Board Members

Jacqueline Beauchere, NCSA Vice-Chairman
Director, Trustworthy Computing
Microsoft Corp.

Keith Gordon, NCSA Board Secretary
SVP, Security, Fraud and Enrollments Executive Online and Mobile Channels
Bank of America

Andy Steingruebl, NCSA Board Treasurer
Director, Customer and Ecosystem Security
PayPal, Inc.

Eric Davis, NCSA Member-at-Large
Global Public Policy Manager
Google, Inc.

Chris Boyer serves as Assistant Vice President - Public Policy at AT&T Services Inc. Mr. Boyer's responsibilities include the development and coordination of AT&T's strategic policy initiatives at the Federal and state levels impacting emerging services and technology including a recent focus on cyber security. In this capacity Mr. Boyer serves as AT&T's representative on the board of the National Cyber Security Alliance a public private partnership dedicated to promoting cyber security awareness for home users, small and medium size businesses, and primary and secondary education.

Prior to this assignment Mr. Boyer was AT&T's dedicated public policy resource embedded with AT&T's functional business units responsible for coordinating the company's nationwide efforts to expand fiber optics into neighborhoods to deliver Internet Protocol (IP)-based television, faster high-speed Internet access and voice services under the AT&T U-verseSM brand. In this role Mr. Boyer has represented AT&T before numerous external audiences and policymakers as a subject matter expert on AT&T's U-verse initiative.

Mr. Boyer joined AT&T in 1993 and has held various positions in AT&T’s corporate public policy, network planning and engineering, wholesale marketing and network services departments including extensive experience working on AT&T's broadband, VoIP and IPTV initiatives.

Mr. Boyer holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas and an MBA from the University of Houston in Houston, TX. 

Jacqueline Beauchere, NCSA Vice-Chairman
Director, Trustworthy Computing
Microsoft Corp.

Jacqueline F. Beauchere is Director, Communications & Marketing - Trustworthy Computing for Microsoft Corp., responsible for strategic communications to worldwide consumer and government audiences on Microsoft's work in computer security, privacy, and online safety.

Prior to this role, Jacqueline was Director, Trustworthy Computing Strategy, where she oversaw and managed external and internal communications pertaining to the company's Trustworthy Computing (TwC) effort.

Before joining TwC, Ms. Beauchere was a Senior Marketing Manager, MSN Safety & Security. She joined Microsoft's MSN division in May 2004 to lead a company-wide consumer online safety program. In that role, Jacqueline was responsible for cross-company consumer awareness and education efforts around spam, phishing, and identity theft, as well as children's online safety, privacy, and computer security within MSN.

Ms. Beauchere's first 4-1/2 years at Microsoft were spent in the Government Affairs' division of the company's Legal & Corporate Affairs department as a Corporate Attorney and Policy Counsel.

Before joining Microsoft in December 1999, Ms. Beauchere was an attorney in private practice in New Jersey, New York, and Washington, D.C. A second-career attorney, Jacqueline spent 12 years as a real-time financial news correspondent and editor, most recently with Reuters America, Inc., in New York.

She is a cum laude graduate of Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, N.J., and holds a dual BA in international relations and journalism from The American University in Washington, D.C.

Keith Gordon, NCSA Board Secretary
SVP, Security, Fraud and Enrollments Executive Online and Mobile Channels
Bank of America

Eric Davis, NCSA Member-at-Large
Global Public Policy Manager
Google, Inc.

Andrew Lee brings to ESET a unique blend of corporate and security expertise. Having served as Chief Research Officer at ESET from 2004 to 2008, Lee was responsible for building ESET's reputation as a world-class research organization. Prior to accepting the role of CEO at ESET in January of 2011, Lee served as Chief Technology Officer for K7 Computing, an antivirus software and Internet security company, where he was responsible for all aspects of K7's technology, leading acquisitions and bringing new products to the market.

Mr. Lee is a founding member of several of the most respected organizations, such as AVIEN and AMTSO, international non-profit associations that focus on addressing the global need for improvement in the objectivity, quality and relevance of anti-malware testing methodologies. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, ISC2 Seminars, AVAR, Virus Bulletin and EICAR, Mr. Lee is a widely published author of articles on antivirus and security and co-authored the "AVIEN Malware Defense Guide" with current ESET researcher David Harley. Andrew Lee holds an MSc degree in Computer Security from the University of Liverpool.

David has a J.D. from the Duke University School of Law and also holds an A.B. from Hamilton College.

focus on the particular needs of small and medium business; García-Manrique’s role is to create competitive differentiation for Symantec through the experience it provides for its SMB customers.

Most recently, García-Manrique was Vice President of Product Management for the Consumer Division, where she was responsible for setting the overall product strategy for the consumer portfolio. García-Manrique joined Symantec in 1995 and over the course of her career at Symantec has served in a number of product management roles; she has been instrumental in the introduction of several key new products to the consumer market including Norton Internet Security, Norton Online Family, and most recently Norton One, the industry’s first consumer security membership offering.

A native of Spain, García-Manrique holds degrees in Economic Sciences and Business Administration from the University of Oviedo (Spain) and Dublin City University (Ireland); she recently completed the Executive Institute at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

Marcus Sachs is Verizon’s Executive Director for National Security and Cyber Policy. He works closely with government and business executives in task forces, working groups, committees, and trade associations as part of the National Security and Emergency Preparedness community in Washington D.C. He is a member of the CSIS Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency and since 2003 has volunteered as the Director of the SANS Internet Storm Center. Prior to joining Verizon in 2007 he was the deputy director of SRI International’s Computer Science Laboratory.

Sachs is a retired military officer, having served for over 20 years in the US Army Corps of Engineers. His last duty assignment was with the Joint Task Force for Computer Network Operations in Washington. After retiring from the Army in 2001, he was appointed by the President to serve on the staff of the National Security Council where he was the Director for Communication Infrastructure Protection in the Office of Cyberspace Security. While at the White House he developed the initial concept of the US-CERT, and subsequently helped to establish DHS’ National Cyber Security Division in 2003.

Sachs holds degrees in Civil Engineering, Science and Technology Commercialization, and Computer Science. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Public Policy at George Mason University and is a Senior Faculty member of the SANS Technology Institute.  He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia and is a co-editor of IEEE’s Security and Privacy magazine.

Rob Pate is currently the Vice President for Cybersecurity at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Prior to joining SAIC, Rob has held positions as the Chief Security Officer at Renesys and Vice President for Cybersecurity and Privacy at McNeil Technologies. During his time with the federal government, Rob served as the Deputy Director of Outreach and Awareness at the National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) at the Department of Homeland Security as well as the Director of Focused Operations with the United States Computer Incident Readiness Team (US-CERT).

He founded the Government Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (GFIRST). This Government information sharing effort is focused on daily information exchange at the technical operators across different incident response teams representing the defense, intelligence, law enforcement, and federal civilian agency communities. In addition to his GFIRST activities, Mr. Pate led the US-CERT situational awareness program (known as Einstein) which was focused on providing the government with early indications and warnings. He began the Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) Forum for the entire federal government. Mr. Pate came to the Department of Homeland Security from an operational environment where he was the Director of an Incident Response Team for the largest federal civilian agency and the largest healthcare provider in the world.

Mr. Pate has a mathematics degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel as well as graduate work at Johns Hopkins, Stanford, and Georgetown Universities. He completed the Senior Executive Leadership Program at Georgetown University. He was selected as a・Federal 100・award winner for his contributions to government information technology. Mr. Pate serves on the advisory board for InfraGard National Members Alliance, National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), Internet Security Alliance (ISA), as well as the Security Innovation Network (SINET).

Prior to ADP, Mr. Cloutier served as Vice President and CSO of EMC, where he spearheaded protection of the company's worldwide business operations including leadership of all information, business risk, crisis management, and investigative security operations, across both the commercial and government sectors.

Additionally, Mr. Cloutier has held executive security management roles at consulting and managed security service organizations including AimNet Solutions, Paradigm Technology Partners, Network Data Systems (NDS), and EDS. He has more than nine years experience in the military and federal law enforcement in global aerospace protection, fraud and diversion investigations, and special event protection including an assignment at the 1996 Olympic Summer Games in Atlanta.

Mr. Cloutier is a member the Security for Business Innovation Council, the Center for Information Policy Leadership, the U.S. Information Technology Sector Coordinating Council, High Tech Crime Investigations Association, National Domestic Preparedness Homeland Security Task Force, and the Infraguard Program of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is involved in the International Security Working Group for the Center for Strategic and International Studies and is on the Advisory Boards for Vigilance Corp and Core Security Technologies. Mr. Cloutier has presented to organizations including FINRA, GFIRST, CSO Magazine, RSA Conference, ILEA, IDC and the John Hopkins-APL Kossiakoff Conference. Also, he has been a guest lecturer for Worchester Polytechnic Institute, Babson College and Northeastern University.

Mr. Cloutier studied Computer Science at Boston University and Criminal Justice at Holyoke Community College and the Community College of the Air Force. 

Rosetta Jones
Head of Issues Management and Public Affairs
Visa Inc.

Bio coming soon.

Tom Kellermann 
U.S. Vice President of Cybersecurity
Trend Micro

Tom Kellermann, a member the Commission on Cyber security for the 44th President, focuses on acting as a trusted cyber security advisor and strategist within the federal, state and local government markets.

He also uses his experience as a security evangelist and government affairs expert to forge strategic partnerships both domestically and internationally, and increase Trend Micro's profile in emerging technologies and policy issues. Kellermann is based in Washington, D.C.

Prior to Trend Micro, Kellermann served as Chief Technology Expert for Air Patrol, a leader in intelligent enterprise mobility solutions.

Kellermann is a professor at American University's School of International Service and is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM). Additionally, Kellermann sits on the steering Committee of the Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography. He also co-authored the book "E-safety and Soundness: Securing Finance in a New Age."

Jay Opperman
Executive Director of Security and Privacy
Comcast Corporation

Bio coming soon.