Elliott has served the Technology and Security industry for the past 19 years. During this time he has developed a passion for helping business leaders achieve their goals through innovative, secure and cost effective solutions.

In his current role, he serves as the Vice President of Infrastructure and Security for Omni Hotels and Resorts where he leads the network, server, database, security, telecom and security teams. Prior to Omni, Elliott served as the Director of Risk and Security and Information Security Officer for Essilor of America. At Essilor, he was a member of the senior IT leadership team and partnered across the enterprise to identify and remediate risks to critical data, networks and systems. Through his innovative approach, Elliott helped perform a complete Infrastructure assessment to improve system performance and uptime, as well as partner with the innovation team to deploy agile, composable, cloud based web and mobile applications to increase customer engagement.

Prior to Essilor, Elliott built the Information Security teams at Whataburger Restaurants, the San Antonio Division of Hospital Corporation of America and Texas State University. While Risk and Security have been his primary roles, he has helped deploy, architect and update ERP systems as well as mobile applications and mobile device management.

He has held various positions with local ISSA chapters and is passionate about teaching parents and children about staying safe online and avoiding cyber bullies.

Elliott holds a BBA in Management from Angelo State University and is a CISSP, a CISM as well as an ISSA Fellow..