Dr. Michael K. Lavine is the Vice-President, Cybersecurity and IT is a Subject Matter Expert with over 35+ years of experience in Critical Infrastructure Protection including the Department of Homeland Security, Supply Chain Security, and Transportation Security as well as sensitive intelligence technologies for information systems and metadata security. He holds academic appointments in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and Information Systems at Syracuse University. He received his Ph.D. in Information Systems Security and an MSc. Internal Auditing and Management from Cass Business School – City University London, a M.S. in Information and Telecommunication Systems from Johns Hopkins University, and a B.S. in Finance from Touro College.