Implementing the Essential 8

Frances Russell is CEO and Managing Director of FooForce, a leading Australian Managed Service and Security Provider with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. Frances is ISACA certified: CISA CISM CRISC and has 20+ years experience advising organisations on business risk, IT strategy and security. FooForce provides cyber security, IT strategy alignment, information security audits, cloud security reviews and cyber risk awareness and full IT support services to companies across sectors including architecture, engineering, finance, manufacturing, and others.

With experience from large Government Organisations to Small Business Enterprises, Daniel plays an important role in Virtual IT Group’s strategy to drive business operations. He believes in taking a collaborative approach towards finding technology solutions that solve individual business challenges.

Mark has over 25 years of experience in the IT field, with the last 15 years dedicated to providing software solutions to the VAR and Service Provider channels. During his time as a Sales and Account Manager with a Service Provider, he became familiar with the inner workings of MSPs. For the last 12 years, Mark has been with RapidFire Tools, delivering solutions to Managed Service Providers to help them better serve their clients and grow their business and revenues.

Broad experience of business processes and an understanding of the commercial objectives of a broad range of industry verticals including Education, Government, Retail and the Healthcare sector. This has allowed Craig to articulate the business value of predominately technical solutions.