Mr. Leo was the Director of Information Systems, and Chief Information Security Officer for the Managed Care Division of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas.

Upon attaining his CISSP license in 1997, Mr. Leo joined ISC2 (a professional role) as Chairman of the Curriculum Development Committee, and served in this role until 2004. Mr. Leo has had many technical and operational successes through his career. A few examples include

• Design, implementation and management of the world’s largest private cloud-computing based telemedicine network in Texas, with a full in-house data center operation covering 116 locations, 168 A/V endpoints, and handling 350,000 patient records.
• Successful accomplishment of a complete HIPAA compliance program for UTMB Galveston, Managed Care Division, including design, delivery and implementation of the institutional training program for compliance.
• Successful HIPAA risk assessment and consulting engagements for over 14 years and 170 clients.
• Planning and execution of corporate technical and non-technical compliance program plans for Healthcare, Bioengineering, Aerospace, and Academic organizations.

As a member of the National Board of Information Security Examiners (NBISE), Mr. Leo participated in a two-year project to develop and co-author of the Department of Energy–sponsored curriculum and skills certification report that is the foundation for future Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity practitioners’ credentialing, experiential and educational requirements.

Ross Leo has been in Information Systems since 1977, and an Information Security professional for over 35 years. He has worked internationally as a Systems Analyst/Engineer and as a Security and Privacy Consultant. Ross received recommendations from Karl Rove and Tom Delay in 2003 to fill the position of White House Cybersecurity Advisor to the President, as successor to Howard Schmidt.