Author · Leadership
Richard Avery
Co-Founder & CEO, AMP Cortex
Building computers and networks since the early 90s. A locksmith's son who has spent three decades studying how physical and logical targets get compromised — so AMP Cortex customers never find out the hard way.
- 30+ yrs
- Building networks, since the early 90s
- 19+
- CompTIA and Microsoft certifications
- 12
- Deployments: Iraq ×3, Afghanistan ×9
- 2
- MBAs: Marketing and Management
Why a locksmith's son runs a phone company
Locks and networks fail the same way: an attacker finds the one path the defender never considered. Richard grew up learning how physical security gets defeated, then spent his career learning how digital security gets defeated — sharpened over a decade in the government military complex with roles at Lockheed Martin and L3, and twelve deployments as a military contractor.
That habit is what AMP Cortex customers feel in the product: assume the attacker is competent, find the cheapest control that actually stops them, and test it instead of trusting it. As founder and CEO of Titanium Computing, Austin's security-first MSP, Richard watched clients pay enterprise prices for phone systems that treated security and AI as bolt-ons — and co-founded AMP Cortex to build the opposite. He still answers his own email.