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Ramon Santiago is a cybersecurity leader with nearly 20 years of experience leading intelligence and cybersecurity programs across the energy, defense industrial base, and law enforcement sectors. He specializes in security strategy and governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance — setting cybersecurity vision, policy, and risk appetite; aligning programs to frameworks like NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CMMI, and COBIT; and ensuring compliance with requirements such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, ITGC, GDPR, and CMMC. His experience includes senior security leadership at Fortune 500 companies, spanning board and executive reporting, security architecture, budget and resource management, SOC operations, incident and crisis leadership, and team development. He holds a MBA, MSIT – Information Assurance, certificate program in Agentic AI, and certifications including Certified Chief Information Security Officer (C|CISO), Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH), Certified Network Defense Architect (C|NDA), Certified Incident Handler (E|CIH), Certified Security Analyst (E|CSA), and Certified Cyber Exercise Assessor (CCEA).