Rhonda MacLean CISO, Barclays

Rhonda MacLean is the CISO of Barclays, a major global financial services provider. Before joining Barclays, she ran MacLean Risk Partners LLC, a consulting firm that provides strategic consulting services for Fortune-ranked business enterprises, governments, industry associations and product companies specializing in risk management solutions.

Rhonda MacLean serves as an Adjunct Distinguished Senior Fellow with Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab, helping CyLab to continue to pursue an aggressive research and development agenda that integrates technology, policy and management by bringing together security professionals, researchers and policymakers.  CyLab fosters the transition of research and technologies to industry in today’s era of the global supply chain.  Ms. MacLean also currently serves on the Board of Directors of Vontu, Inc. a technology company dedicated to providing innovative data loss prevention solutions.

In 2002, Ms. MacLean was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury to serve as the sector coordinator and chairperson of the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security. http://www.fsscc.org/   In that role, she brought together 26 financial services trade associations, utilities and professional institutes and worked with Treasury’s private sector liaison to create several important industry initiatives. In 2004, Ms. MacLean was presented with The Secretary’s Certificate of Appreciation for establishing a “model for public-private initiatives” in conjunction with her leadership.  MacLean is chairperson emeritus of the Council. She also sits on the Global Council of CSO’s, a think tank of senior cyber leaders from the public, private and academic sectors.

Prior to founding MacLean Risk Partners, LLC, Ms. MacLean was leader of Bank of America’s Corporate Global Information Security Group, where she was responsible for the company’s security policies and procedures, information risk management, security technology implementations, cyber investigations and general information security awareness for the company’s leadership, associate base, and outside suppliers.  Prior to joining Bank of America in 1996, she served fifteen years in various information technology leadership roles for The Boeing Company based in Seattle, Washington.

In September 2003, The Executive Women’s Forum named MacLean one of five “Women of Vision,” one of the top business leaders shaping the information security industry.  MacLean was also named one of the 50 most powerful people in the network industry in NetworkWorld’s 2003 and 2004 issues.  In recognition of her continued leadership in the security field, she was awarded CSO’s Compass Award in 2005.  In April 2005, The Friends of a Child’s Place, a Charlotte-based advocacy for the homeless, named her one of the “First Ladies of Charlotte” in recognition of her pioneering role in information security and her support for the Charlotte community.