If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact:

CISM PROGRAM COORDINATOR
ISACA LA CHAPTER

Stephen Kwok, CISM, CRISC at [email protected]

Domain 1 – Thomas Phelps IV, CISA –  Thomas Phelps IV is the VP of Corporate Strategy & CIO for Laserfiche, a global provider of intelligent content management and process automation software. Thomas joined Laserfiche in 2014 and leads IT, industry marketing, analyst relations and major strategic initiatives. He was part of the executive team that launched Laserfiche Cloud in 2015. Prior to Laserfiche, Thomas was the national entertainment and media champion for cybersecurity at PwC. He led the initiative to innovate content security practices used worldwide in the motion picture industry. He was the Advisory Services leader for two major accounts, and provided Fortune 500 clients with consulting services on IT audit, IT transformation, security, privacy and business continuity areas.Thomas is the Chairperson of Long Beach Accelerator^TM, a non-profit whose mission is to accelerate early stage startups with seed funding, mentorship and exit strategy. He serves on the board of directors for Innovate@UCLA, Southern California, SIM and Advancing Women in Technology. Thomas is a Past-President of ISACA Los Angeles, and on the 50^thAnniversary Governance Panel. He is a founding member and Past-President of Ascend Los Angeles, a Pan-Asian leadership development organization. Thomas has co-authored and contributed to five books. In 2019, Thomas became an adjunct professor teaching IT Auditing and Analytics in the USC Masters in Accounting program.

Domain 2 and Domain 3 – John Kronick, CISA, CRISC, CISM – John Kronick, an accomplished security innovator and security architecture thought leader, serves as Regional Director of Risk Management & Compliance at NCC Group, one of the world’s largest and prominent Cyber Security specialist companies, and a trusted technology partner for thousands of businesses and government entities around the globe. John has over 25 years of professional experience in providing strategic and tactical privacy, security, risk management, transformation and forensics assurance services to healthcare, governmental and commercial entities. He served in prior CISO roles at Prime Healthcare, Gartner Group, CitiBank, Purdue Pharma and Estee Lauder.

John has significant expertise in public / private law enforcement liaison activities, “Big 4” public auditing (Deloitte), SOX, PCI, security compliance management and global security operations and transformation.Prior to joining NCC Group, John was a CISO at Prime Healthcare, building innovative security measures to address IOT and telehealth security concerns. He also served as a Senior Manager at Accenture, responsible for delivery of risk and security services to many large commercial healthcare, retail, banking and government clients.

Domain 4 – Mikhael Felker, CISSP, CGEIT, CIPP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, ITIL, PMP.  Mikhael is Director of Information Security & Risk Management for Farmers Insurance.  In the past decade, he has taken on various information roles including engineering, teaching, writing, research, and management.  His sector experience includes insurance, defense, healthcare, nonprofit/education and technology/Internet, seeing first-hand the variance in information security culture and program maturity. Felker received his M.S. in information security policy and management from Carnegie Mellon University and B.S. in computer science from UCLA.  He has over 50+ publications and has been a speaker for RSAC, CSA, ISSA, ISACA, ISC2 and OWASP events.