Mr. Eric Persson has over 20 years of experience as a hands-on IT Manager for multi-national companies, and over 10 years' experience in the field of process control cybersecurity and Industrial Networks. Eric comes to us from exida LLC where he is the lead Senior Cybersecurity Engineer. His primary responsibilities include performing Cybersecurity Vulnerability and Risk assessments, developing and reviewing network architectures, cybersecurity training, and assisting with the commissioning of network segmentation solutions. .Prior to that Eric was with the MTL Division of Eaton/Cooper Crouse-Hinds where he was the IT/IS Manager for the Americas, Industrial Networks Product Line Manager and Technical Support and Applications Manager for the Americas, and also spent a number of years at Gould-Modicon as a Technical Support Engineer supporting a number of products that are now Schneider PLC systems.
Eric holds a BS-CiS from Southern New Hampshire University, a Master's of IT Management, and an MBA from Franklin Pierce University. Eric is CompTIA Network+, CISSP, and CACE certified, and is actively working towards his GICSP certification.