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Rich is Founder and Managing Director of Guida Technology Associates, Inc., a small consulting company, through which he has consulted for companies in the pharmaceutical, retail, financial, and telecommunications sectors. An information security and engineering professional with extensive experience in the Federal government and in the private sector, Rich has occupied executive positions within the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Treasury, and at Johnson & Johnson (J&J). In 2011, Rich retired from J&J as Vice President of Worldwide Information Security (J&J’s Chief Information Security Officer). He is especially skilled in written and oral communications.

• Digital Risk Management
• Identity & Access Management (IAM)
• Regulatory Issues (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, Sarbanes/Oxley)
• Executive & Board Communications
• Public Key Technology & PKI

• Winner of the Federal 100’s Top IT Executive Award
• Winner of Federal CIO Council’s Distinguished Service Award
• Former Senior Technical Advisor to the CIO of the U.S. Department of the Treasury
• Member of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Information Security and Privacy Board (2000-05)
• Former Associate Director for Regulatory Affairs of the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program
• Member of U.S. Army Science Board (2011-15)
• Member of the Federal Senior Executive Service
• Author of the book: The Entropy Police: Practicing Information Security in the Enterprise (2016)

• BS, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• MS, Nuclear Engineering – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• MBA, Finance – The George Washington University
• CISSP– (ISC)2

In his free time, Rich enjoys military history, playing the piano, and video games.