Nick Anderson
CMMC LEAD / SENIOR CONSULTANT
Mr. Anderson has nearly 20 years of experience consulting for a variety of business sectors ranging from internet startups to the financial sector, where he has developed innovative custom solutions from propriety research, modeling and trading platforms to inventory and financial control systems.
He has a key coordinator and exercise facilitator for the financial services industry’s series of “Quantum Dawn” cyber exercises, since their inception in November 2011. Sponsored by the Security Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), Quantum Dawn tests incident response, resolution and coordination processes for the financial services sector to prepare individual member firms for a full-scale cyberattack. Mr. Anderson developed exercise scenarios and is responsible for managing banks, exchanges and clearing firms during all three Quantum Dawn exercises (2011, 2013, 2015) as well as the CyberTTX series in 2014. The most recent exercise Quantum Dawn 3 had over 650 participants from over 80 financial institutions and government agencies.
He is co-founder of the Princeton RoundTable, a Princeton-area non-profit which brings together financial institutions and investors who allocate capital to alternative investments. The RoundTable’s mission is to educate sophisticated investors and develop Best Practices and Best Governance Practices for its members.