ChicagoFIRST welcomes it’s new Associate Director

Please welcome Paul Neff as our new Associate Director.

Paul has a long history of public service, most recently as Director of Cyber Policy, Preparedness and Response in the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection, where he oversaw a significant expansion of Treasury’s Sector Risk Management Agency engagement with the U.S. financial services sector, and played a key role in several cybersecurity policy response actions.  Prior to his Treasury service, Paul held several roles at the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago and Cleveland over nineteen years of service, where he led technology supervision for several financial sector critical infrastructure firms, and led or co-led development of cybersecurity programs and functions for incident management, threat intelligence, policy research, supervisory guidance, and examiner training and education.  Other past roles include Chief Security Officer for a multinational service provider (Williams Lea, Inc.), adjunct instructor for Information Security at Northwestern University, and various senior technical systems and cybersecurity engineering roles over a thirty-year career.  Throughout his service, Paul has remained committed to building resilience through information sharing and public-private partnership, and is excited to contribute to ChicagoFIRST’s essential mission.”

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  • ChicagoFIRST has truly made a positive difference to the collective emergency preparedness and business continuity of Chicago’s financial community.  It has become a model for many other cities throughout the country.  We are especially grateful that the City of Chicago has an impressive reputation for working together with its business community, the State of Illinois and federal government agencies, and other key organizations through the ChicagoFIRST partnership structure.  This approach is extremely effective and helpful in supporting the broader Federal Reserve objective of maintaining a stable financial system.

    Gordon Werkema, First Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
  • ChicagoFIRST is a dynamic, cutting edge organization and a model for how regional public/private partnerships can enhance the resiliency of financial institutions. ChicagoFIRST was founded because of the foresight of the Chicago financial services community, and it succeeds because of the cooperation and encouragement of the public sector, especially the City of Chicago and State of Illinois.

    Rahm Emanuel, 5th Congressional District (D-IL)
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    Michael Wallace, Vice President, BMO Harris Bank

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