Four-Book Set on Risk Management

About the Author

Sean Lyons is globally recognized as a corporate defense thought leader and strategist. He is acknowledged as the pioneer responsible for proposing the umbrella term "Corporate Defense" to represent an organization’s collective program for self-defense, and also for being the first person to propose the extended "Five Lines of Defense" oversight model which is currently receiving increasing levels of regulatory attention. Sean is published internationally, and has lectured and spoken as a subject matter expert at lectures, seminars, and conferences in Europe, North America, and Asia. These speaking engagements include topics such as corporate governance, enterprise risk management (ERM), compliance, security, business continuity, internal controls, assurance, and governance, risk and compliance (GRC). His work on corporate defense has been cited in a number of books and multitude of other publications on the above topics.

Sara I. James is an internationally recognized expert in internal audit communications, delivering tailored report-writing and other training to internal audit, risk and compliance teams worldwide (www.saraijames.com). With over 30 years' academic, teaching, writing, publishing and corporate experience in the US and Europe, she brings a wealth of varied yet specialist expertise to clients and audiences. Clients include multinational blue-chip organizations in sectors as diverse as finance, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and aerospace; national and local government; legal and medical professionals; and charities. As a member of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (UK and Ireland) Technical Guidance Working Group, Sara has produced many governance, risk and internal audit advisory pieces.

James Bone is president of Global Compliance Associates, LLC, an enterprise risk researcher and the first cognitive risk consultant. Since the publication of his first book Cognitive Hack, James has promoted the idea of a cognitive risk framework in several publications and has developed a following on social media as a thought leader in this space. James has also served as lecturer-in-discipline, Enterprise Risk Management at Columbia University School of Professional Studies. Cognitive Risk will be the first book of its kind to apply additional research and experience through case studies to formulate a more complete cognitive risk framework for cybersecurity and enterprise risk management. James has two websites, globalcomplianceassociates.com and thegrcbluebook.com, that will be used to promote the book as well as 5,000 - 8,000 fellow global risk professionals seeking thought leadership in risk best practices.

Jessie H. Lee has 25+ years of leadership experience in the financial, government, higher education, and nonprofit sectors. Jessie is a strategic and insightful leader who enables organizations to transform and grow through innovative and inclusive approaches integrating enterprise risk management, technology, and data to strengthen financial and operational sustainability and flexibility. She employs data-driven approaches and builds collaborative and trusted relationships with boards, executive leaders, staff, strategic partners, and industry leaders. She founded Better Future Strategies LLC to enable nonprofit and social enterprise organizations to achieve their visions. She teaches courses in both Enterprise Risk Management and Nonprofit Management Masters programs at Columbia University.

Jim Seaman honed his skills and craft during a 22-year career in the Royal Air Force Police, with the final decade being employed on Counter Intelligence, Computer Security, Counter Terrorism and Risk Management duties. On completion of his 22-years of military service, he sought the new challenge of transferring his specialist skills and knowledge across to the corporate sector. In the decade since transitioning across to the corporate environment, he has fulfilled roles within Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI D)SS compliance, data protection, information security, industrial systems security and risk management. In the past few years, he has sought to further develop his knowledge and to rise to the challenge of authoring two books, one on the subject of PCI DSS (published May 2020) and the other on Protective Security (published Apr 2021).

Michael Gioia is an information security leader with over 18 years of experience delivering security solutions across several industries. He has served as an officer in the United States Air Force and worked in higher education, the Department of Defense, retail food services, and security consulting. He has performed most of his information security work within higher education, currently, as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Babson College and formerly as the Information Security Officer (ISO) at Eastern Illinois University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and Bentley University. He retains various professional certifications that include a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE) from ISACA, Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) from ISC2, GIAC Security Leadership Certification (GSLC) from SANS, and Payment Card Industry Professional (PCIP) from the PCI Security Standards Council.