New Context, a leading innovator in building secure and compliant data platforms for government, energy and highly regulated industries, today announced Sham Chotai has joined New Context’s Board of Advisors.

Sham Chotai brings deep experience and expertise in digital transformation, big data and analytic technologies, as well as AI and software development to strengthen New Context’s Board of Advisors; helping drive their products and services development in securing data for critical infrastructure.

“I am honored to join New Context and support the vision of a secure and compliant data layer that enables digital transformation,” said Sham Chotai. “Data and analytics are the crucial foundation in today’s digital world, and New Context customers operate critical infrastructure that needs a trusted and resilient data backbone.”

“Sham's insights and experience are in alignment to our future roadmap driving digital transformation. Insights that he brings will be very valuable to support and guide our efforts to build and deliver Secure & Compliant Data Platforms and Tools,” said Daniel Riedel, Founder and CEO, New Context, Inc. “The world is changing with the rapid expansion of IoT and data and in 2019 we will be focusing on building data solutions for highly regulated industries and Sham’s expertise will be a great asset to New Context.”

In a career that spans over 25 years, Sham is a seasoned entrepreneur and innovator who is passionately bringing technology solutions to market that deliver tangible outcomes. Alongside his role with New Context, Sham serves as an advisor to large and small firms on digital transformation driven by big data, analytics and AI. Sham was most recently at Barrick where he was Chief Digital Officer—a new role to drive forward the Company's transformation into a digital enterprise, in ways that are entirely new to the mining industry. Sham joined Barrick from GE, where he served as Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software for the company’s Power & Water and Transportation divisions. Prior to GE, he was Vice President, Cloud Computing for Hewlett-Packard. Mr. Chotai also led the development of a patented predictive analytics platform for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries at DecisionView Software, a company he co-founded.

About New Context

New Context, Inc. is the security innovator for highly regulated industries. Our products and consulting services enable global leaders in energy, government and across the enterprise to build, deploy and maintain Secure and Compliant Data Platforms. The New Context Lean Security Intelligence Platform – LS/IQ – turns cybersecurity into a strategic business asset, assessing and optimizing development resources around security and compliance. New Context is a leader in open standards, advancing the development of OpenC2 standard and using security automation as a force multiplier for defenders.

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