Sajay Rai CPA, CISSP, CISM - President & CEO

Sajay Rai has more than 30 years of experience in information technology, specializing in information security, privacy, cyber security, business continuity, disaster recovery, IT audit and information risk.  Mr. Rai is the Founder and CEO of Securely Yours LLC and Securely Managed

Securely Yours LLC is focused on delivering cost effective innovative solutions through delivery channels like Software-as-a-Service, Managed Services and traditional IT consulting.  

Securely Managed LLC is focused on providing cyber security monitoring services, vulnerability management, endpoint detection and response, and Monitoring-as-a-Service to our clients.   

Prior to starting Securely Yours LLC, Mr. Rai was a Partner with Ernst & Young LLP for 10 years and was responsible for the information advisory practice in the Detroit Metro area.  He also served as the national leader of EY’s Information Security and Business Continuity practices.  He served as a member of his firm’s Partners Advisory Council.

Mr. Rai also worked with IBM for 13 years, most recently serving as an executive of the national Business Continuity and Contingency consulting practice.  He was instrumental in starting the company’s Information Security consulting practice and managing its information technology consulting practice in Latin America. 

Mr. Rai is an adjunct professor for Oakland University (Auburn Hills, MI), Walsh College (Troy, MI) and Lawrence Technological University or LTU (Southfield, MI).  He regularly teaches classes on cyber security, information security, network security and cyber risks.

Mr. Rai has co-authored several books including Security and Auditing of Smart Devices, Defending the Digital Frontier – A Security Agenda, and Institute of Internal Auditors’ publications of “Sawyer’s Internal Audit Handbook 6th Edition”.  Mr. Rai has led the development of several Global Technology Audit Guide (GTAG) guides for IIA. 
Mr. Rai serves on the board of ISACA Detroit Chapter, IIA’s Detroit Chapter, Society of Information Management (SIM) Detroit Chapter and as a member of Walsh College’s Accounting Advisory and Technology Committees.  Mr. Rai is a regular speaker at industry conferences on information security, business continuity, disaster recovery, technology strategy and is frequently quoted in magazines and newspapers. 

He holds a Master’s degree in Information Management from Washington University of St. Louis, and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Fontbonne University of St. Louis.    

Philip Chukwuma CISSP – Chief Technology Officer

The project team also comprises of our Chief Technology Officer, Philip Chukwuma.  He has over 20 years of experience in Information Technology, information security, privacy and business continuity.  His expertise is in the area vulnerability and risk management, security engineering, mobile security, Identity and Access Management, network architecture, disaster recovery planning, and security architecture. 

Prior to joining Securely Yours, Mr. Chukwuma was with Ernst & Young LLP as a Manager in the Risk Advisory practice.  He worked on several engagements in the area of IT Security, Identity and Access Management, ERP Integrity, SAP Security, Segregation of Duties (SOD), and Infrastructure Management (Problem, Incident, Change, Event Management, Active Directory, UNIX, etc.). 

During his career, Mr. Chukwuma has led several engagements as an Architect where he has invented ideas to streamline the implementation of security solutions.  He has designed several solutions in the areas of databases, routers and switches, virtualized environment and IAM. 

Philip received a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Texas in Denton, and his M.B.A. from the same University.   Philip is a CISSP.

Richard Cozart - Chief Mobility Officer

Richard Cozart is the Chief Architect with Securely Yours LLC. He specializes in developing and evaluating secure solutions for mobile and web technologies. He also developed multiple mobile applications for the android and Apple’s IOS Platform.

Prior to joining Securely Yours, Richard was a software engineer for Accenture and co-founder of the web solutions firm, A-Z computers. Richard received a bachelor’s degree from Eastern Michigan University, with a major in computer information systems.

Richard has unique skills that he has developed applications for various platforms including the mobile devices.  He has hands-on experience in security features of Android and iOS.  He also has extensive experience in various web-based platforms such as SharePoint, Joomla, and Wordpress.  Richard’s experience includes full knowledge in all aspects of database programming, database technologies, .NET, PHP, ASP, SQL, XML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, XML and HTML. He also has experience in Graphic and Flash Design with a strong background developing high quality web sites

Michael Staley - Director - Security Operations Center

Michael is the SOC Director with Securely Managed.   Michael has been with Securely Managed since 2018 and started as a SOC Analyst.  Michael has a strong operations and cybersecurity background.  He manages all aspects of Securely Managed’s MSSP SOC Operations, including the personnel, technical and client communication.  His technical abilities include the reviewing of AlienVault alarms, triaging the events/alarms, writing AlienVault rules and customizing reports for the clients.

Michael has tremendous and proven ability to collaborate with executives to identify areas of improvement for cyber monitoring.  He can also work at a technical level with the clients and implement incident response solutions.  With his experience with next generation software like Power BI, he can customize reports for our clients. 

Michael graduated from Oakland University with his Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems and a minor in Information Security Management. He has also completed an 8-week Cybersecurity Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied and worked with instructors and practitioners from US-Cert in their lab at the internationally renowned Software Engineering Institute.

Bill Hildebrandt - Chief Research Scientist

Bill Hildebrandt is the Director of our Security Operations Center (SOC). Bill brings to Securely Yours over 40 years of IT experience specializing in Operating Systems, Server technology, virtualization and networking. As the director of our SOC, Bill manages the 24x7x365 Managed Security Services and the SOC analysts.

Bill spent his earlier years in mainframe world with Department of Army in Chambersburg PA, Action Data Services in St. Louis and Mallinckrodt Inc. in St. Louis. Bill work with IBM mainframe installation and support, SNA networking and IBM virtualization.

Bill has spent the rest of his career with Federal Reserve where he had various responsibilities. He started with mainframe SNA networking support and then transitioned to Windows Servers, IBM OS2, Novell and Linux support. He later became the lead support for Windows Server group and then lead the Virtualization Group for over ten years. He led the transition of Federal Reserve’s environment to a virtualized one using VMWare ESX/ESXi. Bill also has experience in Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization technology.