Brandon Lawrence

Brandon Lawrence attributes the opportunity of working for Nike as apart of timing and luck. Coming from Mt. Vernon, New York ( a suburb ofNew York City), Lawrence grew up with a love for sneakers and fashion, and a dream to work for Nike one day. But Lawrence started out wanting to “follow the money” with intentions of becoming a financial advisor in college. With the changes on Wall Street around 2008, he changed his perspective and listened to his college roommate who suggested he get into web based applications. He followed this path up until an unknown company tapped him as a consultant on a project.That company happened to be Nike.Now Lawrence has been with Nike for 5 years as a consultant focused on application performance. But just like he listened to his college roommate and assessed the changing environment, he sees opportunities that are popping up all around in the cyber and technical environment. From his perspective, anybody can create an app these days just like a big company and the cyber security space is huge right now and not enough people are taking advantage of this. What does that mean for Lawrence? Listen in...