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About the KCGC Team

The Kogod Cybersecurity Governance Center (KCGC) at American University aims to promote responsible cybersecurity governance by providing organizational leaders and their designees with thoughtful, practical and well-supported guidance on the cybersecurity issues that are essential to their core stakeholder responsibilities.

Get to know the faculty and students at the Kogod School of Business pursuing cutting-edge cybersecurity research below:

Leadership

Rebekah Lewis Executive in Residence KSB - Information Technology

Rebekah Lewis is an Executive in Residence and the Director of the Kogod Cybersecurity Governance Center (KCGC) at American University’s Kogod School of Business in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining A…

rlewis@american.edu

Parthiban David Professor KSB - Management

Professor David holds the Collins Chair in Strategy at the Kogod School of Business in American University. He teaches strategic management. His research studies the relationship between corporate gov…

parthiban.david@american.edu

Rachel Sawyer Program Coordinator, Kogod Cybersecurity Governance Center

sawyer@american.edu

Research Assistants

Taylor Heywood

Dagatha Delgado

Karen a Mascarinas

Christine Miyashiro

Gregory Snyder

Elizabeth Victoria

Michael Giampiccolo

mg1256a@american.edu

Zoe Bludevich

zb1669a@american.edu

Associated Faculty

Mark Clark Associate Professor KSB - Management

mark.clark@american.edu

J. Alberto Espinosa Professor KSB - Information Technology

alberto@american.edu

Augustine Duru Professor KSB - Accounting

aduru@american.edu

Casey Evans Executive in Residence KSB - Accounting

cdevans@american.edu

Gwanhoo Lee Professor KSB - Information Technology

glee@american.edu

Ayman Omar Associate Professor KSB - International Business

omar@american.edu

KCGC Advisory Committee

Dave Wajsgras, Vice-President, Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) and President of the Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS), Committee Chair for the Advisory Committee
Richard Schroth, KCGC co-founder & Senior Advisor
Ben Beeson, Cybersecurity Practice Leader, Lockton
John Brady, CISO, FINRA
Steve Cooper, Partner, The Strativest Group, LLC
Michael Daly, Chief Technology Officer of Cybersecurity and Special Missions (CSM), Raytheon
Jim Dinegar, CEO, Greater Washington Board of Trade
Donna Dodson, Chief Cybersecurity Officer, NIST Liaison to KCGC
Renee Forney, CEO of the Forney Group and former Deputy CIO of Cybersecurity and Enterprise Operations at the U.S. Department of Energy
Bruce Hoffmeister, Global CIO, Marriott International
John Honeycutt, CTO, Discovery Communications
Gary LaBranche, President & CEO, National Investor Relations Institute
Israel Martinez, President & CEO, Axon Global Services
Hitesh Sheth, CEO, Vectra Networks
David Swartz, Vice President & CIO, American University
Ralph Szygenda, former CIO, General Motors
Clifton Triplett, Executive Director, A.T. Kearney
Stuart Tryon, Director of Regulatory, Risk & Compliance, Corporate Audit Services, Fiserv
Leif Ulstrup, CEO, Primehook Technology, LLC, former VP & GM Business Services for the Computer Sciences Corporation and Kogod Executive in Residence
Greg Vernaci, Head of Cyber, US & Canada, AIG

Partnerships

We partner with a number of public and private entities, including industry sponsors and fellow researchers, to pursue new insights and actionable guidance in the field of cybersecurity governance.

Please reach out directly to our team if you are interested in supporting or collaborating with the Center.