President and Founder,
Industry Workforce Solutions, Inc.
Doreen Gonzalez-Gaboyan is a visionary business executive and consortium builder with deep expertise at the intersection of cybersecurity, workforce development, and supply chain resilience. As President and CEO of Industry Workforce Solutions, she has successfully convened corporations, government agencies, and academic institutions to strengthen U.S. supply chains—especially by advancing opportunities for small and mid-sized companies.
She is the architect of CyberReady®, the first national cybersecurity initiative designed for SMBs, and founder of the CyberReady Consortium, which equips companies to meet Department of Defense compliance standards. Under her leadership, these programs have engaged hundreds of small and mid-sized companies, created structured cybersecurity pathways, and forged partnerships with Fortune 500 corporations, federal agencies, and national advocacy organizations.
Previously, Doreen served as Director of Engagement at Purdue University, where she advanced cybersecurity apprenticeship programs and led strategic planning for the Navy. At Purdue Northwest, she played a pivotal role in establishing the Steel Consortium, a regional hub for industry collaboration, technology integration, and workforce pipeline development—experience that underscores her ability to identify, align, and strengthen complex supply chains.
Beyond her executive leadership, Doreen is a committed advocate for community benefits agreements, ensuring that large-scale infrastructure and workforce investments deliver meaningful economic outcomes to local residents and small businesses. She has authored influential works on supply chain readiness in the cybersecurity and energy sectors, providing thought leadership that connects economic growth with equitable community impact.
Doreen holds a B.A. in Business with a concentration in Entrepreneurship and Business Development from Purdue University Calumet. She is a certified Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB), WBENC-certified business, and NMSDC-certified business.
Her proven track record of consortium leadership, industry collaboration, and community advocacy positions her as a trusted leader in building large-scale initiatives that both strengthen national supply chains and expand opportunities for small and mid-sized companies.
Ph.D, EdD, MBA, RAC, CSSBB
Research Scientist, Purdue University
Owner/Founder, Fourman Consulting
Jan serves as the chief advisor in workforce, risk assessment and curriculum development for Industry Workforce Solutions. She is an expert in program development for quality compliance, risk mitigation assessment, and Six Sigma strategies for the pharmaceutical, medical device and other manufacturing organizations.
To name a few, she has consulted for the Food and Drug Association (FDA), International Standards Organization (ISO), Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and the National Institute of Health (HIH).
Jan has worked in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry in therapeutics, manufacturing, quality, and cybersecurity. She also has experience in project management, metric collection, and data analysis, and is a Six Sigma Black Belt.
In the pharmaceutical industry, there are strict statutory and regulatory standards that must be met to ensure quality of drugs and medical devices. In order to remain compliant with those standards, the industry relies upon experts like Jan, who consult with organizations the methods to mitigate risk and remain compliant. In addition, she is a certified auditor in ISO 9001 and ISO 13485.
Ph.D., CISSP, CISA, HCISPP, CTPRP, ITIL
Chief Information Security Officer, SCP Health
Owner/Founder, 3rd Party Risk Assessment
Chris serves as a chief advisor in the creation of IWS educational training and assessments on cyber threat awareness.
As the former director of education and training for the CMMC Center of Excellence, Chris works to enhance the overall security and resilience of the supply chain for the defense industrial base and the U.S. Department of Defense.
He brings extensive experience in organizational development, forging new relationships, protecting sensitive data, building cybersecurity ecosystems, and coaching and mentoring high functioning teams.
He has developed and authored diverse security awareness training and mentoring programs and has coordinated corporate training programs focusing on cybersecurity. He is an expert practitioner in the evaluation of an organization’s overall cybersecurity posture and strengths and challenges. He creates cybersecurity maturity roadmaps ‘and plans of action to mature a company’s internal defensive measures.
Chris builds consensus among leadership, employees, and customers. He has developed and authored diverse security awareness training and mentoring programs for his organization and successfully coordinated corporate training programs focusing on cybersecurity.
CEO and Founder, VILLA-TECH, Inc.
Miguel serves as the chief advisor in small business development for Industry Workforce solutions. He is an expert in the CyberReadyMBE program. He has implemented the program and now working directly with the Department of Defense.
After spending 24 years working in the information
technology sector, Miguel established a technology
company specializing in the architecture of global
scale next-generation networks, cloud and security
technologies.
While at the helm of the firm, launched in 2014 and
headquartered in Naperville, Illinois, Miguel leads
continued developing software-defined networking
(SDN), cloud services, networking and data
architectures and security technologies, all while continuing to build a professional and managed services practice.
VILLA-TECH, Inc. is also the creator of STRUCTURA.IO, an infrastructure as code (IaC) commercial software product, that is changing the way system integrators and cloud developers build security cloud solutions.
Miguel has completed coursework in MIT Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy, MIT Big Data and Social Physics, and MIT Tackling the Challenges of Big Data Certifications. He is a ONF-certified SDN associate and
certified in Google Cloud Platform Networking.
Miguel has landed VILLA-TECH Inc. in position to be a multi-million-dollar corporation with reputable clients and projects globally.