Tom Ridge, the first Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has been confirmed as the keynote speaker at Advisen’s Cyber Risk Insights Conference in New York City.
The world’s largest cyber risk event for P&C professionals will take place on October 28 at the Grand Hyatt.
Ridge is currently the CEO of Ridge Global and serves as a partner at cybersecurity firm Ridge Schmidt Cyber with former White House Cybersecurity Advisor Howard A. Schmidt.
At Ridge Global he leads a team of international experts to help and governments with risk management, global trade security, emergency preparedness and response, growth, infrastructure protection, technology and other issues.
Ridge was twice elected governor of Pennsylvania before becoming the first Assistant to the President for Homeland Security shortly after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. He was then named Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in January 2003.
Pennsylvanians elected Ridge to Congress five times beginning in 1982, when he became one of the first Vietnam combat veterans elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Ridge was drafted to the US Army after his first year at Penn State University’s Dickinson School of Law. He earned the Bronze Star for Valor, the Combat Infantry Badge and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.
Advisen’s Cyber Risk Network members get a registration discount for the conference.
Chad Hemenway is Managing Editor of Advisen News. He has more than 15 years of journalist experience at a variety of online, daily, and weekly publications. He has covered P&C insurance news since 2007, and he has experience writing about all P&C lines as well as regulation and litigation. Chad won a Jesse H. Neal Award for Best Single Article in 2014 for his coverage of the insurance implications of traumatic brain injuries and Best News Coverage in 2013 for coverage of Superstorm Sandy. Contact Chad at 212.897.4824 or [email protected].
