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Academic excellence guided by industry experts.

 

As information security professionals, advisory council members will serve as advisors to the Gupta College of Business and support the design of the cybersecurity program. 

Sandra Blanke
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Cybersecurity Program Director Sandra Blanke, Ph.D., CISSP

2023 - 2025 Gupta College of Business Cybersecurity Advisory Board:

  Name Company Affiliation About

Donovan Farrow

Alias Cybersecurity

 Donovan Farrow founded and is the CEO of Alias Security. He brings more than 20 years of experience working for Schlumberger Oilfield Services, Loves Travel Stops, Chesapeake Energy and NTT Security in the fields of Information Technology, Information Security, Digital Forensics and Incident Response.

Teresa Merklin, MBA '05, CISSP and CSSLP

 Lockheed Martin Teresa Merklin is a Fellow attached to the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Cyber Range. That facility is chartered to perform highly specialized cybersecurity testing and evaluation of DoD embedded avionics systems.

Brian Wrozek, MBA '08, CISSP

 Forrester Brian Wrozek is a principal analyst at Forrester serving security and risk (S&R) professionals. His coverage includes operational technology (OT) security and threat intelligence.

 

2021-2022 Gupta College of Business Cybersecurity Advisory Board:

  Name Company Affiliation About
Abby Knowles Verizon Wireless Vice president of West Network Assurance at Verizon. Previously, she has the executive director of Network Operations and director of Network Engineering.
  Carl Bryant, MBA '13 Amazon Web Services Practice Leader for security, risk, and compliance at Amazon Web Services Professional Services. Carl has been with AWS for two years and has over 15 years of experience in Cybersecurity.
Ismail Guneydas, MBA '15 Tesla Information security lead at Tesla, Guneyadas serves the university as an adjunct instructor of cybersecurity. Prior to his current role, he served as vulnerability management at Kimberly Clark.
Branden Williams, MBA '04 MUFG Bank Director of SVP Cyber Security at MUFG Union Bank, he serves the university as an adjunct instructor of cybersecurity. 
John South, CISSP, CISA, MBA 鈥�97 Consultant Consultant to the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center and former Heartland Payment Systems as its chief security officer. He also serves the university as an adjunct instructor of cybersecurity.
Brian Wrozek, MBA '08, CISSP Forrester Brian Wrozek is a principal analyst at Forrester serving security and risk (S&R) professionals. His coverage includes operational technology (OT) security and threat intelligence.
Biodun Awojobi, PhD Google Security Community Practice Lead at Google for the South-Central Subregion. He focuses on infrastructure, application modernization and security for the Google Cloud Platform. Prior to Google, Awojobi worked at Microsoft as the Senior Technical Specialist of Security and Compliance. He serves as an adjunct professor at 吃瓜网 focusing on technical cybersecurity courses.
Kai Axford  Trintech, Financial Software  Kai Axford is the director of Security & Compliance and serves as their chief information security officer responsible for security operations, audit and compliance, application security, and overall security posture.  He also serves as an adjunct professor at 吃瓜网 focusing on Penetration Testing.

 

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