Jerry Davis, Participant

Jerry is a five-time, senior executive level CISO/CSO and a former CIO. Jerry is currently the Senior Vice President, Cyber Operations and Technology for Truist Bank. In 2022, Jerry was appointed by the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to serve a multiyear term as an advisor and board member to the Cybersecurity Safety Review Board (CSRB), within the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). In the 2023 release of, Securing the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure: A Guide for the 2021-2025 Administration, Jerry authored the chapter on the challenges and opportunities in the US transportation sectors of space, air, and ground transportation. Jerry is a fellow with the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, a nonpartisan Washington, D.C. think tank. Before his current role, Jerry has served as the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer for PG&E. Prior to that he founded Gryphon X, LLC, a technology risk and advisory firm. Davis has served as the first Vice President and Global Chief Security Officer (CSO) for a global semiconductor equipment manufacturing company in Silicon Valley. He has also served as the senior executive for information technology as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. Davis also served as the NASA Global Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), the Chief Information Security Officer for the U.S. Department of Education, and as the Deputy Assistant Security for Cybersecurity (CISO) and Privacy for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.