Joe Kingland, CISSP
Entrepreneur. Cybersecurity veteran. Builder of companies and the AI teams that run them.
Joe has spent over two decades building and securing IT operations — from nuclear submarine systems in the U.S. Navy to directing IT for Anytime Fitness's 4,000+ franchise locations, to serving as Chief Security Officer at Self Esteem Brands across 14 countries.
Since 2011, he's founded and scaled six companies under the Manage Infinity group — including Blue Team Alpha (cybersecurity incident response), Palisade Technology Solutions, Franchise Technology Group, and Klok Labs — building each from the ground up into multi-million dollar operations.
Then he did something different: he deployed AI agent teams across his own operations. Not as an experiment. As the actual workforce. They screened candidates, tracked performance, analyzed sentiment, generated reports, and managed operations — alongside his human team.
It worked. Catalyst is what happened next.
Background
CISSP Certified — Information Systems Security Professional
6 Companies Founded — Cybersecurity, IT operations, and AI
Serial Entrepreneur — Multiple companies built from the ground up to multi-million dollar operations
U.S. Navy Veteran — Nuclear Submarine Service, 2x Navy Achievement Medal
Global Experience — CSO across 14 countries at Self Esteem Brands
EO Member — Entrepreneurs' Organization, MN Chapter