Billy Spears serves as the Senior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer and is responsible for overseeing enterprise information security, privacy, and records management practices at loanDepot. He has more than 20 years as a collaborative business partner that possesses deep expertise in the cyber security, privacy, and risk management fields. Billy has a passion for architecting and implementing strategic solutions that build trust, enable resilience, and incorporate core principles that drive transformation and simplify business processes.

Spears has held similar positions with Hyundai Capital America, General Electric, Dell, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the United States Marine Corps.

Billy Spears is a former advisory board member of IAPP, currently serves on Evanta’s Governing Body as a Co-Chair in the Southern California CISO Community, is a member of the Executive Leadership Team of the American Heart Association, is a Strategic Advisory Board Member at OpenText, is a member of Gartner’s CISO Coalition and serves on the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee at Webster University. Billy also is honored to serve as an adjunct professor at Webster University where he Billy was honored with 2014 National Law Journal’s inaugural list of 50 Governance Risk & Compliance Trailblazers & Pioneers. He is a 2018 Gartner Global CISO Breakaway Leader Finalist and a Finalist for the Orange County Business Journal’s 2018 Innovator of the Year Awards.