Patrick Ford, with over 25 years in cybersecurity, has served as Americas Cybersecurity VP and CISO at Schneider Electric since 2015. He leads efforts to strengthen the company’s cyber resilience across the region, focusing on brand protection, ecosystem partnerships, and acquisitions. Before Schneider Electric, Patrick held senior security roles at Aetna and Pfizer, both Fortune 50 companies. Earlier in his career, he was a Supervisory Special Agent at the FBI, where he developed cyber investigative capabilities, created training programs, and was a founding member of IC3.gov and the Terrorism Screening Center.
On this panel our experts will discuss how industry and government can work together to identify and mitigate exposures across critical infrastructure sectors.
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National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS)
Director, Cybersecurity Engineering Centre
Cyber Security Agency of Singapore
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Visiting NSI Fellow at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia Law School
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Department of Justice’s Criminal Division
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