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Bart McDonough is CEO and Founder of Agio, a hybrid managed IT and cybersecurity services provider that acts like anything but your traditional MSP. Agio’s bread and butter are financial services, specifically hedge funds, private equity, and asset managers. Followed closely by the health care market and the payments industries. Bart founded Agio from a place of deep institutional investment knowledge, racking up more than 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, business development, and IT management, specifically within the demanding world of the hedge fund space. His core strengths are assessing, defining, advocating, and driving the adoption of risk management strategies, controls, and models that enabled organizations to advance cybersecurity resiliency while successfully complying with evolving regulatory requirements, and behavioral transformations. Bart currently sits on the board of two cybersecurity firms, TwoSense.AI, and Magnus Cloud. Prior to founding Agio, he worked at SAC Capital Advisors, BlueStone Capital Partners, OptiMark Technologies, Sanford Bernstein and American Express.