About Seacliff Partners International, LLC
Ronald M. LaPedis, Founder and Principal Consultant
Mr. LaPedis founded Seacliff Partners International, LLC in 2009. He spent 25 years with Hewlett Packard becoming a business continuity and security specialist and marketer, consulting with key customers and partners. Before leaving HP, Mr. LaPedis filled a dual role as the senior product manager for security and business continuity products and the headquarters marketing manager for the Asia Pacific region.
At SanDisk, he launched a dual factor authentication solution with VeriSign and RSA and a managed flash drive/virtual application solution with RSA and Citrix. At Citrix, Mr. LaPedis was responsible for the worldwide launch of a SaaS workforce continuity service sold by IBM. He is named on one storage patent and two virtualization applications.
Seacliff was born out of the desire to meld technical expertise with business sense in the business continuity and security fields. Mr. LaPedis is a Master Business Continuity Professional (MBCP), a Member of the Business Continuity Institute (MBCI), and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) with Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) and Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP) endorsements. As a marketing professional, he also understands that without a business need, a company will not commit to a technical solution no matter how good it is.
Mr. LaPedis has published many articles and has taught and consulted in the information security and business continuity fields around the world. He is a licensed amateur (ham) radio operator, instructor, and volunteer examiner. He is a member of his local community's Citizen Preparedness Committee and Amateur Radio Volunteers.
Emergency response training includes:
- California EMA Intro to Emergency Management: Earthquake- California EMA SEMS Intro course
- FEMA ICS-100 - Introduction to Incident Command System
- FEMA ICS-200 - ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents
- FEMA ICS-700 - National Incident Management System (NIMS), An Introduction
- Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Level I
Recent Speaking Engagements:
- American Society of Safety Engineers - Oakland, CA
- Canadian HP NonStop User Group - Toronto
- British Isles HP NonStop User Group - London
- Australian NonStop User Group - Sydney
- HP Tech Forum - Las Vegas
- HP Community Connect Europe - Mannheim, Germany
- RSA Europe - Nice, France
Dan Chmielewski, Public Relations Consultant
Dan Chmielewski is our public relations consultant through our partnership with Madison Alexander Public Relations, Inc. Dan is a creative and experienced high technology public relations and marketing communications professional. He is also one of a shrinking number of industry professionals with actual newsroom experience having worked as a radio news director and anchor with stations in New York and as a freelance newspaper reporter and magazine article writer. This newsroom experience is one of the things that sets Madison Alexander PR apart from the competition.
With more than 20 years of experience, Dan has spent most his career working in enterprise networking and data security at large corporations such as 3Com and Data General, and working on large accounts at agencies with clients such as Lotus Development, Mitsubishi Mobile Computing, and Legent. In addition, Dan has worked with start-ups like Gradient Technologies and Moss Software, and held senior management positions with technology firms in Boston and Southern California. Dan's work in media relations has been honored by the Orange County Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). He received a PRSA President’s Citation for contributions to the practice of public relations and PRSA in 2002. Before starting Madison Alexander PR, he was director of worldwide public relations for Rainbow Technologies before its acquisition by SafeNet.
A writer at heart, Dan has considerable experience managing technology product PR programs through message development and strategy, to building strong news pipelines, managing comparative product reviews, and handling quarterly financial earnings announcements for publicly-traded companies. Dan has international PR experience as well, having managed PR programs throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America. Dan is featured in several textbooks on writing for publication and magazine article publishing written by John C. Behrens.
Dan and his wife Dawn, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, were honored by Utica College's Raymond Simon Institute as 2007 Alumni of the Year for Professional Achievement. Professor Raymond Simon was one of PR Week's Top 100 Most Influential Professionals.
