Gregory J. Touhill

Director Gregory J. Touhill, CISM, CISSP, Brigadier General (ret), is president of the AppGate Federal Group (USA). Also a professor of Cybersecurity at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College, he has extensive experience as the director of profit and loss corporations and non-profit organizations, including serving on the Splunk, Intel and Symantec Federal Advisory Boards. Prior to entering the private sector, General Touhill concluded a distinguished career of public service culminating in his selection by the President of the United States as the US government’s first Chief Information Security Officer. His other civilian government service includes duties as the Deputy Assistant Secretary, Cybersecurity and Communications at the United States Department of Homeland Security; and as Director of the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, where he led national programs to protect the United States and its critical infrastructure. He is a retired Air Force general officer, a highly decorated combat leader, an accomplished author and public speaker, and a former American diplomat.