Yonesy Nunez named Managing Director and Chief Information Security Officer at DTCC

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation appointed Yonesy Nunez as Managing Director and Chief Information Security Officer. Nunez joins DTCC from Jack Henry & Associates, where he served as Chief Information Security Officer. He will lead information security and technology risk management at the New York based organization.

Asset Servicing Times describes DTCC, which Nunez joins as managing director, as a post-trade market infrastructure specialist.

At Jack Henry, according to the company's speaker biography, Nunez was responsible for ensuring effective alignment between the business and information security. Before Jack Henry, the biography says, Nunez was Cybersecurity Technology Executive at Wells Fargo covering International Relations, Wealth & Investment Management, and Commercial, Corporate and Investment Banking. Earlier in his career, Jack Henry says, he served Citi's Corporate Center Businesses as Group Information Security Officer, where he aligned information security risk management as a business differentiator to help promote business objectives. Jack Henry says he was also Chief Information Security Officer at The New School and served as Practice Leader of the Philly Metro IT Risk & Security Assurance Practice at PwC. Jack Henry says that at Pall Corporation, where he was Chief Information Security Officer, he introduced the first holistic global programs covering information security, IT governance and compliance.

Jack Henry says Nunez holds a doctorate in Computing from Pace University and a Master of Science in Information Systems Engineering earned at The New York University Tandon School of Engineering. According to the biography, he also earned a Bachelor of Science covering Finance and Computer Information Systems at Manhattan College in New York. Among his industry certifications, Jack Henry says, are CGEIT, CISA, CISM and CISSP.

At the time of the report, he also sat on the Strategic Advisory Board of the International Consortium of Minority Cybersecurity Professionals, and he had co-founded the Long Island, New York Infragard Chapter, where he was President Emeritus at the time of the report, the biography said.