Network Designs, Inc. (NDi) announced today that Anthony E. Zeruto (Col, U.S. Army, RET) is its new President and CEO. Mr. Zeruto will succeed Martin P. Schweitzer (BG, U.S. Army, RET), who has held the positions of President and CEO since 2015. Mr. Schweitzer will remain on the NDi Team and operate in a Senior Executive Advisory capacity of our newly formed Board of Advisors. Mr. Zeruto brings considerable IT acumen to the leadership position, with deep experience and expertise in cybersecurity and cyber infrastructure. The addition of Mr. Zeruto’s knowledge and background to NDi’s leadership team adds significant value to the company’s corporate objectives and growth plans.

“We are thrilled to have Anthony at the helm of NDi,” said Kevin McGreevy, Co-Founder and Executive Vice President. “He will continue the excellence in leadership that Marty demonstrated every day while leading us the past four years. Mr. Zeruto is a leader who will guide NDi through its next phase of growth so that we will continue to deliver mission-critical value and thought leadership for our clients, as always.”

Mr. Zeruto is a retired Colonel and Intelligence Officer in the U.S. Army where he spent most of his 24 years of active-duty in U.S. Army Airborne and Special Operation Forces. His last position was as Director of Operations for U.S. Army Cyber Command. In that role, Mr. Zeruto was responsible for directing the U.S. Army’s full spectrum cyberspace operations, including DoD Information Network Operations (DODIN), Defensive Cyberspace Operations (DCO) and Offensive Cyberspace Operations (OCO).

Most recently, Mr. Zeruto was Commander of NSA-Georgia in Fort Gordon, Georgia. In this capacity, he led the largest and most complex Joint, Interagency, and multi-national Signals Intelligence and Cyber Command in the Department of Defense. His experience also includes extensive service as a Senior Intelligence Officer within Special Operation Forces as TF-J2 Iraq, TF-J2 Levant and TF-J2 Africa.

A U. S. Army War College Fellow at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Mr. Zeruto holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of South Florida and is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

Mr. Zeruto comes to NDi from Unisys, where he served the last two years as their Executive Director of Industry for the Unisys Stealth® suite of cybersecurity software, which is focused on zero-trust, software defined micro-segmentation for the protection of applications, data centers and transport layers.