These CISOs competed against thousands of candidates for this prestigious award. Judges look at these candidates, searching for the most innovative, with unparalleled success in communicating with their boards and senior level executives, detecting, and stopping breaches and data loss, complying with regulations, and building powerful risk reduction programs for their organizations.
Chief Information Security Officers are the first responders of cyberspace and deserve to be recognized for their tremendous achievements as they fend off cyber criminals, cyber terrorists, malicious insiders, and nation state sponsored attacks.
For years they have been considered operating cost centers while helping corporations avert disasters that could put them out of business. They work tirelessly to allow companies to grow, expand, and increase potential profits by managing and mitigating major risks and regulatory compliance issues on a day-to-day basis.
“We’re pleased to name this small, elite group of information security professionals in our Top Global CISOs Awards for 2022,” said Gary Miliefsky, Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine.
Here are the winners in alphabetical order by the name of their company:
| Sujeet Bambawale | 7-Eleven |
| Stephanie Franklin Thomas | ABM Industries |
| Matt Devico | Academy Mortgage Corporation |
| Mark Alvarado | Academy Sports + Outdoors |
| Chris Gay | Acosta |
| Jorel Van Os | Acrisure |
| Thomas Dager | ADM |
| Raymond Harris | Adtran |
| Edward Maule | Advocare, LLC |
| Tim Callahan | Aflac |
| Derek Hardy | AMD |
| Jason Medeiros | Amwell |
| Craig McEwen | Anglo American |
| Robert Schuetter | Ashland |
| Christopher Regan | AutoNation |
| Aaron J. Goodwin | B. Riley Financial |
| Nick Ryan | Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP |
| Karine Höne | Barloworld Limited |
| Dawn-Marie Hutchinson | BAT |
| Rick Doten | Carolina Complete Health |
| Alan Berry | Centene |
| Patrice Bordron | CHS |
| Fred Bret-Mounet | Clarify Health Solutions |
| Alex Schuchman | Colgate-Palmolive |
| Medha Bhalodkar | Columbia University |
| Thanh Thai | Constellis Group |
| Tammy Klotz | Covanta |
| Diego Souza | Cummins Inc |
| Endre Jarraux Walls | Customers Bank |
| Chandra McMahon | CVS Health |
| David Ramirez | DRW Holdings |
| Joe Voje | El Camino Health |
| Will Lazzaro | Embrace Pet Insurance |
| Mohammed Darwish Azad | EmiratesNBD Group |
| Josh Knopp | Enterprise Holdings |
| Bernardo Horta | Erste Group Bank AG |
| Christopher Leigh | Eversource Energy |
| Kwame Fields | Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco |
| Priya Sirwani | Fiera Capital |
| Brian Minick | Fifth Third Bank |
| Marc Ashworth | First Bank |
| Hardik Parekh | Five9 |
| Riad Amro | FlightSafety International |
| Jason Benedict | Fordham University |
| Jim Motes | GameStop |
| Steven Sim | PSA INTERNATIONAL PTE LTD |
| Michael Cunningham | Graphic Packaging International |
| William Curtiss | Hanesbrands Inc. |
| Richard Flahaven | Harley-Davidson Motor Company |
| Jeffrey Vinson | Harris Health |
| Hassan Asghar | Hinge Health |
| Marcos Marrero | HIG Capital |
| Joseph McComb | Holland & Hart LLP |
| Vikrant Arora | Hospital for Special Surgery |
| Joanna Burkey | HP |
| Janet Heins | iHeartMedia |
| Michael Madl | Indiana Wesleyan University |
| Brent Conran | Intel Corporation |
| Dane Warren | Intertek |
| Robert Pace | Invitation Homes |
| Marene Allison | J&J |
| Timothy Rohrbaugh | JetBlue Airways |
| Longinus Timochenko | Kabum |
| Jeff Maxon | Kansas Information Security Office |
| Dan Meacham | Legendary Entertainment |
| Kemal Piskin | LinQuest |
| Hadas Cassorla | M1 Finance |
| Lester Godsey | Maricopa County |
| Richard Yun | Masimo Corporation |
| Matt Long | MasterCraft Boat Company |
| Kapil Madaan | Max Healthcare |
| John Opala | McCormick & Company |
| Michael Jacobs | MINDBODY, Inc. |
| Bill Hill | MITRE |
| Marcel Lehner | MM Group |
| Christos Syngelakis | Motor Oil Hellas |
| Scot Miller | Mr. Cooper |
| Venkatesh Subramaniam | Olam International |
| David Cross | Oracle |
| Raj Bahdwar | Oracle |
| William Bogdan | Orange County Sheriff’s Department |
| Idan Malei | Ormat |
| Chuck Markarian | PACCAR |
| Bradley Schaufenbuel | Paychex |
| Greg Bee | Pekin Insurance |
| Ravi Mani | Quest Diagnostics |
| Mimoent Haddouti | RaboBank |
| Lauren Heyndrickx | Ralph Lauren Corporation |
| Daniel Temisanren | Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, Los Angeles |
| Gary A. Gooden | Relativity Space |
| Karine Thibault | Roper Technologies, Inc. |
| Joe Ellis | Ryder |
| Ishaaq Jacobs | Sasol |
| Garrett Smiley | Serco Inc. |
| Parthiv Shah | Signature Bank |
| John McClure | Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. |
| Zachary Lewis | St. Louis College of Pharmacy |
| Ernest Wohnig III | System 1, Inc. |
| Rex Wong | The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. |
| Keith Turpin | The Friedkin Group |
| Dwayne Robinson | Trader Joe’s |
| Howard Whyte | Truist |
| Kip James | TTEC |
| Tracey Brand Sanders | UGI Corporation |
| Peter Rosario | USI Insurance Services |
| Daniella Traino | Wesfarmers |
| Manas Giri | WestJet Airlines |
| Jeffrey Lolley | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati |
| Mac Esmilla | World Vision |
Are you an innovative CISO?
Do you think you have what it takes to be one of the top global CISO’s in the world? Apply now for 2023.
Finalists will be notified when the judging begins in Q1, 2023.
