Martin Gomberg, CISSP, CIPP/E, is a.k.a., The Privacy CIO, founder of Cyberite LLC,  The Digital Risk Alliance, and author of CISO Redefined: Protecting Business. Martin is a global advisor and frequent speaker on leadership, security, privacy and business resilience. He has spent over forty years in technical operations, as Vice President of Technical Strategies for a major bank, Senior Vice president and CIO of a global media network, SVP and Global Director of Security, Governance, Privacy, and Business protection, as an IANS Faculty member, and Senior Privacy Consultant for TrustArc. Martin is a former Vice Chair of a U.S. State Department Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) Industry Working Group and Founding Member of the CIO Executive Council.

• Data Inventory & Privacy Gap Assessment
• Data Protection & Regulation (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, etc.)
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR)
• IT Governance & Security Management
• Incident Response

• Author of CISO Redefined: Thoughts on Leadership, Business Protection, and the Chief Information Security Officer (2018)
• Former SVP And Chief Information Officer at A+E Networks
• Former SVP and Global Director of Governance, Security, and Business Protection at A+E Networks
• Former VP Technical Strategies Global Corporate Finance at Chase
• Former Vice Chair of U.S. State Department Overseas Security Advisory Council for the Media and Entertainment Industry
• Founding Member of CIO Executive Council
• Winner of the 2013 Member Appreciation Award from the CIO Executive Council for Outstanding Contribution to the Profession
• International speaker on information security most recently featured in PRIVSEC in Dublin and New York City

• MS; PhD ABD, Forensic Anthropology, Paleopathology, and BioBehavioral Sciences –University of Connecticut
• BA, Physical Anthropology –SUNY Binghamton
• CISSP – (ISC)2
• CIPP/E –Institute of Applied Privacy Professionals

In his free time, Marty enjoys collecting wine and spelunking in European caves to look at prehistoric paintings. To date, he has made 4 trips through northern Spain, Southern France, and the Pyrenees visiting approximately 27 caves.

Marty Gomberg, IANS Faculty member since 2015, provides clients with deep domain-level expertise in data inventory & privacy gap assessment, data protection & regulation, BCDR, IT governance & security management, incident response.