Board of Directors 

 

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International President Gregory Grocholski International President Gregory Grocholski, CISA, is the global business finance director for the Ventures and Business Development unit within The Dow Chemical Company, having recently moved from his role as the chief audit executive at Dow. He is responsible for applying financial and strategic direction regarding opportunities within the ventures, intellectual property/licensing, innovation project portfolio activities and financial oversight of certain joint ventures. Currently, he is a member of ISACA’s Strategic Advisory Council and Governance Advisory Council. He has been chair of ISACA’s Finance Committee, Assurance Committee and Knowledge Board, and member of ISACA’s Audit Committee, Professional Influence and Advocacy Committee, and Professional Issues Task Force. He is a board member of the Michigan Baseball Foundation, vice president/treasurer of the Great Lakes Loons, president of The H Hotel Holding LLC, supervisory (audit) committee chair of the Dow Chemical Employee’s Credit Union and a member of Northwood University’s Accounting Advisory Council. In 2013, he received the Saginaw Valley State University’s Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of his distinguished service and accomplishments.

International Vice President Allan Boardman International Vice President Allan Boardman, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CRISC, CA (SA), ACA, CISSP, is information risk manager at Morgan Stanley. He began his career with Deloitte in Cape Town (South Africa) and has more than 30 years of experience in IT audit, risk, security and consultancy roles at companies such as JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Marks and Spencer, and the London Stock Exchange. He is a past president of the ISACA London Chapter and has served on the British Computer Society’s Information Risk Management and Audit Committee. He has also served on and chaired ISACA’s CISM Certification Committee and the Leadership Development Committee. He currently chairs ISACA’s Credentialing Board and is a member of the association’s Strategic Advisory Council. He is also a London 2012 Paralympics Games Maker and a Freeman of the City of London.

International Vice President Juan Luis Carselle International Vice President Juan Luis Carselle, CISA, CGEIT, CRISC, is assistant director of IT at Walmart de Mexico y Centro America. He has more than 20 years of IT experience throughout Latin America in multiple areas, including systems development, project management, quality assurance, IT auditing and systems security. He is a member of ISACA’s Credentialing Board, and has served as chair of ISACA’s CISA Certification Committee and member of the CRISC Certification Committee, CISA Quality Assessment Team and CISA Spanish Translation Team.

International Vice President Christos K. Dimitriadis International Vice President Christos K. Dimitriadis, Ph.D., CISA, CISM, CRISC, is the head of information security at INTRALOT GROUP, a Greece-based multinational supplier of integrated gaming and transaction processing systems, where he manages information security in more than 50 countries in all continents. He has worked in information security for more than 12 years and has authored 80 security-related publications. He has provided information security services to the International Telecommunication Union, European Commission Directorate Generals, European Ministries and international organizations, as well as business consulting services to entrepreneurial companies. He is chair of ISACA’s COBIT Security Task Force and has served as chair of ISACA’s External Relations Committee and member of the Relations Board, Academic Relations Committee, ISACA Journal Editorial Committee and Business Model for Information Security Work Group.

International Vice President Ramsés Gallego International Vice President Ramsés Gallego, CISM, CGEIT, CCSK, CISSP, SCPM, Six Sigma Black Belt, is security strategist and evangelist at Dell. He has more than 15 years of security experience, with expertise in the risk management and governance areas, and is an internationally recognized public speaker on topics including cloud computing, risk management and access governance. He has served on ISACA’s Guidance and Practices Committee, and the CISM and CGEIT Certification Committees. He is an author of ISACA white papers on geolocation, virtualization and sustainability, and is research director for the ISACA Barcelona (Spain) Chapter. He also served on the planning committee of the inaugural ISACA World Congress: INSIGHTS and chaired the planning committee for ISACA’s Information Security and Risk Management Conference in Europe.

International Vice President Tony Hayes International Vice President Tony Hayes, CGEIT, AFCHSE, CHE, FACS, FCPA, FIIA, is appointed Deputy Director-General of the Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services in the Queensland Government, Australia. He has extensive experience across the Queensland public sector at the senior level in various departments such as the Public Service Commission and Queensland Health. Hayes has been a member of ISACA since 2003 and has served on several ISACA committees, including the IT Governance Committee. Prior to being elected international vice president, he was a director of ISACA and served as chair of the Relations Board. Currently, he is chair of ISACA’s Finance Committee, member of ISACA’s Strategic Advisory Council and member of the IT Governance Institute Board of Trustees. Hayes is also an adjunct professor and member of the Business Information Systems Advisory Committee for the School of Business at the University of Queensland. He has been selected by the ISACA Nominating Committee as the international president of ISACA for the 2013-2014 Board of Directors slate.

International Vice President Jeff M. Spivey
International Vice President Jeff M. Spivey, CRISC, CPP, is vice president with RiskIQ, identifying online threats to business using real-time web-scale online intelligence. He is also president of Security Risk Management Inc. (SRM) in North Carolina, USA, providing strategic security risk consulting to Fortune 500 companies and international organizations. He is a member of the US State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC), and serves on the Advisory Board for the National Center for Judicial Security of the US Department of Justice. Spivey is a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance and a past president and past chairman of the board for ASIS International. He is chair of ISACA’s Relations Board, and is a member of ISACA’s Strategic Advisory Council and Knowledge Management Task Force. He has served as co-chair of ISACA’s External Advocacy Committee and as a trustee of the IT Governance Institute.

International Vice President Marc Vael International Vice President Marc Vael, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CRISC, CISSP, is chief audit executive at Smals, a Belgian IT organization with more than 1,800 people working for the Belgian federal government on social security automation. He has more than 20 years of experience in evaluating, designing, implementing and monitoring solutions on risk, controls and information security management, business continuity and disaster recovery, data protection/privacy, and IT audit. An ISACA member for more than 17 years, Vael is president of the ISACA Belgium Chapter, chair of ISACA’s Cloud Computing Task Force and Knowledge Board, member of ISACA’s Strategic Advisory Council, and past chair of the ISACA Communities Committee. He is a visiting lecturer at Antwerp Management School (AMS) and Solvay Business School. Additionally, he is a board member of knowledge group SAI, a deputy member of the Flemish Privacy Commission and a member of the Permanent Stakeholder Group at ENISA. In October 2012, Vael was appointed fellow of the Hogenheuvelcollege at the University of Leuven.

Director John Ho Chi Director John Ho Chi, CISA, CISM, CRISC, CBCP, is partner in the IT Risk and Assurance practice at Ernst & Young Singapore. He assists clients in making IT more efficient and managing the risks associated with running IT operations. He has worked in multiple areas of information systems in different industries, including application controls, business continuity, COBIT implementations, internal audit transformation and service organization reporting. He previously served with ISACA as the chair of the Professional Standards Committee and is an active member of the local ISACA Singapore Chapter.

Director Krysten McCabe  Director Krysten McCabe, CISA, is senior manager in the Assurance and Advisory Management Program at The Home Depot. She is responsible for identifying, assessing and mitigating information technology risks in the areas of data security and privacy, IT governance, IT asset management, change control, computer operations and systems development. Additionally, McCabe has oversight for planning and executing IT compliance and operational audits focused on evaluation of control effectiveness and identification of process improvement opportunities to gain efficiencies. Prior to joining The Home Depot in 2004, McCabe was an IT auditor at Ernst & Young LLP and an IT controls analyst at SunTrust Banks Inc. She is a member of ISACA’s Audit Committee and Finance Committee.

Director Jo Stewart-Rattray Director Jo Stewart-Rattray, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CRISC, FACS CP, is director of information security and IT assurance at BRM Holdich. Stewart-Rattray has 25 years of experience in the IT field, some of which were spent as CIO in the utilities space, and 16 in the information security arena. She is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and was a member of CIGRE’s international working group B5.38, which assessed information security risks in power system operations within SCADA systems and the implementation of appropriate controls. She is a past international vice president of ISACA and has served as president of the ISACA Adelaide Chapter, and chair of ISACA’s Leadership Development Committee and Security Management Committee. Currently, she is chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the COBIT Security Task Force.

Past International President Kenneth L. Vander Wal Past International President Kenneth L. Vander Wal, CISA, CPA, is a retired national partner in the Technology and Security Risk Services (TSRS) practice of Ernst & Young, where he was responsible for the firm’s global TSRS quality and risk management program. With more than 40 years of IT experience, he has worked in multiple areas of information systems in a variety of industries, including systems development, systems programming, project management, quality assurance, IT auditing and systems security. Before joining Ernst & Young in 1979, Vander Wal worked at the Pentagon, where he developed systems to support the Department of Army staff, and for a computer software company in a systems technical support role. He is a coauthor of IT Control Objectives for Sarbanes-Oxley, 2nd Edition, published by ITGI, and serves on ISACA’s Governance Advisory Council, and is chair of the ISACA Nominating Committee and ITGI Nominating Committee. He is a past member of ISACA’s Strategic Advisory Council, Guidance and Practices Committee, Knowledge Board, and Professional Issues and Advocacy Task Force. He was international vice president of ISACA from 2007-2011, and international president from 2011-2012.

Past International President Emil D’Angelo Past International President Emil D’Angelo, CISA, CISM, is managing director (retired) at the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, New Jersey, USA, where he is responsible for information security, disaster recovery, audit liaison and IT compliance for Headquarters America (HQA). With more than 25 years in the financial services industry, he began his career in security and audit at Deloitte & Touche, where he worked on the development of the company’s audit software and spent 10 years in the management services division. He also worked at Chase, where he coordinated the global security and business continuity program, and at Marsh, where he established a security and business continuity program. A member of ISACA for more than 30 years, D’Angelo has been actively involved with the association, serving on its Strategic Advisory Council and Governance Advisory Board, chairing the Security Management Committee, and serving as an ISACA director. Currently, he is a member of the Governance Advisory Council, ISACA Nominating Committee and ITGI Nominating Committee. He is a recipient of ISACA’s Eugene Frank Award, presented by the board of directors for outstanding contributions to ISACA or ITGI.

Susan M. Caldwell, chief executive officer and corporate secretary of ISACA and ITGI Susan M. Caldwell is chief executive officer and corporate secretary of ISACA and the IT Governance Institute (ITGI). Since 1992, she has been responsible for directing the organizations' pursuit of helping IT professionals and enterprises around the world achieve trust in, and value from, information systems. For more than 25 years, Caldwell has been a CEO of national and international research, trade and professional organizations, representing a range of industries.