John Millican is a business-first manager with strong experience in driving value to the enterprise through IT and Information Security (IS). His experience is divided between positions in both industry and third party IT service and Information Security provision. 

John developed and led the global Information Security team forExpedia Inc.as its Chief Information Security Officer and was VP of IT Operationsfor Hotwire.com. He also founded and led a twelve person independent IT/Information Security service provider. Clients and employers have ranged from small wholesale/distributors to regional financial institutions and Fortune 1000 Internet-based companies.  John’s most recent efforts have been focused on assisting clients with implementing Information Security programs, obtain ISO 27001 certification and to implement continual improvement methodologies within their organizations.  John has led information security assessments at organizations such as pharmaceutical SaaS provider - Ramsell Corporation and semiconductor innovater – QuickLogic.

John is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and was the first person to be certified by the SANS Institute for its core security programs – Windows Security, Unix Security, Intrusion Detection Analyst, Incident Handling and Firewall Analyst.  John once again became the first person to be certified by SANS for his knowledge and expertise in conducting assessments based on and the implementation of the SANS Twenty Critical Controls.  Additionally, he was co-author of the SANS Security Essentials Toolkit.

John currently serves as the Vice President of the Silicon Valley chapter of the Information Systems Security Administrators (ISSA) and on the board of Infragard – an FBI/private sector information security consortium.

John has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from the University of Akron.