Faculty Directory

Helen Patton is a strategic cybersecurity advisor at Cisco. Previously, she served as a CISO for the Cisco Security Business Group, and an Advisory CISO, providing strategic insights to the security community. She was the CISO at The Ohio State University and spent ten years in risk and resiliency at JPMorgan Chase. Helen is a founding member for the Cybersecurity Canon and the National Technology Security Coalition.

Lisa Perdelwitz brings over 20 years of global leadership and cybersecurity expertise. She is the Founder and CEO of Ligilo, a leadership consultancy, is a Board Advisor for the Cyber Resilience ISAC (CR-ISAC), and serves part-time in the Air National Guard. Lisa has led global security organizations, advised C-suite executives and boards on managing cybersecurity risk, shaped federal policies, and developed multinational cyber defense and warfare strategies. Throughout, she consistently focuses on creating competitive advantage by developing and investing in leaders who build resilient, high-performing tech teams and cultures.

Carlos is a Principal Consultant and Research Team Lead for TrustedSec, an information security consulting company. Carlos was the Director of Reverse Engineering and Integrations for a major Vulnerability Management company where he lead the team efforts in reversing protocols and vulnerabilities for the expansion of vulnerability scanning products, he also lead the team search and reporting of zero-day vulnerabilities on multiple consumer and enterprise products. Carlos is also an independent trainer having trained both offense and defensive principals to private and government customer.

Ken leads as the Chief Digital & Information Officer at Reladyne. He is responsible for defining and executing its business technology strategy and leading its digital transformation initiatives. Ken previously served as CIO for U.S. Silica, Global Partners, SGR Energy, and MRE Consulting, where he contributed to tremendous growth and transformation. He is a strategic business partner who leverages emerging technology solutions, vendor partnerships, and people development across multi-industry verticals – logistics, retail, manufacturing, oil and gas, and consulting to accelerate the pace of bottom-line results.

Mike is the Chief Technology Officer at Security Risk Advisors, an information security advisory and SOC services firm. With over a decade of healthcare C-level experience, Mike has overseen and managed software development, SOC, and innovation groups in the information security realm. He has had the unique experience of fulfilling CISO and CTO roles in the healthcare payer, provider, and medical device manufacturer spaces. Mike is also a Microsoft MVP, with a focus on AI in Cyber Security.

Sakshi is the Global CISO and Cybersecurity Consulting Practice Leader at Compunnel, where she is responsible for internal security strategy and risk management, as well as providing cybersecurity advisory services to clients. She is also a trusted board and venture capital advisor. Previously, she played a pivotal leadership role at Deloitte Global, overseeing the security of organizational assets for a workforce comprising approximately 457,000 professionals across more than 150 countries and territories.

Chris is a Principal Consulting Engineer at BitSight Technologies, an information security risk management company that created the security ratings platform market. He has 35 years in information security and served in a variety of technical and management roles ranging from a programmer for the US intelligence community to founder and CEO of his own consultancy. Chris’s experience has spanned many industries working in organizations as large as IBM in addition to small startups. Although he spent almost a decade building the IoT security practice at IBM and running an Industrial Control and automotive security practice at Booz Allen, his current focus has shifted to enterprise risk. Bringing his broad experience in information security, Chris also serves as a mentor and advisor to science and technology organizations.

Teri Radichel is the CEO of 2nd Sight Lab, a cloud security company that offers cloud security training, penetration tests, and cloud security assessments to organizations worldwide. She is the author of the book Cybersecurity for Executives in the Age of Cloud, an AWS Hero and meetup organizer, a member of the IANS Faculty and Infragard, and received the SANS 2017 Difference Makers Award for security innovation. Teri holds numerous cloud security certifications, including the GSE, which many regard as one of the most challenging certifications to obtain in cybersecurity. She was a member of the original Capital One cloud team and has worked as Cloud Architect, Director of SAAS Engineering, and now CEO, helping companies secure their clouds. Teri has spoken at numerous conferences worldwide including AWS re:Invent, re:Inforce, RSA, OWASP AppSec Day, and Serverless Days, to name a few.

Ashish has over 13 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry, with the last seven focused primarily on helping enterprises manage security risk at scale in a cloud-first world. Most recently, he was the CISO of a global cloud-first tech company. Ashish is also a keynote speaker and host of the wildly popular Cloud Security Podcast, a SANS trainer for cloud security and an outspoken opinion leader on all things cloud security and DevSecOps. He is a frequent contributor on topics related to public cloud transformation, cloud security, DevSecOps, security leadership, future tech and the associated security challenges for practitioners and CISOs.

Marcus is a semi-retired independent consultant and technology advisor to start-ups and large enterprises. He is recognized as an innovator in firewall technology and the implementer of the first commercial firewall product. Marcus’s work has been cited in at least 15 published U.S. patents in addition to computer and network security articles and books.

Holly has over 20+ years of global Cybersecurity, Risk and Technology experience and is recognized as an expert in her field. She has advised global clients in multiple sectors including: government administrations, financial, healthcare, high tech, hospitality, and professional services. Holly was Senior Executive Service in the federal government (DOJ/FBI/FDIC) which is the highest achievable level. Most recently, Holly was the Executive Vice President and Chief Security Officer at Citizens Financial Group.

Ron is a seasoned technologist specializing in cyber security with over 30 years of experience in the IT industry. Currently, he is the global lead for Cyber Architecture at JP Morgan Chase. His group is responsible for designing secure solutions to support their clients and employees. He is also an active researcher and speaker in the Information Assurance (IA) field and is widely published on network security topics including co-authoring books on Software Assurance and Insider Threats.

Kati is a Product Manager at a pharmaceutical company in Salt Lake City and an independent Behavior Design, Methodology, and Analytics Expert. She has applied her diverse set of skills to creating, implementing and evaluating innovative security awareness programs for Fortune 100 companies. Likewise, she has assisted in creating effective social engineering tools and testing scenarios for penetration testing teams. Kati also has experience managing curriculum strategy and content development in psychology to information technology for both online and live instruction.