Patty Wright

About Patty Wright

An Executive with a proven track record of success meeting financial and business targets within Consulting, IT Service Delivery, Operations and Support organizations; trusted advisor and leader with strong communication and team building skills that extends to clients, business partners, colleagues and staff; sales leader adept at the art of solution- and value-based selling, negotiating and training key staff to follow suit; entrepreneur with keen analytic and problem-solving skills essential to building, overhauling or nurturing a consulting organization.Performance Results• Strong growth and business plan, leading to venture capital infusion, or acquisition• Mastery of P&L management, including high contribution margins within product-centric service organizations• Ownership of services sales strategy and delivery, culminating in high growth• Design, implementation and measurement of key delivery processes, resulting in high customer satisfaction and retention• Leadership and mentoring of loyal technical resources, concluding with a track record of high retention (and following)

Experience

1. Advisory Board Member

   DirectDefense

   Jan 2024 — Present

Education

• University of Guelph

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

  1981 — 1985

Skills

• Itil
• Project Planning
• Service Level Agreements
• Leadership
• Budgets
• Security Consulting
• Professional Services
• Application Security Assessments
• Network Security
• Mobile Security
• Penetration Testing
• P&L Responsibility
• Web Application Security Assessment
• Risk Management Consulting
• Security Awareness
• Start-Ups
• Enterprise Software
• P&L Management
• Networking
• Computer Security
• Crm
• Strategy
• Security
• Saas
• Cloud Computing
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Vulnerability Management
• Information Security
• Program Management
• Information Security Management
• Data Security
• Web Application Security
• Application Security
• Internet Security
• Metasploit
• Cissp