Strategic leadership to solve complex problems leveraging innovative thinking and decades of experience
About CNK
Strategic Advisory
Business Consulting
Cyber Law
CNK Solutions is a super-boutique hybrid legal and consulting firm providing a broad suite of regulatory, risk and leadership advisory services
With an executive management team built from industry leaders, we focus on delivering strategic solutions with the sophistication, quality and expertise you expect from a big firm, while also retaining the flexibility to design personalized cost-efficient approaches to maximize value for our clients
What We Do
Advisory Services
With decades of legal, risk, business, operational and technical expertise we bring a unique set of capabilities to the executive solution services space, helping you solve the most complex risk management challenges
Virtual CISO
C-Suite & senior management plug-and-play solutions to meet your short and long-term security leadership needs with full and part-time support options scaled to your organization
Tools & Tech
Solutions
We offer access to a variety of software, tools and implementing solutions to meet any program objectives through direct and other tech partnership relationships
Leadership Team & Tech Partners
Shari C Gribbin
Managing Partner
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Shari Gribbin specializes in cyber C-suite strategic leadership support and leads the CNK advisory services offerings, a broad range of risk, program and regulatory solutions. Shari brings more than 22 years of critical infrastructure industry experience in cyber, legal, regulatory, operations, risk and security
Jamie Saunders
Energy Services Partner
Jamie Saunders leads CNK’s energy sector non-cyber regulatory & policy services with a specific focus on federal and state commission solutions. With over a decade of experience in regulatory policy, governance, compliance, cost recovery and ratemaking
Robert Eckenrod
Solutions Advisory Service Partner
Robert Eckenrod leads cyber legal and risk solutions across all sectors. Rob's practice focuses on helping clients address their legal and compliance risks related to security, operations, business, regulatory and policy interests,
CNK also works closely with the following trusted tech solutions partners providing complementary services for our clients
Cybersecurity and Systems Engineering firm with extensive DoD and government sector experience
Leading security solution platform providing visibility into product and supply chain risks
Vision & Values
Our teams are as diverse as our experience, and that translates to the smartest solutions for our clients. We are building the workforce of now and the future, with true diversity from line to leadership
For now this means having an empathetic, respectful, multi-cultural workplace. For future, this means offering maximum opportunity for development and support as each of us professionally excels. For always, this means regular and active participation on local community issues and support opportunities
Diversity
Diversity isn't a value - it is a foundation
Ruben Arredondo
Solutions Advisory Services Partner
Ruben provides legal, leadership and project support to CNK Solutions as part of our advisory services partnership with Regime Energy Services to bring the best team to our clients. Ruben has almost two decades of experience in the bulk power reliability, security and operations arena as a lawyer on both the regulatory and industry side.
Martin Shepherd
Solutions Services Partner
Martin leads tools & tech services, having founded Arch Access Control to be a leader in technological solutions for enterprise security projects
Al McBride, Jr.
Solutions Services Partner
Al McBride leads virtual CISO services and is an accomplished Cybersecurity Thought Leader with more than three decades of experience developing cybersecurity solutions and operational guidance
Conscious Capitalism
We appreciate the innovation and opportunity that capitalism provides but also strongly believe corporations are members of our communities with an obligation to contribute to society as much as we benefit from it
Invested Engagement
We take great pride in our relationships and our ability to work closely with our clients as an integrated team to solve complex challenges in a collaborative way, all of us equally invested. Helping our clients be successful is our top priority
Integrity
At the core of our model is an emphasis on operating with integrity at all times. We insist on full transparency with our clients about our capabilities, staffing and resource teams, technical, and other subject matter support partnerships and solutions
Thrive
Our team cannot bring their best selves to your work if they are not living their best lives in everything else. We regularly assess our resources against client initiatives and work to ensure our people have the ability to live fulfilling personal lives, however they may define it