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After career path that wound through journalism, secondary school administration and coaching, Pat Foley, while managing several customer service groups in Harvard University’s financial administration, began an increasing involvement in solving business challenges by linking extended technology with better transparency of business intelligence and enhanced operational processes. Several positions managing and implementing enterprise technology projects followed until he became the Program Manager for Fidelity Investments’ fledgling identity management program in 1999.

Armed with a management mandate to deploy a universal identifier, Pat worked closely with a small, talented technical team and an a large number of initially bemused business stakeholders to extend the CorpID program across Fidelity’s global reach and in three years had provided the “one number that does it all” for the widely distributed and diversified financial services firm.

Once CorpID was fully deployed, Pat became, first, the Principal Information Security Risk Analyst and later, Technical Risk Advisor for FMR Co., Fidelity’s investment arm. In these roles, Pat conceived, designed, documented and oversaw the delivery of an integrated access control tool called ARROW that combined fine-grained authorization for Web and fat client applications, databases and an AS400. ARROW enabled on-line access certifications, collected resource metadata and managed the company’s RBAC program.

After leaving Fidelity in 2006, Pat worked briefly in Symantec Corporation’s consulting group before becoming Senior Manager of Access Control and Risk Assessment at Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide where he was involved in securing SOA deployments, identity management, data protection, and application and vendor risk assessments. He is now Director of Global Technology Compliance for Starwood and Program Manager of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) technology remediation program currently underway there.

Pat, his wife, Judi, and daughter, Micaela, live in Milton, MA, near Boston.