Bob joined Deloitte after more than 20 years in security leadership roles with financial and
professional services organizations where he oversaw security strategy, audit and compliance
across global teams. He is a member of the Identity Services leadership team and focused on
financial services clients.
Bob is a frequent speaker on the subject of information security and risk, identity services, cloud
computing, mobility, and on global policy issues such as payment fraud and critical infrastructure.
He also has visibility into and advises key people that influence national legislation. He is quoted
frequently in the press including publications such as Bloomberg, Forbes, USA Today, The Wall
Street Journal and the Washington Post.
Bob is on the board of directors for the USA Track and Field Foundation. He has been on the
board of directors for the Global Identity Foundation, board of management for the Jericho
Forum, the advisory boards for the AirPatrol (acquired by Sysorex), CipherCloud, Hispanic IT
Executive Council (HITEC), RiskVision (acquired by Resolver), Securent (acquired by Cisco),
TriCipher (acquired by VMWare), Trusteer (acquired by IBM), The University of Detroit Mercy’s
College of Liberal Arts and Education, a member of RSA Security’s Customer Advisory Council
and the ISS Customer Advisory Council.
Previously, Bob was Chief Trust Officer at CipherCloud, He was responsible for working across
the company’s business divisions, customer base and partner ecosystem to evangelize the
importance of cloud data protection. Prior to CipherCloud, Bob was CEO at Echelon One, an
information security consulting and research firm. Prior to Echelon One, Bob was Chief
Information Security Officer (CISO) at Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati where he was responsible for
the enterprise information security strategy. Prior to joining Fifth Third, Bob worked for Bank One
in Columbus where he held several key leadership roles, including Information Security Officer for
Bank One's Retail Group. Prior to joining Bank One, Bob was a manager with Ernst & Young’s
Information Security Services practice in Chicago, and a Senior Systems Officer with Citicorp
International in New York and Chicago.
Bob received the 2004 Digital ID World Conference award for Balancing Innovation and Reality,
and a 2004 InfoWorld 100 Award for implementing SAML and was a nominee for the ISC2 Senior
Information Security Professional of the Year, 2011. Bob graduated from Michigan State
University with a Bachelor of Arts in German and then received his Master of Science in
Management Information Systems from North Central College.
Bob is passionate about track and field, is a lifelong runner and competed on Michigan State
University’s cross-country team.
Research notes authored:
- Security Criteria For Selecting A Database: Oracle Database Server 11g
vs. Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Written by: Bob West and David Mortman - Offshore Outsourcing Risks – Look Under the Covers, Written by Jennifer Kurtz , David Mortman and Bob
West - A Framework For Purchasing Early-Stage Technologies, Written by: Renee Guttmann, Robert Rodriguez
and Bob West - Fixing The Leak – An Enterprise Data Protection Approach, Written by: Bob West
- FFIEC Authentication Guidance Update, Written by: Bob West
Contributing Author:
- Security in a Web 2.0+ World: A Standards-Based Approach, by Carlos Curtis Solari, Wiley, ISBN-10:
0470745754, ISBN-13: 978-0470745755