Ryan Rebennack

Ryan Rebennack

Cyber Security & Technology Executive | PMO Builder | Business Leader | CISO, Chief of Staff

Synopsys Inc•Phoenix, Arizona, United States

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Experience26+ Years
LevelCXO

Executive Overview

Ryan enjoys building teams, working with talented people to solution and deliver against difficult challenges, and grow organizations by engaging and empowering those around him.Ryan is leading the Cybersecurity Program at Synopsys and serves as Chief of Staff to the CISO. He was most recently Chief of Staff to PayPal's CISO leading a team of Program Managers, technical consultants, financial business managers, and scrum masters delivering across application security, data protection, threat responsiveness, vulnerability management, and corporate end user security. He is a results-driven IT professional with experience leading people, functional organizations, and project teams implementing and managing technology programs with multimillion-dollar budgets ($250MM+). Ryan has a passion in building and developing PMO teams and new functions.Previously, he managed PMOs and program teams at eBay/PayPal for 3 years supporting IaaS/PaaS, Availability, Capacity, Data Center Capacity, Monitoring, and Risk Operations and nine years at JPMorgan Chase in various infrastructure management and project management roles. Project responsibilities have included managing data center builds and migrations, operational readiness programs for critical PayPal events, distributed core infrastructure initiatives, storage tech refreshes, and merger integrations.

Career Timeline

Professional employment history
  • Sep 2022–Present· 4 yrs 1 mo
    • Executive Director, Information Security, Program Delivery and Business OperationsCurrent
      Sep 2022–Present
    • Executive Director, Cybersecurity - Program Delivery, Risk Management, & Business Operations
      Sep 2022–Present
  • Mar 2014–Mar 2015· 1 yr
    • Director Portfolio Management, Global Platform & Infrastructure
      Mar 2014–Mar 2015
  • Mar 2012–Jun 2022· 10 yrs 3 mos
    • Sr. Director, Chief of Staff, Head of Enterprise Cyber Security Business Operations & Programs
      Mar 2020–Jun 2022
    • Director, Head of Security Engineering Biz Ops & Programs
      Apr 2018–Mar 2020
    • Director, Information Security Programs & Head of InfoSec Product
      Apr 2015–Mar 2018
    • Director of Program Delivery, Platform Engineering & Operations
      Mar 2012–Apr 2015
  • 2004–Mar 2012· 8 yrs 2 mos
    • Program Director, Corporate Systems Infrastructure
      Apr 2010–Mar 2012
    • Technology Manager, Global Distributed Infrastructure
      2007–Apr 2010
    • Technology Project/Program Manager
      2004–Dec 2006
  • 2003–2004· 1 yr
    • Technology Project Analyst
      2003–2004
  • Aug 2002–2003· 5 mos
    • University Adjunct Professor
      Aug 2002–2003
    • Instructor
      Jun 2000–Dec 2000

Education

BA

English Literature

Ball State University

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Business ReorganizationsProject ManagementInfrastructureLeadershipInformation TechnologyRisk ManagementVendor ManagementManagementSDLCPMPPMOProgram ManagementSecurityStorageBudgetsIntegrationDisaster RecoveryData CenterBudget ManagementIT Strategy