CIO & CISO Council

IT infrastructure and security leader with 20 years experience spanning operations across 6 continents. Prior to joining Zscaler, Brett lead Bechtel's journey towards Zero Trust as the Manager, Cloud Architecture and Engineering. At Bechtel, Brett championed the local office breakout, VPN replacement and Password-less implementations and lead the infrastructure design of their Azure-based digital transformation application platform. Integrating platforms with advanced modern identity concepts is his specialty. Brett has enterprise management experience across a diverse range of technologies and disciplines, including PC and mobile technologies, unified communications, datacenter, LAN, WAN, identity and access management, APIs, enterprise architecture and cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS environments.

By day, he is a Fractional CISO and Cybersecurity Advisor for multiple companies building, running, and optimizing cybersecurity programs. By night, he champions cyber safety and ethics education throughout society via the 501(c)3 nonprofit Savvy Cyber Kids he founded. Ben has presented at the World Economic Forum, NACD directorship training, RSA Conference, TEDxSaintThomas, TEDxKids@Vilnius, GISEC Global, InfoSec World, SecureWorld, IEEE, ACM, CSO50, CIO/CISO Summits, and many other events. In addition to his numerous publications, Ben has been featured in the New York Times, Wired, Bloomberg, BBC, Kiplinger, Good Morning America, Good Day Atlanta, CNN HLN, Fox News, RogersTV, among others.

Oversees the Port of Long Beach cybersecurity program to protect the Port’s technical network from cyber risks. Eddie is a seasoned technology executive with over has over 28 years of extensive experience in identifying business needs, designing and developing solutions, and delivering results. A proven leader that continues to adapt and drive transformation across the enterprise, developing tactical and strategic alignments with business divisions/units, developing and implementing methodologies and technology solutions, ensuring fiscal responsibility, audit and regulatory compliance. Prior to joining the Port, Eddie held similar positions at loanDepot, Fremont Investment & Loan, H&R Block Bank/Option One Mortgage and has worked for organizations such as PwC, PacifiCare Health Systems, County of Los Angeles. He is a retired combat veteran from the United States Army. He serves on a number of advisory boards, a frequent presenter and participates in local/national/international information security groups evangelizing his craft through public outreach. Eddie continues to be very active in supporting local youth sports dedicated to the growth and development of student athletes.

Lee has 20 years of experience in Cyber and Information Security. In his current role, he serves as the Global Head of Information Security Governance at Zurich Insurance group, a leading multi-line insurer that serves its customers in global and local markets. With about 55,000 employees, it provides a wide range of property and casualty, life insurance products and services in more than 215 countries and territories. Prior to Zurich Lee worked in various IT, Security, Governance, and Leadership roles including penetration testing, security consultant, network/domain administrator, and Director of Threat Analysis and Network Forensics for the US Navy’s enterprise environment. Lee has a significant amount of experience in Governance Risk and Compliance and works to maintain a current level of understanding on emerging threats as well as strategies to prepare, defend, and respond from an organizational standpoint.

Senior Architect/Manager with extensive experience in managing enterprise risk, network system architecture, security design, and administration. Experience includes managing and assessing in house, co-located and Cloud hosted enterprise network environments, large messaging environments, as well as disaster recovery, business continuity, information security, and local and network software development and deployment. Experience also includes management of large and complex projects including application and datacenter deployments and migrations, and the use of SDLC processes including Agile and Six Sigma methodologies. Also, large integration projects matching business needs to the proper technology and implementing the solution in Enterprise and mobile environments. Managing and supervising direct staff of 5 to 140, as well as personnel from technology consulting partners.

Joined Health Care Service Corporation, the nation’s largest customer owned health insurer offering Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in Illinois, Montana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas, in September of 2017 as DVP Information Security Architecture and Design. In this role, John was responsible for driving the future state Cyber Security Architecture with a focus on securely enabling HCSC’s use of the public cloud for sensitive workloads, overall modernization of HCSC’s Member facing and Enterprise Identity & Access Management products and enhancements to Cyber Defense capabilities. Promoted to Deputy CISO / Head of Information Security for Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) in Fall of 2021. John is responsible for delivering a fiscally responsible and pragmatic Information Security program that securely enables the HCSC enterprise, systems development entities, and strategic initiatives. He is an Information Services Security thought leader with over twenty-five years combined experience with Fortune 500 firms in life sciences, healthcare and consumer products industries. Actively participates on Executive Customer Advisory Boards and Healthcare Industry Executive Leadership forums. John has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Temple University and holds CISSP certification.