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Selim Aissi is a prominent Cybersecurity leader and executive and one of the nation’s top Cybersecurity Innovators who filed over 100 security-related patents across financial, consumer-product, data-center, data-analytics, and embedded safety-critical systems. He has also served on the Board of Directors of some of the most successful security-focused Venture Capital and startups firms.

As Ellie Mae’s Chief Security Officer, he is responsible for the company’s overall strategy, security engineering, operations, governance, risk, compliance, disaster recovery, and business continuity.

Before joining Ellie Mae, Selim was recognized for leading several large-scale, company-wide, security initiatives at Visa, including ApplePay, Visa Checkout, Visa’s Mobile Payment, and Data Protection

Programs as Visa’s Global Vice President of Information Security. Previously, Selim has held senior technology and management roles at Intel for over 11 years. In addition to his cybersecurity expertise, Selim received his PhD in engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has held several senior engineering positions at General Dynamics, General Motors and Applied Dynamics International.