Meet the Team!

Global Director

In addition to leading CPTC, Justin is the Director of the Cyber Range and Training Center in RIT's Global Cybersecurity Institute. He is also a combat veteran and currently serves as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve.

Competition Director & Founder

Lucas helps to organize the volunteer team, develop competition systems, coordinate with the various teams, and has a deep experience with cat herding. By day, he’s also a Senior Manager at Security Risk Advisors and moonlights as an Adjunct Professor at RIT’s Global Cybersecurity Institute.

Competition Director & Founder

Tom handles the communications and operations on a day to day basis and does a bit of everything wherever he is needed. By night, he is the Director of Technical Operations at Hurricane Labs and is an expert on everything Splunk. You'll also find him at Baldwin Wallace University as an Adjunct Professor.

Competition Director

You'll find Meredith Kasper lurking around many areas of the competition helping out with everything from registration to competition integrity. When she isn't busy helping organize CPTC, she can be found at Hurricane Labs as their SOC Technical Account Manager, Consultant, and Office Cat.

Co-Director, Applications & Founder

Jason is the wizard that ensures all of the various applications come together and work, mostly, coherently. Or at least as much as they would in the real world. He is part of the AI Exploit team at Salesforce.

Co-Director, Applications

Creating a new company annually, including the applications, is no easy task. Working as a team with Infrastructure, our Applications leads develop new systems and apps each year. He is also a Senior Penetration Tester at a security consulting firm and OffSec tool developer.

Co-Director, Infrastructure

Austin develops the networking, servers, and systems within the competition environment. Working with the applications team, they build the targets students will attack during the penetration test. Leveraging his background in both Red Teaming and Blue Teaming he creates as many fires as possible from real world experiences.

Co-Director, Infrastructure

Wizard, Infrastructure

From hacking thirty year old ATMs to writing entire PLCs in PHP, Forrest is the guy who is usually putting together the crazy, insane, industry specific systems within the competition environment each year. By day, he works for RIT as the main engineer and architect of the CyberRange at the GCI.

Director, Monitoring

Always watching.

Director, Special Projects

Dan has been with the competition since its second year and has worn many hats in terms of getting this production ready over the years. From inventing the OSINT part of the competition and expanding this to the World teams, Dan has also restructured our scoring rubrics and redesigned many aspects of interaction and support throughout the competition. Now he has returned to technical development leading the special projects challenge development team. He is also the author of Adversarial Tradecraft in Cybersecurity.

Director, World

While the entire team is working to support students in InfoSec, Rachel is bringing a focus on preparing competitors to move into the workforce, especially in finding OSINT to use against a target. So, if you are finding client data on the Internet, it was the OSINT team; however, they also develop all of the content, documents, and data that makes the client environment real. She is also a Red Team Operator working in the Finance industry.

Director, Scoring

Formerly, our wizard behind our Open Source Intelligence, he has taken over as the Scoring Czar, ensuring continuity for the team and continued iteration of the scoring criteria. He is also the Director of Security at Ladder Insurance.

Director, Engagement

You can find Rocio around CPTC with her Camera attached to her hand or using her passion for Chaos Management! Behind the scenes she works to make the competitor experience is enjoyable and pushes for inclusive and welcoming competition!