Bob West   Founder and CEO, Echelon One

Bob is responsible for creating and executing the corporate strategy for Echelon One, LLC, an information technology research and advisory services company.  He has 20 years of experience in information security, strategic planning, governance, organizational change, relationship management, computer network design, implementation, and management.
Previously, Bob was Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati where he was responsible for the enterprise information security strategy. Prior to joining Fifth Third, Bob worked at Bank One in Columbus where he held several key leadership roles, including Information Security Officer for Bank One's Retail Group.  Prior to joining Bank One, Bob was a manager with Ernst & Young’s Information Security Services practice specializing in information security management.  He was also Senior Systems Officer with Citicorp International in New York and Chicago, working in network installation and management and on network communications projects.
Bob received the 2004 Digital ID World Conference award for Balancing Innovation and Reality and a 2004 InfoWorld 100 Award for implementing cross-company authentication using SAML.
Bob graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Arts in German and then received his Master of Science in Management Information Systems from North Central College.  He is a frequent speaker on the subject of information security, including the 2005 RSA Conference, the 2004 Gartner IT Security Summit, the 2004 Financial Services Venture Capital Alliance and the 2004 Digital ID World Conference.  Bob is a member of the TriCipher Advisory Board, the Executive Security Action Forum, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association and the Computer Security Institute.  He has also been a member of RSA Security’s Customer Advisory Council and the ISS Customer Advisory Council.