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Nate Brady

Chief Financial Officer

Nate Brady has 25 years of public accounting, financial management and leadership experience. As Optiv’s chief financial officer (CFO), he is responsible for overseeing all financial aspects, including the company’s ongoing investment in expanding operations and presence across North America and Europe.

 

Prior to his CFO role, Brady served as chief accounting officer for Optiv, where he oversaw the company’s financial organization and provided insightful business analysis and intelligence to Optiv’s business-line managers, executives and board.

 

Brady has held several high-profile financial leadership positions in the cybersecurity, software and transportation industries. He joined FishNet Security in 2013 as controller and quickly ascended to chief accounting officer. While at FishNet, Brady was instrumental in steering the strategic and operational direction of the finance department beyond financial and transactional management; he further played a key role in the company’s transformation to strategic decision making based on real-time and accurate data.

During his three-year tenure as CFO for Waller Truck Company Co., one of the Midwest’s largest truckload carriers, he helped drive significant revenue and net income growth. Prior to Waller Truck, he was corporate controller for Ascend Learning, a leading-edge education technology company that serves healthcare and other high-growth career industries.

 

Brady began his financial career with Ernst & Young LLP. While at Ernst & Young, Brady gained significant experience with M&As, IPOs and complex accounting issues, working with a mix of public, international and private-equity owned companies. A certified public accountant (CPA), he earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration and accounting from Pittsburg State University where he also lettered in varsity football.