John Loveland
Washington DC
Overview
John has spent 25 years in cybersecurity — starting as a consultant delivering information risk, forensic technology, and eDiscovery solutions at Navigant and PwC, then building and running practices at scale. He was co-leader of Verizon's $500M+ global cybersecurity business, overseeing strategy, product, and go-to-market across North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. He later served as president of a $100M incident response and managed services firm. Earlier in his career he founded one of the first commercial cybersecurity incident response companies, grew it, and sold it. For the past s
About
John has spent 25 years in cybersecurity — starting as a consultant delivering information risk, forensic technology, and eDiscovery solutions at Navigant and PwC, then building and running practices at scale. He was co-leader of Verizon's $500M+ global cybersecurity business, overseeing strategy, product, and go-to-market across North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. He later served as president of a $100M incident response and managed services firm. Earlier in his career he founded one of the first commercial cybersecurity incident response companies, grew it, and sold it. For the past several years he has been working at the intersection of cybersecurity and AI — advising and building commercial functions for AI-native security platforms through his firm, Lierre Advisors. John is a contributing author to Hacking Exposed: Computer Forensics and A Guide to Forensic Accounting Investigation, and has been published in Forbes, Security Magazine, and Corporate Counsel. He is regular speaker at events such as RSA, Gartner Security Summit, and Legalweek. John is passionate about creating opportunities for inner-city youth and supporting charitable causes. He has served on the several charitable boards to this end and was a long-time little league baseball coach. He holds an MBA from UCLA and a BBA from Texas A&M University.