The aim of this study is to determine a set of skills needed for a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in a competitive business today. To this end, a review of the literature and IT security executive interviews were conducted to identify a set of relevant skills. This list was then compared to a set of job listings for CISOs. Ultimately, a set of skills were developed that organizations...

The first author, Michael C. Henderson, was a founder and served as Chairman of Albina Community Bank from 1995 until he retired at the end of 2009. He first learned about idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) at the age of 58, when he was told that he had the disease. Ten years later, Mr. Henderson reflects on his passage through IPF in this personal narrative written with the assistance of Dani...

5669: 8:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. Presenter: Joseph Buggy, Ph.D., Pharmacyclics, Inc. "Our strong presence at the AACR meeting highlights the breadth of our product portfolio in cancer and autoimmune diseases," said Richard A. Miller, M.D., president and chief executive officer of Pharmacyclics. "In addition to data on our HDAC inhibitor, other presentations describe our Factor VIIa and Btk inhibitors...

Alison Brown is the President and Chief Executive Officer of NAVSYS Corporation, which she founded in 1986. NAVSYS Corporation specializes in developing next generation Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. Dr. Brown has a PhD in Mechanics, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering from UCLA, an MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, and an MA and BA in Engineering from Cambridge Universit...

In 1955 only one of the 200 largest industrial corporations in the United States used the title Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to denote its chief executive. By 1975 all but one of these firms had a CEO. This innovation can not reasonably be argued to either have been the result of strategic considerations, nor to have had a measurable effect on firm performance; in fact, it is probably most acc...

The Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program is the sole discretionary research and development (R&D) investment program at Sandia. LDRD provides the opportunity for our technical staff to contribute to our Nation's future, to our collective ability to address and find solutions to a range of daunting scientific and technological challenges. The results of their work will sha...