TSYS Cybersecurity Center Advisory Board

Columbus State University’s TSYS Cybersecurity Center at has an Advisory Board whose purpose is to provide input to our curriculum, help suggest and secure resources for our students and programs, and participate in career-building activities like serving as guest speakers, conducting mock interviews, securing job opportunities and internships, providing job shadowing events, and other types of career mentoring.

Advisory Board Members

Mark Bradford
WC Bradley’s Director of Information/Cyber/SAP Security

Kevin Gowen
Synovus’ Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

Casey Hergett
Muscogee County School District’s Senior Director of Enterprise Technologies

Alicia Herring
Cognizant’s BISO and AVP of Americas Business Information Security

Lee Himes
Synovus’ Senior Director of Cyber Threat Management and Security Operations

Stacy Hughes
ABM‘s Chief Information Security Officer and Senior VP

Mike Kane
Global Payments’ SVP of Global Security Operations

Tera Ladner
Aflac’s VP of Information Risk Management & Governance

Jody Lee
Global Payments’ Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Executive VP

Nicol Lewis
Columbus State University’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

Chris Lovelock
Harris County School District Cybersecurity Teacher

Josh Pauli
University of Arizona’s Professor and Dept Head of Cyber, Intelligence, and Information Operations

Peter Staarfaenger
Global Payments’ Director of Digital Forensics and Incident Response