Richard Starnes
Chief Security Strategist - Northern Europe Capgemini
Starnes has some 20 plus of experience as an information security professional, serving in executive and senior management positions, in the US and the UK. His responsibilities have included the development and implementation of global information systems security management programs aligned with NIST CSF, ISO 27001:2013, elements of the NIST 800 series and HIPAA/HITECH. He has served as Chairperson of the Communications and Public Relations Project Group of Interpol's European Working Party on Information Technology Crime, as well as advising their Wireless Applications Security Project Group. He is the recipient of several awards, including: the Information Systems Security Association - International Fellow, 2015, the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, Inc. (ISC)² President's Award for service to the information security community, 2002 and 2004, 2009) and he has served as a Secure Computing (SC) Magazine Awards Judge for 2015 and 2016. He holds a a Master of Science in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London and was a senior instructor for the (ISC)² CISSP CBK seminar.