Stan Golubchik

Stan Golubchik is the current CEO at ContraForce and was previously the Head of Global Alliances & Solution Engineering at Armor Cloud Security from May 2018 to June 2020. In their role at Armor Cloud Security, they were responsible for driving Strategic business development and Go-To-Market relationships as they pertain to partnerships and broader technology ecosystems. Key focuses included identifying and incubating deeper solution integrations of comprehensive security solutions to deliver on the promise of a positive customer impact.

Working directly with Cloud Service Providers, ISVs, MSPs, and MSSPs, they maintained strategic and technical alignment with key partners in order to identify integration opportunities, co-sell, and Go-To-Market strategy to drive joint revenue opportunity. Additionally, they oversaw the Solution Engineering, Partner Solution, and Sales Enablement teams, owning the vision and overarching responsibility to execute on aligning with best architectural principles and aligning to the customer's security and business requirements.

Prior to their role at Armor Cloud Security, Stan was the Head Cloud Security Architect - Alliances at McAfee from January 2012 to April 2018. In this role, they were responsible for building and maintaining relationships with technology partners across the globe to enable technology integration and go-to-market initiatives. Stan also drove sales enablement activities such as partner training, workshops, and certification programs.

Before joining McAfee, Stan was the Network Administrator Lead, Americas at Essilor Instruments USA from December 2009 to December 2011. In this role, they were responsible for leading a team of network administrators in providing support for over 1,

Stan Golubchik has a degree in business management and molecular biology from The University of Texas at Dallas. Stan also has a ContraForce (S21) certification in entrepreneurship/entrepreneurial studies from Y Combinator. In addition, they are certified by Amazon Web Services (AWS) as an Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate and by Cisco as a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA). Stan is also certified by CompTIA as a CompTIA Security+ professional.

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