Georges Brantley is the Director of Engineering Operations at Kinney Group. Responsible for the technical execution of the Professional Services & Customer Experience team at Kinney Group, Georges started as a Splunk engineer and moved into technical leadership while still leading putting hands on multiple technical projects to this day. Certified in both Security + and Scrum Master, Georges is process and outcome-driven and has an eye for achieving the 80/20 of a situation, and enabling people to not just use Splunk as a Security tool, but as a Data Analytics platform. When not managing Splunk engagements, Georges assists with Scrum Mastering development and non-technical teams to enable them to achieve quick, iterative results. In his free time, he enjoys running, bouldering, and way too complex board games.

Jim Kinney has over 30 years' experience in the enterprise IT industry in a variety of individual contributor and executive leadership roles. Mr. Kinney has been a successful sales and business development leader for enterprise IT and data services solutions in both Federal and commercial marketplaces. As an entrepreneur, Mr. Kinney has started two different companies (Canal Technologies, Kinney Group) and also led the start-up of a Federal network integrator (CPI) and global information service provider (Gracenote).