Sam Kinch is the Executive Client Advisor for Tanium with more than 20 years of cyber offense operations expertise – building, optimizing and streamlining Department of Defense (DoD), intelligence community, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) cybersecurity initiatives. Kinch brings a strong passion for solving complex challenges, leading multi-disciplinary teams, building coalitions, and establishing international partnerships and programs to his role, supporting Tanium’s public sector customers.

Highlights from Kinch’s career include founding the DoD’s federal COVID Response Technical Security Team for DHS, serving as the National Guard’s Chief Advisor to U.S. Cyber Command, and providing critical expertise to the Defense Science Board on studies supporting the DOD scientific and technical enterprise, among other notable accomplishments.

Kinch gives back to several important nonprofit causes that focus on cyber education and holds numerous service decorations and honors from the DoD, as well as the United Nations, and NATO.