Riley Repko
Riley Repko is the founder of Trusted Cyber Solutions (TCS), a strategy and management consulting firm focused primarily on small/mid-sized leading-edge security technologies. Riley’s strong market awareness and access coupled with his hands-on experience help to guide the selection of executives for key job placements or assist with developing and testing public and private-sector collaboration framework’s within the cyber security domain. He serves to enable awareness, access and people to fill operational challenges with solutions sought by private-sector and government leaders globally.
Mr Repko has balanced the past 27 years of service in the Air Force and Air Force Reserves with his 25 years in the private-sector. Military leadership’s assignments include space and military operations/planning, modeling and simulation, war-game and exercise support and in programming & budgeting positions at the COCOM, major command and headquarters USAF levels. In 2004, he deployed to Iraq with the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing as chief of staff and vice commander. Since 2009, he has served as a government executive as senior advisor for cyber operations and transformation for the U.S. Air Force. He was responsible for leveraging existing cyber programs and policies and developing new transformational strategies paramount to supporting priorities in air, space, and cyber operations. Riley served as a functional expert collaborating with the Department of Defense, federal government organizations, and private industry on how to effectively integrate cyber capabilities with current operational forces within the Air Force. His private-sector experience includes executive positions in global business development, channel sales and P&L management with Oracle, Siebel Systems, TRW and CACI domestically and within the Asia-Pacific region.
Having a long history of working with innovative small and medium sized companies, Riley knows how to leverage his strategic insight to drive new business. This includes advising transitioning military leaders, government executives and key decision-makers from within the cyber-security community of the private-sector. A primary area of interest is building the cyberspace engagement roadmap and ‘awareness engine’ between the public and private sector communities mapping requirements with situational awareness and skill sets. He subsequently developed a proof-of-concept for this framework in 2010, testing his process in two major USAF and DoD war-games. A constant and responsive connector, Riley is most comfortable strategizing with and mentoring key decision-makers within government, between leading-edge cyber technology providers, with recognized specialists from academia and with the venture capital community on finding solutions to operational requirements found within the private-sector communities. Mr Repko is a featured speaker at numerous cyber security and risk management events annually.
Mr Repko is a USAF Air War College graduate, has an MBA with honors from the Bill Greehey School of Business, St. Mary’s University, TX and holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) and a BS degree in Physics/Math with honors from St. Bonaventure University, NY.
