Chip Crane

Chip Crane has extensive work experience in the field of information security and technology sales. Chip started their career in 1996 as a Manager of Information Security at Ahold and Ahold Information Services. Chip held this position until 2005. In 2005, Chip became the Chief Information Officer at Parkseed, a Don Hachenberger Company. Chip then joined IBM in 2006 as a Security Sales Engineer and worked there until 2009. From 2009 to 2013, they worked at IBM Security Solutions as the East IBM Technical Sales Leader. In 2013, Chip returned to IBM and held various leadership roles, including IBM Southeast Security Sales Leader, IBM North American Security Solutions Deployment Leader, and Cybersecurity Business Unit Executive. From 2019 to 2020, they served as the Cloud and Red Hat Synergy Leader, focusing on product and services sales for Application Modernization and SecDev programs. Recently, Chip has been working as the IBM Principle Security Technical Specialist Manager and currently holds the position of IBM Americas Technical Security Leader.

Chip Crane's education history can be summarized as follows:

In 1987-1991, Chip Crane attended the University of South Carolina but did not obtain a degree.

In 2013-2014, they completed the IBM Mini MBA program.

In 2014, they attended the IBM Business Industry and Insight Class at the Harvard Club of Boston, but no degree or field of study was specified.

In 2015, they completed the IBM Sales Acceleration Class and the IBM Financial Selling course, both offered by IBM.

In 2016, they took a Negotiations Class at K&R.

In 2017, they obtained a BVL Certification in Executive Leadership Development from IBM Breakthrough Value Leadership at the Harvard Club of Boston.

In terms of additional certifications, Chip Crane has obtained the Level III- Selling Professional Certification and Advanced Sales Coaching from IBM in 2019 and 2018, respectively.

Chip also holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification from (ISC)², which they obtained in August 2021.

In November 2022, they earned the Security Randori - Attack Surface Management Technical Sales Intermediate certification from IBM.

There are several other certifications listed, such as Business Industry and Insight, Cloud and Cognitive Patterns, Corperate Strategy, Business Industry Insights, and Breakthrough Value Leadership, and IBM Executive Insight Selling, but no specific information regarding their institution or completion dates was provided. Additionally, they hold the Retail Insights and Solutions - Gold certification from IBM, but no information about the date of completion was given.