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Mark Crowley shared thisWhat a great time at Black Hat this week. Seeing the Trinity Cyber team in action, keeping up with the competition, and meeting potential financial partners. As a #CFO, I encourage my team to understand our company as a whole (go backstage?) to become better business partners. To go beyond paying a bill or sending an invoice. Learn about that vendor. Understand who are our customers. See how our product works and delivers unique value. #Finance has a great perspective at the intersection of all parts of the company, and that's an incredible learning opportunity. Help your team step back from the spreadsheet and see the big picture. #cybersecurity #BHUSA William Mabon Jonathan G. Nicholas DiPace
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Mark Crowley shared thisGoing to Black Hat next week in Las Vegas? See you there and be sure to stop by the Trinity Cyber booth! #cybersecurity #BHUSAMark Crowley shared thisEvery security control detects threats. What if you could remove them before they ever reached your users? At Black Hat USA 2026, Trinity Cyber will be demonstrating how active cyber defense stops malicious content in transit, preventing threats before they become alerts, investigations, or incidents. 📍 Visit Booth #5935 to see it in action. Learn more: https://hubs.la/Q04pypql0 #BHUSA #Cybersecurity #ThreatPrevention
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Mark Crowley shared thisIt is pretty revolutionary when you think of it. Stop the threat before it happens. Step up your #networksecurity and say goodbye to "detect and alert". #cybersecurity #innovationMark Crowley shared this🚨 What if the threat never made it to your network? Trinity Cyber takes a different approach to cyber defense, removing threats from live traffic before they reach users, endpoints, and applications. Because the best alert is the one that never has to be generated. Learn more: https://hubs.la/Q04pdPV40 #Cybersecurity #ThreatPrevention #NetworkSecurity #CyberDefense
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Mark Crowley shared thisStill using an old school VPN? Today's threat landscape demands more. Check out our latest eBook to learn more. With Trinity Cyber, catch what others don't! #cybersecurityMark Crowley shared thisVPNs were built for a different era — before hybrid workforces, cloud infrastructure, and constantly evolving threats. Yet VPNs and firewalls remain one of the most exploited entry points in the enterprise. Conventional ZTNA improves access control, but most solutions fail to inspect the actual session content moving through approved connections. In this new eBook, learn how Trinity Cyber combines identity-aware ZTNA with Full Content Inspection (FCI) to: 🔹Inspect live traffic in real-time 🔹Remove malicious content before compromise 🔹Reduce alert fatigue and operational complexity 🔹Deliver true preemptive cyber defense Download The VPN Replacement Playbook to see why organizations are moving beyond reactive security 👇 https://hubs.la/Q04gwr630 #Cybersecurity #ZeroTrust #VPNReplacement
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Mark Crowley reposted thisMark Crowley reposted thisYour VPN isn't just outdated. It could be costing you your cyber insurance renewal. Underwriters are increasingly flagging VPNs as high-risk because they were never designed to stop today's threats. ➡️ The result: higher premiums, tougher renewals or worse — denials. Our latest blog breaks down why VPN replacement is becoming a financial decision, not just a security decision. Read more: https://hubs.la/Q04cYlnj0
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Mark Crowley shared thisRepresenting Trinity Cyber this week at SecureWorld Boston. Stop by to see what preventative security really looks like! #NoAlerts Learn how Active Network Defense changes the equation – removing threats in real-time, not chasing alerts after the fact. #cybersecurity #VPNreplacement #ZTNA with Elisha Lung and Nicholas DiPace
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Mark Crowley shared thisAnother amazing MIT Sloan CFO Summit, Est. 2003 in the books. This year's theme highlighted the role of the #CFO as a leader through change. Special thanks to Nelson Repenning for his insights on dynamic work design from his book, "There’s Got to Be a Better Way," and to Jason Child, CFO of Arm, for discussing #AI powered business transformation. As a member of the planning committee, I'm grateful each year to work with an incredible team of fellow Sloanies, led by Jeremy Seidman. The premier CFO event is in its 23rd year, and is a cornerstone event for the MIT Sloan Boston Alumni Association. Mark your calendar for next year! November 19, 2026. #MITCFO
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Mark Crowley shared thisExcited to be part of an exiting journey ahead with 123G! Harpreet Grewal has assembled an incredible team. It's great to partner with him and so many other talented folks again. #strategy #outcomesMark Crowley shared this123G has arrived! With a team of 200+ experienced operators and advisors, we excel in building, scaling, and transforming companies at all growth phases. Our approach goes beyond mere playbooks; we connect strategy with execution, ensuring lasting outcomes. The anticipation in the market is palpable. It's time to roll up our sleeves and dive into action. Let's make things happen!
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Mark Crowley shared thisInternships have come a long way since my mailroom days at Merrill Lynch. Today’s internships play a crucial role in shaping the workforce of tomorrow and fostering growth in emerging sectors, just as Caroline looks to bring together the worlds of #finance and #energy. Hot off one summer #internship, she’s already on the hunt for summer 2026! #PE #VC #bankingMark Crowley shared thisWhat's one way to stay energized during the summer? Work at a utility! This month, I wrapped up my internship with the New England Sustainability team at National Grid. Beyond gaining a window into the operations of a gas and electric utility, I saw the value that sustainability reporting and electrification initiatives can bring to a company and its customers. Here's a recap! ⚡Dove into electricity usage and emissions data from National Grid’s electric vehicle fleet. ⚡Crisscrossed Massachusetts and New York to visit transmission towers, control rooms, and power plants. ⚡Joined New York and UK teams for a week-long offsite in Boston to facilitate an operating model change for US Sustainability (complete with Red Sox game and duck boats). ⚡Organized and hosted the "2025 Live Hive Tour" with The Best Bees Company, teaching the biodiversity benefits of onsite AI-enabled "smart hives," part of National Grid's nature commitments. ⚡Joined nearly 150 interns for daily webinars, community service events, and networking opportunities. ⚡Completed 15 informational interviews with employees across the company to learn about energy careers paths from finance to forecasting. Thank you to Michael DeNoia, Matthew Dixon, and Christopher Beltz for welcoming me onto an incredible team and supporting me through every project. And many thanks to Stella Schram for incredible mentorship on energy efficiency policy and professional development. What's next? Just arrived in Washington DC for a fall semester "abroad" to explore the impact of federal level action on US energy and financial sectors. Stay tuned! #Sustainability #Energy #Internship #EnergyCareers #Superpowered
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Mark Crowley liked thisTimely insights from Ronald Gula of Gula Tech Adventures regarding why the NetScaler ADC and Gateway zero days underscore a growing trend of attackers targeting the edge. Ron also highlights how Trinity Cyber edits exploits out of live traffic with countermeasures that act as immediate patches for emerging threats. Watch now ⬇️Mark Crowley liked thisCitrix just got its fourth three-day patch deadline from CISA this year. On Sept. 27, Citrix disclosed two NetScaler ADC and Gateway zero-days. Both are CVSS 9.5. Neither requires a password. Both were being exploited before the advisory came out. Shadowserver says more than 23,000 NetScalers are exposed to the internet. But this isn’t really a Citrix story. It’s an edge story. From Sept. 14 through Sept. 27, 9 of the 19 vulnerabilities added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog hit gateways, firewalls, routers, or the systems used to manage them. That makes sense. The edge is a great target. It has to be exposed to the internet. It handles sessions, tokens, and credentials. It’s parsing hostile traffic all day long. And a lot of these appliances don’t have the kind of endpoint visibility we’re used to on servers and laptops. They’re also hard to patch. Taking down the edge can mean taking down the business. And patching isn’t the same thing as remediation. If somebody got in before you patched, they may still be there afterward. One thing I think more security teams should focus on is procurement. When you buy this stuff, ask how many of the vendor’s vulnerabilities have landed in the KEV catalog. Keep management interfaces off the internet. Treat these appliances like credential stores. Have an assume-compromised playbook ready before you need it. Most importantly, think about how you buy time between exploitation and patching. vRon walks through it in this week’s episode: https://lnkd.in/g-CEzF5b Disclosure: Trinity Cyber and Threater are Gula Tech Adventures portfolio companies, and I sit on both boards. The Gula Tech Foundation has also given a grant to Shadowserver. You can’t patch your way out of a procurement decision.Citrix Got a 3-Day Patch Deadline. Fourth Time This Year.Citrix Got a 3-Day Patch Deadline. Fourth Time This Year.
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Mark Crowley liked thisMark Crowley liked thisThat’s a wrap on The Channel Company's Midsize Enterprise Summit Fall 2026. Thank you to everyone who stopped by to meet the team. From adapting to the Frontier AI era and AI governance to advancing security-first ZTNA, one priority connected many of our conversations – strengthening protection without adding complexity or more alerts to chase. Which of these priorities is on your security roadmap? If we didn’t connect at MES, we’d love to hear from you. Talk to an expert: https://lnkd.in/ejRmaNTE #MES #ZeroTrust #FrontierAI
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Mark Crowley liked thisI'm stepping into the role of CEO of Solaris Advisory, and the premise we started with in 2021 hasn't changed. Mid-market and PE-backed companies deserve senior technical accounting support without the overhead, rotation and handoffs that come with larger firms. Every engagement is still led by someone at manager level or above, all ex-Big 4, and we remain privately held with no outside capital. What changes is where my focus goes. My day-to-day is now Solaris: the CFOs and Controllers we work with on transactions, technical reporting, ERP transitions and gaps in the finance seat, and building the team that supports them. I'm proud of what we've built at Roessel Joy to date, and its day-to-day is in very good hands. If you're a finance leader with something significant on the horizon for 2027, I'd welcome the conversation. #AccountingAdvisory #FinanceLeadership #PrivateEquityMark Crowley liked thisBig changes. Exciting growth. A new chapter for our leadership! We’re excited to announce that Chris Joy has been named CEO of Roessel Joy, and Jonas Roessel has been named CEO of solaris. As both firms continue to grow, each will now have a dedicated CEO focused on its next phase. At Roessel Joy, Chris will lead the firm forward, building on the culture, client relationships, and service standards that have defined it since its founding. "Roessel Joy has grown tremendously since we started the company, but what I'm most proud of is the team and culture we've built along the way. I'm looking forward to building on that foundation. There's a lot of opportunity ahead, and I'm confident in what we can accomplish together." – Chris Joy, CEO of Roessel Joy At Solaris, Jonas will lead the firm's growth as it expands its advisory work with finance leaders at PE-backed and mid-market companies. "Solaris has a strong foundation, and this role allows me to put my full focus on where we take the firm next. My priority is scaling the business, expanding our reach, and building the kind of advisory partner finance teams can rely on for the long term." – Jonas Roessel, CEO of solaris. Congratulations to Chris and Jonas on their new roles! #roesseljoy #solaris #leadership #executiveleadership #businessgrowth #companynews
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Mark Crowley liked thisMark Crowley liked thisThe detect and respond approach to security was already broken. AI made it worse. Adversaries are moving faster than humans can investigate, triage, and remediate. By the time an alert fires, the attacker may already be moving. Our latest ebook examines why this model has hit its limit and what preemptive defense makes possible. 📖 Get the eBook: https://hubs.la/Q04s9Yg90 #Cybersecurity #AIEnabledThreats #CyberDefense
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Mark Crowley liked thisMark Crowley liked thisHiring a $300K CFO into a $50K team is not a strategy. It's a setup for failure, and it happens more than anyone admits. Came across a post from a Nigerian financial analyst that put this bluntly. His point: when someone moves from a Big 4 firm into a senior finance role, they need a team that can actually match the output expected of them. You can't hand someone a top tier package, surround them with an undertrained, underpaid team, and expect Big 4 level results to just appear. The post laid out exactly how this plays out. The new hire ends up doing the high level work and the operational work, because the team underneath them isn't equipped to carry their share. That leads to burnout. Burnout leads to resignation. And then the same people who watched it happen use it as proof that the "big shot" couldn't handle the pressure. This tracks with something a lot of executives get wrong. Talent is not just about the person you bring in. It's about the system you build around them. A CFO's output is only as strong as the analysts, controllers, and finance ops people supporting them. If that layer is weak, you haven't hired a transformation, you've hired a very expensive individual contributor who will eventually burn out trying to do everyone's job at once. This shows up constantly in mid-market companies. Leadership wants Big 4 rigor, Big 4 reporting, Big 4 speed, but budgets for the supporting team like it's still a mom and pop operation. Then when the senior hire can't singlehandedly close that gap, the narrative becomes "they weren't a good fit" instead of "we didn't invest in the infrastructure needed for them to succeed." A few things worth sitting with if you're in a position to hire senior finance talent: Output is a team sport. One strong hire cannot compensate for five underpowered ones. If you're budgeting for a senior hire, budget for the team upgrade too. It doesn't have to happen on day one, but it has to be part of the plan. Ask what "success" actually requires operationally before you make the hire. Not what you hope it requires. Pay attention to attrition patterns. If skilled senior hires keep leaving within a year, the problem is rarely just the person. None of this is really about finance specifically. It's about what happens when expectations scale faster than investment. Worth remembering the next time someone asks why a great hire didn't work out.
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Mark Crowley liked thisMark Crowley liked thisA new space for big ideas! Construction is officially underway on BB&N’s Upper School Robotics Studio, creating new opportunities for students to design and build. We’re excited to see how this new space will shape the BB&N experience for current and future students. Stay tuned for more updates. #BrightBoldNext
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Mark Crowley liked thisAt Cascade Technologies, we never set out to build a security stack with a dozen tools in it. It happened one client need at a time. A VPN here, DNS filtering there, an IPS, an MDR, another license renewal. Each one made sense on its own. Then one day I looked up and the whole team had become orchestrators. We were judged on whether we missed an alert, and we spent the day jumping between Chrome tabs to make sure we didn't. That's the part of tool sprawl nobody puts on the invoice. It costs you in deployment, in daily operations, in alert triage, and most of all in the customers you can't take on because your people are buried. Stack bloat looks like a tooling problem, but it's really a P&L problem. I wrote about how MSPs can pull nine of those tools into one platform and get their technicians back to real work. 👇Mark Crowley liked thisSecurity stack bloat drives up costs, fragments operations, and leaves teams spending more time managing consoles, renewals, and alert queues than reducing risk. Trinity Cyber helps MSPs and security teams break that cycle by consolidating nine product categories into one fully managed platform. The result is a simpler security stack, stronger protection, and less operational overhead for customers. 🔰 Cramer S. breaks down the real cost of security stack bloat and the products Trinity Cyber can remove, replace, or retire. Learn how: https://hubs.la/Q04ydtSW0 #Cybersecurity #MSP #SecurityConsolidation
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Mark Crowley liked thisMark Crowley liked thisActivity is not output. Output is not an outcome. After 30 years and $50M in consulting fees, here's what I learned...I Spent $50 Million on Consultants and Got Nothing But Slide Decks — So I Built 123G to Kill the Model...I Spent $50 Million on Consultants and Got Nothing But Slide Decks — So I Built 123G to Kill the Model...
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Mark Crowley liked thisMark Crowley liked thisWhat if cyberattacks never reached your network? Trinity Cyber stops threats before they become incidents. Our platform analyzes network sessions in real time, removes malicious content inline, and gives organizations unified control across users, applications, devices, networks, and AI. Explore the Trinity Cyber Platform today: https://lnkd.in/ejRmaNTE
Experience & Education
Volunteer Experience
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Treasurer, Member Board Of Directors
MIT Sloan Boston Alumni Association
- Present 9 years
Education
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Organizing Committee
MIT Sloan CFO Summit
- Present 9 years
The MIT Sloan CFO Summit, started in 2002, is the nation’s premier CFO event bringing together financial executives from around the world and leading faculty from MIT. The annual event offers a day of interactive learning and thought-provoking discourse on the future of finance, accounting, and business that is not available anywhere else. It includes presentations, panels, keynotes speakers, networking and a closing reception.
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Candidate for City Council
City of Medford, Medford, MA 02155
- 2 years
Politics
Two time candidate for Medford City Council. (2013 and 2015). I ran on a platform of community development and small business growth. https://www.youtube.com/user/CrowleyForMedford
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Treasurer
Medford Boat Club
- 3 years
Medford Boat Club is a non-profit organization with a 300 family membership, and an annual operating budget of $500K. Manage club's finances with Quickbooks, with responsibility for for AP/AR, preparation of financial statements, managing banking relationships, arranging for financing to pay for capital purchases, filing tax forms, handling insurance policies, and a host of other key financial responsibilities.
Projects
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Independent Consulting
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LIONBRIDGE TECHNOLOGIES (4 months): Led 8-person team, working directly for the CFO, of this 6,000 person private-equity owned company. Developed new financial model, implemented a repeatable forecasting process, and supported debt refinancing effort.
MONSTER.COM (4 months): Led 4-person team during a turnaround of the business. Working directly with the CFO to implement dashboards and create managerial reporting to support ongoing cost reductions and restructuring.
BOSTON GLOBE (3…LIONBRIDGE TECHNOLOGIES (4 months): Led 8-person team, working directly for the CFO, of this 6,000 person private-equity owned company. Developed new financial model, implemented a repeatable forecasting process, and supported debt refinancing effort.
MONSTER.COM (4 months): Led 4-person team during a turnaround of the business. Working directly with the CFO to implement dashboards and create managerial reporting to support ongoing cost reductions and restructuring.
BOSTON GLOBE (3 months): Supported development of 2018 budget and identified cost savings opportunities. Worked closely with the CEO to advise on the ongoing transformation of the business. Introduced SaaS industry metrics to help monitor performance of the Globe's subscription customer base.
AMERICAN WELL (2 months): Conducted a comprehensive expense trend analysis for this rapidly growing tele-health SaaS company.
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