White House Names Cybersecurity Panel Members

April 14, 2016

The White House has announced members of a commission to strengthen U.S. cyber defenses.

The commission, due to make long-term recommendations by early December on tightening cybersecurity in the private sector and government, is part of Barack Obama's $19-billion proposal to boost defenses against hackers.

The panel will be co-chaired by Tom Donilon, former national security adviser, and Sam Palmisano, former CEO of IBM. The panel also includes:

Retired General Keith Alexander, former director of the National Security Agency, now CEO of IronNet Cybersecurity
Steven Chabinsky, General Counsel and Chief Risk Officer of CrowdStrike and Cybersecurity Columnist at Security magazine
Ajay Banga, CEO of MasterCard
Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Research
Joe Sullivan, Chief Security Officer of Uber, former Chief Security Officer of Facebook
Maggie Wilderotter, Executive Chairman of Frontier Communications
Annie Antón, chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech
Patrick Gallagher, Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, former Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Herbert Lin, Senior Research Scholar for Cyber Policy and Security at the Stanford Center for International Security and fellow at the Hoover Institution
Heather Murren, former member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and co-founder of the Nevada Cancer Institute

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