Mike Coogan

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Mike Coogan, Managing Director at The Huginn Group

Mike Coogan is an accomplished security executive with over 25 years of experience leading cybersecurity organizations.1 He is currently the Managing Director at The Huginn Group, a position he has held since 2022.1

Some key highlights about Mike Coogan:

He has demonstrated success leading all aspects of cybersecurity organizations with a focus on business-relevance.1
He is skilled at balancing risk and opportunity while driving a consistent approach throughout the enterprise, including the Board of Directors.1
Coogan brings a deep skillset of leading complex projects while maintaining a pragmatic, holistic view of needed outcomes and tradeoffs.1
He has a history of implementation and project management experience with both technology and process, with an eye toward sustainability and operational readiness.1
Coogan has well-honed diplomacy and communication skills that facilitate interaction between traditional silos like Legal, Finance, IT, and HR.1

Coogan holds a B.Sc. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.S. from UC Irvine, and an MBA from the University of Illinois Chicago.1 He is also a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals, and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).1