Author
As a consultant with Full Scope Consulting, Dr. Matthew Todd assists clients in translating complex legal, regulatory, and client-based data security and privacy obligations into practical policy and practice within the context of budgets and corporate strategies. Prior to his consulting work, he was the Chief Security Officer and Vice President of the Office of Risk Management [ORM] for Financial Engines, Inc., a publicly traded, independent registered investment advisor serving retirement plan participants, with over 10M client records and $1T in assets under contract. In this role, Dr. Todd worked with legal, compliance and audit teams to help company business units identify and mitigate risks across the enterprise. Prior to his role in ORM, he created and managed the team responsible for the security, implementation and maintenance of systems, networks and confidential customer financial data, including diverse secure data connections with leading US financial service providers. Throughout his tenure, he was responsible for policy, practice, and audit in matters of security, privacy and compliance, working with clients, partners and internal legal, compliance and technical teams.
Dr. Todd has spoken publicly and written on information security, crisis management, risk management, eDiscovery, control frameworks and regulatory matters. He has been a local mentor for the SANS Institute, is a CISM, CIPP/E, and CIPP/US, and holds the GCED certification. With over 25 years’ experience in the technology space, he has been actively involved in information security, risk management, privacy and IT governance for the last twenty years. He obtained his PhD from Northwestern University, and was a Fellow of both the US and Danish National Science Foundations. He served for 10 years as President and member of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Bay InfraGard Chapter, a public-private partnership with the FBI that works to protect the national infrastructure. In 2011, he was recognized by Information Security magazine as a Security Seven award winner.
