Lee Hills

CEO

New York, New York, United States18 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over $8.5 million invoiced since 2019
Built multiple high-performing security teams
Global top biller for two consecutive years

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cyber Security Recruitment Expert with extensive experience in building security teams across various industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cyber SecurityRecruitingApplication SecurityCloud Security

Other Skills

AntivirusCCDPCCNACCNP SecurityCEHCISSPCRISCComputer SecurityConsultingCyber DefenseData Protection ActDevSecOpsEthical HackingFirewallsForensics

About

10+ years of experience actively headhunting high caliber IT/Cyber Security Professionals. I am self-motivated, high on energy, and result-orientated. I have a reputation for delivering a high-quality service in extremely quick time frames. My current role is building a Cyber Security executive search practice globally for Hampton North. I have a niche specialism in multiple security verticals & a deep-rooted awareness of the market.

Experience

Hampton north

Vice President

Sep 2025 – Present · 6 mos · New Jersey, United States · On-site

Gqr

Cyber Security Recruitment Lead

May 2019 – Sep 2025 · 6 yrs 4 mos · New York, New York, United States

Key Highlights:
Individually invoiced over $2million dollars in a rolling 12 months, over $8.5Million invoiced since 2019, largest fee size $195,000
Individually built executive team consisting of CISO, Director Security Operations & Director Security Architecture for a global legal firm, project completed in 12 weeks.
Individually built a 6 person security function for a top 3 hedge fund - consisting of Cloud Security Lead, Application Security Lead, Detection & Response Lead, IAM Lead & 1 Senior Security Engineer
Individually built a 4 person Application Security team in 8 weeks for a software analytics platform, candidates expertise within manual secure code review, threat modeling, building automation into security controls.
Individually built a team of 2 DevSecOps Engineers & 2 Cloud Security Architects in 6 weeks for a private equity firm in Manhattan - Key Skills: Multi-Cloud reference architecture, CASB implementation, SecOps, SOAR, encryption & tokenization, Security automation using IaC.
My Area's of Expertise
Application Security/Product Security
Cloud Security (AWS, Azure, GCP)
DevSecOps
Identity & Access Management/AuthZ, AuthN
Linux Security
Security Assurance – Audit, Risk & GRC
Cyber Defense
Red Teaming
SOC Architecture
Incident Response, Forensics & Malware
SOAR Technologies
Vulnerability Management

Application SecurityCloud SecurityDevSecOpsIdentity & Access ManagementLinux SecuritySecurity Assurance+10

Stott and may

Associate Director - Cyber Security Recruitment

Nov 2016 – Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Greater New York City Area

Key highlights:
Global top biller 2017/2018
Global top biller 2018/2019
2018/2019 - Individually invoiced $1.5 million dollars
Retained: Individually built a 12 person security team in 4 months for global hospitality organization (Director to Engineer level across IR,VM, threat hunting and SecOps)
Retained: Individually built a 4 person DevSecOps consulting team in 8 weeks (AWS, GCP Certified professionals)
Individually built a 5 person Security Architecture team in 6 weeks (Cloud, Application, Digital & Network focus)
Individually built a 10 person Application & Product Security team for a $150M dollar funded CASB product (Security Analytics/Kubernetes/Docker/Automation/AWS,GCP & Azure focus)