Ralph Echemendia

Ralph Echemendia is an information security expert, ethical hacker and instructor. He has appeared on KTLA, CNN, Fox News, and Animal Planet, as well as in the pages of USA Today and Forbes magazine. His experience began at the age of 14 with ham radio, phone phreaking, and the old bulletin board systems.Fact|date=November 2007 For over 13 years, he has consulted for numerous organizations around the world, including the United NationsFact|date=November 2007, OracleFact|date=November 2007, and various hospitalsFact|date=November 2007 and financial institutionsFact|date=November 2007.

In early 2006 left the position of Information Security Product Line Manager and Lead Instructor for the Intense School/Vigilar, he then founded Execsecure and was involved with inception of The Hacker Academy.

Ralph has been providing professional services for several years and has written and delivered training on “Hacking” and other information security topics to the US Marines Corp., Army, Navy, SPAWAR, Bristol Meyer Squibb, Google, AMEX, Boeing, Intel, Microsoft, Symantec and IBM to name a few. He continues to teach "Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing" around the world.

He is also currently involved with a venture in the entertainment and sports industry.