The ITEN WIRED Team
Patrick Rooney is the Director and Business Coach for Co:Lab Pensacola, a program of Florida West EDA, in partnership with Pensacola State College. He also serves as the Lead Principal Consultant at Coastal CxO Services, Inc. where he leads a team of Executive/Senior Managers providing comprehensive business and technology consulting services. The firm delivers C-Suite expertise to firms’ Founders, Management, Investors, and Directors. Coastal CxO helps identify critical pain points, prepares strategic and tactical plans addressing root causes (not mere symptoms), assists with improving business processes across the entire enterprise, and resolves problems hindering success in achieving business objectives.
He has served as a Senior Financial and Operations Executive working with start-ups and midstage firms in defense, electronics, software development/systems integration, education, manufacturing, multimedia distribution, information security and health-care. His 30-years of work experience encompasses a vast range of experience from controller, vice-president, and CFO to CEO and Chairman with companies such as Brand Asset Digital, Cogon Systems, Deloitte Touché & Co, Manufacturing Technology, Inc. (MTI) & others.
He has a proven track record in building and leading high performance teams needing effective assistance with private fund raising, enterprise process improvements, and operating management process development. He is a graduate of the University of West Florida with a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting with magna cum laude honors. He earned his Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in November 1980. He also completed a year long program on Multinational Management at Georgia Institute of Technology through the Southern Center for International Studies.
Join us on the #CyberCoast
ITEN WIRED: GROWING THE CYBER COAST
ITEN (Innovation, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Network) WIRED Summit is the Southeast’s premier cybersecurity and IT conference to connect, collaborate and build community with industry leaders, entrepreneurs and educators on innovation, technology and entrepreneurship topics.
The three-day event highlights the area’s cybersecurity, information technology and entrepreneurial communities and explores emerging technology and innovators in start-up tech, artificial intelligence, robotics, and emerging technologies on the national scene.
The summit, which began as an economic development initiative in 2008 by the Greater Pensacola Chamber of Commerce, is now hosted by IT Gulf Coast.
ITEN WIRED is a not-for-profit, technology-focused conference. Proceeds from the event are used to support IT Gulf Coast's local STEM initiatives, including endowments to the University of West Florida and Pensacola State College.
The next ITEN WIRED Summit will take place on October 5-7, 2022.

Meet the Team
The ITEN WIRED planning team is composed of volunteers from IT Gulf Coast, Florida West Economic Development Alliance, and other members of our local IT, tech and entrepreneurial community.
Jim Rhodes
University of West Florida Center for Cybersecurity
Director
Laura Campbell
CEO
Sales & Operations Consulting, Inc.
Sponsorship Chair
Sean O'Brien
Program Director
GDIT
Programming Chair
Amelia Dixon
Enterprise Architect
Navy Federal Credit Union
Sponsorship / Logistics
Emily Cone
Account Manager
TEKsystems
Programming
Michelle Gadson
Business Services Representative
CareerSource Escarosa
Programming
Terry Enos
AVP Data Center Strategy
Navy Federal Credit Union
Programming
Patrick Rooney
Director
Co:Lab Pensacola
Sponsorship / Programming
Dean Davis
President and Co-Founder
Navigate Firm
Sponsorship / Logistics
Samantha Miller
Account Manager
Duncan McCall Advertising
Marketing
Marie Perry
Cyber Security Analyst/Vice Chair
Navy Federal/IT Gulf Coast
Stephen Hopkins
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
Computer Help
Programming