Michael Palmer, VP and CISO, National Football League
From an early age, Michael Palmer’s mother impressed upon him the importance of hard work and a good education if he wanted to have a stable career. Even as a…
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Phillip Curran, Cooper University Hospital
Philip Curran, Chief Information Assurance Officer and Chief Privacy Officer, Cooper University Hospital Phil Curran headed straight from high school into the U.S. Air Force. He was stationed in Florida…
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Bob Turner
Bob Turner, Chief Information Security Officer, University of Wisconsin-Madison For Bob Turner, life is one big adventure. Just five days after his 18th birthday, Turner found himself on an airplane…
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Tunde Oni-Daniel, Perdue Farms
Tunde Oni-Daniel, Head of Information Security (CISO), Perdue Farms If there is a so-called “typical” pathway to becoming a CISO, Tunde Oni-Daniel freely admits that he didn’t follow it. Oni-Daniel…
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Randy Marchany
Randy Marchany, Chief Information Security Officer, Virginia Tech Randy Marchany is one of those rare individuals who has spent his entire career with the same employer. His time with Virginia…
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Paul Mocarski
Paul Mocarski, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, Sammons Financial Group Member Companies Some people have successful careers in the military. Others make their decades-long career in the civilian…
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Michael Molinaro
Michael Molinaro, Chief Information Security Officer, BioReference Laboratories, Inc. As Mike Molinaro prepares to collect his second graduate degree – an MBA from Florida Institute of Technology – he jokes,…
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Darren Death
Chief Information Security Officer, ASRC Federal When Darren Death had his first introduction to computers as a young man, it was anything but love at first sight. Those were the…
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Steve Katz
Security Risk Solutions, LLC, Owner Steve Katz is widely known in security circles as the very first Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). As Katz puts it, “I got my start…
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Christopher Mandelaris
Chemical Bank, Vice President, Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer Like the builder of a complex jigsaw puzzle, Chris Mandelaris has masterfully put his career together, piece by piece, to…
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