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Cantor Fitzgerald is a conglomerate of leading global financial services firms, including affiliates such as BGC Partners and the leading commercial real estate group, Newmark. Revenue: >$5BB, Staff 12,000• Led the global information security program and successfully created and managed systems and policies that kept the company competitive, secure, and optimally functional.• Oversaw global compliance programs in over 50 countries with a business-centric risk management approach without any deficiencies.* Optimized cybersecurity operations globally to ensure market and business operations.

New York, Ny, Us

Dow Jones & Co. is a News Corp. subsidiary that delivers multimedia content globally, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and B2B products. Sales: $1.5B, Staff: 8000 employees, Managed 32.• Led the global information security program and successful creation and management of systems and policies that kept the company competitive, secure, and optimally functional.• Oversaw compliance programs such as SOX, PCI, HIPAA, and business-centric risk management without any deficiencies or fines.• Grew revenue $30MM through the Client Assurance program, created, obtained, and expanded ISO 27001 certification for our products that facilitated this process.• Formed and communicated responsibilities for corporate-wide policy, audit, vendor, training, and awareness management for steering and executive committees.• Constructed security platforms and tools as part of a strategic vision of Security as Code and Security as a Service, included modernization of Risk Management framework, annually led hundreds of assessments.• Implemented next-generation, maintenance-free solutions, streamlined security best-practices throughout the Secure Development Lifecycle, including Code to Cloud.• Reduced researchers and journalist's research time for production to days, implemented endpoint cloud detection and protection systems, as a top AWS customer, designed systems for industry-specific needs.• Led the Product Security team, rolled out business-centric risk-based threat modeling practices across engineering departments.

New York, New York, Us

News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers throughout the world.Sales: $9B Revenue, Staff of 30K, Managed: 15.• Reported to Global CISO and Deputy CTO, built cross-business unit agile security postures that enabled the company to remain ahead of threats.• Led development, implementation, and operations of a centralized governance tool for cloud infrastructure as top AWS account and Identity Management and Administration for 30K employees.• Pitched solutions for highest risk issues to CISO/CIO committees, evolved the corporate security policy.• Reduced costs by 70%, built a comprehensive, system-wide cybersecurity shared services program.• Designed protection tools for 50K endpoints as a shared service across global business units.• Ideated and enabled cross-business technical collaboration via newly implemented global Version Control System, achieved unification and standardization of policies across the global business.• Performed proof of concepts of new tools and techniques around the use of artificial intelligence machine learning and threat intelligence.

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

Amplify is an education technology company serving K-12 classrooms across the country and is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and formative assessments. Sales: $150MM, Staff: 3000, Managed: 60• Reported to CFO/CAO, built a technology team from the ground up and led a sophisticated compliance program for a variety of state security requirements.• Built data centers from scratch, served as critical technical lead on contracts such as the NYCDOE ARIS system worth $140MM+ and Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation $100MM+ inBloom initiative.• Guided a complex and gold-standard program crucial to company success, migrated data centers without downtime, reduced by 66%, created disaster recovery plans, migrated 80% of services to cloud.• Chaired Integrated Resource Technology and Risk group along with the GC, COO, CFO, CHRO, and CTO and served as a member of the Global Security Committee.• Led and managed Crisis and Security Incident Management Response, led the technology Client Assurance program, worked with parent company on RFIs and RFPs.