John De Santis

John De Santis is a global technology and cybersecurity executive, board member, and aspiring outdoorsman with over forty years of international and US-based experience in venture-backed technology start-ups and large telecom and IT companies. They currently serve on multiple boards, including Cequence, noHold, and ValiMail, and chair the ISACA Board of Directors (since 2023), after previously serving as Vice Chair (2022–2023). They previously led HyTrust as Chairman and CEO until its acquisition by Entrust in January 2021, and held senior roles such as VP of Cloud Services at VMware, and CEO positions at TriCipher and Sygate Technologies. They earned an AB in Philosophy (minor in Mathematics) from Fairfield University and completed the Stanford AeA Executive Institute program for Management of High Technology Companies.