As the Vice President of ADP’s Global Security Organization’s (GSO) Technical Security Services group, Chris oversees the company’s worldwide technical security strategy and execution. This includes the development, engineering, and operations of next generation security solutions that enable the GSO, IT, and business areas to detect, prevent, and respond to security threats accordingly. Key responsibilities include coordinating the adoption and implementation of information security standards and controls to minimize the risk of compromise to ADP’s infrastructure and reputation. Chris is responsible for working across the organization’s geographically dispersed businesses operations, development, and infrastructure teams to drive security awareness, adoption, remediation, and/or risk reduction to mitigate emerging threats and address ongoing vulnerabilities impacting ADP’s products, infrastructure, and services globally.
Prior to joining ADP, Chris was Vice President of Product Management for StealthBits, Inc. managing the companies’ security product roadmap, innovation, and development teams. As the VP of Product Management, Chris worked as the right hand of the CEO to drive the company into new strategic areas with distinct product features for system and data governance in large corporate environments competitively against some of the biggest software security vendors in the market today.
Prior to that, Chris spent 9 years architecting, engineering, and managing infrastructure, messaging, and security services at Merck & Co., Inc. He began his career with several positions within the Department of Defense, was Technical Manager of the West Chester University computer facilities, and ran his own business designing online web-based catalogues.
Chris holds an undergraduate degree in Accounting from West Chester University and a Master’s Degree in Information Science from Penn State University. He is also a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).