Mark Weatherford is Head of Cybersecurity Policy and Strategic Engagement at NVIDIA. He was Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity at DHS in the Obama Administration and was Chief Information Security Officer for the state of Colorado and the state of California in the Schwarzenegger administration. He has served as VP and Chief Security Officer of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), was a Principal at The Chertoff Group, was the Global Cybersecurity Strategy Officer at Booking Holdings, and has held a variety of other operational and advisory cybersecurity roles. He is currently an Affiliate at the Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and is on the Strategic Advisory Council (SAC) at the Idaho National Laboratory.