Ben Carr

BIO

Ben is an Information Security & Risk Management executive leader with more than 25 years of result driven experience in IT and IT Security developing and executing long-term strategies. Over the course of his career he has developed a proven track record of addressing current business objectives and todays operational risks. As a business focused security executive with a data centric and risk-based approach, Ben ensures that business and information security objectives are balanced to ensure that goals are fully achieved at all levels of the organization. He is an expert at translating business requirements and aligning with security objectives serving as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders. Ben has driven transformation change across his career. He has developed teams at Nokia and Visa to elevate security maturity in an existing structure. At Aristocrat he developed a greenfield environment where no people, process, or technology existed to a functional and evolving global security program based on a NIST framework. Global experience, including direct management of multinational and diverse teams, providing unique perspective to information risk management, information security, privacy, governance and compliance.