George Parsons   President & Chief Executive Officer
Jack Young   EVP of External Affairs


George Parsons
President & Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Parsons, a nationally renown pioneer in the field of secure technology and risk posture validation, brings to Secorix more than 30 years of experience in sales, marketing, management and engineering in the security and information technology industries. He is the founder, principal investor and has been a member of the Secorix Board of Directors since its founding.

Prior to Secorix, Mr. Parsons held postions at RiskWatch (CEO), NetReliance (CEO), Nanobiz (CEO), and Spyrus (Sales). Mr. Parsons was a member of the founding team of VeriSign, incubating the company as RSA Data Security, Inc., where he served as Director of Certificate Services and led the group's operations, sales and product planning.  Prior to joining VeriSign/RSA, Mr. Parsons held a variety of sales and engineering management positions with such companies as Sun Microsystems, Inc., Plexus Computers, Inc., Rolm Mil-Spec Computers, and Unisys.

Mr. Parsons holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Iowa State University and a Master of Business Administration with concentration on marketing and managing technologic innovation from Santa Clara University.

Jack Young
Executive Vice President of External Affairs

Mr. Young is a nationally known attorney and legal expert in the fields of technology law, administrative law, commercial litigation and dispute resolution, and electoral process.

Mr. Young has held senior positions in private practice, industry, and government. He has been a key partner at Sandler, Reiff and & Young, and Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, Washington, D.C., with responsibility for commercial litigation, antitrust counseling, and technology company development. He has represented major corporations and associations in complex litigation throughout the United States, in both the state and federal courts. He also served in various corporate management positions with responsibility for corporate governance, dispute resolution, and litigation. He is an Adjutant Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law in the area of Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Mr. Young's government experience includes service in the Executive Office of the President, as a member of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Private International Law, Chair of the Virginia Retirement System Review Board, and as Assistant Attorney General of Virginia.

Mr. Young's professional associations are varied and extensive. He has served as Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He has also served as the President of the George Mason American Inn of Court (2002-2003). He is a founding director of the Temple Bar Foundation. He is also a member of the American Law Institute, the Commercial Bar Association (U.K.), Hon. Society of the Middle Temple, a member of the Editorial Board of the Administrative Law & Regulatory News (Chair 2001-2004), Member of the Advisory Committee of the American Bar Association European Union Administrative Law Project, Member of the American Bar Assertion Interstate Compact Administrative Law Project, and a former member of the Advisory Board of The Antitrust Bulletin. He is the author of Young's Federal Rules of Evidence (West Pub. 8th ed. 2002), Mastering Written Discovery (with T. Zall, et al. Lexis 4th ed.2004), editor of Federal Agency Practice in the New World of ADR, as well as articles on dispute resolution, antitrust, evidence and election/recount law.

He is admitted to the bars of Virginia, the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania, and is a member of the bar of the United States Supreme Court. The Supreme Court of Virginia certified him as mediator in 1999.

He received law degrees from the University of Virginia (J.D. 1973) and Oxford University (Exeter College, B.C.L. 1976), and his undergraduate degree from Colgate University (1970).