Gary Starling

IntelePeer announced that Gary Starling has been named Chief Information Security Officer. Starling had served as the company's Vice President of IT & Security for two years, leading its compliance program to SOC 2 Type 2, PCI and HIPAA certification. He previously held IT and security leadership roles at the University of Denver and EchoStar/Hughes Network Systems.

The company says Starling will work across all of IntelePeer's business units to streamline its complex IT and security solutions.

IntelePeer says Starling brings more than 20 years of IT and information security experience, both domestic and multi-national. According to the release, as Vice President of IT & Security he developed and led cross-departmental teams and was responsible for strategy, operations and policy for the Information Technology and Information Security units. The release says his positions at the University of Denver included CISO, assistant vice chancellor of IT infrastructure and interim CIO. The company says that at the University of Denver he introduced emergent technologies to over 4,000 employees across 14 locations and guided their adoption. The release says he was responsible for NOC/SOC operations in the United States and Europe as director of global IT, Networks and Security at EchoStar/Hughes Network Systems. According to the release, Starling worked as a Telecommunications Specialist, Tech Control for NORAD, and served in the US Airforce as an Avionics Communications Systems Specialist. The company says Starling earned a master's in information systems management from Capella University and an Electrical Engineering Technology Bachelor of Science from Colorado Technical University.

In the announcement, IntelePeer President and CEO Frank Fawzi pointed to Starling's collaborative work across IntelePeer departments building employee information security awareness programs.