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CARL N. KRIEBEL CISSP

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Carl has over 20 years of experience working as a cybersecurity practitioner and strategist. He has operated across numerous industries and has recently been focused on advising healthcare, life sciences and financial services clients on solving complex challenges associated with data protection and compliance concerns. Carl has led a myriad of projects during his career, transforming and enhancing client cyber programs to achieve their desired state of maturity.

Carl has extensive knowledge and direct experience across the lifecycle of cybersecurity disciplines and related frameworks, as well as regulatory and compliance considerations, including, but not limited to, FedRAMP, CMMC, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, NIST, ISO, CIS and HITRUST.

Carl has accomplished a great deal throughout his career in cybersecurity. Some of these achievements include:

  • Serving as the National Cyber Security Healthcare leader for a Big 4 Consultancy
  • Leading a global initiative to transform paper-bound processes into a digital and non-repudiation-based transaction model across the global pharmaceutical industry, saving the industry billions of dollars in lost patent protected revenue
  • Successfully leading several global initiatives, including a large scale, global cybersecurity transformation effort for the largest pharmaceutical company in the world, spanning multiple years across more than 80 countries
  • Founding and managing several successful cybersecurity start-ups

In various leadership roles, Carl spends time advising client executive, audit and compliance boards on the state of their programs, industry challenges and leading strategies to help protect their information assets from bad actors. He also serves as a frequent guest presenter on cyber podcasts, webinars and industry roundtables.

Education

MISA – Finance, Marketing and IT, Carnegie Mellon University – Tepper School of Business

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Do you have a hobby or personal passion?
Music performing and composing, mostly on the guitar but some on the piano

What was the best advice you’ve ever received?
Do what you love and love what you do!

Who was your role model?
Howard Roark (the protagonist from the book “The Fountainhead”)

What was your childhood dream?
To be a professional athlete (I played soccer, football, baseball, tennis and volleyball so everyone of those sports I dreamt about being the best)

If you could go back in time, what advice would you give your college self?
Buy Amazon stock in the year 1999 . . . and never stop practicing the things you are passionate about.

People would be surprised to know that I…….
Played in a Grateful Dead cover band

What is the best or most interesting thing about your career?
That I ran a wireless device software development firm while at the same time working as a full-time Cyber VP at PNC Bank (unbeknownst to the Bank)

What was your first job?
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Paper delivery boy

Do you have a “motto?”
Seek inspiration and aspire to be inspiring

When you have an hour of free time, what do you like to do?
Pick up a guitar, play basketball, read a book or play with my dogs

Do you have advice for young professionals?
Identify what you like to do and work at becoming the best you can be at that particular interest. . . .the money will follow.

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Evan’s team always worked closely with our clients’ accounting group and Schneider Downs‘ audit team. When the IRS changed the rules on the deductibility of repairs and maintenance versus capitalization of assets, a group of Schneider Downs’ tax specialists performed a deep-dive on the technical rules of this change to develop tax planning strategies for their clients.  In one particular instance, through extensive analysis of the client’s fixed asset ledgers as well as those of related-party commercial rental properties, we were able to find tax savings of approximately $300,000. “Communication with our clients is always critical,” Ogrodnik said. “Our understanding of new, complex regulations, knowledge of our client’s business and internal workings, and the trust the client had in our experts, allowed us to take advantage of tax rules and garner significant deductions.” Schneider Downs provides Big Thinking and Personal Focus in delivering a variety of services for large and small businesses, both publicly and privately held, as well as nonprofit organizations, government entities and more. Through our commitment to thought leadership and knowledge management, we deliver the solutions our clients need with a personal commitment to service.
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