Jeff Schmidt, CEO, Avertium

Jeff Schmidt is a successful leader who has led high-growth technology companies spanning startups to large global enterprises throughout his career. He is responsible for establishing and driving the vision for Avertium in addition to developing and executing the company’s growth strategy to drive employee, client and shareholder value within the last two years. All of these initiatives succeeded despite the additional business challenges that everyone faced — employees working from home, businesses needing shifting, and other global issues in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. 

With support from leaders and key individuals from the three merged companies (Terra Verde, TruShield and Sword & Shield), Schmidt quickly established a vision and mission for the newly formed company based on these fundamental ideas:   

1. Build something people would miss if it didn’t exist tomorrow (their customers, Avertium team, and customer first delivery philosophies).

2. Don’t get married to your role.  Expect change and growth. 

3. Focus on the customer and building the gold standard for security as a service focused on the mid to large enterprise segment.   

Avertium started with two solution sets, Sophos and AlienVault, melding three disparate operations into one to provide the best MSSP offering for their customers. Schmidt quickly led the team in integrating all systems and platforms into a single, cohesive unit to seamlessly deliver to Avertium customers.

By the end of 2019, the technology platforms supported expanded to four core managed SIEM platforms and three key EDR solutions – not because they wanted to, but because they listened to their customers. Because of Schmidt’s leadership, Avertium’s security professional services delivery team, combined with its Threat Intelligence Labs, contribute additional value that not all MSSPs can claim.