Current Boards
● NACD PSW Chapter Emeritus Board Member
● Firemon Advisory Board

Prior Boards
● Bloomfire, Inc., CEO and Executive Director
● President and Representative Director, PwC Unifi Network KK
● PwC Asia Pacific and Global Leadership Team

Career
Bob is the Founder and CEO of DDN. He's one of the world's leading boardroom advocates, advisors, and educators on systemic risk and digital and cybersecurity governance.

He's a Senior Fellow in the ESG Center at The Conference Board and he's an Adjunct Professor at the USC Marshall School of Business where he teaches corporate governance, strategic management and global business issues. 

Bob created the DiRECTOR^(TM) framework for governing systemic risk in complex digital business systems. 

He's a retired PwC Senior Advisory Partner where he led PwC's IT strategy and operations and data management practices. He's advised the F1000 on a wide range of strategic, operational and technology related issues. As a member of PwC's Global and APAC leadership teams he worked and lived on 4 continents across twenty countries.

Bob is regularly published on digital and cybersecurity risk oversight and has been published in Harvard Law Review and NACD Directorship amongst many others. He's the co-author of The Great Reboot - Succeeding in a World of Catastrophic Risk and Opportunity and Social Inc, and has written three book chapters on digital and cybersecurity risk oversight. 

● MBA (Hons.), The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
● BBA, Texas Tech University.

Bob was selected to the Financial Times FT Digital 50 as on of America's top digitally savvy corporate directors. He is a DDN Certified Boardroom Qualified Technology Expert (QTE). 

Current Boards

● PNC Financial Services, Inc. (NYSE: PNC), Member of the Risk Committee: Technology and Compliance Sub-Committee
● TransAmerica Insurance Inc. (AEGON North America), Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee and Risk Committee
● Operation Homefront (NPO), Member of the Cyber and Technology Committee and Audit Committee
● Arizona Cyber Threat Response Alliance (NPO), Executive Committee

Career

Brigadier General Medler retired from the Air Force in 2014 culminating a 27 year career as Director of Capability and Resource Integration for United States Cyber Command.  She commanded at the squadron, group and wing level and in addition to deploying to Afghanistan. Some of General Medler’s key staff assignments include Director of Communications and Networks for the Joint Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff Deputy CIO, Air Force Materiel Command Chief of Staff, Secretary of Defense Corporate Fellow, and Presidential Communications Officer at the White House Communications Agency.

After her military career, she was the Chief Information Security Officer for Raytheon Missile Systems. In this role she was responsible for cyber security services, support and governance relating to the security and risk mitigation of RMS unclassified information, computer systems, data and networks, and improving factory cybersecurity for this $8 billion company. 

● MBA with a Management Information Systems concentration from the University of Arizona
● Master of Science in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College
● Bachelor in Business Management and Management Information Systems from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock

She is a DDN Certified Boardroom Qualified Technology Expert (QTE) and an NACD Certified Board Member. She is also an NACD Board Leadership Fellow and maintains her certification in GIAC Global Security Leadership.

Current Boards
● GTT Communications (NYSEMK: GTT), Lead Director and Member Audit Committee and Compensation Committees
● NCB Management Services Inc. (ESOP)

Prior Boards
● GlobeCast, Telecom
● Verato, Healthcare SaaS 
● WBB Consulting, Government Management Consulting Services
● E3 Greentech Enterprises, Energy Management Big Data
●Source Media, Information Services and Interactive Video

Career
Rod oversees the cybersecurity risk oversight function in the boardroom for GTT and focuses on board oversight of systemic risks associated with complex business enterprises. 

Rod's executive background was focused on capital formation, M&A, financial restructurings, corporate development and the creation of shareholder value as an advisor, entrepreneur, and as a corporate director. He was an executive at Kidder Peabody & Co and several other corporate finance advisory firms. 

Mr. Hackman also served as a line officer in the United States Navy where he supervised, operated and maintained naval nuclear reactors. His experience in managing complex nuclear reactor systems informs his approach to systemic enterprise risk management.

● MBA in Finance from Cornell University
● Bachelors of Science Applied Mathematics, United States Naval Academy 

Mr. Hackman is also a graduate of the United States Navy’s post-graduate nuclear power program and is certified in cyber-risk oversight by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). 

Current Boards
● State of Ohio Innovate Ohio, Member Cybersecurity Advisory Board
● Ohio State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisory Committee
● MxDUSA, Member Cybersecurity Advisory Board

Prior Boards

● National Technology Security Coalition, Founding Board Member

Career
Helen is an Advisory CISO at Cisco, where she shares security strategies throughout the security community. Previously she was CISO at The Ohio State University where she was awarded the ISE North American Academic/Public Sector Executive of the Year. 

She also served as Executive Director at JP Morgan Chase where her responsibilities included information security, resiliency, identity and access management and vendor risk management. She led a global team of risk and resiliency professionals who worked with application and infrastructure technology groups to achieve business-related risk objectives.

She has earned her Information Systems Auditor and Risk and Systems Control certifications from ISACA.

● Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Franklin University
● Masters In Public Administration from The Ohio State University

Current Boards

● Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering External Academic Advisory Board
● Kern Family Foundation Faculty Advisory Board
● Indo-US Collaboration for Engineering Education
● MAFA (Systems Modeling of Learning Environment) Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile

Career

Joe is a leading expert on complex systems and the Associate Provost for Transformative Teaching and Learning and a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Bucknell University.  He is also an affiliate faculty member of Cornell University, an international faculty member at Universidad Catolica de Chile, and has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University and the University of Utah.

He is the author of five books, 200 articles and conference proceedings, and has delivered over 100 intensive workshops on five continents. His work has been featured on the Discovery Channel, TEDx, Gates Foundation, Google, LinkedIn, and CNN Health. Joe has been recognized with awards including the National Biomedical Engineering Teaching Award, ASEE Theo Pilkington Outstanding Educator, and has been nominated twice for the CASE US Professor of the Year. He is an active consultant and has worked with IBM, GE Energy, Comcast, Save the Children, Omnicom, NASA and the US Department of Defense.

● PhD, Duke University
● BS, Trinity College

Joe is an elected Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) National Academy of Engineering (NAI) Frontiers of Engineering Education, and National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Faculty. 

Current Boards

● Michigan Strategic Fund, Michigan Economic Development Corporation, Board Member
● G100: Mission Million, Global Chair Information Technology

Past Boards

● The Gift of Adoption (NPO)
● bPeace (NPO)
● ArdentCause, LLC
● InfoReady Corporation
● Salesforce.com Foundation (NPO)
● Special Olympics of Southern California (NPO)
● Michigan Council of Women in Technology (NPO)

Ms. Warner has led technology service organization at Amazon Web Services (AWS), NetApp, IBM, PwC, Salesforce.com and EY/CapGemini. She has had operational P&L responsibilities in excess of $2.5B in revenues, $750M in an operating budget with a team of 2500 members.

She has spent her entire career developing the strategies, products or services to leverage leading technologies for enterprise transformation including most recently leveraging Cloud Computing for the past decade to drive change. She is a technology leader adept at balancing technical discussions with business value, strategy and risk. 

She has complimented her corporate career with entrepreneurial passions, drive and vision as the founder of 360ofme.com, SpaLocker, and several other ventures. Ms. Warner has served on multiple not-for-profit boards and dedicates her energy to make a difference for those less fortunate and including advancing gender parity within the technology industry. 

● Bachelors of Science in Business, Gand Valley State University Seidman School of Business

Ms. Warner is a DDN Certified Boardroom Qualified Technology Expert (QTE)

Current Boards

●  AMN Healthcare Services Inc. (NYSE: AMN), Member of the Audit and Compensation Committees
●  Barnes Group, Inc. (NYSE: B), Member of the Audit Committee
●  Masonite International Corporation (NYSE: DOOR), Member of the Sustainability and Governance Committee

Career

Daphne E. Jones is a seasoned executive with extensive experience in general management and in implementing digital technologies strategically, entrepreneurially, and securely within multi-national corporations. She has over thirty years of business experience and served in executive level roles at IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Hospira (now Pfizer) and General Electric. During her tenure at GE, she served as: SVP/CIO, running IT for a $13B segment of GE Healthcare businesses (Product Engineering, Imaging, Ultrasound, and Global Services) and SVP Future of Work, GE Healthcare. 

Prior to GE Healthcare, her early career days were spent at IBM and Johnson & Johnson as an IT Executive & VP, followed by her role as a Corporate Officer, SVP & CIO at Hospira, Inc. a $5B global pharmaceutical and infusion technology company. At Hospira, she was accountable for all aspects of Hospira’s enterprise, infrastructure, security, digital & analytics technologies. A driver of change acceleration and leadership development, her career has been spent using digital technologies to transform business models, distribution channels and products. 

●  MBA and BS, Illinois State University.

Ms. Jones was named one of Illinois’ Most Powerful and Influential Women by the National Diversity Council, and was selected a Computerworld Premier 100 CIO. She is a member of NACD, Accenture Cybersecurity Council, the Executive Leadership Council, and has earned her Digital Directors Network certification as a boardroom Qualified Technology Expert (QTE).

Current Boards

●Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)

Career

Chris Hetner is a senior executive, board director, and policy leader in cybersecurity recognized for his cyber risk leadership focused on protecting industries, infrastructures, and economies.  Currently, he is an expert advisor to the Institute for Defense Analyses (US Dept. of the Treasury), the special advisor for cyber risk for the National Association of Corporate Directors, and a national board member of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.  

He served as the senior cybersecurity advisor to the Chair of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and as head of cybersecurity for the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examination at the SEC. He also represented the Chair of the SEC as a senior member of the US Department of the Treasury Financial Banking Information Infrastructure Committee. 

Mr. Hetner also held several industry leadership roles including managing director at Marsh Risk Consulting and at EY as Wealth and Asset Management and Private Equity Cybersecurity Practice Leader. 

He also served as Global Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at GE Capital, and Senior Vice President Information Security at Citi.   

He is a Certified Information Security Manager (ISACA), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC²), and holds a high-level USA security clearance.

● BS in Security Management from John Jay College of Criminal Justice
● MS, cum laude, in Information Assurance from Norwich University

Current Boards

● US Ecology, Inc. (NASDAQ: ECOL), Chair Corporate Responsibility and Risk Committee and Member of the Audit Committee
● Trillium Health Partners, Member of the Quality and Program Effectiveness Committee

Prior Boards

● Nudge, Inc.
● Bangladesh Accord (NPO)
● Fashion for Good (NPO)
● Rethink Sustainability (NPO)
● New York Academy of Sciences (NPO) — Change Fashion Challenge, Member of the Advisory Board

Career

Ms. Steiner is the Founder and CEO of Inspirion Group where she works with boards, CEOs and management teams to oversee and accelerate strategic transformation, with particular domain expertise in all elements of ESG. 

Previously, she served as Global Chief Risk Officer (CRO) for PVH Corp. (NYSE: PVH) the $9B Fortune 500 apparel company and owner of iconic boards Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein.  In this role Melanie oversaw a diverse set of functions including internal audit, cybersecurity and incident response, corporate social responsibility (CSR), enterprise risk management (ERM) and crisis management. 

As a member of the senior leadership team Melanie made significant strategic contributions to the business, including taking a key role in the company’s digital and sustainable transformation journey. She was also responsible for management of key stakeholder relationships and all non-financial reporting.

Melanie held prior leadership positions in EY's Risk Advisory practice and was market leader for the Canadian Climate Change and Sustainability Services (CCASS) practice. 

She has been a guest lecturer at Fordham University School of Law and is on the Faculty at Next50.  

● LLM Master of Laws from the University of London
● LLB (J.D.) Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto

Current Boards

●  Chair, Board of Advisors, Tickle College of Engineering, University of Tennessee
●  Member, Advisory Board, Buzzy Rocket
●  Honorary Member, Advisory Board, Womens Business Collaborative (WBC)

Past Boards

●  Executive Chair, Atonix Digital, LLC
●  Member, Advisory Board, College of Engineering and Computing, George Mason University

Career

Barbie Bigelow is CEO of Emerald Growth Partners, where she helps leadership teams invest in the right technology to accelerate growth and maximize value.

Her corporate leadership experience includes P&L and C-suite technology roles at Fortune 50-200, PE-backed and private companies. Her executive experience includes serving as the first CIO for Lockheed Martin’s electronics business and as Jacobs Engineering’s Global CIO. 

She helped form the Defense Industrial Base information sharing program, created standard maturity frameworks and led incident response for government and private enterprises. She brings deep technology expertise and corporate governance experience through her work advising boards and her roles at a diverse set of companies. Barbie began her career as a Statistical Data Analyst at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After completing graduate research at UT in parsing technology, she joined IBM and helped develop HTML.

As a first-generation college graduate, Barbie advocates for diverse talent in technology fields. Her commitment includes serving on the Board of Advisors for the University of Tennessee’s Tickle College of Engineering, chairing the Womens Cyber Governance Collaborative (WCGC), and mentoring/coaching leaders and entrepreneurs in cybersecurity, AI and sustainability ventures. 

●  Bachelor of Science in Biology and Chemistry, Tusculum University
●  Master of Science in Computer Science, University of Tennessee
●  Strategic Decision and Risk Management Certificate – University of Texas McCombs School of Business
●  Finance & Compliance Certificate – University of Maryland Robert B. Smith School of Business

Barbie is a DDN certified Boardroom Qualified Technology Expert (QTE) and she holds her Project Management Professional (PMP) qualification from the Project Management Institute.

Current Boards

● NACD Pacific Southwest (PSW) Chapter Emerita - Advisory Board
● Financial Profiles, Inc, A Strategic Communications Firm – Advisory Board
● Digital Directors Network LLC Advisory Board

Prior Boards

● Center for Safety & Health Sustainability Advisory Council
● American Society of Safety Professionals Foundation, Board Chair
● Los Angeles County Risk Management Advisory Council

Career

Fay is the Founder and CEO of Risk for Good, a risk governance advisory firm. She’s a recognized global influencer, advisor, and expert on systemic risk, ESG and human capital.

She is a retired Travelers Insurance executive. She specialized in the firm's global Fortune 500 clients and advised underwriters on enterprise risk profiles for intelligent capital allocation. With a background in occupational safety, health, and well-being, she is a respected boardroom colleague who brings insights on the intersection of people, digital innovation and overseeing the shifts transforming the workplace.

Fay is also an entrepreneur and founder of Envision Strategic Group which provided risk management consulting to firms in manufacturing, entertainment, hospitality, and golf. She advised business leaders on a wide range of strategic, operational, and ESG related issues. She provided social media strategic guidance to the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) whose member investors are responsible for assets over US$ 59 trillion.  

Fay is a frequent speaker on governing material risks and has been published in the NACD Directorship Magazine, Hawkamah Journal and Agenda Magazine where she writes on anticipating emerging and systemic risks. She was an early adopter of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and social media where she earned the nickname “Digital Whisperer” for helping analog leaders transition to the fast-growing digital world. 

Fay is a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) from the BCSP and an Associate in Risk Management (ARM) from the Insurance Institute of America. Fay holds a NACD Board Leadership Fellowship and is an American Society of Safety Professionals Fellow. She has been honored by NACD for their Directorship 100 – Persons to Watch and was selected Woman of the Year for the Manhattan Beach Chamber of Commerce Women in Business committee.

● B.S. San Diego State University

Current Boards

●  RealWear, Inc., Chairman, CEO, and Member of Technology and Cybersecurity Committee, Audit Committee, Compensation Committees
●  Rogers Group, Inc., Member of the Finance Committee
●  HD Fowler Group, Member of the Advisory Board

Career

Andrew is senior executive with deep experience in developing teams and strategies that enable innovation, growth, and profitability improvements.  He currently serves as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer for RealWear, as well as a board member on the Finance Committee for the Rogers Group – the largest private aggregate mining company in the United States.  As an NACD certified director and a founding executive member and advisory board member of the Digital Directors Network, he strives to improve board performance and digital governance excellence to shape and secure the digital future for everyone. 

Before beginning his civilian career, Andrew served nine years as a physicist and program manager working on satellite and Command, Control, Communication, and Intelligence Systems (C3I) systems.  He has held positions of increasing responsibility with Hitachi, Warner-Lambert, Pfizer, Energizer, Goodrich Aerospace, UTC, Tyco and JCI.  As President of the Scott Safety business, he rapidly grew and diversified the business to $800 million in revenue. This business was subsequently sold by JCI to 3M for $2 billion, delivering a billion dollars of economic value to the company in only three years.

●  Certificate of Professional Development, The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School
●  Masters of Science, Systems Management, The University of Southern California Institute for Safety and Systems Management 
●  Engineering Physics (Hons.) and distinguished graduate Air Force ROTC, Oregon State University

He completed the CERT Certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight with the NACD and Andrew is a DDN Certified Boardroom Qualified Technology Expert (QTE).

Current Boards

● Inkbox Solutions

Prior Boards

● Diversified Technologies Solutions International
● NTT Security (TSE) – Advisory Board Member
● Emerio Systems LTD - Advisory Board Member
● Pacific Diabetes Services Inc.  - Board Chair 

Career

Jerry Nowicki has been involved in the Communications and Information Systems and Technology industry for the past 40 years. He began his career at Bell Labs and held several executive positions within AT&T in both engineering and operations.

Subsequent to his career at AT&T he founded and led two successful startup companies. He later served as a board member of several international companies headquartered in Europe and Asia where he advised them on digital transformation and cyber risk. 

Long a visionary in the industry, he is a founding member of Digital Directors Network and is an advocate for bringing digital and cyber savvy directors into the boardroom. 

● Bachelors in Mathematics and Business, Seton Hall University
● MBA, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

Current Boards

● TDI Security, Board of Advisors
● Gula Tech Foundation, Grant Committee

Previous Boards

● ISC² Chair, Audit and Risk
● NASA, Advisory Council
● Silent Circle
● Secure Elements
● Bayshore Networks
● FCC and NSTAC, IOT Security Subcommittee

Career

Tony is a globally recognized cybersecurity and business leader with expertise as a Chief Technology Officer (CTO), risk expert, consulting leader, advisor, and strategist with over thirty-five years of global experience.

He was most recently CTO of Attivo Networks which was sold in 2022 for $617 million to SentinelOne (NYSE:S).  Today, he serves on the Board of Advisors for TDI Security, helping guide their growth and strategy. He also serves on Gula Tech Adventures (a cybersecurity Venture Capital firm) Foundation arm on their Grant Committee helping give back millions to our community and drive a more diverse workforce.

Tony previously served on the (ISC)² Board of Directors as Treasurer and Chair of Audit and Risk, where he was elected and represented over 150,000 global security professionals and helped successfully lead the CEO search. He also served under appointment by the NASA Administrator on their Advisory Council, advising the NASA Administrator and his team on risk management for the enterprise and their missions. He also served in previous appointments to the FCC CSRIC-V (Communications Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council) by the FCC Commissioner and on President Obama’s NSTAC (National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee) IOT Security Subcommittee where his team created and released an important IOT security report to the President.

Prior to Attivo Tony built numerous successful global business lines while an executive at Recourse Technologies, Symantec, McAfee, and FireEye, which included consulting, product, and security operations centers around the globe focused on minimizing risk while lowering cost. He has deep world-wide expertise in cybersecurity requirements and the associated development of security products and services to meet those needs.

His career has spanned engagement across the US military (including chartering the Pentagon Computer Incident Response Team (Pent-CIRT), governments around the globe, startups, large publicly traded companies, acquisitions (public and private), IPO, mergers, venture capital, and continuous work with incubators and accelerators to keep a pulse on new risk management capabilities. He's been a requested advisor at Central Banks (including briefing Central Bank Governors in Basel on cyber threats), the G20, media, NATO, and many others to discuss all facets of cyber risk, technology, and associated processes and policies.

● Tony is a Digital Directors Network Certified Boardroom Qualified Technology Expert (QTE)
● Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), (ISC)²
● Bachelor of Science, Computer Networking, Summa Cum Laude, Strayer University