John Podboy
Senior Vice President - Executive Director
First Citizens Bank
John has 14 years experience across cybersecurity, technology management, digital transformation, risk, resilience, compliance, and business transformation. He has broad experience working within the federal government and commercial sectors including, retail, manufacturing, industrial, technology, media, and financial industries. John is known for his ability to clearly articulate cybersecurity strategies and execute enterprise transformation efforts that focus on collaboration and team empowerment. Throughout his career he has shown the ability to deliver and scale innovative solutions across multiple industry segments and Fortune 100 organizations. John has served in multiple cyber practitioner roles throughout his career and applied this experience to modernize security transformation for numerous organizations. In particular, John has spent that last several years embedding cybersecurity by design through innovative approaches to Identity and Access Management. He is known for being a transformational executive that focuses on collaboration with extensive experience engineering and executing game-changing strategies that focus on driving rapid growth, mitigating risk, and elevating security for organizations. John is most passionate about blending cybersecurity and user experience that drives business transformation to enable key stakeholders and customers.