Pinky is a part time volunteer checkout operator, and full time Chief Pessimist at Phronesis Security having defected to Infosec from network engineering two and a half decades ago.

He quickly realised that in Infosec, his prior experience as a tarot card reader and nightclub bouncer was of more practical value than his ability to troubleshoot BGP issues

Pinky is something of a KoolAid sommelier with several certificates from SABSA, GSEC, CISSP adorning his mothers fridge.

He is a well seasoned (mostly salt) speaker, a passionate advocate of healthy cynicism and can often be found on LinkedIn trying to predict the future, whilst suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune 500’s whilst taking arms against a C suite of potential trouble makers.