Merlin Namuth is Chief Information Security Officer at REPAY, a high growth fintech company. Namuth has over 27 years of IT experience – last 24 years focused in security. His comprehensive experience spanning several industries includes leading 5 different security programs, creating strategy and building security programs from the ground up, mergers and acquisitions, managing incident response teams, computer forensics, compliance, architecture, and engineering complex security solutions both on-prem and in the Cloud. Namuth is an Adjunct Faculty in the Cybersecurity Executive Program at California State University – Northride and also serves as an advisor to security startup companies. He has presented at numerous conferences, including RSA both domestically and internationally and been interviewed on renowned security podcasts.