Eric Svetcov is a leading Information Security specialist who has more than 15 years of industry experience in securing key corporate and customer data. His previous roles have include Information Security and Business Continuity national service leader for KPMG in New Zealand, Information Security Director for salesforce.com in San Francisco, Director of IT and Operations at Grassroots Enterprise, and Manager of Information Systems at Intuitive Surgical.

Eric is a Board Member of the ISACA chapter in Auckland and is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), (ISC)2,  and American Board for Certification in Homeland Security (ABCHS). He has an MBA and holds the following certifications: CISSP, CISM, CISA, CIPP, and CHS-III. His articles have been published in SC Magazine, Technology & Learning magazine, School CIO, and Windows NT Systems magazine.

Over the past year, Eric has spoken at ComputerWorld’s Utility Computing Briefing in Auckland, the New Zealand IIA National Conference, and the Information and IT Security Summit in Auckland and chaired the Cloud Computing Summit in October 2009.

Partial list of organisations Eric has worked for:
Visa, HSBC, ING, Royal Bank of Scotland, United Commercial Bank, Bank of New Zealand, Westpac, Intuit, US Department of Defense, California Department of Motor Vehicles, New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development, Housing New Zealand, Waikato Institute of Technology, Chevron, Pacific Gas and Electric, Vector, Pacific Bell (now AT&T), ShoreTel, Verio (Now NTT Communications), Google, Cisco, salesforce.com, Plantronics, Xilinx, Autodesk, Intuitive Surgical, Pfizer, and Fonterra.