Kecia Heidebrecht

Kecia Heidebrecht

IANS Faculty

Profile

Ms Heidebrecht joined Bank of America in 2006 (part of LaSalle Bank / ABN AMRO). She worked on the LaSalle Bank transition, Prime Brokerage divestiture, and the Merrill Lynch transition, as an information security project manager. Ms Heidebrecht moved into Global Business Continuity and Recovery (GBCR) in 2009 where she managed business continuity risk and controls, working to establish critical governance oversight and risk routines. In 2012, she joined the newly created Business Controls Monitoring and Readiness (BCMR) organization as the Executive overseeing business continuity, vendor management, change process, data management, and records retention functions. In 2015, Ms Heidebrecht joined Global Compliance as the Horizontal Technology Compliance Executive responsible for technology regulations oversight. She joined GIS in 2018 as COO for the Business Information Security Officer (BISO) organization and as the Chicago Site Executive responsible for the development and growth of the Chicago workforce. In April 2019, she assumed COO responsibility for the Cyber Security Technology (CST) organization and is responsible for running CST operations.

Ms Heidebrecht received her Bachelors of Administration from University of Illinois at Chicago with a degree in Communication and graduated with honors.

Ms Heidebrecht resides in Charlotte, NC.

Qualifications

Portal Publications