Craig Bowman

Formerly the Vice President of Verizon’s Advanced Solutions Division, Craig led a North America team and was responsible for Verizon's cyber security, cloud, unified communications and call centers.

Craig speaks internationally on the subject of cyber security and IT modernization and has briefed the White House, Congress, Olympic Committees, the Department of Defense, and international leaders. Verizon is currently considered the most knowledgeable source of cyber-security data breaches worldwide through the publishing of the internationally recognized DBIR (Data Breach Investigations Report).

Prior to Verizon, Craig led the Defense and International Security Division of Adobe Systems, a Fortune 500 software and cloud software provider. In that capacity, Craig was responsible for bringing Adobe solutions to market through a large sales and engineering team.   The success of the team resulted in Craig being awarded Adobe’s “Worldwide Sales Manager of the year”.

In his earlier years, Craig was a software cyber security engineer for the Defense and National Security Industry where he penetrated, tested, built and deployed secure applications, remotely managed secure IT environments, and deployed and managed secure telecommunication solutions.  He resides just outside of Washington DC with his two kids and wife of 25 years.