Michael Phillips

Accomplished Risk, Privacy & Information Technology senior executive. Co-Founder of vSEC, LLC and Owner of Luminant Group, LLC specializing as a virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO). Adjunct Professor at DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media teaching master’s curriculum including Information Security Management and Information Systems Auditing. Former Executive Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Data Privacy Officer (DPO) at Rosenthal Collins Group, LLC., Assistant Vice President & Information Security Officer (ISO) of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago & Director of Information Security for the Americas with UBS (Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services).

An active member of InfraGard, High Tech Crime Consortium, Chicago Electronic Crimes Task Force, etc., Holds the C|CISO, CISSP, CISA, NSA IAM Certifications. Serves on the Advisory Boards of the National Introducing Brokers Association (NIBA), Wealthblock.AI and the Illinois Digital Privacy Alliance, also a Strategic Advisor for OCA Ventures, an early stage (Seed, Series A, and Series B) venture capital firm. Former Head of the Judges Committee for the Chicago Area CISO of the Year Awards Program.