Blockchain for Boards

Jay Schulman

National Leader of Blockchain & Digital Asset Services, RSM US LLP

Jay leads the Great Lakes security and privacy risk consulting practice. With over 20 years of experience in the information security field, he has led, managed and executed in a variety of security projects, including application security assessments, architecture reviews, security testing, regulatory compliance, security governance and risk management.

Jay is a former business information security officer for a top-five global financial services company. He managed logical and physical security for a nationwide financial institution's government payment processing platforms. This environment has been designated National Critical Infrastructure (NCI) by the United States Department of Homeland Security and handled approximately one trillion dollars per fiscal year on behalf of the U.S. government.

Jay’s representative experience includes the following:

• Built out processes and methodologies to help multiple clients build security into their software development life cycle with the goal of reducing vulnerabilities and increasing the security of their software
• Partnered with a global financial organization during their conversion to a bank holding company; built out security processes and vulnerability management programs to ensure compliance with FFIEC requirements
• Assisted multiple clients with strategy and roadmaps to implement global identity management frameworks, including current-state assessments, future-state designs and deployment plans to meet future-state objectives
• Provided strategy and implementation of roles-based access control for multiple clients, including implementation of access governance tools
• Assisted a top U.S. energy company in transitioning their information security processes from two merging companies into the new combined company
• Led a network separation project for a large automotive manufacturer, including configuration of multiple access control devices globally
• Redesigned enterprise information security for a large chemical manufacturer, including wireless, mobile computing, network architecture, two-factor authentication and user provisioning
• Assessed global information security risks during a merger of two large consumer manufacturers

Professional affiliations and credentials

• Open Web Application Security Project
• Certified information systems security professional

Education

• Bachelor of Science, University of Illinois

Joyce Cacho

Board Director, Sunrise Banks

Joyce Cacho offers a wealth of governance, ESG/sustainability, and digital transformation board expertise to public or private companies in the U.S., and internationally. Through U.S. and global leadership roles in the chemical manufacturing, and financial services industries, Joyce gained interdisciplinary national, and global, experience in leadership, while formulating and executing business strategies in regulated industries.

As a board member of Sunrise Banks, NA – with a growing Fintech/Payments Division, cybersecurity risk management is instrumental to strategic level engagement. Joyce previously served on the Board of Land O’Lakes, Inc. – a Fortune 200 company. Currently, Joyce serves as a Board Trustee of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture; and a volunteer with the 11th Street Bridge Park/THEARC – billed as the High Line of Washington, DC. Cacho holds the Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) certification; is a professional member of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Society of New York; and, is a NACD Board Leadership Fellow. Joyce is a graduate of Virginia Tech (MS), and the University of Missouri-Columbia (PhD).

Eve Tahmincioglu

Editor-in-Chief & Digital Director, Directors & Boards Magazine

Eve Tahmincioglu is executive editor and digital director for Directors & Boards magazine. She is an award-winning journalist most recently covering business for NBCNews.com and Today.com. She’s the author of "From the Sandbox to the Corner Office", produces the CareerDiva.net blog named one of the top 9 must read blogs by CareerBuilder, and was named one of the top 10 business tweeters on Twitter by CNN and CareerBuilder. (Follow her on Twitter at @EveAsks.) She’s also written for the New York Times, Business Week, Kiplinger's, The Atlantic, Time, Knowledge@Wharton, and Harvard Business Review.