Gunther Branham is a seasoned senior level IT executive. His experience includes CIO level responsibility for several global corporate functions for a Fortune 100 company. His responsibilities included systems planning, budgeting, software delivery and systems operations for Global Engineering and Quality and Regulatory Systems. Additional experience includes IT leadership for commercial, manufacturing and distribution, research and development, medical, regulatory and sales and marketing systems. Other significant accomplishments include initiating corporate-wide offshore IT services sourcing, starting an enterprise applications integration technology center, launching and managing key e-commerce activities and integration and startup of manufacturing facility systems. Branham earned a BA in physics from the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, and an MS in Business Management from the University of Northern Colorado.
Parthasarathi Chakraborty
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Currently teaching:
Management of Information Security
Parthasarathi Chakraborty has over 25 years of cyber security technology and leadership experience in the financial services and healthcare industry. An active speaker, panelist, inventor and board member in cyber security industry. He is the founder of Cloud Security Practitioner Council, and chairperson of Cloud Security Alliance's Key Management Workgroup. Chakraborty sits in the technical advisory board for Google Cloud and a few security startups like Oak9, TrueFort Inc. He was awarded Juanita Koilpillai annual service award in 2023 by Cloud Security Alliance. Currently heading security architecture, engineering and innovation program for Humana Inc, a Fortune 40 healthcare company. Prior to Humana, Chakraborty has held executive leadership roles with Bank of Montreal, JP Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, and Guardian Life Insurance Company. A CISSP, CCSP, CEH, CHFI certified security evangelist holding a Bachelor’s degree in engineering from NIT Rourkela, a Masters in Cyber Security from Western Governors University, another Masters in Technology Management from Columbia University, a cyber security professional certificate from Stanford University and executive CTO university credit program from Wharton Business School at University of Pennsylvania. Chakraborty also has two patents under his name for JP Morgan and Humana Inc.
Terry Cottrell is Vice President for Information Technology and Planning at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois. In addition to 25 years of practitioner expertise in IT, his academic career includes 15+ years of teaching, publication and presentations on the subjects of cybersecurity, e-science research trends, the effects of media on cognition, hands-free AR tools, copyright, diversity in the workplace, IT leadership, management, and finance. He has served on numerous non-profit boards and provided angel investments to four startups. His academic credentials include an MS in Risk Management from Columbia University, an MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an MBA from the University of St. Francis, and an EdD from Northern Illinois University in Instructional Technology. He has designed and taught a wide variety of courses for Colorado State University-Global Campus and the University of St. Francis, Google for Educators at Northern Illinois University, and Advanced Cybersecurity for Northwestern University.