PCCC | Leadership

Leadership

Christopher Surprise

Chief Executive Officer

Chris Surprise is the current CEO at PCCC. While he was the first employee during the start up years, Chris has currently been working at PCCC since March 1999. He has held multiple positions at PCCC over that time, from Simple Delivery Boy & Junior Technician to Senior Technician & Executive Assistant to Vice President of Operations to Chief Executive Officer. When not otherwise involved in non-profit activities, Chris enjoys watching videos on physics.

Giovanni Bechis

Chief Technology Officer

Giovanni is a senior IT administrator and developer with experience in enterprise architectures, SQL and NoSQL databases. He has been in the mail industry since the 90’s and has been an open-source evangelist on all companies he has worked. He is also a committer for Apache SpamAssassin, Apache httpd and OpenBSD projects. He is a frequent speaker on international conferences about Linux and mail server technologies.

Diamond Lassiter

Chief Operations Officer

Diamond Lassiter is the Chief Operations Officer at PCCC. In this role, Diamond is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day administrative and operational functions of PCCC. Diamond holds an MBA, and masters’ degrees in Information Assurance, Cybersecurity Policy, and Technology Management. Diamond is a member of PMI, ISACA, ISSA of Central Maryland, and the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Tim Hollis

Chief Marketing Officer

Tim has been working in the web hosting industry for over 20 years now and has been a part of a long list of successful companies including OC Hosting, cPanelSource, BuycPanel, and JetApps prior to coming on board with PCCC. He is currently a board member of the non-profit organization Public Safety Assistance Foundation which provides privacy protection to public officials. He also volunteers his time as the IT Director at Pacific Coast Church.

Michael Rizzo

Member, Board of Advisors

Michael Rizzo is a Member of the Board of Advisors with PCCC. He’s been involved with information technology for over 20 years. He is a technical sales leader with a drive and passion to better the world through technology by inspiring customers, partners and peers. Michael Focuses on using solid qualitative data analysis using metrics and statistics to help customers understand and overcome obvious and not so obvious business challenges.