Niel Harper will step into vice chair role
alongside returning chair John De Santis
At its Annual General Meeting today held in Schaumburg,
Illinois, USA, and virtually, ISACA introduced its 2024-2025 Board
of Directors. The incoming board slate comprises leading experts
around the world from across the cybersecurity, IT audit,
governance, privacy and risk professions, led by returning board
chair John De Santis and new board vice chair Niel Harper, both
former board directors and active members of the global association
focused on advancing digital trust and serving members throughout
their career journeys.
De Santis is a technology executive and past chairman and CEO of
HyTrust, an IT infrastructure security software company that was
acquired by Entrust in January 2021. A company-builder based in New
Hampshire, USA, he has more than 30 years of international and
US-based experience at venture-backed technology start-ups as well
as at large global public companies in the telecom and IT fields.
He currently serves on the fiduciary boards of Cequence Security
and ValiMail, leading innovators in the cybersecurity space.
Prior to HyTrust, he was vice president, Cloud Services for
VMware, chairman & CEO of TriCipher, entrepreneur-in-residence
at Trident Capital, and CEO at Sygate Technologies, where they
developed the technical foundation of Symantec’s Enterprise
Endpoint Protection suite. In his earlier experience, he led
European operations for various software, hardware and telecom
networking companies, as well as co-founded and led to exit a
start-up that built the first optical fiber networking capability
for IBM mainframes.
“ISACA has the great privilege of equipping a future-ready tech
workforce to excel throughout their entire careers,” says De
Santis. “In my second term as chair, I will remain focused on
effectively collaborating with the board to advance ISACA’s mission
and help our members lead in a rapidly evolving tech
landscape.”
Advancing to board vice chair is Niel Harper, a technology and
cybersecurity executive and past ISACA board director, and the
Chief Information Security Officer and Data Protection Officer at
Doodle. He has more than 20 years of deep interdisciplinary
knowledge across the domains of IT risk management, cybersecurity,
privacy, ICTs for development (ICT4D), and technology law &
policy. Harper, who is based in Germany, previously served as Chief
Information Security Officer and Data Privacy Officer at the United
Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), and has had senior
leadership and advisory experience with AT&T, Bemol, Canonical,
CIBC, Deloitte Consulting, European Commission, and the Internet
Society, among others. He is the recipient of the 2021 ISACA
Technology for Humanity Award and the 2021 IFSEC Caribbean Security
& Resilience Award. Harper has also been recognized by the
World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader and a Global
Shaper.
One new director joined the ISACA board for the 2024-2025
term—Jamie Norton, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CISSP, CIPM, a partner at
McGrathNicol, a specialist advisory and restructuring firm, who has
over 25 years of experience in managing security resilience for
state and federal government agencies and commercial organizations.
Norton, who is based in Australia, also serves on the Advisory
Board at Avertro, a cybersecurity startup. He is the former CISO
for the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), one of Australia’s
largest federal government agencies, where he led the security
governance, risk, intelligence & operations, testing and
forensics teams, and has previously held leadership roles at NEC,
Tenable, Check Point, and the World Health Organization. Norton has
been involved with ISACA for nearly 20 years, working with the
local chapter board, as a conference organizer and most recently
with the CISM Certification Working Group.
In total, the following 13 leaders were installed on the
2024-2025 ISACA Board of Directors during ISACA’s Annual General
Meeting:
- John De Santis, Chair, technology executive and past
chairman and CEO, HyTrust, Inc., USA
- Niel Harper, CISA, CRISC, CDPSE, CISSP, Vice Chair;
technology and cybersecurity executive and Chief Information
Security Officer and Data Protection Officer at Doodle,
Germany
- Brennan P. Baybeck, CISA, CISM, CRISC, CISSP, 2019-2020
board chair; SVP & CISO for Customer Success Services, Oracle
Corporation, USA
- Tracey Dedrick, Director and 2020-2021 board chair;
board member and chair of the Risk Committee for both First Bank
Puerto Rico and Sterling FSB; and Lead Director for Sterling FSB,
USA
- Stephen Gilfus, NACD.DC 2024, Director; chairman Gilfus
Education Group, general partner at Oversight Ventures, Founder
Blackboard Inc., USA
- Gabriela Hernández-Cardoso, Director; NACD director,
social entrepreneur and past president and CEO of GE Mexico,
Mexico
- Jason Lau, CGEIT, CRISC, CISA, CISM, CDPSE, CISSP,
HCISPP, FIP, CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, CEH; Director; chief information
security officer at Crypto.com, Hong Kong
- Massimo Migliuolo, Director; executive chairman, Intuin,
Malaysia and Switzerland
- Pamela Nigro, CISA, CRISC, CGEIT, CRMA, Director and
2022-2023 board chair; vice president of security and security
officer, Medecision, USA
- Jamie Norton, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CISSP, CIPM, Director;
Partner at McGrathNicol, Australia
- Maureen O’Connell, NACD.DC, Director; finance and
education executive, audit chair for three public boards, USA
- Asaf Weisberg, CSX-P, CISM, CRISC, CISA, CDPSE, CGEIT,
Director; founder and CEO of introSight, Israel
- Erik Prusch, Director and ISACA CEO, USA
“ISACA’s board directors not only bring rich knowledge and
diverse expertise to the table, but also a sincere passion for
advancing our professional community,” said Prusch. “I am excited
to work with this dynamic group to continue evolving and
strengthening how we meet the needs of our global members,
elevating ISACA further as a world-class professional
association.”
To access board member biographies, visit
www.isaca.org/board.
About ISACA
ISACA® (www.isaca.org) is a global community advancing
individuals and organizations in their pursuit of digital trust.
For more than 50 years, ISACA has equipped individuals and
enterprises with the knowledge, credentials, education, training
and community to progress their careers, transform their
organizations, and build a more trusted and ethical digital world.
ISACA is a global professional association and learning
organization that leverages the expertise of its 180,000 members
who work in digital trust fields such as information security,
governance, assurance, risk, privacy and quality. It has a presence
in 188 countries, including 225 chapters worldwide. Through its
foundation One In Tech, ISACA supports IT education and career
pathways for underresourced and underrepresented populations.
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