Meet the Team

Mac McMillan

CEO & President

Mac

Mac McMillan is co-founder and CEO of CynergisTek, Inc., a top-ranked information security and privacy consulting firm focused on the healthcare IT industry. He is a member of CHIME’s AEHIS Advisory Board, recognized as a
HIMSS Fellow and former Chair of the HIMSS Privacy & Security Policy Task
Force. McMillan brings nearly 40 years of combined intelligence, security countermeasures and consulting experience from positions within the
government and private sector and has worked in the healthcare industry
since his retirement from the federal government in 2000.

McMillan is a thought leader in compliance, security and privacy issues in healthcare, contributing to several industry trade publications and blogs. He was recognized in Becker’s Hospital Review’s lists of influential healthcare IT leaders by both its writers and readers in 2015, and was named one of the top 10 health information security influencers of 2013 by HealthInfoSecurity. He currently sits on several other advisory boards, including HIT Exchange HealthTech Industry, HCPro Editorial Advisory Board HealthInfoSecurity Editorial Advisory Board and HealthCare’s Most Wired™ Survey Advisory Board. McMillan also presents regularly at industry association events, such as CHIME, HCCA, HIMSS and AHIMA, and was a contributing author to the HIMSS book, “Information Security in Healthcare: Managing Risk.”

McMillan served as Director of Security for two separate Defense Agencies, and sat on numerous interagency intelligence and security countermeasures committees while serving in the U.S. government. He holds a Master of Arts degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College and a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from Texas A&M University. He is a graduate of the Senior Officials in National Security program at the JF Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a 1993/4 Excellence in Government Fellow.

Paul Anthony

CFO & Corporate Secretary

Paul enjoys fly fishing but doesn’t catch much

Paul joined CynergisTek in 2005 as Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary. Paul is a Certified Public Accountant and an expert in financial management, investor relations, tax, treasury and risk management with over 20 years of professional services experience with worldwide enterprises, publicly traded companies and start-ups. His career has included time with KPMG Peat Marwick LLP and IBM.

Paul Anthony earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Northern Illinois University.

Ben Denkers

Chief Innovation Officer

Ben is addicted to smoking…BBQ

Ben Denkers is the EVP of Operations at CynergisTek where he is responsible for supporting growth, ensuring effective and efficient service delivery, and achieving the highest levels of client and employee satisfaction for CynergisTek’s security, privacy and compliance services. Denkers has nearly 20 years of experience in information security and consulting that includes markets such as finance, automotive, energy, manufacturing, and healthcare. With the threat landscape changing daily, this breadth of experience provides a unique perspective to the industry specific risks organizations face. Prior to CynergisTek, he was the VP of North America Consulting at Cylance.

Throughout his career, Denkers has built an extensive track record of success delivering the vision, key leadership, and strategies to take business performance and IT security to new levels of performance. He has been recognized for building, training, and optimizing team productivity. His strong focus on providing the operating framework, training and development, and decisive leadership has empowered his teams to achieve tremendous success and drive business growth.

As a leader, Denker’s has partnered with stakeholders across all levels to build consensus for unified approaches to achieve ambitious business and financial objectives. He has spearheaded the development and implementation of numerous programs and services that have become key revenue generators and/or operational components for several organizations.

Rafael Lammie

VP People and Culture

Rafael is probably the world’s worst surfer

Rafael Lammie is the Vice President, People and Culture for CynergisTek. In this role, Rafael establishes the company’s people strategy that drives business and employee performance. He is responsible for attracting, engaging, developing, and retaining talent that enables CynergisTek to perform at the highest levels. Rafael develops and oversees HR and business programs, including talent acquisition, culture integration, performance management, leadership development, compensation, benefits, training, business intelligence, predictive analytics, and strategic insights.

Rafael brings extensive experience in building and delivering innovative people solutions, developing, and managing global teams that operate in an agile way, and helping to build a high-performance culture that promotes diversity and inclusion. Before joining CynergisTek, Rafael held senior leadership roles where he was responsible for all aspects of Human Resources including alignment of the HR function and broader employee base with corporate strategy. He served in management roles for UPS, Intertek Group plc, and HID Global.

Rafael holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Colorado State University, along with a master’s in organizational management and undergraduate degrees in behavioral psychology and social science. He is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt.

Marti Arvin

Thomas Grahm

Thomas has survived almost every natural disaster including Volcanic Eruptions!

Dr. Thomas Graham, PhD serves as the CISO for CynergisTek, and is responsible for all internal security items for CynergisTek, Redspin, and Backbone. Thomas is the chief architect of Redspin becoming the first authorized CMMC C3PAO. Prior to this, he supported the Defense Health Agency in a variety of roles where his team received a FedHealthIT award for innovation presented at the National Press Club in Washington, DC and received official Naval Commendations supporting the U.S. Navy. He currently holds MBA and MS-Technology Systems degrees, along with his PhD in Information Assurance.
 
Thomas has received CISSP and HCISPP designations, along with other industry recognized certifications. He also serves on the MIS advisory board for East Carolina University and has spoken previously at the 2021 National Cyber Summit, 2021 CS2 Austin, 2019 ISC2 Security Congress, and other industry recognized conferences. When he has downtime, he enjoys adding to his 15K+ comic collection and spending time with his family.

Carrie Mulcahy

VP of Marketing

Carrie has been to 48 countries

Carrie Mulcahy is the Vice President of Marketing at CynergisTek and is responsible for building and advancing the company’s brand and brain trust to expand CynergisTek’s reach in the cybersecurity, privacy and compliance space. Carrie joined CynergisTek in 2014 and prior to her role as vice president, she led the company’s digital marketing, service development, channel partner management and sales enablement efforts. Carrie’s “why” to her career success is that she enjoys challenges and likes to fix things, not with her hands but through thinking creatively and with a fresh perspective.

Carrie has over 15 years of experience leading B2B sales and marketing teams in complex and technical verticals including nutritional ingredient, government and education industries. In her previous roles, Carrie was responsible for building marketing and sales teams, expanding into new markets and creating a digital presence leading to improved client satisfaction, brand awareness and return on investment of marketing spend. Carrie is based in San Clemente, CA, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Consumer Affairs from The Ohio State University.

Dave Bailey

CISSP — Vice President, Healthcare Services

Dave plans to retire smoking BBQ and singing

Dave is Vice President of Healthcare Services and leads the managed validation, professional and consulting services for the healthcare business. Prior to his role at CynergisTek, Dave served as the Director of Technology and Security at Mary Washington Healthcare, where he was responsible for technology leadership and served as the HIPAA Security Officer. Dave received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from Wilkes University and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Dave has over 12 years of healthcare cybersecurity experience and more than 12 years of experience serving in the Air Force, and supporting the federal government in both small and large business as a cybersecurity professional.

Steve Rivera

SVP of Sales

Steve attended high school with Ben Stiller

Steven has over 24 years of experience in the Information Technology industry, 22 of which were spent specializing in information security design, development, and deployment. Steven has functioned in various roles from Executive Sales Leader to Principle Consultant in numerous engagements with assignments encompassing corporate and program management, computer security and network operations, and executive-level consulting. Steve has led sales & marketing organizations for two of the Gartner Magic Quadrant leaders in MSSPs, Verizon and Trustwave.

Areas of special interest to Steve include sustainable and resilient security operations, data security and privacy, leadership development, and sales management. Steven has been a speaker at Healthcare, Energy/Utility & Financial Services conferences, and frequently is asked to address clients regarding security trends and data breach intelligence.

Walter Zuniga

VP of IT Audit Services

Walter is an experienced Cyber Risk Professional with deep technical expertise and business Industry knowledge with a long record of successfully advising local, national and multi-national clients with their Cybersecurity, IT audit, and privacy needs.

Marti Arvin

VP of Privacy & Compliance

Marti Arvin brings more than three decades of operational and executive leadership experience in the fields of compliance, research and regulatory oversight in academic medical and traditional hospital care settings to her position in CynergisTek. Arvin leads strategic business development around compliance services and utilizes her industry recognized expertise in health research to inform the development of privacy and security services to meet that communities underserved needs. She is a nationally recognized speaker and contributor to the thought leadership around healthcare compliance and research, and contributes to CynergisTek’s industry outreach and educational programs. Arvin has extensive experience in building and managing compliance and research programs.

Arvin previously served as the Chief Compliance Officer for Regional Care Hospital Partners and the UCLA Health System and David Geffen School of Medicine. She has a legal background from obtaining her J.D. and holds CHC-F, CCEP-F, CHRC and the CHPC certifications. She is recognized as an expert on compliance and privacy issues from her published articles, lectures and presentations at national conferences. She was a board member to the Health Care Compliance Association between 2008 and 2011 and was on the Compliance Certification Advisory Board for over eight years. She also served on the certification committee for the CHC, CHC-F, CCEP, CCEP-F, CHRC and CHPC.