Steve Neiers, Chief Executive Officer

Steve Neiers is the Chief Executive Officer for Clarity Consulting Corporation. Steve came to Clarity after a 33-year career with Chevron and starting a consulting company, SafeNei LLC, in 2021. He joined Chevron in 1987, starting with a variety of technical geophysical roles before moving into leadership positions including managing Chevron’s global IT network, managing Chevron’s global end user computing environment, and in 2013 assuming the role of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Chevron. Steve acquired his Bachelor of Science and his Master’s degree in Geophysics from Saint Louis University.

To this day, Steve believes strongly that sharing cybersecurity information amongst public and private institutions is critical to our collective defense against threat actors of all types. To this end, he was an active participant with CEB, now Gartner, Information Risk Leadership Council and with Gartner’s Information Risk Management Research Board. Steve was also co-chair of the Houston CISO Executive Summit for several years. Steve was also on Houston Baptist University’s Engineering Advisory Board as they developed their Cyber Engineering degree program.

Steve was a founding board member and Treasurer of the Oil and Natural Gas Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ONG-ISAC), a non-profit organization that serves as a central point of coordination and communication to aid in the protection of exploration and production, transportation, refining, and delivery systems of the ONG industry, through the analysis and sharing of trusted and timely cyber threat information, including vulnerability and threat activity specific to ICS and SCADA. He was also a founding board member and Vice President for Christmas in April Acadiana (now Rebuilding Together Acadiana), a non-profit organization that provides home repairs and renovations to homeowners who are unable to make necessary improvements to their homes due to financial hardship, age, or disability

Brian Desilets, Chief Financial Officer

Brian Desilets is the Chief Financial Officer of Clarity Consulting Corporation. Brian has 15 years of managerial, organizational, financial, and accounting experience with 10 years of experience in governmental accounting. Brian was a standout in college, earning a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree with a 3.97 GPA from LeTourneau University, with a minor in Business Administration and Management General.
 
Brian excels at turning around under-performing companies on short deadlines with marginal spare capital, while reworking their business models as needed and implementing tight financial controls to prevent a repeat of the conditions which caused the downturn in the first place.
 
Highlights of Brian’s expertise in corporate turnarounds include:
 
October 2011: Brian accepted a turnaround project for a company which lost a large portion of their market share after a Vice President left to open a competing firm with the stated goal of pilfering his former firm’s clients. Brian devised a recovery plan and worked with the company’s insurance carrier to cover the damages committed by the VP, while as a bonus also getting the insurance carrier to pay for the company’s legal counsel plus additionally compensate for the time spent solving the problems. Today, the firm is more profitable today than they were prior to the fraud, even though they have yet to recover all of their lost clients.
 
April 2012: In less than one year, Brian saved a Texas local governmental agency on the verge of financial collapse, ending the fiscal year with a surplus. Five years later as of December 2017, this agency now has surplus funds on hand more than $1.5M. Brian accomplished this remarkable rapid turnaround without an increase in tax rates or outside financing, primarily by effectively managing expenses alone.
 
September 2013: Brian agreed to take on a corporate fraud project for an agricultural wholesale Texas nursery where the farm foreman and the accounting manager colluded to defraud the business, leaving the company close to bankruptcy.  Within two years after Brian implemented financial controls and worked through their new business manager to oversee operations, company was back on a firm financial footing with financial operating reserves to spare.  Additionally, the organization has since been able to spend cash for several capital expenditure programs including propagation stations, tree stations and a massive rehabilitation of their ground storage tanks for their irrigation system.

Paul Williams, Chief Technology Officer

Paul Williams, IAM, IEM, ACE is the Chief Technology Officer of Clarity
Consulting Corporation. Paul is a nationally recognized authority on the white hat defender side of network security.

Paul is a subject-matter expert in multiple fields of technology, including
cyber security, cryptography, artificial intelligence, ultra-high-speed
databases, professional software development, software quality test
engineering, electronics, communications, mechanical engineering,
weapons development and multiple defense related technologies. Paul is
certified in the U.S. National Security Agency’s InfoSEC Assessment Methodology and InfoSEC Evaluation Methodology.

Before joining Clarity Consulting, Paul was the Chief Technology Officer of Pennsylvania-based White Badger Group, an information security consulting and training firm. Prior to this, Paul was the Chief Technology Officer of Houston-based counter-terrorism and security consulting company International Shield, Inc., the Chief Technology Officer of Gray Hat Research Corporation of Houston, and Chief Technology Officer of defense contractor Galaxy CSI in Washington, D.C. providing cyber security consulting services to the United States intelligence community. Over the years, Paul has earned an unparalleled reputation across the country for his extensive array of effective cyber security defense solutions and for leading and rapidly solving complex cyber-crime investigations through a variety of innovative and proprietary techniques. As a result, Paul has consulted for and provided tactical and strategic security guidance to Fortune 500 businesses and local, state, and
federal government agencies.

Paul has experience in the energy sector securing the SCADA/DCS industrial process control equipment of electric utilities and gas transmission facilities. He has performed numerous cyber, physical and social engineering “Red Team” penetration tests for electric
power utility process control facilities across the United States on behalf of the Electric Power Research Institute, an electric power industry-funded technology research organization based in Palo Alto, California. Paul is a co-inventor of U.S. Patent No. 9,245,147 for Logic Chain Stateful Activity Whitelist (ChainSAW®) cyber security technology
for process control facilities.

Paul is a public speaker who has drawn coverage from radio, television and print media. He has conducted more than 270 cyber-security speaking engagements around the world. Paul has been featured at seminars and conferences held by organizations including the United
States Secret Service, U.S. Department of Justice, FBI InfraGard, ACP, ASIS, IIA, ISACA, ISSA, and universities and colleges across the nation.

Paul’s passion for computer technology began with his first computer in 1983: a 2K RAM memory Z80 Timex-Sinclair 4-chip microcomputer which he programmed using machine code to solve an astrophysics problem involving the velocity of light. As a result of Paul's special skills in the field of computer security, over the years he has collected a wide assortment of hacking tools, worms, Trojan Horses, and computer viruses for advanced research purposes. He maintains a personal collection of 25,000 computer viruses and 2,000 Trojan Horses for advanced malware research.

Robert Yrshus - Board Member

Mr. Yrshus is a Registered Investment Advisor Representative with Network 1 Financial Advisors, a licensed Insurance Agent and Managing Member of BOTIMOR CAPITAL LLC - Business Consulting. Currently a Board Member of Houston based Waypoint 2 Space Inc.

Past experience includes the Securities Industry for 35 years and as a Principle of a Houston based Broker/Dealer for the last 24. Board member of numerous start up ventures financed through BD. Additionally he is currently a member of a Houston based group called GEM, Global Energy Mentors.

Mr. Yrshus received a BS in Finance and Accounting in 1978 from Drexel University.

Kurt Nauck - Board Member

Kurt Nauck is a successful businessman who is the founder and owner of Nauck's Vintage Records in Spring, Texas the world's premier vintage record auction house. Kurt was elected to the Clarity’s Board of Directors in 2018.