Raffi Jamgotchian

Raffi Jamgotchian arrived in the US from England at the age of 3 (sorry, he can't run for President!). Growing up in New Jersey, he promptly lost his British accent — something that irritates his boys to this day. He got interested in computers early, since his dad was a programmer who loved tinkering with electronics. That exposed Raffi to far more technology than the typical kid in the late '70s and '80s. He and a few high school friends even ran a Bulletin Board Service out of his bedroom for a while (yes, he's that nerdy).

Raffi studied Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, then joined Crestron Electronics before making the shift to IT in 1995. In the early days of the world wide web, he helped build one of his firm's first firewalls and connect it to the Internet. Because he was working at an investment firm, he was quickly pushed into information security — before anyone called it cybersecurity. He went back to graduate school for an MBA, left the firm in 2006, and spent a couple of years working on a startup investment fund. In 2008, in the middle of the financial crisis, Raffi and his wife, Aline, founded Triada Networks to help other small funds get their security and compliance in order.

Today, Triada helps independent investment firms — private equity firms, hedge funds, and wealth managers — build defensible, compliance-aligned cybersecurity and IT environments that hold up under regulatory and investor scrutiny. Drawing on that work, Raffi wrote Guarding the Vault: Cybersecurity for Investment Firms Facing Regulators, Client Security, and Real-World Attacks — a practical guide for fund leaders who have to answer to regulators and investors, not just keep the lights on.

Raffi is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a member of both InfraGard and the U.S. Secret Service's Cyber Fraud Task Force. He is a past member of the Northern Valley Regional High School Board of Education.

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