"A lot of people struggle to pronounce the name of American politician Pete Buttigieg. When Mick Baccio, now global security advisor at Splunk SURGe and Cisco Foundation AI, went to work for him in a previous life, it was helpfully spelled out in large letters on the office wall. Buttigieg says it 'Boot-edge-edge', if you were wondering. "I was like, oh that's clever, thank you for that," says Baccio. "I'm going to meet the man in a second, I should know this!""
"A former US Navy Reserve intelligence officer who began his political career as the mayor of South Bend in Indiana, Buttigieg served as secretary of transportation during the administration of US president Joe Biden, from 2021 to 2025. However, before that, he had a tilt at the White House himself, running a primary campaign that won in the state of Iowa, before he dropped out at the start of March 2020 as the Democrats rallied behind Biden."
Pete Buttigieg's name often causes pronunciation confusion; staff displayed the phonetic spelling 'Boot-edge-edge' on an office wall to help visitors. Mick Baccio, now a global security advisor at Splunk SURGe and Cisco Foundation AI, accepted a role as CISO for Buttigieg's presidential campaign after previously working in White House threat intelligence under Obama and Trump. Buttigieg is a former US Navy Reserve intelligence officer, former mayor of South Bend, and served as US secretary of transportation from 2021 to 2025. Baccio initially hesitated because campaign roles end in November, but he took the job, bootstrapped campaign cybersecurity, and compared campaign work to a startup.
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