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Tony Spinelli

Digital CIO / CTO & Cybersecurity Pioneer

United States

Overview 

Tony Spinelli is a Digital CIO/CTO and Cybersecurity Pioneer based in the Washington DC-Baltimore Area, currently serving as the Chief Technology & Information Officer at Urban One, Inc. With a background in executive leadership, cybersecurity, and data management, Tony has held notable roles such as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Capital One and is a Board Member at Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.

Work Experience 

  • Chief Technology & Information Officer (CIO/CTO)

    2019 - Current

Urban One is one of the nation's largest radio broadcasting companies and the largest radio broadcasting company.

  • Board Member

    2019

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is a national federation of 36 independent operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies.

  • Member Board Of Directors

    2017

    Appointed to the Board of Directors including the Risk Committee and Compensation Committee; NASDAQ: PGC

  • Faculty Member

    2018

    Deliver customized training on Board Governance issues to publicly traded and private companies. Specializing in Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, and Enterprise Risk Management.

  • Georgia Tech Cybersecurity & Privacy Advisory Board

    2005

  • Vice Chairman of the Board

    2022

    Executive, Finance/Audit Committee and Nominating Committee

  • Adjunct Professor

    2017 - 2021

    Adjunct Professor at The George Washington University World Executive MBA Program. Teaching higher level courses focused on digital enablement, digital transformation, cloud migration techniques, agile delivery concepts, microservices architecture, software as a service, robotic process automation, graph analytics, artificial intelligence, advanced risk management, cybersecurity and public cloud security techniques.

  • Chief Information Officer

    2017 - 2019

    Responsible for developing and deploying digital based technologies to support analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning innovations for Fractal Industries' advanced digital platforms utilizing data science to solve complex digital and cybersecurity risks at scale and real time. Leads product management, cloud system deployment, to deliver the Fractal analytics cloud platform to Fortune 500 customers around the world. Pioneering the first digitally focused data science risk platform that combines human and machine teaming to deliver capabilities ranging from data handling, telemetry management, analytics, advanced algorithms, risk simulations, and machine learning while enabling decisions that are just-in-time, just-in-place, and just-in-context.

  • Senior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer

    2014 - 2017

    Tony Spinelli is Senior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Information Security and Risk Management for Capital One Financial Corporation, a diversified bank with 44 million customer accounts worldwide and 1,000 branch locations in New York, New Jersey, Texas, Louisiana, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. He is responsible for developing and executing programs to enable the digital transformation of the enterprise while ensuring both customer and proprietary corporate data is protected from internal and external threats. He leads multiple organizations focused on Cloud Engineering and Cloud Security Operations, Digital Analytics, Risk Management, Security Engineering, Application Security, Cyber Security Operations, Divisional Information Security Officers, & Cyber Security Resiliency.

Capital One is a diversified banking company that offers early and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.

Raised $954,000,000.00 from Berkshire Hathaway.

  • Senior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer

    2013 - 2014

    Responsible for the the security of the global Tyco enterprise including the organization, design, planning, implementation, and management of the Tyco security posture. Mr. Spinelli oversees a global team responsible for the cloud security program, security engineering, security operations, security compliance and policy, cybersecurity threat management, and investigations. Responsible for the new global development and transformation to a global center led security organization. Strong working knowledge and familiarity with both designing and operating within Foreign Ownership Control or Influence (FOCI) to deliver a security strategy to protect both Top Secret, Secret, Classified, and Unclassified data for a US operating entity with headquarters in Switzerland. Operates and delivers security in more than 120+ geographies and locations across multiple regulatory requirements. Delivers a diverse set of security models based upon securing more then 30 research and development centers primarily outside of the US containing intellectual property and more than 30 customer monitoring centers dispersed globally containing financial and life/safety information of people worldwide. Developed security strategy and models for manufacturing centers in all global centers including China and other developed and lesser developed countries.

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