Board And Executive Management
Board of Directors
Valerie Abend
Valerie Abend has over two decades of experience spearheading financial services sector-wide and enterprise- wide security and resilience programs. As Accenture’s Global Financial Services Security Practice Leader and the South Security Leader, Valerie is responsible for growing and managing the business, teams, and client relationships. She advises C-suite executives, boards, regulators and policymakers on managing cyber ris...
Alan Boehme
Chief Technology Officer of Procter & Gamble
Alan Boehme serves as Chief Technology Officer of Procter & Gamble. Prior to this he was Chief of Enterprise Architecture for The Coca-Cola Company. Boehme was previously Sr. VP and Head of IT Architecture for the ING Global Insurance Business as well as serving as chairman of the global cross banking / insurance business (ING Group) enterprise architecture committee reporting into the global CTO office. Prior to his time with ING he serve...
Dave Cullinane
TruSTAR Founder and CSA Chairman
Dave Cullinane is the Founder of TruSTAR Technology. Prior to TruSTAR, Dave served for 5+ years as the Chief Information Security Officer and VP of Global Fraud, Risk and Security for eBay and its many global businesses (StubHub, InternetAuction.co, GSI Commerce). He has more than 30 years of professional security experience building and managing cyber security and incident response teams.
Dave is also the past President and Chair...
Paul B. Kurtz
Chief Cybersecurity Advisor, Splunk
Paul Kurtz is the Chief Executive Officer of TruSTAR Technology. Prior to TruSTAR Paul Kurtz was the Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Strategy Officer for CyberPoint International LLC. While at CyberPoint, he helped grow the company from 10 to 200 employees in 5 years by building the US government and international business verticals. Prior to CyberPoint, Paul was the managing partner of Good Harbor Consulting where he oversaw ...
Cheri McGuire
Chief Technology Officer, SWIFT
Ms. McGuire is a technology and cyber security leader with over 30 years in strategy, policy, operations and risk, and spanning the financial, IT, consulting and government sectors. She currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer at SWIFT, a member-owned cooperative providing secure financial messaging services and products that connect more than 11,000 financial organizations globally. In her role as CTO, she has responsibility for th...
Dr. Radu Popescu-Zeletin
Founder, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS)
Prof. Popescu-Zeletin graduated at the Polytechnical Institute Bucharest, Romania, got his PH.D. from the University of Bremen, and his habilitation from the Technical University Berlin.
He published many papers and books on network technologies, distributed computing systems and applications. He was active in standardization committees (DIN, ISO, WWRF) and had contributed to the development of telecommunication standards. His chair ...
Jim Reavis
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, CSA
For over 30 years, Jim Reavis has worked in cybersecurity industry as an entrepreneur, writer, speaker, technologist and business strategist. Jim’s innovative thinking about emerging trends have been published and presented widely throughout the industry and have influenced many.
Jim launched Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) in 2009 and has led its global growth and position as among the most vital cybersecurity communities worldwide. Under...
Stephen Scharf
Managing Director and CISO, BlackRock
Stephen Scharf, CISSP, is currently employed as Managing Director and Global Chief Security Officer for the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). Mr. Scharf is accountable for the overall strategy, leadership and governance of DTCC’s Technology Risk, Information Security, Physical Security, and Business Continuity programs.
Prior to his position with DTCC, Mr. Scharf was employed for seven years as the Global Chief Informati...
Tima Soni
Chief, Cybersecurity Division, UNICC
Tima Soni Chief, Cybersecurity Division, UNICC Tima Soni joined UNICC in 2016 as Head, Information Security Services. In 2019, she was appointed as Chief, Cybersecurity Division to oversee the cybersecurity programme for UNICC and deliver cybersecurity services to UNICC’s Clients and Partner Partner Organizations. Tima oversees UNICC’s cybersecurity team of experts in New York, Valencia, Rome and Geneva for UNICC’s more than 40 subs...
Larry Whiteside Jr.
CISO, RegScale
Larry Whiteside Jr. is a veteran CISO, former USAF Officer, and thought leader in the Cybersecurity field. He has 25+ years experience in building and running cybersecurity programs, holding C Level Security executive roles in multiple industries including DoD, Federal Government, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Critical Infrastructure. Larry currently serves as the Chief Information Security Officer at RegScale. Larry is also the Co-Fo...
Executive Management
Illena Armstrong
President, CSA
Illena Armstrong is a long-time international media and business development leader who, with the help of the talented teams she has managed over the years, successfully built and maintained a wide range of award-winning, digitally-driven multimedia, intelligence/research, and educational offerings serving targeted audiences. Along with her current role as President of CSA, she serves as a Fellow with the International Association of Certif...
Daniele Catteddu
Chief Technology Officer, CSA
Daniele Catteddu is an information security and risk management practitioner, technologies expert and privacy evangelist with over 15 of experience. He worked in several senior roles both in the private and public sector. He is member of various national and international security expert groups and committees on cyber-security and privacy, keynote speaker at several conferences and author of numerous studies and papers on risk management, ...
Troy Leach
Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), CSA
Troy Leach has spent more than 25 years advocating for the advancement of responsible, safe technology to improve the quality of living and parity for all.
As the Chief Strategy Officer, Mr. Leach supports Cloud Security Alliance's corporate strategy and ongoing mission to provide new and relevant cloud security awareness, education, research, programs and membership participation. Mr. Leach specifically focuses on external engageme...
Jim Reavis
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, CSA
For over 30 years, Jim Reavis has worked in cybersecurity industry as an entrepreneur, writer, speaker, technologist and business strategist. Jim’s innovative thinking about emerging trends have been published and presented widely throughout the industry and have influenced many.
Jim launched Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) in 2009 and has led its global growth and position as among the most vital cybersecurity communities worldwide. Under...
Luciano (J.R.) Santos
Chief Customer Officer, CSA
J.R. Santos serves as the Chief Customer Officer for the Cloud Security Alliance. In this role, J.R. serves as a CSA Member advocate, partnering with leaders across all business units to transform the member experience and ensure that members are the center of every business decision. J.R. leads the Experience Services organization that includes the CSA Membership and Sales team, who work collaboratively to promote a consistent experience f...
Eileen Sciarra
EVP of Growth, CSA
Courtney Stiven
Vice President of Global Marketing, CSA
Courtney Stiven serves as the Vice President of Global Marketing for the Cloud Security Alliance. With over 15 years of experience in IT industry marketing, Courtney excels at translating complex technical information into digestible content for audiences of all levels. Her diverse background in corporate events, B2B communication, demand generation, digital marketing and campaign management paved the way for her to lead a team of global ma...
Linda Strick
Managing Director, CSA EMEA
Linda has worked more than 30 years with the Fraunhofer-Institute FOKUS in Berlin, Germany. Since August 2018 she is in the free block of part-time employment prior to retirement. During her active work she has worked in the area of Cloud Computing over the last 9 years, recently she has focused on cloud security and privacy, standardization and certification processes. She started in 2016 with Innovation Management and Technology Transfer ...
Jeffrey Westcott, CPA
Chief Financial Officer, CSA
Jeffrey Westcott’s career spans over thirty years. It began in banking and securities, then as an entrepreneur with start-ups for another ten. He has worked with established companies in the Seattle area since 2010. He is the Chief Financial Officer of the Cloud Security Alliance, and has been with the CSA since 2014. He received his BS (Accounting) from the University of Scranton, his MBA (Finance) from the University of Pittsburgh, and i...
Scott Williams
Director of Startup Acceleration, CSA
John Yeoh
Global Vice President of Research, CSA
With over 15 years of experience in research and technology, John excels at executive-level leadership, relationship management, and strategy development. He is a published author, technologist, and researcher with areas of expertise in cybersecurity, cloud computing, information security, and next generation technology (IoT, Big Data, SecaaS, Quantum). John specializes in risk management, third party assessment, GRC, data protection, incid...