Ward Spangenberg

I founded and lead the Nor’easter Rugby Cup, a multi-week collegiate XVs competition designed to give New England programs meaningful spring rugby, consistent match guarantees, and exposure beyond traditional conference play. The Cup brings together NCR-affiliated teams across NERFU and NACR into a structured, points-based series culminating in a championship weekend in Boston. My role spans competition design, field and referee coordination, sponsorship development, budgeting, risk and liability planning, and partner outreach. I work closely with coaches, referees, and sponsors to create a sustainable tournament model that benefits players, programs, and the broader rugby ecosystem. A core focus of the Cup is connecting sponsors with motivated student-athletes, including internship and early-career recruiting opportunities, while reinforcing rugby’s values of discipline, teamwork, and resilience. Key elements: • Five-team, two-week XVs series with championship finals • Cross-conference competition (NERFU & NACR) • Sponsor visibility tied to student recruitment and brand alignment • Emphasis on safety, competitive balance, and program sustainability This is not a one-off tournament. It’s an attempt to fix a broken spring season.

Leading security strategy, governance, and risk with a bias for action and zero tolerance for checkbox theater. I am still active in across private research, active leadership roles, and multiple advisory boards, so I can bring clarity where others bring clutter. I focus on high-leverage, high-impact engagements where experience leads, outcomes matter, and presence is earned, not assumed.

Coach the WIT Men's Rugby Club

AltGreen Research helps an organization strategize, plan, and execute robust and viable business plans and information security programs. We combine the vision of executive leadership with the needs of securing the organization into a cohesive, actionable plan. Our core competency is information security executive consulting.

Quality Assurance, Strategy consulting, Security due diligence, value creation

Accountable for the planning, design, implementation and maintenance of security systems to be used by the Security Operation Center (SOC) for the delivery across multiple customers distributed globally. Systems include Security Information Event Management (SIEM), logging systems, intrusion detection and prevention, network security monitoring, patching systems, etc.

Gordius Systems specializes in making complex problems simple and actionable. Each member of the executive team has 20 years experience building products in Silicon Valley. They have helped build the most innovative networking, online gaming, and business intelligence firms in the world. Gordius Systems has expertise in business intelligence, business analysis, big data, near real-time analysis, natural language processing, product development, product management, security, risk management, engineering operations, and business strategy. We have built cloud-based solutions and delivered Software As a Service (SaaS) on a global scale. Ward is responsible for maintaining multiple external customers while being a contributor to internal Gordius projects.