John is a senior-level CISO and enterprise risk manager with 20+ years of experience in security and risk management. He has successfully managed companywide security operations in Fortune 100 financial services, technology and aerospace companies, and is a certified security professional (CISSP and CISM) with dual master's degrees (most recently an MBA). 

• Compliance & Governance
• Security Management
• Incident Response
• Forensics
• Cloud Security

• Former Division Information Security Officer at GE Capital
• Former Director of Security Operations at Liberty Mutual Group

• MBA, Business – Questrom School of Business, Boston University
• Graduate studies, Accounting – Harvard University
• MA – Columbia International University
• BS, Information Technology – University at Buffalo
• CISSP – (ISC)2
• CISM – ISACA
• ITIL, LEAN Six Sigma, PMP – George Washington University

John Galda joined IANS in 2021. As a member of our Faculty, he provides clients with deep domain-level expertise in the following areas: compliance & governance, security management, incident response, forensics, cloud security.