Manuel Felix

Manuel ‘Manny’ Felix is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the AZ Cyber Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to developing and building the next generation of cybersecurity professionals in Arizona. Prior to founding the AZ Cyber Initiative, he was a Cyber Risk & Strategy Senior Consultant in Deloitte’s Risk and Financial Advisory practice in New York City. Specific areas of oversight included cyber risk strategy, governance, data protection, infrastructure security and program management.

Prior to his work in Deloitte, Manny joined Pueo Business Solutions as a co-founder and consultant in Fredericksburg, VA and Washington, D.C area. Manny led major and minor upgrades for infrastructure applications, servers, data center architectures, and security engineering services for Unclassified, Secret, and Top-Secret infrastructure.

Manny was a Petty Officer Third Class in the United States Navy reserves as a Cryptologic Technician for Networks (CTN). Later, he earned his commission as an Intelligence Officer in the United States Navy.

He is an alumnus of University of Arizona with two bachelor’s degree in Political Science with a focus in Foreign Affairs, and Spanish Translation and Interpretation. He holds a master’s degree from the Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies in Applied Intelligence, with a focus in Cyber Defense, Law Enforcement, and National Security.