Cyber Advisory Excellence Awards

Jason Collins has built cybersecurity into a core capability at FIT Technologies, both inside the company and across the many client organizations he advises. As Chief Information Security Officer, Jason safeguards FIT’s internal environment while serving as a virtual CISO to a portfolio of top clients, helping them build mature and sustainable security strategies. He grew FIT’s security practice from no dedicated revenue in 2023 into a comprehensive suite of services with rapid client adoption. Known for pairing deep technical expertise with a calm, business-first approach, Jason translates evolving frameworks and emerging threats into practical guidance that executives and boards trust.

Reut Weitzman is a strategic security leader who builds transformational services that evolve with new risks and threats. As Director of Cyber Resilience and Response at Check Point, Reut recently created a unified operational unit that brings research-driven intelligence, readiness, detection, and response into one coordinated lifecycle, and pioneered the Secure AI Advisory Service, an AI governance and maturity assessment offering delivered through a GRC platform. With more than 20 years of cyber experience and a global practice spanning Fortune 100 companies, she advises technology teams, management, and boards on proactively building cyber-resilience. Known for inclusive leadership, Reut has formed a highly technical team of security professionals across the globe.

Abacus is a global managed IT and cybersecurity service provider built for highly regulated industries. Through deep compliance expertise, AI orchestration, and future-ready innovation, all grounded in a steadfast commitment to client service, Abacus empowers financial services and healthcare organizations to operate securely, efficiently, and at scale.

With capabilities spanning IT operations, multi-cloud management, incident response, and beyond, Abacus is Always Ahead. Turning disruption into direction, they advance and safeguard the critical technologies that power lives and livelihoods. The firm serves clients across regulated markets worldwide, with a global headquarters in New York City and EMEA headquarters in London. For more information, visit abacustechnology.com.

Tinuola Anthonia Tomori is a rising cybersecurity governance, risk, and compliance leader who pairs technical depth with a commitment to developing the people around her. Over the past six years, Tinuola has led GRC and project management initiatives that strengthen organizations’ security posture through ISO 27001 implementation, third-party risk management, cloud security, and regulatory compliance across standards including GDPR, PCI-DSS, and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Beyond her professional work, she is an Academic Mentor with GRCAfriq, where she has guided more than 100 aspiring professionals into cybersecurity and technology careers. A vocal advocate for security awareness and for greater diversity in the field, Tinuola is using cybersecurity as a force for positive change.

Ann Westerheim, PhD is the Founder and President of Ekaru, a Technology Service Provider of cybersecurity and IT services for small and medium businesses in the greater Boston area. Ann is an accomplished technology innovator and leader with three engineering degrees from MIT. She has twenty years of high tech experience in research, advanced development, product development, and as an entrepreneur. Her career has spanned a vast range of technology endeavors including research in thin film semiconductors and superconductors, microprocessor fabrication, development of early Internet medical applications, and now focusing on the application of technology in business. She is the author of “Cybersecurity for Main Street: Cyber Fit in 21 Days” and she has an avid focus on the “last mile” of technology and decreasing the digital divide.

Xceptional is a technology solutions partner that has made cyber resilience a standard part of how its clients operate, embedding security into every layer of IT rather than treating it as a bolt-on service. At the core of its approach is a Virtual CISO offering that gives growing organizations executive-level security leadership without the cost of a full-time role, translating technical risk into business context through structured risk assessments, security roadmapping, policy development, and ongoing advisory support. That governance-driven model is reinforced by a security-first managed services practice, with proactive monitoring, identity and vulnerability management, and endpoint protection built into daily operations. The result is clients who move from reactive security to intentional, defensible strategies, more secure and better prepared.

Kristina Oršanić Kopić has spent more than two decades on the security side of banking, IT services, and telecom, taking on a CISO role in Croatia before the country had widely recognized the function. As a Cybersecurity Advisor at Combis, part of the Hrvatski Telekom and Deutsche Telekom Group, Kristina now leads work at the company’s Centre of Excellence for the Cynomi vCISO platform. She brought the vCISO service to market in Croatia in 2025 and has been integral in driving adoption of the Croatian Cybersecurity Act across Deutsche Telekom customers, turning one national transposition into a repeatable model for other markets. Much of her time goes to something with no revenue line: explaining cybersecurity to boards and small companies who have not yet decided it concerns them, and reminding them that the job is never finished.