Robert S. Sherman

Global Cybersecurity & Technology Leader who delivers practical, risk-based solutions

Boston, MA, United States

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Education: JD

Suffolk University Law School

2006 : 2010

BA

Sociology

Brandeis University

1994 : 1998

Experience: Chief Information Security Officer (2016-present)

Global CISO responsible for all aspects of information security : governance, risk, compliance, security operations.

Industry leadership :

- Department of Homeland Security, Commercial Facilities Cybersecurity Working Group, Steering Committee

- World Economic Forum, Cybersecurity Resilience Forum

- Real Estate Roundtable / Real Estate Information Sharing and Analysis Center (RE-ISAC)

- Business Roundtable’s Technology Coordinating Committee Privacy Working Group

- US-India Business Council Privacy Working Group

- US Chamber of Commerce Privacy Working Group

- CTIA (The Wireless Association) Cybersecurity Working Group

2016 : Present

American Tower

Chief Information Security Officer

2020 :

Oort

CISO Advisory Board Member

Provided a portfolio of shared services to the global IT department and business operations teams, and served as the IT leader for the corporate headquarters.

- M&A support for day 1 operations

- Enterprise portfolio management

- IT governance, vendor management, and contract management

- Information Security, including IT SOX compliance

- Change and Release Management

- IT finance

- IT procurement and software licensing, including legal and contract compliance

- Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Management

- IT and Process Excellence (six-sigma program) for the corporate headquarters

- Application groups : Oracle eBusiness suite (EBS), the TM1 budgeting and forecasting/tax suite, global HR management systems (Oracle Fusion), treasury management systems (Reval), corporate reporting (OBIEE).

Additional responsibility included :

- IT integration lead for Company's largest acquisition of 42,000 sites in India

- Interim CIO for EMEA region

- Offshore India Service Center (captive)

2014 : 2016

American Tower

VP, IT

Provided leadership for global IT infrastructure services organization, including :

- Network operations centers monitoring 7,000+ sites in 14 countries, on 5 continents

- Business continuity projects across Latin America, Africa, and the US

- Data Center and Cloud strategy

- Information security and data privacy

- Change and release management

- First to third-level technical support

2011 : 2014

American Tower

VP, IT Infrastructure

Built and operated data center and regional IT infrastructure including data center and networks, IT risk management and information security.

2005 : 2011

American Tower

Director, IT Infrastructure & Operations

Company: American Tower

Years of Experience: 27

Skills business analysis, business intelligence, business process improvement, Cisco Technologies, cloud computing, Data Center, Disaster Recovery, ITIL, Program Management, Vendor Management, VMware

About I'm the Chief Information Security Officer for American Tower Corporation, responsible for information governance, risk, compliance, and cybersecurity solutions across the company's global footprint. I've got a 20+ year technology background as well as a law degree. I focus on bringing together technology solutions with the legal & regulatory demands that come from operating in a multi-national telecommunications / real estate environment.

Designing security solutions that end-users adopt is critical. I was an early advocate of zero-trust SASE technologies as I saw employees leaving the traditional office environment but still needing secure access to company data. In our current architecture program, we look at leveraging modern identity and access management technologies, together with human-centered policies and procedures, to protect our most critical information.

I am also excited about the changing roles of Boards of Directors and cybersecurity governance. The upcoming SEC regulations in the US and the constantly expanding privacy laws around the world bring these topics out of the IT shop and into the boardroom. It's encouraging to see Boards embrace this change and companies like ours begin to leverage cybersecurity throughout the business.