Lee is a Security Go-To-Market Strategist for Splunk, a Cisco Company, where he helps businesses build resilient cybersecurity functions, and realize the greatest value from their investment in their security program. He has worked in security and IT for four decades, starting as a programmer and working security roles from admin to CISO. He has been responsible for information security at the Department of Justice, managed cybersecurity programs in the healthcare sector impacting 99% of US citizens, and served as CISO for a financial services company with global operations. Lee has also taught thousands of cybersecurity professionals as a mentor.

• Cybersecurity
• Privacy
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Data Ethics
• Competitive Intelligence

• Lead Instructor and Government Advisory Board Member (ISC)2
• Chair of Committee on Professional Ethics (ISSA)
• Membership Advisory Chair (I-4)
• Member of IT Security Council (ASIS International)
• Designed ITSEC training courses for USDOJ
• Speaker at multiple venues, and author of articles and chapters in security and business publications

• MBA (U Chicago Booth School of Business) | Machine Learning (MIT Sloan) | Strategic Marketing (Northwestern Kellogg) | Negotiation (Harvard Program on Negotiation)
• AI training (DeepLearning.AI) | Data Science Ethics (U Michigan) | Big Data, AI & Ethics (UC Davis) | Creativity & AI (Parsons School of Design) | Foundations of Humane Technology (Center for Humane Technology) | Securing Digital Democracy (U Michigan) | Forensics training (NTI) | Competitive Intelligence Professional (ACI)
• CISSP, CISA, CIPP, CPP, GIAC GCFW, CDSP

Lee enjoys reading, wildlife and landscape photography, and travel. He is certified as a ski instructor, a profession he intends to fall back on when people stop caring about cybersecurity.

Lee Imrey joined IANS in 2024. As a member of our Faculty, he delivers deep domain-level expertise to our clients in the following areas: privacy, AI & ML, data ethics, and competitive intelligence.