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Reginald Williams

Chief Information Security Officer, The Chemours Company
Reginald Williams joined The Chemours Company in 2018 as the Chief Information Security Officer. He was instrumental in leading a 24-month Cyber Transformation program for Chemours with an emphasis on maturity and business alignment and as a high-impact results-oriented and customer-focused Information Security / Information Risk executive with over 25 years of experience, has helped multiple global corporations in their strategic execution of global cyber & information security programs. Reginald consistently executes a Cyber Risk-based methodology that aligns with Internal Audit and External Audit to develop annual audit plans for technology including post-audit activities regardless of the nature being statutory, regulatory or required under corporate governance. He thinks outside the box by understanding the relationships between Law, Policy, Regulations and Best Practices needed to accomplish corporate targets. He has served in high-profile consulting and leadership roles to gain the strong business acumen needed to develop CIO / CISO level security programs, and security solutions to address the information risks in data protection for corporate and customer data.

Reginald is very efficient in mapping regulations, frameworks, and best practices into a simplified framework in alignment with Business and Technology goals.This creates a manageable security program that helps the business meets their objectives. He has extensive experience in assessing and designing global security programs that use information risk which requires data protection across 9 of the 16 DHS sectors of Critical Infrastructure including: Chemical, Nuclear, Energy, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Dams and Transportation to name a few. These skills have been applied across a number of industries including: Chemical, Manufacturing, Internet and Technology, Energy, Medical, Financial, Healthcare, start-ups and various Fortune 500s.

Reginald is a results-oriented CISO that transformed a global Security Operation Center into a detection and response focus with the goal being to proactively hunt threats in the enterprise and respond to those threats before they become cyber incidents thus keeping the threat posture of the corporation at a manageable level. He has chaired multiple Cyber / Risk steering committees with each providing senior executive leadership the data needed to inform the Board, including a quarterly cadence with the Board on all matters related to Cybersecurity and Information Risk.

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