Getting the Most Out of Ombud:

Chris has been a part of the proposal world for the past eight years, working for offices in the US, Hong Kong, and the UK, and her mission is to create proposals that really speak to the reader and help sell amazing products.

During this time, she's built various highly successful bid writing teams from scratch. Chris truly enjoy creating and curating proposal library content, creating new proposal strategies, writing winning proposal responses, and watching horror movies.

Stephen Edmonds is currently the CISO at Vertafore, Inc. a leading provider of insurance solutions. Previously he was the Deputy CISO & Privacy Officer at Ping Identity.

He has extensive background positioning security and privacy topics with prospects and existing customers.

Charles Clarke has over 20 years IT industry experienced gleaned from around the world. He has worked extensively in Europe, Asia Pacific and the USA.  In his role as Director of the Solutions Architects for Veeam North America his focus is helping organisations remain 'always-on' in this age of cloud data management. He leads and mentors a team of highly skilled architects as well as engaging in many Veeam internal projects, such as the RFP process, POC templates and design methodology.

In addition to industry certifications, Charles holds an Honours degree in Philosophy and a Master of Science in IT from the University of Paisley in his native Scotland. He presently resides in the North Eastern USA.