Brad Garland graduated from The University of North Texas with a B.A. in Communications and a minor in Computer Science. He joined his father, Henry Garland, at the banking technology company he owned after graduating from University of North Texas. Henry and Brad Garland refocused the to the financial institution market, starting with just five clients, and has since expanded to other types of regulated organizations and industries.

Brad is currently the Chief Executive Officer responsible for all strategy, execution, and business development for Garland Heart. Garland Heart specializes in the Cybersecurity and Compliance space since 2003. The company’s mission is to help remove the fear of security and create a proactive security strategy that helps protect organizations in the financial, legal & healthcare industries. In 2007, Brad Garland took on the role of Chief Executive and began looking to expand into other states and increase service offerings. Brad speaks at many industry associations, technology conferences as well as facilitates round-table discussions for attendees.

Brad is married, with three daughters, and loves soccer, skiing and currently resides in Denver, Colorado after opening a new Garland Heart office in 2014.

My degree has helped me immensely in what I need to do as my role as business owner and CEO. Just today in fact, I had to do a presentation to our entire company about how we did for the first quarter and our goals for the second. My degree certainly helped in the realm of public speaking but another more subtle skill that I got from my degree is that of reading people and their wants/needs/desires. This skill was built in my Interpersonal & Family Comm classes and may be even more important than the first as it’s what really allows me to create a meaningful impact on people.