What is the C3PAO Advisory Council?
The C3PAO Advisory Council acts as a board of directors to coordinate the activities of the C3PAO Stakeholder Forum. The Advisory Council was initially created in June 2021 and its members are subject to elections in accordance with the C3PAO Advisory Council charter.
Current Leadership
Jared Hoskins | Chair
Founder and CEO – Summit V
Jared Hoskins is a highly accomplished, and results-oriented Executive with proven experience leading full life cycle of product and program portfolio delivery. He’s worked across a broad spectrum of industries and implemented the development of organizations cyber forces, strengthened their cyber defense, resilience, and deterrence posture.
Respected as a visionary leader for geographically dispersed & virtual teams throughout the United States with ability to instill a shared vision and provide turnaround and high-growth results across industry.
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Kevin Wheeler | Co-Chair
Managing Director – InfoDefense
Kevin Wheeler is a managing director within InfoDefense, a small assessment organization offering NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC services. He has over 20 years of cybersecurity and IT audit experience. Kevin brings cybersecurity and compliance thought leadership as well as commitment to the success of CMMC.
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Deborah Hunt | Advisor
Founder and CEO, iPower LLC
Ms. Hunt has over 30 years of successful managerial and experience in technology consulting, particularly in performance management, Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®), Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), performance improvement, quality, and compliance. As the founder and CEO of iPower LLC, she has grown the company into a leading provider of strategic management and organizational performance improvement services to the DoD, Intelligence Community, and Civilian communities. Under her leadership, iPower LLC has achieved notable quality certifications such as CMMI® V2.0 for Services ML3, ISO 9001, ISO 2000, ISO 27001, and a C3PAO Authorization for CMMC, which are evidence of Ms. Hunt’s dedication to performance standards.
Ms. Hunt’s educational background, including an M.S. in Mathematics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, has contributed to her expertise and success in the industry. Her various certifications: Cyber AB Certified CMMC Provisional Lead Assessor, Certified CMMI Institute Lead Appraiser, and Certified Program Management Professional (PMP), among others in biometrics cybersecurity and quality assurance, demonstrate her commitment to continual learning and professional development.
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Matt Gilbert | Advisor
Principal – Baker Tilly US
Matt Gilbert is a principal within Baker Tilly US, a large assessment organization. He is Provisional Assessor #19 and has been active in the CMMC-AB Working Groups since the beginning of CMMC.
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Kyle Lai | Advisor
President and CISO – KLC Consulting, Inc.
Kyle is President and CISO of KLC Consulting, a CMMC C3PAO Candidate company. He is also a CMMC Registered Practitioner. Kyle continuously assesses NIST 800-171 and CMMC compliance solutions for Defense Industrial Base (DIB) companies, especially in the Aerospace and Manufacturing industries. Kyle has over 20 years of cybersecurity experience serving as a security advisor to Fortune 500 companies, SMBs, and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD.) Kyle was a former CISO of Pactera (a Blackstone Portfolio Co.) and Brandeis University – Heller School. He was also an operations manager for DISA Cybersecurity Portal (predecessor of public.cyber.mil) and a consultant to several Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Suppliers. He has consulted for ExxonMobil, Zoom, DISA, Boeing, HP, Fidelity Investments, Microsoft, Akamai, and PwC. His cybersecurity experience spans security strategy, policies, program management, vulnerability management, penetration testing, incident response, business continuity, regulatory compliance, application security, and third-party supplier risk management. Kyle is the creator of SMAC MAC Address Changer software which over 3 million users have downloaded globally to test and address security and privacy issues. Kyle holds the top security and privacy certifications, including CISSP, CSSLP, CISA, CDPSE, CIPP/US, CIPP/G, and ISO 27001 Lead Auditor.
Scott Singer | Advisor
President – CyberNINES
CAPT, USN (retired) Scott Singer brings 30 years of military experience in both active duty and reserve rolls along with 26 years of industry experience. Most recently Scott was at PaR Systems, where he was Chief Information Officer since 2010. At PaR, Scott had responsibility for information systems, global quality, export control, security, and continuous process improvement. Previously, Scott spent 16 years with Medtronic in various leadership positions including the European Infrastructure Manager, the Vascular division CIO, and the head of global security. Scott has extensive experience with government contracting specializing in DFARS and NIST SP 800-171. In addition, Scott navigated his last company through many international export, privacy and cybersecurity matters.
Scott is the past board chair for the Minnesota Technology Association (MnTech), past President of the UW Madison NROTC Alumni Association and past board member of InfraGard. In June, he testified before Congress on the costs to small business to comply with CMMC.
Scott has an MBA in Information Systems from the University of MN, Carlson School, and BS is Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Scott is one of the first to be recognized as an authorized CMMC-AB Registered Practitioner (RP) and is the current C3PAO Advisory Council Chair.
Nathan Regola | Advisor
President – Regola Cyber
Nathan Regola, Ph.D., J.D. has over ten years of experience at architecting complex cloud and “big data” systems, while considering operational, business, and regulatory requirements. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science, an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, all from the University of Notre Dame. While working as a Senior Director and Principal Architect at one of the three largest U.S. prime contractors, Nate earned a J.D. at the George Washington University Law School evening program, where he studied technology and government procurement law. Nate was selected for the role at the prime contractor because of his previous private sector experience at large scale cloud architecture and information security so that the contractor could adopt many of the approaches used by private sector organizations to more rapidly innovate their cloud
environment automation. In that role, Nate had the opportunity to build and lead an outstanding 10+ member DevSecOps team that built and maintained automation tools to operate enterprise scale cloud environments. The team supported over twenty Information Systems via the General Support System (GSS) and used automation to implement and manage the reference architecture that Nate designed.
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Kelly Kendall | Advisor
CEO and President – KNC Strategic Services
Kelly is an executive, consultant, and military veteran with an extensive background of over 28 years of experience in Management, Consulting, Sales, Marketing, and Information Technology. He is a human swiss army knife with a depth and breadth of knowledge, skills, and abilities. Kelly is an entrepreneur, professional musician, technology geek, with a unique sense of humor and quick wit. He is fiercely dedicated to providing excellent customer service, which he named Red, White, and Blue Glove Service. He is an advocate for his clients.
Kelly has 28+ years of proven ability to interact and collaborate with multiple levels of management. He has accomplished measurable results while leading teams in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Kelly possesses a comprehensive background in Cybersecurity, Consulting, Technology, Management, Marketing, Sales, and Corporate Training derived from leading KNC Strategic Services for the last 7 years, and prior to this, through Conducting Business Consulting, Program Management and Strategic Business Development around the United States.