Dr. Wade Baker is a Co-Founder of the Cyentia Institute, which focuses on improving cybersecurity knowledge and practice through data-driven research. He’s also a professor in Virginia Tech's College of Business, teaching courses for the MBA and MS of IT programs to help prepare the next generation of leaders. Prior to this, Wade held positions as the VP of Strategy at ThreatConnect and was the CTO of Security Solutions at Verizon, where he had the great privilege of leading Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) research team for eight years.