Daniel Kent

CTO

Fairfax, Virginia, United States35 yrs 9 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Over 25 years of leadership in technology and growth.
Proven track record in cybersecurity and AI strategies.
Successfully transformed organizations towards cloud-native solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Public Sector Technology with a focus on Cybersecurity and Cloud solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology InnovationStrategic LeadershipTechnological InnovationSolutions EngineeringTeam ManagementNetwork Engineering

Other Skills

Strategic VisionApplication DevelopmentMarketingCommunicationStrategyCloud Computing IaaSProfessional ServicesAgile MethodologiesCustomer Satisfaction (CSAT)NegotiationCybersecurityAnalyticsAIAI OpsCloud Computing

About

A dynamic executive with over 25 years leading large organizations focused on growth and technology. Mr. Kent is a proven leader, running large teams of technical sellers, sales engineers and product/solution teams. He has extensive technology and business experience which has enabled him to bring new solutions to market and grow existing markets. In the last 2 years, he has led a large development and delivery team in the secure identity market. Prior to this, he led a team of 250 technical sales specialists while carrying a multi-billion-dollar annual sales goal. Mr. Kent is experienced in delivering solutions of various technologies and GTM strategies, and knows how they intersect to deliver a profitable business while meeting the customers’ needs. His success has been dependent on his dexterity; creating sales strategies, CIO level relationships, and leading large technical sales and engineering teams. He has been quoted in the press on public sector technology trends and strategies including topics such as cloud, cybersecurity, IOT and the next generation work force. Not afraid of change, he has been an innovator and change agent for many years, driving new technological and organizational strategies into the public sector as well as his own organization.

Experience

35 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 5 mos

Current Experience

Cloudflare

Field Chief Technology Officer

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · Remote

Mr Kent is a Field CTO for Cloudflare, where he helps customers with technology strategies, emerging technologies and IT modernization. With a focus on Cybersecurity and AI, he has written dozens of articles and participated on many panels and keynotes on the these two technology areas and how they intersect.

Technology InnovationStrategic LeadershipStrategic Vision

Red river

Chief Technology Officer

Apr 2022 – Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Chantilly, Virginia, United States

Responsible for the technical direction and strategy for Red River. Reporting directly to the CEO, I was responsible for integrated technology offers and solutions to drive growth in the company. Creating technology practices around Cybersecurity and Analytics/Data/ AI (ADA), we have delivered double digit growth while supporting the 3 business units: Managed Services, Technical Solutions and Government Technology Services. Working directly with the CMO and the leaders of the business units, to launch the Cyber practice and our Zero Trust strategy in 2023. In 2024 we launched our Analytics and AI practice. Responsibilities include creating and delivering the technology strategy, managing an engineering team of 145 including the 5 technology practices, the pre-sales engineering team, and the professional services organization.

Technological InnovationTechnology InnovationApplication DevelopmentStrategic LeadershipMarketingCommunication+9

Idemia

SVP/Chief Technology Officer

May 2019 – Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Reston VA

Responsible for the technology direction and product strategy of Idemia Identity & Security N/A. In this role, I was responsible for the technology vision, product direction leading the development and delivery teams. With 450 engineers and product management, I led the engineering and portfolio transformation. Consolidating the engineering teams as well as driving to agile development and cloud native methodologies. Transforming the portfolio from producing monolithic legacy applications, to one which delivers solutions on cloud-based platforms and multi-tenant SaaS applications. These applications included biometric identification and verification systems, digital identification and proofing systems, as well as knowledge testing, and citizen credential tools. Market verticals which these solutions targeted included law enforcement, transportation and digital identification systems.

Technological InnovationTechnology InnovationApplication DevelopmentAI OpsStrategic LeadershipCommunication+9

Cisco

2 roles

US Public Sector CTO

Promoted

Aug 2004 – Jul 2019 · 14 yrs 11 mos

Partnered with the SVP of the US Public Sector Sales, and lead a team of 455 engineers and 40 managers. In this position, I have been leading the systems engineers and the technical sales specialists supporting all the US public sector customers. The technical sales teams are responsible for bringing advanced technologies to the market and carry a $2.5B in sales goal in 2018.
Responsible for senior level customer and partner interaction and escalation. As the lead technologist for Cisco US Public Sector, I maintained CIO & CTO relationships and became an escalation for those executives when needed. This culminated in achieving a Fed100 award in 2014.
During this time, I created Cisco’s public-sector strategy for Cybersecurity and Cloud. Included in that strategy was partner relationships and plans, acquisition targets, a government compliance certification program, and creating a go to market program. The outcome of this strategy included a sustained cybersecurity business of more than $400M growing double digit, and 3 FedRAMP cloud SaaS offers delivered to the Federal agencies and a DoD cloud offering. During this period, revenue grew over $1.5B.
Innovation and Organizational change: Over the last 5 years, Cisco has transformed from a primarily hardware product company to a large software company moving to subscription services. Leading this change, I introduced cloud products to market as well as created a sales force for Software and cloud. This lead the company in the understanding of the software life cycle including land, adopt, expand and renew.

Technological InnovationTechnology InnovationAI OpsStrategic LeadershipMarketingCommunication+10

Director of Systems Engineering

Jan 2004 – Dec 2009 · 5 yrs 11 mos

Partner with the SVP of Federal sales, and led a team of 135 engineers and 12 managers driving business into the Federal Government. Grew business $1.12B over that period which was 10% CAGR. Responsible for managing the technical sales teams and the systems engineers including enablement and customer escalation. Also, introduced strategies to deliver government compliance (FIPs, Common Criteria, DOD APL etc.) in our complete product portfolio. This included building the business case to invest in process to bring these products to market in a consistent and timely way.

Strategic LeadershipMarketingStrategySolutions EngineeringTeam ManagementNetwork Engineering+3