Vincent Bennekers

Vice President of Quality

Vincent leads the HITRUST Compliance Program. He is responsible for overseeing the integrity of the HITRUST CSF Assurance Program, which provides centralized reporting and oversight for all HITRUST CSF Assessments and reports. He is also responsible for championing continued improvements to the integrity, transparency, and ultimately the rely-ability of HITRUST reporting. Vincent has spent a significant portion of his career in the Netherlands and Belgium, supporting clients to achieve their IT assurance and cybersecurity goals.

Dominic Boamah, Ph.D.

Director, Office of Research & Analysis

KC Chewning

Sr Director of Operations and Process Improvement

Bryan Cline Ph.D.

Chief Research Officer

Bryan provides thought leadership on risk management and compliance and develops the methodologies used in various components of the HITRUST Approach. This includes a focus on the design of the HITRUST CSF and the assessment and certification models used in the HITRUST CSF Assurance Programs, for which he provides technical direction and oversight. He’s also responsible for addressing emerging trends impacting risk management and compliance to ensure the HITRUST Approach sets the bar for organizations seeking the most comprehensive privacy and security frameworks available. Bryan previously served as HITRUST’s Vice President of Standards and Analysis.

Maria Christina Comas

Director of Project Management

Matthew Datel

Director of Strategic Partnerships

Gladys Evans

Chief of Staff

Marc Fitzpatrick

Director of Product Marketing and Corporate Communications

Michael Frederick

Director of Professional Services

Pat Long

Director of Information Technology

Iddah Mwaniki

Director of IT Audit

James Nutkis

Sr. Director, Product Management

Dennis Palmer

Director of Customer Experience

As the HITRUST Director of Customer Experience, Dennis engages as a customer advocate, ensuring that HITRUST products and services provide the best quality to the end-user. He has been at HITRUST since 2014. Dennis has over 25 years of commercial, military, and government experience in various aspects of information system design, installation, operation, maintenance, and security.

Michael Parisi

Vice President of Adoption

Michael Parisi has led over 500 controls-related engagements primarily in the healthcare and financial services industries. He has extensive experience with third-party assurance reporting including HITRUST readiness, HITRUST certification, SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, Agreed Upon Procedure and customized AT-101 engagements. He also has several years’ experience implementing large Oracle ERP systems specializing in the General Ledger and Governance Risk and Compliance modules. He has extensive knowledge of financial reporting and regulatory standards through his external audit and consulting experience, including Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, NIST, CMS and state specific standards. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting, a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems and an MBA from Quinnipiac University. He is an active member of ISACA and IAPP.

Ryan Patrick

Vice President of Adoption

Joshua Perlow

Vice President, Business Development & Adoption

Classie Pierre

Director of HR

Eric Rozier

Director of Client Development

Andrew Russell

Vice President of Standards

Andrew leads the HITRUST Standards group. With deep levels of expertise in information security controls mapping, controls testing, automation, and data analytics. Andrew is responsible for development enhancements and ongoing maintenance of the HITRUST CSF framework. Andrew has a decade of “Big 4” audit experience covering a wide range of standards and a diverse mixture of projects.

Fernando Sarife

Director of Sales Operations

Becky Swain

Director of Cloud Assurance Innovation

With extensive expertise in cybersecurity, privacy supply chain assurance, and GRC frameworks, Becky Swain, Director of Cloud Assurance Innovation, leads the HITRUST Shared Responsibility and Inheritance Program. Previously, she held leadership roles in cybersecurity and IT audit and compliance, working for the Big Four and Silicon Valley technology companies. As a leading contributor to cloud standards development, Swain was a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), co-founder and author of the CSA Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM), project co-editor of ISO/IEC 27036-1:2014, and a founding member of the exam writing committee for (ISC)2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP). Swain has been invited to speak at top tech conferences and has received numerous industry security recognitions while holding professional credentials in (ISC)2 CISSP, IAPP CIPT and CIPP/US, the AICPA CISA, and HITRUST CCSFP.