Betsy Bevilacqua

Betsy Bevilacqua is a seasoned information security professional with over 16 years of experience in roles spanning from technical individual contributor positions to leadership and executive roles.

She has a broad knowledge of security and risk management industry trends and emerging technologies, and has the ability to work across diverse lines of business globally while balancing the needs of multiple organizations.

Betsy possesses strong collaborative and influencing skills, excels in highly matrixed environments, and has a high execution quotient, effectively prioritizing workloads to meet project deadlines.

Her communication and influence management skills are highlighted by her experiences in teaching information security basics to various audiences, evangelizing security within healthcare organizations, engaging with external regulators, presenting to executive teams, and updating boards of directors on Infosec progress.

She specializes in hiring, mentoring, and developing high-performing security teams, cloud and infrastructure security with a focus on AWS, building compliance programs for various regulations like GDPR, FDA, SOX, HIPAA, PCI, SOC II, and ISO 27001, security awareness, vulnerability management, IT risk management, IT general controls, security metrics, advising startups, investing in security startups, general infosec consultation, and blockchain/cryptocurrency AML/security and compliance.

Betsy holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems from Canisius College, an MBA in Finance from Canisius College, and has undertaken coursework in Decision and Risk Management at Stanford University.

Her professional experience includes being Vice President Information Security at Chainalysis Inc., Co-Founder and Business Strategy Lead at Tabiri Analytics, Inc., Chief Information Security Officer at Butterfly Network, Inc., Head of Information Security Programs and Operations at Facebook, Information Security Policy and Risk Manager at Facebook, Senior Manager Information Security Risk Management at eBay, CISO at Independent Health, Information Security Architect and later CISO at Independent Health, Information Security Analyst at Sodexo Inc., and Security Incident Response Analyst at University at Buffalo.