Jake Martens
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Management/Leadership
Colorado Technical University
2000 : 2003
Master of Business Administration - MBA
Finance, Summa Cum Laude
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
1996 : 1999
Bachelor of Science - BSBA
Business Administration, Information Systems, Summa Cum Laude
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
1992 : 1996
▪ Leads a robust business engagement federated model that seeks to ensure everyone in the company understands why cybersecurity matters and exactly how they need to behave – in their unique roles – as securely as possible.
▪ Executing an elevation of cybersecurity to a competitive differentiator for Aristocrat, resulting in customers choosing our games and products over other companies based on trust in addition to having the best content, characters, and games in the market.
▪ Transforming cybersecurity controls across our defense-in-depth, least-privilege, zero-trust, and cloud-first/cloud-secure philosophies, delivering world-class solutions that enable the business and keep us safe.
▪ Established a Security Architecture function into a pragmatic, value-oriented domain, defining and driving standard cyber solutions that exceed requirements and save cost, while reducing risk for the company.
▪ Heads a threat Intelligence function that seeks to understand who is trying to attack us, why, and how; ensures integration of that intelligence into our vulnerability management and operations functions; connects threats to our senior executives in business-clear ways for their ongoing awareness and active support.
▪ Runs one of the most capable and talented cybersecurity programs globally, with the best and brightest in the world.
2022 : Present
Aristocrat
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Led 500-person organization responsible for delivering Trust and productivity promises to customers, shareholders, employees, suppliers, all stakeholders. Responsible for Global Information Security (enterprise and product), Physical Security, Data Privacy (including Chief Privacy Officer/Data Protection Officer), Business Continuity, Risk & Compliance, IT, and Enterprise Architecture.
▪ Planned/executed the transformation of Trust from below-average to best-in-class, adding 80 employees, overhauling legacy process, and deploying leading edge tooling.
▪ Overhauled Trust assurance to conduct reviews and continuous monitoring based on business risk.
▪ Created DevSecOps/Privacy by Design functions to build Trust into products from the ground up.
▪ Revamped Enterprise Security with vastly improved capabilities to protect, detect, and respond to incidents on the endpoint, in production (cloud & on-premise), and across the network.
▪ Invested in new Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability Management programs to better understand and address adversaries and weaknesses on an ongoing basis.
▪ Built a Trust Awareness practice that conducts monthly phishing simulations, weekly employee updates, ongoing executive communications, and annual HERE-wide training and engagement campaigns.
▪ Oversaw the dramatic expansion of compliance attestations to cover ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 27071, SOC 2, TISAX, CSA STAR, and many more.
▪ Ran outsourcing program for IT operations that exceeded objectives : stabilizing IT service delivery, yielding annual savings and establishing annual revenue-generating go-to-market (GTM) partnership.
▪ Transformed Enterprise Architecture into a pragmatic, value-oriented domain, ensuring IT&T solutions exceed requirements, rationalizing software solutions, and increasing proactive functional engagement.
▪ Drove Cloud Migration initiative, delivering a hybrid solution with 90% of products on AWS/Azure/OCI.
▪ Led company-wide COVID-19 response.
2019 : 2022
HERE Technologies
VP, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Head of Information Technology & Trust (IT&T)
Led 75 employees – architects, engineers, developers, analysts, operations and process personnel, and project managers ¬– to deliver and support offensive/defensive security capabilities across Oracle’s Cloud Services (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS). Managed security operations, monitoring, forensics, incident response and ethical hacking for day-to-day security of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Oversaw Security Architecture and Engineering teams who developed security capabilities of the Oracle Cloud environment.
▪ Conducted regular strategic customer and industry discussions on shared Cloud Security responsibility.
▪ Identified, vetted, drove, automated, integrated, and supported security solutions and tools to address business problems and operational gaps in Cloud security posture.
▪ Provided proactive security requirements, patterns, standards, and guidelines to expedite the navigation of the corporate governance processes by Cloud Services Development and Operations teams.
▪ Drove change in assurance process and approach, delivering 10x improved cycle times/approval rates.
▪ Oversaw security risk assessments and deep technical reviews of large programs, ensuring effective risk mitigation of key findings with internal and partner organizations.
2016 : 2019
Oracle
Vice President, Cloud Security Architecture, Engineering, & Oversight Management
Responsible for providing the delivery of proactive security requirements and ongoing reactive support of the Global IT (GIT) environment at Oracle.
▪ Drove security architecture across networks, compute, unified comms, employee support, and servers.
▪ Led charge to position Security as an enabler of Enterprise IT Cloud Service transformation.
▪ Developed capability strategy from the ground up and built plan against MITRE framework.
2013 : 2016
Oracle
Senior Director, Technical Security Services, Enterprise IT Information Security
Oversaw 100 employees. Managed policies, standards, assessments, and training.
▪ Achieved highest performance ranking for last five years; participated in Executive Leadership Program.
▪ Protected PCs/servers and delivered mobile device management (MDM).
▪ Ensured security of perimeter and internal traffic via best-in-class tools and processes.
▪ Deployed data loss prevention (DLP) and enhanced secure development/penetration testing.
▪ Improved proactivity to incident response and investigation programs.
2008 : 2013
Agilent Technologies
Director & Acting Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Skills
Adaptable, Analytical Skills, Business Analysis, Business Development, Business Growth Strategies, Business Intelligence, Business Process, Business Process Improvement, Change Management, Cloud Computing, Collaborative, Communication, Continuous Improvement, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Disaster Recovery, Enterprise Architecture, ERP, Governance, Information Security, Information Technology, Integration, IT Business Strategy, ITIL, IT Management, IT Operations, IT Service Management, IT Strategy, Leadership, Management, Outsourcing, PMP, Problem Solving, Process Improvement, Program Management, Project Management, Project Portfolio Management, Requirements Analysis, Risk Management, SDLC, Security, SharePoint, Six Sigma, Software Development, Software Project Management, Solution Architecture, Strategy, Team Leadership, Testing, Vendor Management, Visionary, Project Portfolio, Cross-functional Team, Software Project
About
Visionary business, trust, and technology leader who brings a strong combination of proven transformation experience, demonstrable top-tier results, and compelling storytelling to multinational tech companies.
▪ Trusted member of Senior Executive teams and advisor to Boards of Directors, valued for high integrity, decisive guidance and insight, and ability to execute with urgency across all levels of the organization.
▪ Strategic change agent who delivers modernization outcomes, continuous improvement benefits, and sustained financial enhancement across security, privacy, compliance, quality, operations, and IT.
▪ Collaborative, adaptable problem-solver who thrives in difficult, challenging, high-risk environments, leading organizations to the next levels of stability, efficiency, growth, and profitability.
▪ Adept recruiter and builder of engaged teams across global operations, who quickly establishes organizational identity, removes impediments, and empowers employees to deliver above expectations.
▪ Strong communicator who excels in tailoring complicated messages to a wide variety of constituents.
▪ Respected relationship-builder connected to a vast network of industry leaders and practitioners.
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