Tamer Hassan (businessperson)

Tamer Hassan is a business executive who serves as CEO of White Ops. He is a co-founder of White Ops and previously founded Compel Data Technologies.[1] Prior to his business career, Hassan served in the U.S. Air Force as a Major.

Early life

Tamer Hassan was raised in Northern California and taught himself to code at the age of eight. He studied at the Air Force Academy in Colorado and after the 9-11 attacks[2] Hassan served as a Major in the U.S. Air Force, and was deployed as a Combat Search and Rescue helicopter pilot during the Iraq War and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.[3]

Business career

While serving in the Air Force, Hassan became the founder and CEO of computer consultancy Compel Data Technologies Inc. In 2012 Hassan co-founded White Ops,[3] for which he first served as the chief technology officer.[4] In 2018 Hassan led a collaboration between the public and private sector, including the FBI and Google, in the discovery and disruption of the 3ve botnet fraud.[5] It was the largest FBI-private collaboration in history.[2][3] He also worked to hunt down several other botnets and examples of ad fraud.[6] Hassan was named CEO of White Ops in 2019.[3] In 2019 Fast Company ranked Hassan first on its "Most Creative Person in Business" list.[2]

References
  1. "Tamer Hassan - Authors & Columnists". Dark Reading. Retrieved 2020-01-20.
  2. Beer, Jeff (May 22, 2019). "How the No.1 most creative person in business this year led the FBI to its biggest ad-fraud bust ever". Fast Company.
  3. Desk, Tech Observer (April 14, 2019). "White Ops replaces Sandeep Swadia with Tamer Hassan as CEO".
  4. Vranica, Rob Barry and Suzanne. "U.S. Charges Eight With Online-Ad Fraud". WSJ.
  5. "White Ops CEO and Co-Founder, Tamer Hassan". Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. 2019-12-27. Retrieved 2020-01-20.
  6. "Tamer Hassan is the Bot Hunter". Sync Magazine. March 15, 2016.
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