Bio

Passionate, proven executive with over 25 years’ Information Technology experience in multi-national biopharmaceutical and life sciences environments. Proficient in global information security leadership, focused in the areas of digital resilience, intellectual property protection. data privacy, and a trusted experience for patients and physicians. Business risk mindset, working at executive levels and cross functionally across the organization to support strategic goals and plans. SPECIALTIES: * IT and Information Security knowledge – demonstrated deep understanding and service delivery in areas including, but not limited to, risk management, advanced cyber threat defense, identity and access management, compliance, data protection, mobility, 3rd-party oversight, platform, network, and application security. CISSP certified. * Business Impact – exposure to all facets of worldwide pharmaceutical business operations, including sales/marketing, research and development, supply chain logistics, etc. * Recognized industry leader – 2015 Information Security Executive of the Year award winner for the Northeast and nationally in the Healthcare category; regular speaker and expert panel participant at RSA, CSO, Gartner, Forrester, NH-ISAC and other similar events * Stakeholder and Relationship Management – established trust with complex stakeholders, ranging from Board of Director level to technical development groups. Extensive presentation, awareness, communications and strategic influence experience. Established security customer boards with business process owners and end users. * Continuous Improvement – Six Sigma certified; LEAN Sigma coach; expert in system and process improvement * External networking – extensive information and threat intelligence sharing as an active member of multiple industry security forums, including Healthcare CISO Group and NH-ISAC * International Team Development – inspirational leader, having developed motivated, geographically diverse, high performance teams