A Marine Corps infantry team leader. A restaurant manager who spent seven years running a Mexican kitchen before touching enterprise IT. A Boeing workstation technician who credits his electrician grandfather for teaching him how to solve problems. Wichita’s cybersecurity bench draws from manufacturing, agriculture, energy, banking, and managed services, and almost every person on it started somewhere other than security.
Gabriel Green – CISO, Koch
Gabriel Green served four years as an infantry team leader in the United States Marine Corps. He then managed a branch of iSold It on eBay in the Dallas-Fort Worth area before moving into technology as a remote support engineer at Bureau Veritas, supporting workstation, server, network, and VoIP systems for customers across Canada, the US, and Guatemala. Green joined Koch in 2011 as a client technologies technician and has been promoted six times since. He worked as a security analyst, then senior security analyst, then supervised the security operations center and incident response function for two and a half years. Two years managing enterprise security architecture followed, then two more as Director of Cybersecurity. He became CISO of the Wichita-headquartered conglomerate in February 2021.
Brett Myers – VP of Information Security, Meritrust Credit Union
Brett Myers has built and run information security programs across five industries. His first C-level role came at Inhibitex in Alpharetta, Georgia, where he held responsibility for all IT, risk, and security for the organization. After a year at Stiefel Labs managing global IT and business relationships, he spent six years at Recall as Global Infrastructure and Information Security Leader, overseeing cyber security operations for the entire corporate entity. Myers then served five years as VP of Information Security and Privacy at CommScope, followed by three years directing information security at Ardent Mills in Denver and two and a half years at DAT Freight & Analytics. He joined Meritrust Credit Union as Vice President of Information Security in August 2025. He holds CISSP, CISM, CRISC, GSLC, MCSE, Security+, and ITILv3 certifications.
Mitchell Soria – CTO & CISO, Koch Ag & Energy Solutions
For seven years, Mitchell Soria managed a Mexican restaurant in Wichita, supervising 20 employees and handling everything from inventory to payroll. He moved into technology as an independent contractor, spending five years designing networks, auditing them for security flaws, and writing programs in C and Visual Basic for clients. His work with Asterisk VOIP software was strong enough that a publisher asked him to author an advanced book on it during his time as CTO of Integrated Voice Technologies. He also taught a master’s-level data communication and networking course at Friends University. Soria joined Koch Business Solutions in 2008 as a senior application system analyst, then moved to Koch Ag & Energy Solutions in 2012, working through database administration, business intelligence, application development management, and an IT directorship. He has served as Chief Technology and Information Security Officer since October 2019, defining technology and cybersecurity strategy while representing the company on Koch enterprise strategy councils.
Jason Fenoglio – Director of Information Security, High Touch Technologies
Jason Fenoglio credits his grandfather, an electrician, with sparking his interest in technology. “Even though the work we did was outside of how I use technology today, it was a building block for how I learned to problem solve,” he has said. He got his start in the late 1990s as a workstation technician at Boeing’s Wichita campus, then spent two and a half years on the help desk at Koch Industries. Eighteen years at ISG Technology followed, where he rose from systems engineer to systems engineering team lead and then solutions architect. Fenoglio joined High Touch Technologies in 2020 as a solutions design architect, became Cybersecurity Practice Manager the following year, and has served as Director of Information Security since April 2024. He argues that strong security often costs less than companies assume, since many organizations already own tools they never use. He has also worked as an instructional associate for Georgia Tech Professional Education since 2023.
Jerry “Bo” Bullard – VP, Information Security Officer & Infrastructure and Operations, Emprise Bank
Healthcare, not banking, is where Jerry “Bo” Bullard spent the first two decades of his career. He managed infrastructure teams at Saint Francis Health System for more than twenty years, covering Active Directory, enterprise networking, disk systems, disaster recovery, and data security while integrating purchased clinics and hospitals into the larger system. He then moved into financial services as Director of Systems Infrastructure at Gateway First Bank during its transition from a mortgage company to a bank, writing policies and procedures for FDIC safety and soundness exams and building the disaster recovery plan for datacenter failover. Since October 2021 he has also served as IT Director for Animo Services, a startup providing insurance, mortgage, retail banking, brokerage, and credit card services, where he built out Azure cloud infrastructure on a compressed timeline supporting 125 employees and 45,000 customers. Bullard joined Emprise Bank in February 2023.
The Long Way Around
Not one of these leaders set out to work in security. Green led Marines through infantry deployments and managed a retail branch before his first technician job. Soria ran a restaurant for seven years, then taught himself networking well enough that a publisher commissioned a book from him. Fenoglio fixed workstations at a Boeing plant. Bullard spent twenty years keeping a hospital system’s servers running before a bank asked him to write its FDIC policies. Myers is the closest to a straight line, and even he arrived at his first security role through a general IT directorship at a biotech company. What each of them brought to their current job is a working knowledge of how the business actually operates, which in Wichita’s manufacturing, agriculture, and banking economy tends to matter more than a credential earned in isolation.
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John Kevin Hao is a news and feature writer covering cybersecurity, technology, and business targeted for professional audiences.