Rick Tossavainen

Rick Tossavainen serves as the CEO of Dark Wolf Solutions, a company supporting commercial, civilian, defense, and Intelligence Community clients in the areas of Cybersecurity, DevOps, and Digital Transformation. Throughout his career, he has developed solutions and applications in classified environments, architecting, developing, and deploying mission and enterprise systems that support operational activities. Prior to becoming a full-time CEO, Rick worked onsite in the Intelligence Community where he developed next generation cyber capabilities based upon a five-year capability roadmap that Dark Wolf helped to create. Rick has also helped to increase cybersecurity resilience at USAF by drafting Continuous ATO playbooks for several of the software factories and assisting with the selection of tools and technologies in CI/CD pipelines to deliver hardened and secure applications to cloud environments.

Previously, Rick served as Vice President of Technical Solutions at Wolf Den Associates, where he incubated Dark Wolf. Before Wolf Den, Rick worked at SRA International for 16 years. At SRA, he managed multiple projects for the Intelligence Community and other government customers, supporting various enterprise applications and services, performing data analysis, and employing cloud computing.