CISO Council

Executive leader who develops partnerships to achieve risk management with a spirit of innovation, commitment to excellence and passion for people. Proven track record of building/re-building programs and teams; inspiring and supporting knowledge workers to achieve their best and ongoing process improvement aligned to company objectives. Ability to manage the high demands of an executive security role and competing priorities to achieve deliverables. Analytical and decision-making skills driven by the ability to identify “big picture” implications while balancing risk and opportunity. Innate ability to inspire, lead and transform concepts into fully functional programs in global organizations. Passion to deliver impeccable delivery to the business as a trusted advisor. • Built Security organizations from infancy to fully functional, building programs from the ground up to achieve regulatory compliance and business risk management. • Converged cyber security and fraud functions for multiple domains in operational risk achieving key synergies to combat adversaries. • Led and delivered on various merger and divestiture scenarios from the due diligence phase to implementation of the deal type. • Led the Technology Risk Management functional integration for the merger of BNY and Mellon. Specialties: Teambuilding, Superb Relationship Management, Situational Leadership, IT Risk Assessments / Management, IT-GRC, Information Security Management, Information Security Operations Center, Merger and Integration IT due diligence and integration, Secure Application Development, Program Management, Organizational Development Process Improvement

Mark Eggleston is a senior executive specializing in security and privacy program development and management.  His unique background and expertise in information technology, program and people management combined with his diverse experience in managed care and health care provider systems has positioned him as a thought leader and frequent speaker.  Mr. Eggleston currently is a Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer and Privacy Officer at a leading Philadelphia HMO where he leads the implementation and maturation of various security technologies and privacy initiatives and manages a business continuity and disaster recovery program and facility management.

Mr. Eggleston started his professional career serving as a Program Manager and Psychotherapist at a hospital serving children and adolescents.  Later, Mr. Eggleston helped develop an internal compliance approach, complete with policies and tools, ensuring a geographically dispersed health care provider organization (across 19 states) complied with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).  Mr. Eggleston then transitioned to apply his HIPAA expertise to a local health plan.  He then was promoted into a series of positions to direct a health plan’s security and business continuity programs where he has helped to implement many successful security controls to include, single sign on (SSO), Identity and Access Management (IAM), vulnerability assessment program, and a comprehensive business continuity program.  

Mr. Eggleston received his Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Radford University.  Later, Mr. Eggleston received both his Masters in Social Work and his Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Management Information Systems, from Virginia Commonwealth University.  Mr. Eggleston holds CHPS, CHPS and CISSP certifications.

Nathanael Iversen, as Illumio’s Chief Evangelist, helps prospects and customers understand micro-segmentation in all its forms and how Illumio solve problems for organizations of all sizes. In previous roles with the company, he was responsible for training Illumio’s sales, systems engineering, and customer success teams after holding a variety of operational roles. He has over two decades of customer-facing experience, with a broad background in networking, security, and virtualization. Nathanael has held positions in systems engineering, product management, and technical marketing; has experience with enterprise data centers and telecommunications provider networks. He began his career designing and implementing large-scale data centers for the U.S. Air Force. Nathanael holds a degree in Communication Systems Design from the Community College of the Air Force.

Eric has extensive leadership and practical C-suite experience working as a Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Risk Officer, and Risk Policy Committee Chair in regulated and non-regulated companies. He has a proven track record of building high-performance teams and partnering with both clients and colleagues to drive the recognition and treatment of franchise level strategic, cyber, privacy, operational, and regulatory compliance risks within interconnected global companies.

Eric currently serves as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for IHS Markit (INFO), a $45 billion public company that is a global leader in information, analytics, and solutions for the major industries and markets that drive economies worldwide.  He is charged with driving the design, implementation and continuous improvement of a global cybersecurity program that supports innovation as an enabler of business and revenue growth establishes a stronger enterprise-wide posture that reduces risk, improves decision-making, and accelerates business priorities, and, cost-effectively mitigates and reduces the risk and impact of the client, market and regional disruptions caused by physical, technology and cybersecurity-related incidents. Previously, Eric held senior leadership team roles at S&P Global (Chief Risk Officer, S&P Global Market Intelligence) and Thomson Reuters (Chief Resiliency and Business Information Security Officer, Wealth Management), and senior product, operational, and risk management roles at Citibank and Bankers Trust.

Eric received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Michigan and his Master’s Degree in Business Administration in Finance and Management from New York University’s Stern School of Business.  He is a co-Chair for the New York CISO Advisory Forum, holds the CISSP certification from (ISC)², the FBCI (Fellow) certification from the Business Continuity Institute (BCI), and serves as a speaker, trainer, contributor, moderator, and panelist for (ISC)², the BCI, DCRO, ISACA, and several New York metropolitan area business schools on topics including Operational Risk, Crisis & Incident Management, Data Privacy, Supply Chain Resiliency, and Cybersecurity and Business Resiliency Convergence.