Fred Kwong, CISO, Delta Dental Plans Association
For Fred Kwong, hands-on experience and formal education went hand in hand in shaping the kind of CISO he has become. He first discovered he genuinely liked interacting with people…
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Marcos Marrero, Global Dir., Information Security, H.I.G. Capital
Cyber security leader Marcos Marrero is a great believer in mentoring a new generation of cyber professionals. That’s how he started in the business, and that’s how he develops his team at H.I.G.…
Selim Aissi, SVP and CSO, Ellie Mae
For Selim Aissi, it is important to have a mix of industry, real-world security experience, along with the innate ability to deal with most critical security incidents both at the…
Joel Rosenblatt, Director – Network/ Computer Security, Columbia Univ.
At Columbia University, the 40,000 or so students who use the university network are responsible for fixing their own computers once they are suspected of being compromised. Their computers are…
Milinda Rambel Stone, CISO, Provation Medical
It’s not easy being a woman in a profession mostly dominated by men. But Provation Medical CISO Milinda Rambel Stone says one of the secrets of her success is to…
Christine Vanderpool, CISO, Florida Crystals
Christine Vanderpool was happy to take on a new job as CISO of Florida Crystals six months ago for two reasons. First, she was tired of shoveling snow – “I…
Chris Wolski, CISO, Herman Miller
Chris Wolski’s cybersecurity journey began in the form of a gift from his grandmother – a computer with neither keyboard nor monitor. What the computer had was a number pad.…
Ibrahima Mbaye, CISO, Computer Generated Solutions
Ibrahima Mbaye sets aside time in his busy schedule to have coffee, lunch or dinner with young cybersecurity graduates and college students. Mentoring young graduates and students entering the profession is…
Wes Knight, CISO, Georgia Department of Revenue
After almost 20 years working for IBM in various IT roles and working under bosses of different temperaments, Wes Knight was perfectly happy to run his own training and consultancy firm…
Clifford Stokes, Jr. CISO, Florida A&M University
Clifford Stokes Jr., Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Florida A&M University, has his cybersecurity strategy all mapped out. He sits down with his supervisor and produces a three-year plan,…