Medha Bhalodkar, Strategic Advisor

These CISOs competed against thousands of candidates for this prestigious award. Judges look at these candidates, searching for the most innovative, with unparalleled success in communicating with their boards and senior level executives, detecting, and stopping breaches and data loss, complying with regulations, and building powerful risk reduction programs for their organizations.

Chief Information Security Officers are the first responders of cyberspace and deserve to be recognized for their tremendous achievements as they fend off cyber criminals, cyber terrorists, malicious insiders, and nation state sponsored attacks.

For years they have been considered operating cost centers while helping corporations avert disasters that could put them out of business. They work tirelessly to allow companies to grow, expand, and increase potential profits by managing and mitigating major risks and regulatory compliance issues on a day-to-day basis.

“We’re pleased to name this small, elite group of information security professionals in our Top Global CISOs Awards for 2022 , ” said Gary Miliefsky, Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine .

Here are the winners in alphabetical order by the name of their company:

Stephanie Franklin Thomas ABM Industries

Matt Devico Academy Mortgage Corporation

Mark Alvarado Academy Sports + Outdoors

Jorel Van Os Acrisure

Edward Maule Advocare, LLC

Craig McEwen Anglo American

Aaron J. Goodwin B. Riley Financial

Nick Ryan Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP

Karine Höne Barloworld Limited

Rick Doten Carolina Complete Health

Fred Bret-Mounet Clarify Health Solutions

Medha Bhalodkar Columbia University

Thanh Thai Constellis Group

Diego Souza Cummins Inc

Endre Jarraux Walls Customers Bank

Chandra McMahon CVS Health

David Ramirez DRW Holdings

Joe Voje El Camino Health

Will Lazzaro Embrace Pet Insurance

Mohammed Darwish Azad EmiratesNBD Group

Josh Knopp Enterprise Holdings

Bernardo Horta Erste Group Bank AG

Christopher Leigh Eversource Energy

Kwame Fields Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco

Priya Sirwani Fiera Capital

Brian Minick Fifth Third Bank

Marc Ashworth First Bank

Riad Amro FlightSafety International

Jason Benedict Fordham University

Steven Sim PSA INTERNATIONAL PTE LTD

Michael Cunningham Graphic Packaging International

William Curtiss Hanesbrands Inc.

Richard Flahaven Harley-Davidson Motor Company

Jeffrey Vinson Harris Health

Hassan Asghar Hinge Health

Marcos Marrero HIG Capital

Joseph McComb Holland & Hart LLP

Vikrant Arora Hospital for Special Surgery

Michael Madl Indiana Wesleyan University

Brent Conran Intel Corporation

Robert Pace Invitation Homes

Timothy Rohrbaugh JetBlue Airways

Jeff Maxon Kansas Information Security Office

Dan Meacham Legendary Entertainment

Hadas Cassorla M1 Finance

Lester Godsey Maricopa County

Richard Yun Masimo Corporation

Matt Long MasterCraft Boat Company

Kapil Madaan Max Healthcare

John Opala McCormick & Company

Michael Jacobs MINDBODY, Inc.

Marcel Lehner MM Group

Christos Syngelakis Motor Oil Hellas

Scot Miller Mr. Cooper

Venkatesh Subramaniam Olam International

William Bogdan Orange County Sheriff’s Department

Greg Bee Pekin Insurance

Ravi Mani Quest Diagnostics

Lauren Heyndrickx Ralph Lauren Corporation

Daniel Temisanren Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, Los Angeles

Gary A. Gooden Relativity Space

Karine Thibault Roper Technologies, Inc.

Garrett Smiley Serco Inc.

Parthiv Shah Signature Bank

John McClure Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.

Zachary Lewis St. Louis College of Pharmacy

Ernest Wohnig III System 1, Inc.

Rex Wong The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

Keith Turpin The Friedkin Group

Dwayne Robinson Trader Joe’s

Tracey Brand Sanders UGI Corporation

Peter Rosario USI Insurance Services

Manas Giri WestJet Airlines

Jeffrey Lolley Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Mac Esmilla World Vision