Bill Brown

CIO & CISO at Abacus Insights

Bill is CISO & CIO at Abacus Insights. Bill has spent his career leading global information security and information technology teams at start-up, mid-size and Fortune 1000 companies. He has expertise in developing comprehensive risk-based Information Security programs, which balance Enablement and Enforcement, work across company leadership, and are embraced by employees, executive teams and Boards of Directors.

Prior to joining Abacus, Bill was CSO at ClickSoftware and led the M&A Security Due Diligence Response and Remediation efforts which resulted in Click’s $1.4B acquisition by Salesforce. Prior to ClickSoftware, Bill was CISO at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and before that CIO & CISO at Veracode.

Bill is a former Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader and serves as an Advisor with several private companies. Bill holds an undergraduate degree from Bridgewater State University and an MBA from Babson College. Bill and his wife live on Cape Cod and Lincoln, NH. When he’s not working, Bill enjoys his spending time with family, as well as fishing during the warmer months and snow sports during the winter.

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