On the June 16th edition of PlayMakers Talk Show, our guests were:
Evelyn Costolo – CEO of Wipe Out Kids’ Cancer (WOKC)
Michael Gibbons – Former FBI Chief of Computer Investigations, Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal and speaker at The America’s Future Series: CYBER SECURITY SUMMIT
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Evelyn Costolo, CEO – Wipe Out Kids’ Cancer (WOKC)
Evelyn Costolo is CEO of Wipe Out Kids’ Cancer (WOKC), a Dallas-based nonprofit organization dedicated to raising funding and awareness for childhood cancer research. Founded in 1980, Wipe Out Kids’ Cancer has raised over $4 million in the crusade against childhood cancer and spent over 30 years funding programs to not only fight childhood cancer, but to also provide hope and support to kids and families battling cancer.
Costolo has a strong track record in leadership positions including highly successful fund-raising roles for several Dallas non-profit groups. She held multiple positions with Junior League of Dallas from 1999 through 2010: Financial Vice President, Development Vice President (where her team exceeded goal and netted more than $1 million), Community Volunteer Fair chair, and Research and Development Chair (where she led a 45 person committee that allocated $1 million and 1,500 volunteers to the Dallas community.
Costolo was a member of the Texas Ballet Theater’s Council of Patrons, and a past member of the board of directors of Community Partners of Dallas and of Victims Outreach. She served on the Ways and Means Committee of University Park Elementary, and currently serves on the Advisory Board of SMU’s Kappa Kappa Gamma, and was the 2009 chair of the Expanding Worlds luncheon. She lives with her husband and two children in University Park.
For more information about Wipe Out Kids’ Cancer, visit wokc.org.
Michael Gibbons, Former FBI Chief of Computer Investigations, Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal and speaker at The America’s Future Series: CYBER SECURITY SUMMIT
J. Michael Gibbons is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal’s Global Forensic and Dispute Services industry and a strategic information security specialist with over 25 years of experience on a global scale.
Mr. Gibbons offers a proven record of improving processes, reducing costs and mitigating risks by developing and implementing technical solutions that enable secure, reliable information sharing and computing for such major organizations such as Marriott, JPMorgan Chase, FDIC, ING, Freddie Mac, USAA, Department of Homeland Security, and F.B.I.
Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Gibbons was a Principal at Deloitte & Touche, LLP, where he directly managed security services delivery at a major financial services client and three US federal agencies. Mr. Gibbons worked directly with the chief information security officer (CISO) and external audit staff to remove audit findings at a financial services regulator, and prepared a long-term strategic vision for security for a large US Agency.
For more than five years, Mr. Gibbons was a Managing Director at BearingPoint, and was a Vice President for Security Services for Unisys for three years where he implemented a Security Operations Center that monitored the network security of three major U.S. Agencies including the TSA.
Mr. Gibbons served a 15-year tenure at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), most recently as Special Agent, Chief of the Computer Investigations Unit, where key highlights included overseeing all cyber crime investigations for the FBI, nationally and internationally. In 1995 he established and led the largest Federal Health Care Fraud Task Force in the nation, still in operation today. The most notable investigation led by Mr. Gibbons was documented in the New York Times Bestselling book titled “The Cuckoo’s Egg”, which resulted in three convictions for cyber espionage in German Federal Court.
The America’s Future Series: CYBER SECURITY SUMMIT
Thursday, June 27 from 7:15 am – 7:00 pm
Irving Convention Center
500 W. Las Colinas Blvd
Irving TX 75039
For more information: IrvingChamber.com/Cyber
Mike Gibbons, Evelyn Costolo, Host Steve A Klein
