Modern CISO Network: Board Book

David Cass is the global CISO of GSR International Limited and its subsidiaries (GSR.IO), a well known crypto market making firm. David’s experience includes work as a Senior Partner at Law and Forensics responsible for the Crypto & Digital Banking Practice and further contributions as a key member of the Cybersecurity & Privacy practice. In addition to that experience, Mr. Cass spent critical time as a senior banking regulator. He was the Vice President for Cyber & IT Risk for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. There, he specialized in large institution supervision, Fintech, AI/ML, and cryptocurrencies. Prior to this role, David served as the Chief Information Security Officer for IBM. He had global responsibility for all aspects of security practices, processes, and policies across the IBM Cloud SaaS business unit.

Among David’s previous roles, he served as the SVP & Chief Information Security Officer for Elsevier, where he led an organization of experienced legal, risk, and security professionals that provided global data protection, privacy, security, and risk management guidance.

David has extensive experience in IT security, risk assessment, risk management, business continuity and disaster recovery, developing security policies, and procedures. He has played a key role in leading and building corporate risk & governance and information security organizations in the financial sector. As the Senior Director of Information Security Risk and Governance for Freddie Mac, David rebuilt the risk and governance function and developed a team to provide risk assessments, methodologies, tools, services, and training to improve the organization’s capabilities and maturity.

Prior to Freddie Mac, he was Vice President of Risk Management for JPMorgan Chase and was responsible for providing an accurate assessment of the current risk management state, contributing to the future direction of risk management, continuity, and disaster recovery capabilities for the organization.

David has a MSE from the University of Pennsylvania, and a MBA from MIT. He is adjunct faculty for Rutgers Law School and Harvard. He is also a frequent speaker at high profile industry conferences and served on several boards.