Board Members

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Scott Laliberte, CISSP, CISM, MBA
President
Scott is a Managing Director with Protiviti Inc and leads its Mid-Atlantic Security Consulting Practice. Scott has delivered many different kinds of security services to a variety of clients in financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and other industries. He has led and managed many security assessment, implementation, and management projects. Scott is a published author, accomplished speaker, and quoted subject matter expert in the area information systems security. Prior to becoming a consultant, Scott spent 9 years in the Coast Guard serving as Communications Officer and Operations Officer for two Cutters and Information Resource Management Officer for the Research and Development Center. Scott also enjoys training for marathons and triathlons, as well as coaching a youth track team.
Divyesh Malkan
Vice President
Divyesh is an Associate Director in Protiviti’s Security & Privacy practice, focusing on information security compliance and risk management. Divyesh has 13 years’ experience and served in the United States Marine Corps for 5 years in a variety of technology and cybersecurity roles. Divyesh has both a Bachelors’ and Masters’ degree in Cybersecurity Management and Policy and holds the CISSP, CISA, and PCI QSA certifications. Divyesh has a wide array of industry experience in financial services, healthcare, government and defense, retail, and consumer products and goods. Divyesh enjoys spending time with his family and two young children, spending time outdoors, and cooking.

Andrew Henry
Secretary
Andrew Henry is a highly skilled senior security and privacy consultant with four years of experience in the field. He has extensive knowledge of cyber security technologies and solutions, as well as a deep understanding of the evolving threat landscape. Andrew began his career in cyber security after completing his Bachelor's degree in cyber security from the University of Tampa.

Richard Beyer, CISSP
Treasurer
Rich has been involved in the computing industry since 1977 on both the vendor and client side. He has worked as a sales engineer and technical department manager during the infancy of the personal computing sector. He supported a wide variety of business, industrial and educational systems as well as creating specialty computing devices for scientific, industrial and educational uses. He also served as a system and networking consultant to the advertising, pre-press and printing industries and the Technology Director of a pharmaceutical and healthcare marketing agency. He is currently the IT Director for a national non-profit dedicated to producing scholarly legal publications and continuing legal education. Rich holds the degree of MBA in technology and electronic commerce. In addition to the CISSP, his certifications are in the areas of data recovery (CDRE), network security (CEH, ECSA, CompTIA Security+), security operations (CCNA Cyber Ops) and computer forensics (CHFI & CCFE). His professional associations include the IEEE (Life Member) and ACM. He has been a member of the ISSA since 2011.

Dean Henry, CISSP, CISM
Web Chair
Dean is an independent cybersecurity consultant, an adjunct faculty member for La Salle University where he teaches Information Security, and a Senior Member of ISSA. Following his retirement from Vanguard, where his last role was Chief of Staff for the IT Security Office, he consulted for a tax accounting software company where he helped build out its Information Security program. He received a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from La Salle University. Dean enjoys researching his family’s history, and also provides genealogy research services professionally.

Pete Lindstrom
Program Chair
Pete Lindstrom is the Principal of Spire Security. He has extensive expertise in cybersecurity strategy and innovation and is best known as an authority on strategic cybersecurity topics such as metrics, estimating risk, and measuring the benefit of security programs. He focuses on applying these core economic and risk management principles to new cybersecurity platforms and architectures. Pete has over 25 years of industry experience as an IT auditor (PwC), IT security practitioner (Wyeth), and industry analyst (IDC). He served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and received a bachelor's degree in Business Administration (Finance) from the University of Notre Dame.

Chris Nocella
Vendor Chair
Chris is a Senior Manager in Protiviti’s Security & Privacy practice. During his 7 years at Protiviti, Chris has executed and managed a variety of security services engagements, including security compliance, DLP implementation and program development, framework assessments, and business/cyber resiliency assessments across clients in the retail, hospitality, and financial services industries. Chris has a Bachelors degree in Management Information Systems (MIS) from Temple University and holds the CISSP, CISA, and PCI QSA certifications. Chris enjoys spending time with family and friends and watching/attending sporting events.

John McNicholas, CISSP, CEH, CISA
Member Chair
John is an information security team lead with the US Government. He has been working in cyber security field for the last eighteen years. John’s career has spanned working in security areas such as penetration testing, infrastructure & operating systems hardening, vulnerability management, disaster recovery, and certification & accreditation. He currently heads a team performing secure access management and compliance. He has a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from University Maryland University College and a Masters degree in Information Systems Management from Holy Family University. John appreciates time with his family along with camping, hiking, and getting lost in the woods.

Emery Kohut
Communications Chair
Emery is the Regional Director of Security Consulting Services with Unisys Corporation, and leads a team of security professionals in the US and Canada. The team delivers Information Security Services to commercial and public sector clients with a focus on Security Standards (NIST, CFS 1.1, Privacy) to ensure compliance is maintained for our clients. Emery taught, as adjunct faculty, at Delaware Valley University, in the areas, of Network and Security, developed a Security Course for the University. Emery enjoys music and the martial arts as part of his hobbies and is currently a volunteer instructor at Action Karate, assisting with student teaching, tournaments, and Black Belt testing.

Bill Bailey
Member at Large
Bill leads the Information Security program as VP Information Security at Police & Fire FCU, after years in various consulting roles across financial, healthcare, retail, utility, and other industries. Bill participates on the FS-ISAC Community Institution Advisory Council, and is a regular speaker at FS-ISAC Summits. Bill has earned an MBA in Technology Management, and holds certifications from ISACA (CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CRISC), IAPP (CIPP, CIPM, CIPT), PMI, and EC-Council (CEH, CHFI, ECSA), and has taught many of these certifications online and in-person, around the world. Bill is also an adjunct professor, online and in-person, most recently at Temple University in the Fox School of Business MS-ITACS program.

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