Rich’s career spans 30 years, the last 20 of which have been in leadership positions at PepsiCo, the global Fortune 50 Food & Beverage corporation. Rich is recognized as a “certified Chief Digital Officer” by MIT, a “Leadership Visionary” by HMG Strategies and a “One to Watch” by CIO Magazine. Over the years Rich has held many different positions, most recently Head of IT for several of PepsiCo’s global functions. Within those accountabilities Security was one of his focus areas evidenced by starting a DevSecOps operation for his organization’s App/Dev needs. Rich is a certified CISSP and has great passion for cybersecurity. Rich is also very interested in GenAI. For the past 8 years Rich has also served as CTO and Executive Board Member for the THANC foundation, a cancer research group based in NYC.