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MARCUS SACHS

CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER (CSO), BOARD DIRECTOR

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BIO ABSTRACT:

  • ​​First Cyber Director of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cyber Security Division, where he was responsible for developing the implementation plan for the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
  • ​Appointed by President George W. Bush to serve concurrently on the staff of the National Security Council and the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board
  • ​While at the White House and DHS, proposed and developed the concept and early design for the United States Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT)
  • 25-year career in the private sector, as Deputy Director of SRI International’s Computer Science Laboratory, Vice President for National Security Policy at Verizon Communications, and Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)
  • ​Previously, held a 20-year distinguished career in the United States Army, serving as a Corps of Engineers and Systems Automation Officer
  • ​Final assignment in the Army was with Department of Defense’s Joint Task Force on Computer Network Defense (JTF-CND)
  • Co-authored several books on information security
  • ​As Chief Security Officer at Cyber Nation Central®, oversees both physical security and cyber security
  • ​Concurrently serves as Deputy Director of Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security

EDUCATION:

  • The James Madison University: M.S. in Computer Science (Concentration in Information Security), 2001
  • ​The University of Texas at Austin: M.S. in Science & Technology Commercialization, 1998
  • ​​Georgia Institute of Technology: B.S. in Civil Engineering, 1981

EXPERTISE:

  • ​Vertical Expertise: Cybersecurity, Cyber Defense, and Cyber National Security of Critical Infrastructure Sectors; Technology Innovation, Digital Transformation, Supply Chain
  • ​​Industry Expertise: Transportation, Logistics, Real Estate, Infrastructure, Healthcare, Hospitality, Financial Services, Education
  • Product Expertise: ​Private Equity & Venture Capital, Investment Banking, M&A, IPOs, Capital Raising
  • ​​Board- & Cabinet-Level Organizational & Cybersecurity Governance & Strategy Development and Integration
  • ​Strategic Advisory to Board, C-Suite, Investment Committee, Cabinet, & Ministry-Level Leadership Teams
  • Helping Boards, C-Suites, Investors, and Government Leadership Teams Create and Sustain Breach-Deterrent Cultures of Individual Cybersecurity and Organizational Cybersecurity Strategy, Able to Avoid the Increasing Cost of Breaches
  • ​Integration of Cybersecurity Strategy with Corporate Strategy, Tech Innovation Strategy, Regulatory Cyber Policy Strategy, Geopolitical Cyber Response Strategy, and Culture Transformation.
  • ​​Global Cybersecurity Public-Private Partnership Development and Deployment
  • ​​Disruptive Cybersecurity Technology Innovation and Integration into Organizational Strategy
  • ​​Cybersecurity Ecosystem Building & Organizational Digital and Cybersecure Transformation
  • ​​Cybersecurity Regulatory Policy and Law Interaction with Organizational Strategy

SELECT CONFERENCE, CORPORATE, AND GOVERNMENT SPEAKING HISTORY:

  • RSA Conference 2023 Speaker & Panel Chair, “How to Create a Breach-Deterrent Culture of Cybersecurity, from Board Down,” Moscone Center, San Francisco, 9:40am-10:30am PST, April 24, 2023. Conference attended annually by ~45,000 cybersecurity and technology practitioners.
  • ​Wharton Alumni for Boards Fireside Chat Speaker, “How to Achieve a Breach-Deterrent Blueprint of Self-Focused and Organization-Focused Cybersecurity & a Culture of Cybersecurity That Helps Your Board & Executive Team Avoid the $9mm Price Tag of a Breach & Increasing Risk of Imprisonment,” Wharton Club of the National Capital Region, February 1, 2022.
  • ​Prime Movers Lab Venture Capital Fund Keynote Speaker, "The Cyber Secure Founder with Andrzej Cetnarski," Jackson, Wyoming, August 6, 2021; Keynote addressing 20 Founders of breakthrough scientific inventions that transform billions of lives.
  • Summit Co-Chairman, International Cybersecurity Innovation Summit - Cyber in Space, by America's Future Series, Cyber Nation Central, and National Cybersecurity Center, April 13, 2021, feat. LtGen Harry Raduege; Commissioner David Koh; LGen Robert (Bob) Shea; Deputy to the Commanding General of U.S. Army Cyber Command Ron Pontius; Admiral Bobby Inman; Cipher Brief's Suzanne Kelly, CIA CTO Nand Mulchandani; JPMorgan Global Head of AI Apoorv Saxena; and many others.
  • ​​Keynote Opening Speaker, "What Cybersecurity Matters Should Boards & C-Suites be Thinking About But Are Not?" International Cybersecurity Innovation Summit, April 13, 2021, featuring Dr. David Koh, Singapore's Commissioner of Cybersecurity and Chief Executive of The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore.
  • ​​Panel Chair, "AI in Cybersecurity of Our Nations: Building a Successful Innovation Ecosystem of Private-Government Sector Engagement," International Cybersecurity Innovation Summit, feat. CTO of DoD Joint Artificial Intelligence Center - Nand Mulchandani; JPMorgan Global Head of AI - Apoorv Saxena; and Head of Strategic Planning, Israeli National Cyber Directorate - David Shoresh. 
  • Head ​Panelist, "Protecting Assets in A Heightened Cyber Risk Environment," Youth INC State of the Market Speaker Series, 2020, also featuring: Amit Yoran, Chairman and CEO, Tenable; Peter Beshar, EVP and General Counsel, Marsh McLennan; Emily Mossburg, Global Cyber Leader, Deloitte.
  • ​​United States Department of State International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) Keynote Speaker, US and International Cybersecurity Policy and Partnership Development, Cambridge, MA, June 18, 2018; addressing Delegations from Belgium, Switzerland, Poland, Thailand, and Bahrain.
  • ​Speaker, various think tanks, Istanbul, Turkey; Tbilisi, Georgia, 2018.
  • ​Speaker, "Democracy, Disruptive Technologies and Politics: Riding the Tiger or Being Eaten by It," The North American Think Tank Summit, Brookings Institution, April 20, 2017, alongside Financial Times Columnist & Commentator Edward Luce and Google Head of Global Policy Caroline Atkinson.
  • ​Speaker, "Entrepreneurship, Innovation & VC Investing in Southeast Asia," UBS Ultra High Net Worth Conference, Singapore, 2015.
  • ​​Co-Host & Speaker, "South China Morning Post Inaugural Luxury Experience Summit," Hong Kong, 2014; spoke alongside SCMP Chairman & CEO Robin Hu and Shanghai Tang Founder Sir David Tang.
  • ​Speaker, Beijing Doorknock (American Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong CEO Delegation), 2013-2015: Part of 20 CEO delegates leading US-Hong Kong-China trade/technology/energy relations/policy discussions with US Ambassador to China (M.Baucus), SOHO China Founders, Secretaries General / Heads of People’s Bank of China; China Securities Regulatory Commission; China Council for Promotion of Int’l Trade; Development Research Center of State Council; China Center for Int’l Economic Exchanges.
  • ​Co-Chairman, Wharton Finance Conference, Waldorf-Astoria, New York City, 2008. Hosted Keynote Speakers Lloyd Blankfein (Chairman & CEO of Goldman Sachs) and Ken Moelis (former President of UBS Investment Bank and founder of Moelis & Company). 1,000 private equity, investment banking, and broader financial services Board Directors, C-Suite Executives, Investors in attendance.

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Marcus (Marc) Sachs serves as Chief Security Officer (CSO) and Board Director of Cyber Nation Central®. In his roles, Mr. Sachs leads all physical and cybersecurity matters at the ecosystem level and advises ecosystem and subsidiary leadership on strategy, vision and execution optimization, including for technology and cybersecurity as well as ecosystem growth optimization.

Mr. Sachs is Deputy Director of Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security, and simultaneously serves as the Chief Security Officer (CSO) of Pattern Computer, a startup in the machine learning and artificial intelligence field, where he is responsible for overall corporate security policy and strategy. Previously, he was also a Partner at RIDGE-LANE Limited Partners in the Technology Practice.

Mr. Sachs retired from the United States Army after serving a distinguished 20-year career as a Corps of Engineers and Systems Automation Officer. His final assignment was with the Department of Defense’s Joint Task Force on Computer Network Defense (JTF-CND), established in 1998 to defend the department’s computer networks from foreign intrusions.

Following his military retirement, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve concurrently on the staff of the National Security Council and on the staff of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. Mr. Sachs later joined the National Cyber Security Division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as the department’s first Cyber Director, where he was responsible for developing the implementation plan for the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. While at the White House and DHS he proposed and developed the concept and early design for the United States Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT).

Since leaving military and public service, Mr. Sachs’ private sector experience includes serving as the Deputy Director of SRI International’s Computer Science Laboratory, as the Vice President for National Security Policy at Verizon Communications, and as the Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) where he directed the rebuilding of the Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC).

Mr. Sachs volunteered as the Director of the SANS Internet Storm Center from 2003-2010 and has co-authored several books on information security. 

He holds degrees in civil engineering, computer science and technology commercialization, and is an avid collector of mechanical cipher equipment. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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