Richard Robinson is the Founder and CEO of Cynash Inc. A former CIO from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he started Cynash after several years of collaborations with the DOE National Laboratories in the commercial development of cybersecurity assets in ICS/SCADA, network mapping, behavioral analytics, and commodity high-performance computing.

His formal education is in Manufacturing Engineering and Industrial Control Systems, and he has held several executive positions in managing large and complex programs in IT, OT and Cyber Security. This experience includes: Chief Information Officer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Chief Operations Officer and Director of Enterprise Operations at City and County of San Francisco.

He received his BSc. In Engineering from California Polytechnic and Management Certificate in Strategy and Innovation from MIT. Richard also holds several security certifications including: GISCP, GRID, GCIP, CISSP, and CISA.