Leadership Advisors

Fran Landolf

Principal at Core Consulting LLC

Fran Landolf is the founder and an independent consultant of Core Consulting, LLC., which provides him a vehicle to match private sector solutions with public sector problems. Through his board and networking activities, Fran becomes aware of private-sector innovations by start-ups and attempts to make these innovations visible to the IC and Defense establishments’ missions.

Fran has performed executive coaching and leadership development for both private and public sector executives and teams. He is currently an advisor to several small innovative product companies with the potential to address both government and commercial applications. Before creating his consulting practice, Fran led public sector organizations at the National Security Agency; he was responsible for delivering time-critical services essential for informed military and National level decisions. Fran created organizations that managed the performed analysis of cryptographic systems, unknown signals, communications systems, and computer networks. They also developed and deployed the processing solutions that transformed network and communications data into a form consumable by intelligence analysts.

Fran currently serves on the Hume Center’s board at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the Cyber Incubator at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is a member of the Board of Regents and a Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. He has previously served on the Technical Advisory Group for the Senate Select Committee for Intelligence, the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science and Technology for Defense Warning, MITRE Corporation Intelligence Advisory Board, the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence at Johns Hopkins University, and on several panels of the National Security Agency Advisory Board.

Matt Harrigan

Start-Up Guy

Matt Harrigan is a twenty-five-year cybersecurity veteran. As an instrumental developer of technologies and corporate practices, he helped shape how digital security in the modern era is perceived and utilized. Mr. Harrigan worked with some of the world’s largest organizations in defense, healthcare, online services, and banking to protect their digital assets. He is an early contributing author to well-known security and compliance standards like PCI-DSS.

Matt graduated in 1992 from Northern Arizona University with a BS in Computer Science; since then, he has owned several companies and self-reports as a ‘Serial Cybersecurity Entrepreneur’.

Mitchell Levy

Global Credibility Expert

Mitchell Levy is a seasoned entrepreneur and business development specialist with a proven track record of success. With over 20 successful businesses to his name in Silicon Valley, he has established himself as a thought leader in the field. Mitchell has been a featured speaker at two TEDx events and is an international best-selling author with over 60 books under his belt. He is also an executive coach with Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and the creator of the Credibility Nation membership community. In his latest role, Mitchell will be providing strategic consulting services to Gigantor Technologies Inc for business development and marketing.

His vast experience and expertise make him a valuable asset to any organization looking to drive growth and success.