Charlie Jacco ’02, Distinguished Alum 2023

Charlie Jacco ’02, Computer Systems Engineering
Partner, KPMG LLP, and US Cyber Threat Management Leader and Global Financial Services Leader, KPMG LLP’s Cyber Security Services

Charlie Jacco is a Partner in the New York office at KPMG LLP and is the US Cyber Threat Management Leader and the Global Financial Services Industry Leader for KPMG’s Cyber Security Services practice. Charlie has focused extensively in multiple disciplines of the information security field, including Cyber Defense, Cyber Threat Management, Security Strategy & Governance, Security Transformation, Digital Identity, and Enterprise Identity & Access Management. Charlie’s career experience includes over 20 years of designing and implementing a wide variety of technology-based security solutions, which has resulted in a broad background in technology and risk management across Financial Services and other industries.

Charlie is a Sector Board Advisor of the FS-ISAC, which allows him to participate in a wide variety of cyber security and cyber risk topics with senior executives across the Financial Services Industry and other Fortune 100 companies. As a senior leader in KPMG’s Cyber Security Services business, he frequently interacts with C-level executives for Fortune 100 companies, including some of the largest global banks, and is viewed as an advisor to some of the top Chief Information Security Officers in the cybersecurity field. Charlie has been featured as top 10 in the IT Services Report for “The Top 25 Cybersecurity IT Executives of 2020” and has multiple publications, including Harvard Business Review, CIO.com, World Economic Forum Live, and Financial Advisor.