Jonathan Tomek is VP of Research and Development at Digital Element. Jonathan is a seasoned threat intelligence researcher with a background of network forensics, incident handling, malware analysis, and many other technology skills.

Jonathan served in the United States Marine Corps. He worked at multiple threat intelligence companies, and built their threat capabilities to include identifying tactics, techniques, and procedures of malicious actors. He led several technical cybercrime and espionage teams in their initiative to enhance technical efficiency in malware analysis, malicious actor tracking, and tool development.

He is a co-founder of THOTCON, a world-renowned hacking and security conference hosted in Chicago. As a researcher and leader, he has spoken at many security conferences around the world. He has won or placed in multiple national hacking competitions, including DEFCON CTF.