About WarCollar Industries
People Focused, Mission Driven, Growth Oriented, Forward Leaning
WarCollar Industries is a certified service-disabled veteran-owned small business offering trusted digital network intelligence and cybersecurity solutions to government and commercial clients alike.
To find the top level of cybersecurity talent available and bring them to the front lines of our customers’ missions. Our staff has expertise in analysis, forensics, development, engineering, incident response, penetration testing, research, and more. We work with you to solve the toughest challenges in the ever-evolving digital landscape.
Our Mission
To develop and grow our company into the premier provider of cybersecurity talent to our customers. We have worked to create a reputation such that premier talent seeks us out for elite opportunities and customers will seek us out for elite services.
Our Vision
Our Services
Our broad offering of services including network operations and intelligence analysis, commercial pen testing, compromise assessments, cyber threat intelligence, incident response, and open source intelligence.
WarCollar uses patent-pending technology to deliver requirements-tailored IoT systems, allowing our customers to see the unseen and detect the undetectable.
Our Products
Our Principles + Values
Our principles and core values drive every activity of our organization and guide the behavior of our employees. WarCollar is:
People Focused
We go to great lengths to find and recruit the best personnel and then do everything in our power to keep them. We pride ourselves on our employees, friends and associates who consistently refer excellent individuals to join our team. We strive to treat our employees like family and provide them the opportunity for constant improvement and advancement.
Mission Driven
Our personnel have the privilege of supporting our clients in some of the most unique, challenging, and personally-fulfilling mission activities available to contractors. The importance of this work and the way we are integrated with our mission partners make our personnel happy to go to work in the morning and the sense of accomplishment they feel helps them sleep well at night.
Growth Oriented
By expanding into other customer’s excellent mission business areas we will have greater opportunities to help our personnel with their careers and help our customer achieve their mission by providing the most talented personnel possible. We are always looking for an opportunity to bring our talent to our customer’s mission.
Forward Leaning
We default to action, and we take the initiative. We engage our customers and our fellow employees to produce the best solutions and the best outcome. We are bold, engaging, and we search for opportunities and take advantage of those opportunities.
The WarCollar Family
Gene Bransfield, Founder + CEO
Gene Bransfield is the Founder and CEO of WarCollar Industries, a Service-Disabled Veteran- Owned Small Business. With over 20 years of professional experience in cybersecurity and systems engineering, he began his career in the Air Force at age 19 and has been serving the country ever since as a member of the military or as a government contractor. He has been heavily involved with both offensive and defensive aspects of cybersecurity for both commercial and federal government customers.
Mr. Bransfield began WarCollar Industries (named after a presentation he gave at the DEF CON Hacker Conference) in 2015 after his former company was acquired. He founded WarCollar to create a company that provided the customer the best available cybersecurity talent while simultaneously providing the best possible culture and benefits. He is an active participant in local cybersecurity groups and has presented at multiple hacker conventions.
A native of Philadelphia, PA, Mr. Bransfield currently resides in Northern Virginia and holds a Master’s Degree in Information Security and Assurance from George Mason University. In addition, he maintains several industry certifications from Cisco, Microsoft, and SANS Institute, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
Christine MacInnes, Executive Vice President
Christine MacInnes is WarCollar Industries’ Executive Vice President overseeing all aspects of the business with an emphasis on contracts, compliance and growth. She joined the company in 2015 bringing with her over 20 years of experience with a variety of agencies throughout the Department of Defense and intelligence community.
Mrs. MacInnes has a BA in psychology and a certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources. Originally from California, she has moved throughout the United States, and now calls Montana home. She and her husband have a small hobby farm where they raise goats and chickens and rescue dogs.
Tighe Smith, Director of Operations
Tighe Smith is an Air Force veteran who began his career at the age of 19 as a Russian Linguist. Since then, he has been serving his country as a defense contractor. Originally from the west coast, he now calls Virginia his home and has been here since 2009.
Mr. Smith received his MBA from Webster University after leaving the Air Force and has been putting that to good use for WarCollar Industries. He was eager to join the organization because of the company’s great culture and feeling of home. At WarCollar, “we are more than a number; we are individuals who make up a great team. “