Corporate governance and risk management professional. Established board director and risk executive experienced in successfully building governance and management frameworks to ensure risk taking is aligned with enterprise strategy and within established appetite. Served in multiple roles equivalent to CEO, COO, CTO, and CISO and multiple boards of directors for not-for-profit and for-profit enterprises.As the Technology Risk Officer and Independent Security Officer of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, a $100B wholesale bank, provided oversight of the governance of enterprise-wide cyber and technology risk. Built independent risk programs ensuring that risk taking by the Bank was within the appetite established by the Board of Directors and that policies, standards and guidelines provided adequate guidance to staff. Served as the chairperson of the Technology Risk Subcommittee and a member of the Operational Risk Oversight Committee.Served as a board member of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations with national footprints. As a board member of the InfraGard National Members Alliance, chairperson of the Risk Management Committee and national Vice President, drove development of certification standards, deployed those standards across 85 chapters to minimize legal, fraud and reputational risks. As a board member for Salare Security LLC lead capital funding efforts and enterprise risk management.Innovative executive leader. Prolific inventor skilled at technology commercialization and development of successful marketing programs. While at Bell Laboratories, AT&T, and Lucent Technologies acquired 85 patents around the world in voice and data communications, data security, public safety, and consumer services. Invented location-based services to provide service listings and directions based a mobile device user’s location which today is heavily practiced by enterprises such as Google and Apple before Google expanded beyond the search engine space and Apple entered the mobile device space.As President and CEO of Salare Security acquired an exclusive license from IIT for VoIP security technology developed through the NSA's Academic Center of Excellence Program. Successively commercialized the technology via a grant from the US Army Research Office and led Salare Security to be named a Top Emerging Startup.As Director of Product Management for Lucent Technologies’ legacy voice messaging systems doubled market share and set the all-time system production record within 18 months to prepare the business unit for acquistion.
Listed skills include Security, Information Security, Computer Security, Cloud Computing, and 46 others.