Chris is a highly accomplished senior leader with more than 20 years of experience in the defense, financial, retail, technology, and professional services industries. Leveraging knowledge in leadership, risk and compliance management, cyber security, data governance, sales, and marketing, he has built and operated comprehensive information security programs that align emerging capabilities to business needs while establishing risk-based governance and management.  As a security leader, Chris communicates to and influence executives and Board leadership to align business strategies, achieve desired maturity and security capability levels, manage enterprise risks, and drive compliance management. He has led globally dispersed teams focusing in security operations, incident investigation and response, enterprise risk management, compliance, red/blue team attack and penetration services, sales, and marketing.  As a practitioner leader, he has created over twenty security assessment and risk management programs that are in use by hundreds of organizations globally and has authored numerous articles and been regularly cited in industry magazines.  Chris is also an experienced public speaker, delivering C-Level presentations at dozens of conferences, briefings, and industry events annually.