You might say that John Whiting is a self-made Chief Security Officer. He didn’t start out to pursue any sort of information security career, or even an IT career. Whiting went to John Jay College, part of City University of New York, for a pre-law program. He graduated with a degree in Legal Studies. During…
Mark Eggleston says his entry into the CISO realm is a little more atypical than that of others. “I didn’t necessarily come from the network group. I didn’t necessarily come up from IT. I kind of came up from compliance. I tell people I’ve had three careers and this current career is the keeper,” he…
Seth McCallister, Chief Information Security Officer, HUB International Protecting information assets for a Fortune 500 company and managing a farm may not appear to have much in common, unless you’re viewing both through the eyes of insurance company CISO Seth McCallister. Both are macro organizational systems with micro components, he says. And the organizational work…
Vanessa Pegueros, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, DocuSign Vanessa Pegueros calls herself an “education nut.” She loves learning in all its aspects. “I’ve always loved math and science from the very beginning of when I was young. I was one of those weird kids that used to read Scientific America in grammar school.…
Tellis Williams, Chief Information Security Officer, AXA Assistance There are two things in Tellis Williams’ background that primed him to become a detail-oriented Chief Information Security Officer. First of all, he has a degree in the broad but disciplined field of electrical engineering. And second, he’s been a musician since the age of four. Williams…
From an early age, Michael Palmer’s mother impressed upon him the importance of hard work and a good education if he wanted to have a stable career. Even as a young boy, he worked odd jobs and saved his money to buy his first computer: an Atari 600XL. He bought computing magazines and books and…
Philip Curran, Chief Information Assurance Officer and Chief Privacy Officer, Cooper University Hospital Phil Curran headed straight from high school into the U.S. Air Force. He was stationed in Florida with the 1st Special Operations Wing for a number of years before being assigned to run a black program for the Pentagon from 1996 until…
Bob Turner, Chief Information Security Officer, University of Wisconsin-Madison For Bob Turner, life is one big adventure. Just five days after his 18th birthday, Turner found himself on an airplane bound for Naval Training Center San Diego, where he would undergo his basic military training. Soon after that he was assigned to submarine school in…
Tunde Oni-Daniel, Head of Information Security (CISO), Perdue Farms If there is a so-called “typical” pathway to becoming a CISO, Tunde Oni-Daniel freely admits that he didn’t follow it. Oni-Daniel was born in Brooklyn, New York to Nigerian parents who were attending college there. He was three years old when his parents graduated and decided…
Randy Marchany, Chief Information Security Officer, Virginia Tech Randy Marchany is one of those rare individuals who has spent his entire career with the same employer. His time with Virginia Tech started four decades ago as a student, and he has worked his way up to CISO since then. And along the way, he earned…
