Paul Passey

CEO

United States31 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Founded and scaled ImagineX to 100+ employees.
Generated $25M in revenue with 109 loyal customers.
Developed a unique threat modeling approach for cybersecurity.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity and Technology Solutions Expert.

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Skills

Core Skills

CybersecurityAgile Software Engineering

Other Skills

DevOpsCloudData InsightsTechnology Platform IntegrationArtificial Intelligence (AI)SecurityVulnerability ScanningPenetration TestingCryptoweb3BlockchainVulnerability ManagementPCI DSSCISSPInformation Security

About

2x Founder: ImagineX & Logick.io BS Computer Science 25+ years in Vulnerability Management Former NetSec startup, US DoD Cyber, Deloitte, large FSI’s, Qualys, ImagineX. Seasoned business, team, and trust builder with extensive success spearheading development and delivery of cybersecurity infrastructure, products, and improvements to safeguard the safety and security of people and assets at national and international enterprise companies. Operates equally effectively as a visionary thought leader, client-facing revenue generator, and hands-on technologist. Capable of building all-new business units, product offerings, client relationships, and engineering teams from the ground up. BUILT SECURITY CONSULTING FIRM Founded and quickly scaled ImagineX from zero to 100+ employees and contractors. Ideated the firm’s vision and strategy for differentiation, value delivery, competitive positioning, security offerings, and growth. ESTABLISHED LOYAL CUSTOMER BASE In seven years, grew ImagineX from zero to 109 loyal customers that brought in $25M in booked revenue at peak in FY22. In that time, led delivery teams of 603 projects, including 25 Fortune 500 engagements. ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY PORTFOLIO Played an instrumental role in developing ImagineX’s entire solution portfolio, which includes cybersecurity, data analytics, cloud and software engineering, DevSecOps, DevOps, auditing, and other services.

Experience

Logick.io

Co-Founder & CEO

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · New York, United States

At Logick.io, we're solving a critical challenge for enterprises: how to leverage AI while maintaining complete control over your data and decisions.
Our platform provides full traceability of AI decision-making with detailed reasoning chains that meet audit requirements — essential for regulated industries like finance, healthcare, and legal services.
What makes us different? We've built the first platform that structurally separates your enterprise data from the LLM itself. Your sensitive data drives contextual AI outputs without ever being exposed to or ingested by the model. This privacy-preserving architecture is core to our patent-pending approach and ensures your data remains under your complete control.
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Qualys

VP, Global Managed Security Service Providers

Mar 2023 – Dec 2023 · 9 mos · United States

Worked with global MSSPs to implement and operationalize vulnerability management solutions at scale for thousands of customers.

Imaginex consulting

Co-Founder & Partner

Nov 2015 – Jul 2022 · 6 yrs 8 mos · Atlanta, D.C., NYC, Carolinas, Tel-Aviv

Founded the boutique consulting firm specializing in cybersecurity, agile software engineering, DevOps, cloud, data insights, and technology platform integration. The firm has offices in five major U.S. cities and generates $25M in annual revenue. Sold equity and exited in late 2022.
Built and managed highly technical cybersecurity teams (up to 10 people) to deliver technology audits, implementations, and transformations that increase visibility into common vulnerabilities and enhance cybersecurity and technology risk posture
Developed and employed a unique threat modeling approach that uses OWASP, MITRE ATT&CK, and Stride frameworks
Partnered with internal IT teams to categorize and prioritize vulnerabilities into manageable risk-based workloads by analyzing threat intelligence, organizational risk appetite, and capacity for remediation
Notable clients included Wells Fargo, Bloomberg, AIG, Bridgewater, Vanguard, Carnival, First American Title, Warner Bros., The Home Depot, and Kaiser Permanente

CybersecurityAgile Software EngineeringDevOpsCloudData InsightsTechnology Platform Integration

Qualys

Technical Account Manager

Oct 2011 – Oct 2015 · 4 yrs · Redwood Shores, CA

Guided 40+ organizations to procure, build, deploy, and operationalize robust vulnerability management programs at the leading provider of information security and compliance cloud solutions. Mastered the entire Qualys portfolio of cloud-based security solutions.
Improved remediation efforts by interjecting KPIs, metrics, trending, and prioritization to reduce risk posture
Advised teams on best practices for vulnerability management, policy compliance, PCI compliance, and web scanning

Deloitte.

Manager

Aug 2007 – Oct 2011 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Nationally

Performed information security assessments, risk analysis, and remediation for large Fortune 500 companies at the Big 4 consulting firm.
Developed and launched a new Deloitte service offering for cyber threat management and cyber defense framework strategy
Engaged by 10 Fortune 100 companies to develop their comprehensive security strategy, including vulnerability mitigation, risk management, governance, security solution integration, and both internal and external security assessments
Notable clients included Visa, Spirit Airlines, International Paper, FDIC, and Yellow Book

First citizens bank

Senior Information Security Engineer

Feb 2005 – Aug 2007 · 2 yrs 6 mos

As a member of the computer security incident response team, led vulnerability assessments and vulnerability mitigation efforts; wrote security policies, standards, and guidelines; and maintained bank intrusion detection and vulnerability alert notification systems.