Board Advisors & Directors
Meet the Board
Our Advisors

Ryan Layton
CEO, Founder and Board Member
CEO, Founder and Board Member
Ryan is an accomplished business and technology professional with 20+ years of experience working with C-Level executives within the Fortune 1000 space.
As Co-founder and CEO of Secuvant™, Ryan oversees vision, strategy and execution efforts for the firm.
Prior to Secuvant, Ryan spent 14 years in sales and services at Forsythe Technologies, where he built and managed a client portfolio producing revenues in excess of $40 Million annually. He has a proven track record utilizing his business and financial background to understand and leverage technology to meet business objectives. He further credits his success to his ability to build relationships based on integrity and trust.
Ryan holds a BS degree in Accounting from the University of Utah and an MS degree in Business Information Systems from Utah State University.

Jared Mabey
Chairman of the Board
CEO, Founder and Board Member
Jared is currently serving as President and CEO of Lighthouse Business Catalysts, a business consulting firm he founded. Jared’s experience spans work with Fortune 500 as well as mid/lower middle-market companies across more than a dozen industries including tech, cybersecurity, private equity, software, banking, foreign investment consulting, and government.
He serves on multiple boards and he and the companies he has founded have formed boards composed of top executives from over 20 of the Fortune 100 companies including Google, 3M, Amazon, Disney, Oracle, Delta, Boeing as well as Motorola, Deloitte, and PWC.
His work focuses primarily on M&A, turnarounds, and catalyzing the growth of private equity-funded companies and companies looking to exit or acquire growth capital. Jared regularly works in-depth with C-level executives to significantly accelerate the accomplishment of revenue and operational goals.
Jared speaks fluent Spanish and has lived and worked in several countries throughout Southeast Asia and Latin America.
For over 20 years he’s been actively involved in humanitarian aid projects, with a focus on helping individuals lift themselves out of poverty through microenterprise in the U.S., Argentina, Honduras, and the Philippines.
Jared graduated with Honors with a degree in Business and Information Systems from Brigham Young University and holds an MBA from Babson.

Chris Barker
Board Member
CEO, Founder and Board Member
Chris is a veteran of the global technology and transportation industry with more than 20 years of experience. He is the founder of the technology and transportation consulting firm, CBC, where he has worked with industry companies, cities, and governments around the world to advance new forms of mobility, energy services and city development projects. Chris is currently a transportation/smart cities advisor for the Cities Today Institute helping cities around the world with transportation infrastructure and autonomous surface transportation planning. In 2016, Chris was an advisor to Vulcan on the USDOT Smart City Challenge project and has continued to advance smart city/transportation development projects across the globe. His CBC team has also developed and deployed self-driving car simulators for State DOTs/DMVs, universities, museums and other public facilities – to teach the public about self-driving vehicles.
Chris was previously the Vice President of New Mobility at Keolis helping to introduce new transportation options to cities and communities across North America. Keolis is a global transportation company that provides heavy rail, light-rail, bus, autonomous shuttles and taxis, car share, bike share, and sky tram service to 26 countries moving 3.5 billion people a year. Chris helped launch the first autonomous/electric shuttle operations on open roads in North America – in downtown Las Vegas and in Montreal. He’s also played a lead role in helping multiple US cities migrate their transit systems to electrified transit fleets with electric bus conversions in Southern California, Nevada and South Carolina.
Prior to Keolis, Chris held senior business leadership positions with multiple Fortune 50 companies. He served as the Global Director of Business Development and Communications for Honeywell Aerospace, Head of Public Sector Business Development, Communications and Marketing at Cisco and Senior Executive Manager for the Office of the President at Boeing. He’s also been a VP/SVP of business development and marketing for Text 100 Communications and Waggener Edstrom Worldwide.
Chris is a National Board Member for the Association for Commuter Transportation. He’s also a global keynote speaker on topics ranging from smart cities and new mobility services to cybersecurity, alternative energy options and advancements in artificial intelligence. He’s previously been a featured speaker at CES (Las Vegas), SXSW (Austin), RSA (San Francisco), CE Week (New York), A-Bace (Shanghai) and IAA (Frankfurt).

Kelly Liu
Board Member
CEO, Founder and Board Member
Kelly is an accomplished demand marketing leader in the cybersecurity industry and has been working in various marketing roles in high tech for over 15 years. Currently, she works at Menlo Security as the Senior Director of Global Demand. Kelly’s responsibilities include generating marketing sourced pipelines, managing global integrated campaigns, lead generation programs, field marketing, and channel marketing. She also oversees the marketing operations function that includes the MarTech stack, demand funnel process, and analytics.
Kelly has successfully built the demand generation function from scratch for early startups and has led the global demand center at larger technology companies. As a board member for Secuvant™, her role is to provide marketing leadership and coaching to help the company adopt best-in-class marketing practices to achieve high ROI and predictable pipeline generation.
Kelly received her MBA in Marketing and Finance from Simon Business School, at the University of Rochester in 2002. She has extensive international work experience, lived and worked in China and Singapore for many years. Now she lives with her husband and two children in California.
We know Cyber Risk is Business Risk™
At Secuvant™ we recognize that most organizations are simply unaware and ill-prepared to utilize the best tools to protect their vitally important and valuable data.
This one message separates Secuvant™ from other cyber security companies. Our approach looks at your organization in a holistic manner to provide your organization the best, most comprehensive cyber security solutions available.
