About the CSSO

Founder

Headhunter Czar

Marge Dean, Chief Security Strategy Officer, has over thirty years of experience in sales, sales management and executive search. A significant number of strategic senior level placements have rewarded her industry status as a recruitment evangelist.

She founded a Systems Integration firm - HealthLink NetworksTM - an early-adopter - of PC-based videoconferencing technology for Telemedicine and Distance-Learning applications. Her firm achieved acclaim in 1996- featured in TeleMedicine Magazine as a top-ten national telemedicine technology for a Vermont-sponsored tertiary hospital system. At that time, HealthLink NetworksTM was also featured on a Special Presentation, hosted by Dan Rather and Connie Chung - "Telemedicine of the 21st Century".

Her corporate experience has included Fortune 500 leadership as National Sales Director, LAN Independent Business Unit for Motorola Codex where her sales team sold Ungermann-Bass Net One networking products. Prior to this role, she was Mid-Atlantic Commercial Sales Manager for Motorola Codex where she formed corporate partnerships and was a Quota Buster averaging 120%-200% of plan for six years.

She leveraged her corporate experience and entrepreneurial spirit as strategic assets to a national executive search firm where she placed senior executives and built sales/marketing/business development teams for her technology clients.

Her formal education: George Mason University, she holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Masters Credits: GMU, Marriage and Family Counseling Georgetown University, Credits, Telecommunications Policy.

Courses/Credentials: SHRM, MDR, NIST-800, AI, Cybersecurity