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Top Global CISO Winners for 2024

 

Sujeet Bambawale
7-Eleven

Rich Latayan
AAA, Inc

Peter Naumovski
AbbVie Inc.

Chris McFarland
Abercrombie & Fitch

Charmaine Valmonte
Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc.

Chris Gay
Acosta

Jorel Van Os
Acrisure, LLC.

Thomas Dager
ADM

Alex Cunningham
Advisor360°

Edward Maule
Advocare Doctors

Roy Mellinger
Aimbridge Hospitality

Vijaya Kaza
Airbnb

Jenny Sissom
Allison Transmission

Arie Farhy
Amerant Bancorp Inc.

Jon Murphy
American Campus Communities

Jake Bernardes
Anecdotes A.I.

Ash Hunt
Apex Group Ltd.

Antonio Crespo
Arkema

Thomas Zuliani
Arla Foods

Leonard Ng
ASM

Timothy Youngblood
Astrix Security

Sunil Dadlani
Atlantic Health System

Dwayne Steinway
Audacy

Aaron Goodwin
B.Riley Financial

Michael Gioia
Babson College

Mary Haigh
BAE Systems

Ryan Field
Bank of Hawaii

Anthony Longo
Baptist Health South Florida, Inc.

Karine Höne
Barloworld

Dawn-Marie Hutchinson
BAT

Helen Rabe
BBC

Sean Murphy
BECU

Matthew Modica
BJC HealthCare

Adam Fletcher
Blackstone

Rosemarie Lee
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee

Elizabeth Agosto
BNY Mellon

Julien Soriano
Box

Joao Passos
BRASILSEG

Nicole Keeley
British Airways

Anthony Siravo
Brown University Health

Eric Walters
Burns & McDonnell

Britney Kennedy
Cardinal Health

Rick Doten
Carolina Complete Health

Michael Hoehl
Cartech

Dina Mathers
Carvana

George Crawford
Catapult Energy Services Group LLC

Eli Edelkind
CAVA

Umesh Yerram
Cboe Exchange, Inc.

Ajay Gupta
Cencora, Inc.

Allan Berry
Centene

Tiina Rodrigue
CFPB

Janet Heins
ChenMed

Vincent Jay Larosa
CISCO Meraki

Victor Forno
Citi

Brian Gardner
City of Dallas

Mark Dunkerley
Coca-Cola Bottlers’ Sales & Services

Alexander Schuchman
Colgate-Palmolive

Geoffrey Woodby
Collins Community Credit Union

Corey Elinburg
CommonSpirit Health

Michael Frazee
Confidential

Paulo Baldin
Confidential

Thanh Thai
Constellis Group

Raymond Umerley
Coveware

Sheldon Cuffie
Cream City Cyber

Joe Shields, CISSP
Crowe

Alexandre Horvath
Cryptix AG

Mark Houpt
DataBank

Deborah Wheeler
Delta

Kumar Dasani
Digital River

Ashley Devoto
Discount Tire

Yaron Levi
Dolby Digital

Frankie Shuai
DWS Group

Supro Ghose
EAGLEBANK

Mark Webster
East Carolina University

Ruben D. Chacon
Eaton Corporation

Sean Embry
eBay Inc.

Renato Lima
Eletrobras

Diogo Rau
Eli Lilly and Company

Will Lazarro
Embrace Pet Insurance

Stephanie Roberts
EmployBridge

Bertrum Carroll
Employers

Frank Depaola
Enpro

David Anderson
Ensemble Health Partners

Josh Knopp
Enterprise Mobility

Octavia N. Howell
Equifax Canada Co.

Christopher Porter
Fannie Mae

Kwame Fields
Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco

Brenden Smith
First BanCorp.

Marco Maiurano
First Citizen Bank

Jeff Weeks
FirstBank of Nebraska

Riad Amro
Flight Safety International

Richard White
Flushing Bank

Pamela Mason
Flutter Entertainment

Christopher Herzog
FORVIA

Kelly Reese
Foundever®

Casey Watkins
FTI Consulting

Bryan O’Shaughnessy
GCU of USA

Vitor Sena
Gerdau

Phil Venables
Google Cloud

Partho Ghathak
Grant Thornton Advisors LLC

William Telles
Grupo Águia Branca

Michael Elmore
GSK plc.

Joshua Brown
H&R Block

Marcos Marrero
H.I.G. Capital

Mark Johnson
Hackensack Meridian Health

James Gorman
Hard2Hack

Michael Palmer
Hearst

Mark Viola
Henry Schein, Inc

Hassan Asghar
Hinge Health

Stephen Roberts
Honda

Ronaldo Andrade
Horiens

Selva Mahimaidas
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Manmeet Sain
Indian Energy Exchange

Hemant Jain
Indiana Office of Technology

Mark Gibaldi
Insight Global

Dan Carbonell
InteLogix

Erik Decker
Intermountain Healthcare

Jeff Kirby
Interstate Batteries

Dane Warren
Intertek

Robert Pace
Invitation Homes

Mac Esmilla
IOM (UN Migration)

Connie Barrera
Jackson Health System

Raj Badhwar
Jacobs Engineering

Gatha Sadhir
Jazwares (a Berkshire Hathaway company)

Rachel Laursen
JD Sports Fashion

Roman Medina
Jefferson Bank

Paul Pak
Jennison Associates LLC

Longinus Timochenco
Kabum

Tim Everson
Kalahari Resorts

Jeff Maxon
Kansas Information Security Office

John Godfrey
Kansas State

Jason Manar
Kaseya

Robyn Ready
Knitwell Group

Maureen Niemic
Kontoor Brands

Daniel Temisanren
LA County (ISD)

Fabiana Tanaka
Leroy Merlin

Bryan Willet
Lexmark

Mike Melo
Lifelabs

Kemal Piskin
Linquest

Afia Pilipps
Little Caesar Enterprises, Inc.

Hemanta Swain
Lucid

Lane Sullivan
Magellan Health

Dan Anderson
Mark V Security

Derek Hardy
Marvell

Richard Yun
Masimo

Manuel Engel
Masonite®

H. Edison Humphries
Mastec, Inc.

Matt Long
MasterCraft Boat Company

Stephanie Franklin Thomas
Medtronic plc

Randy Yates
Memorial Hermann Health System

Steve Crocker
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare

Michael Nawrath
Metropolitan Commercial Bank

Jacob Margolis
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

Anthony Langevin
Millicom

Venkatesh Subramaniam
Mindsprint

Tim Myers
Missouri Employers Mutual

Marcel Lehner
MM Group

Doug Innocenti
MoonPay

Christos Syhngelakis
Motor Oil Hellas

Bruce Phillips
MyHome

Tomas Maldonado
National Football League

Lisa Bazis
Nebraska Medicine

John Graham
NetJets

John Frushour
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Carla Donev
NiSource

Frank Martinez
Nova Southeastern University

Eduardo Vasconcelos
NSG PILKINGTON

Bryan Chnowski
Nuvance Health

Demond Waters
NYC Department of Education

Michael Irwin
Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corporation

William Dougherty
Omada Health Inc.

Sofia Herrera
Omnian Legal

Afzal Khan
OPKO HEALTH

Peter Kim
Orgill

Andrew Wiley
Orion

Idan Malei
Ormat Ltd.

Brian Mccarson
Packsize

William Curtiss
Paper Excellence

Bradley Schaufenbuel
Paychex

Mikhail Lopushanski
People First Bank

Steve Hannah
Polsinelli

Joey Johnson
Premise Health

Meg Anderson
Principal Financial Group

Diego Suoza
Prog Leasing, LLC

Varsha Argawal
Prosper Marketplace

Adam Zoller
Providence

Ganesh Raghavan
Provident Credit Union

Stevin Sim
PSA INTERNATIONAL PTE LTD

John Kupcinski
PSEG

Matt Biber
Qantas Airways

Ravi Mani
Quest Diagnostics

Adam Evans
RBC

Wolfgang Schurr
Richemont

Elwin Wong
Ross Stores, Inc.

Jairo Orea
Royal Caribbean Group

Klara Neginsky
Royal Caribbean International

Jim Motes
Ryan

Joe Ellis
Ryder System, Inc.

Jim Johnson
Safran

Dr. Marcelo Peredo
San Diego County

Mathew Biby
Satcom Direct

Raghu Sankaran
Scholastic

Sophie Street
SECU

Eric Schmitt
Sedgwick

Andrew Perry
Serta Simmons Bedding

Delzad Mizra
Shapoorji Pallonji Group

Allan Cockriel
Shell

John McClure
Sinclair, Inc.

Jericho Simmons
Sound Inpatient Physicians

James Nolin
Spirit Airlines

Amy Steagall
Stanford University

Lucia Milică Stacy
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.

Erwin Eimers
Sumitomo Chemical

Norman Whitelaw, CISSP
Synagro

Meredith Harper
Synchrony Bank

Kevin Gowen
Synovus

Tim Delgado
The Container Store

Keith Turpin
The Friedkin Group

Mike Cachine
The International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children

Robert Fernandes
The Investment Center, Inc.

Ricardo Lafosse
The Kraft Heinz Company

Todd Mesick
The Lubrizol Corporation

Laura Deaner
The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance

Claudiano Silva
Total Express

Kent Kling
Transaction Network Services Inc.

Ken Kerrick
Tri Counties Bank

Gregory Allender
Trihealth

Tammy Klotz
Trinseo

Kip James
Beth Page Federal Credit Union

Aradhna Chetal
TIAA

David Sheidlower
Turner Construction Company

John Kronick
Tutor Perini Corp.

Timothy Held
U.S. Bank

Tracy Brand-Sanders
UGI Corporation

Angela Williams
UL Solutions

Kristopher Curylo
United Home Mortgage

Frank Sinatra
University Hospital

Jodi Ito
University of Hawaii

Zachary Lewis
University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy

Alain Espinosa
Upbound Inc.

Peter Rosario
USI

Nathan Routen
UT SouthWestern

Pedro Nuno
Valid

Dwayne Smith
VensureHR

Bob Ludecke
Veritex Community Bank

Auston Davis
Versant Health

Randy Raw
Veterans United Home Loans

Julio Padilha
Volkswagen

Oliver Wyler
Vontobel

Chuck Bartenback
W. L. Gore & Associates

Jerry Geisler
Walmart

Andrew Wilder
Washington University in Saint Louis

Richard Dorough
Wawa

John Sander
Wesco

Manas Giri
WestJet

John Gift
Westrock

Matt Kulangara
Woodruff-Sawyer & Co

Shawn Bowen
World Fuel Services

Michael Calderin
Yageo

Jody Blanchard
ZimmerBiomet

Michael Adams
Zoom

 


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