Patrick Gorman is an Executive Vice President with Booz Allen Hamilton where is a leader in the firm’s 5G and cyber practice and is the head of Dark Labs. With 30 years of experience, Mr. Gorman has worked in multiple capacities in digital strategy and systems development, technology risk management and cybersecurity in both the government and commercial sectors.
He recently served as the head of Strategy and Product at CyberGRX, a Cyber Third Party Risk Management company. Prior to that, he was the Chief Security Officer (CSO) for Bridgewater Associates, where he was in charge of cyber, physical, and staff security for the world’s largest hedge fund. Mr. Gorman was the Senior Vice President and global Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, where he had global responsibility for cyber security policy, cyber technology and controls, compliance management and security operations. Previously, he worked at Booz Allen Hamilton as Senior Executive Advisor of Cybersecurity responsible for strategic planning, business development, capability development, marketing and capture management for firm’s government and commercial cyber-portfolio.
His technology and risk background stems from holding the position as Asst. Director of National Intelligence (ADDI) and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the U.S. Intelligence Community where is was responsible for IT transformation and cybersecurity for all national intelligence agencies in the US. He served as one the principal parties to stand up the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) after 9/11, and worked at the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the 1990s on developing the US Department of Defense’ doctrine and capabilities design and development for Network Centric Warfare, Information Operations and Cyberwar programs. Prior to that, Patrick spent over ten years in the United States Air Force as part of The National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) in signals intelligence, electronic warfare, and psychological operations with service in the Electronic Security Command, Air Force Intelligence Command, and USAF Special Operations Command.
He sits on numerous boards of firms focused on cybersecurity and privacy.