Michael D. Smith

Michael D. Smith was elected as the 2022 ISSA-NOVA President. He previously served as the ISSA-NOVA Senior Vice President and prior to that as the Director of Veteran’s Affairs. Michael Smith brings to the board over 30 years of IT and Cybersecurity expertise and Senior Leadership. He is the Cybersecurity Architecture and Advisory Services Group Leader for the Battelle Memorial Institute and the Cybersecurity Program Manager for DHS. He is a retired U.S. Army Colonel who commanded the Army Reserve Operations Group (ARCOG), established a research unit at the Army Cyber Institute (ACI) West Point, NY, and served as the Deputy G6 (CIO) for the 22,000 Soldier command responsible for all Logistics in Iraq during the surge.