Tech industry veteran Simon Hartley founded TNN in Texas in 2006. For two decades, TNN helped startups and established IT vendors bring new products to market. Its focus was quantum, AI, and cybersecurity echnologies in highly regulated verticals.
Today, TNN is based in the National Captal Region (NCR or DMV of DC, MD, and VA), focusing on publishing and nonprofit advisory. It draws on a successful track record of bringing new ideas to government and enterprise organizations.
- Simon is a business development and go-to-market leader based near Washington, DC, who turns emerging-technology risk into revenue across quantum, AI, and cybersecurity.
- Today, at Quantum Sky (formerly Tyto Athene), he helps defense, intelligence, and federal agencies turn quantum and AI technology into mission-ready solutions.
- At IBM, he led cybersecurity, quantum-safe readiness, and AI-assisted deals across US telcos, energy, and manufacturing, protecting resilience, revenues, and trust. He hosted client briefings at the IBM Quantum Labs on quantum-safe timing and early quantum computing use cases.
- Before IBM, he drove Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) sales for Quantinuum, the trapped-ion quantum computing company, hardening allied defense and financial infrastructure.
- At CIS Secure, he launched a mobile-security platform for the US Government, after earlier running a $16M DISA secure-mobility program covering 140,000+ Apple and Samsung smartphones, the largest in government at the time.
- Simon co-founded RunSafe Security, a prize-winning IoT cybersecurity startup; served as VP at Kaprica Security ahead of its Samsung acquisition; and held executive roles at Red Hat, Capgemini, and HP.
- He holds BSc Honors in Physics, an MS in Law & Cybersecurity, and an Executive MBA, and is a DTech candidate at Purdue in Cybersecurity, PQC, and AI.
Member of InfraGard - a partnership between the FBI and members of the private sector for the protection of US Critical Infrastructure.
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- Auto ISAC
- Society of Auto Engineers
- NextGen Venture Partners
- ATARC Tech Transfer
- MACH37 Cyber Accelerator
- "I have always been captivated by innovation and its capacity to make our lives, organizations, and communities better. Beyond that, in cybersecurity, it's about maintaining trust and keeping everyone safe and secure."
- "In launching new products, prospecting for gold isn't about furiously digging just everywhere, it's focusing on likely sites such as reefs or riverbeds. For a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), this translates into a laser-like focus on which problem are you solving for which customer group and then demonstrating the value add that you bring."