security teams supporting multi-billion-dollar family office hedge fund.
• Direct enhancements to physical and logical infrastructure.
• Continuously improve information security posture through controls, user training, assessments, identity management, table-top exercises, policy development and threat intelligence responses.
• Liaise with front- and back-office leaders; align resources to meet business priorities while mitigating risks.
• Manage vendor relationships including ROI forecasts, value assurance reviews, negotiations and third-party risk assessments.
• Enable timely and safe adoption of cloud and AI services where appropriate.
• Mentor managers and directors for continued growth.
• Assume other duties as required.

• Directed/acquired information security program while continuing all responsibilities of Director, Systems Engineering.
• Supervised enhancements to security controls, performed gap analyses and vendor due diligence, ensured regulatory compliance, provided attestations.

• Directed growing technical team in support of investment pool operations.
• Led expansion of enterprise network and datacenters.
• Planned budgets and resource allocations.
• Aligned initiatives with evolving business needs and global conditions.
• Mentored staff for optimal growth and performance.

• Managed technology and security services for multi-billion-dollar family office hedge fund.
• Supervised datacenter operations, enterprise application deployments, network management, virtualization initiatives, DR/BCP activities and end user support.
• Led LAN/WAN design for multiple clients.
• Contributed to formal security program standup.
• Managed team members for optimal contributions.

• Managed IT services for multi-strategy private hedge fund.
• Deployed and administered client, server, networking, security and communications systems.
• Supervised a team providing end user and enterprise network support amid rapid change.
• Managed deployment and growth of LAN/WAN, Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange and related services.

• Led the early implementation of bank-wide Lotus Notes infrastructure as technical lead for Messaging Technologies team.
• Participated in TCP/IP confluence committee.
• Established server OS and application configuration standards. Liaised with technology teams from multiple business units.
• Nominated for 1997 PNC Performance Award.

Provided technical support and networking services for 2,000-user enterprise LAN environment.

Developed client installation and troubleshooting procedures for initial TCP/IP deployment.

Administered Novell Netware, Windows NT and Lotus Notes.

Supported hardware/software environment for nuclear engineering teams.

Serviced PC and peripheral hardware.