Mr. Lawton joined the REAL ALLOY team in March of 2015, bringing over 30 years of IT operational, managerial, and security experience within the Financial, Retail, Insurance, and E-Commerce verticals. Mr. Lawton is responsible for the strategic direction of the REAL ALLOY IT Infrastructure and Security throughout North America. Mr. Lawton and his team manage and support core security, network, and hardware needs, as well as leveraging or establishing vendor relationships to address security monitoring, server management, hardware distribution and support, plant device replacement, and cell phone support and management. Prior to joining REAL ALLOY, Mr. Lawton was Vice President of Data Center Operations at Key Bank, Director of IT at OfficeMax, and Director of Infrastructure and Security at CBIZ Inc.