Shawn Gunsolley is the Information Security Executive leading Identity & Authentication Services for Cyber Security Technology. Identity & Authentication Services provides modernized systems and processes that authenticate internal users and commercial clients to bank-owned systems. Their mission is to better secure the integrity of the bank’s network, data, and users, sustain the productivity of the enterprise, and enhance the bank’s overall security. The team also owns Public Key Infrastructure governance and maintenance for the enterprise. Shawn joined the bank in 2013 to lead a multi-year transformation initiative rewriting the centralized processing of image-based check transactions. Shawn went on to manage Client Research & Resolution Technology for Image & Transaction Services and led the technology delivery of the Cash Transportation & Enterprise Card Issuance teams before joining Global Information Security in 2020. Prior to joining the bank, Shawn was the Director of Application Development for an energy company in which he was responsible for developing a smart grid solution for commercial and consumer electric customers. The products developed provided real time management and control to electric companies, deployed domestically and globally. Shawn’s background in system development stems from his years of experience as a technology consultant for Red Hat and Booz Allen Hamilton. During this time Shawn worked in financial, retail, cable telecommunications, insurance, health care, energy, and government sectors. Shawn graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University with a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and from The Johns Hopkins University — Carey Business School with a master’s degree in business information systems. He also holds certificates from the operational development program at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, the technology development program at Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Securities Industry Institute (SII) program at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business. Shawn is currently attending the Cyber Development program at the MIT Sloan School of Management.