Alissa Abdullah (Dr J)
SVP, Deputy CSO, Mastercard
Abdullah, known as “Dr. Jay,” leads the Emerging Corporate Security Solutions team and is responsible for protecting Mastercard’s information assets as well as driving the future of security. Prior to Mastercard, she was the CISO at Xerox, where she established and led a corporatewide information risk management program. She also served as the deputy CIO at the White House, where she helped modernize the Executive Office of the President's IT systems with cloud services and virtualization.