About the Speaker
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    Dawn-Marie Hutchinson
    CISO, Pharmaceuticals and R&D, GSK (GlaxoSmithKline)

    Dawn-Marie Hutchinson brings more than 15 years of enterprise information technology experience to her role as CISO of GSK. She is an innovative business partner with extensive experience serving on Enterprise Risk Management teams. Hutchinson is an expert in providing data privacy and security solutions to manage information risk, improve IT governance and strengthen internal controls. Hutchinson’s extensive experience in information security and privacy program development has served the healthcare, insurance, retail and higher education sectors.

    While serving on the HITRUST working group for Data De-Identification, Hutchinson established standards and controls for the anonymization of patient level data and is credited with authoring the white paper for defining those levels, as well as use cases for the secondary uses of medical data. Additionally, she served on the HITRUST Privacy working group tasked with revising the HITRUST Common Security Framework to include additional privacy controls and the inclusion of NIST application recommendations.

    Prior to joining GSK, Hutchinson was the CSO at Comm Solutions and also led the information security program at Urban Outfitters, based in Philadelphia. Her tenure in IT also includes work at Walt Disney World, Co., Banknorth Group, Inc., Independence Blue Cross, Protiviti, and Optiv.

    Hutchinson currently sits on the Cyber Security Canon Committee, was the recipient of the CRM Women’s Power 50 award and hold accreditations that include Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified in Risk and Information System Controls (CRISC), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and former Payment Card Industry Qualified Security Assessor (QSA). She is also a 2013 Master’s of Business Administration graduate of the Saint Joseph’s University Haub School of Business.