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Shaun Khalfan

Company

Discover Financial Services

Title

SVP, CISO

Fortune 500 Rank

273

Biographical Info

Four-time CISO with experience at world-leading financial services institutions and top U.S. government agencies. Repeated success shepherding digital transformation aligned with business goals, launching cybersecurity frameworks, ensuring protection of assets, data, privacy, and company reputation, and achieving enterprise-wide governance and compliance. Regularly brief boards on cyber strategy and participate in technology/financial audits and governance committees. Featured speaker at NACD on topics of cyber and risk. Formally recognized by Global CISO 100 and Cyber Defense Magazine as a top-100 CISO. Developed and taught courses on information security, privacy, analytics, and risk as Adjunct Professor, Carnegie Mellon, School of Information Systems & Management and George Washington University School of Business. Advise several Series-A-through-D-funding-round companies on go-to-market, growth strategy, and opportunities to identify and support next-generation cyber solutions in preparation for company acquisitions and eventual exit. Shaun is a graduate of the University of Maryland and has an MBA from the George Washington University School of Business. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and a graduate of the Department of Defense Executive Leadership Development Program.

City

Greater Chicago Area

State

Date Joined Company

12/19/2020

Date started as CISO

12/19/2020