Speakers

Russ is the VP & Chief Security Officer at Calpine Corporation. Russ has been involved in several efforts surrounding stronger cybersecurity through public-private partnerships with the U.S. Government. Russ was 1 of 11 people selected for the first cohort of the Department of Energy’s “OT Defender Fellowship”, which offers middle- and senior-level OT security managers in the U.S. energy sector an opportunity to more fully understand the cyber strategies and tactics that adversarial state and nonstate actors use in targeting U.S. energy infrastructure, and how the U.S. government is postured to counter these adversarial activities. Russ is passionate about protecting critical infrastructure against physical and cyber security threats, defining risk mitigation strategies, developing high-impact policies, implementing IT/OT cybersecurity solutions, and collaborating with cross-functional leaders to drive operational excellence in highly regulated environments.