James Gannon

Affiliation:	GNSO
Region:	Europe
Country:	Ireland
Email:	james [at] cyberinvasion.net
Website:	icann.guru
LinkedIn:	James Gannon
Twitter:	@cyberinvasion
Formerly a member of the PTI Board

James Gannon is a Strategic Advisor on Emerging Technology Governance for Novartis AG, a global healthcare and pharmaceutical company. Involved in ICANN for several years focused on security and governance activities, he has served on the Customer Standing Committee, the second Security, Stability, and Resilience Review Team and as a member of the GNSO Council.

He was highly involved in the IANA transition in both the CWG and CCWG workstreams.

He was a member of the PTI Board of Directors, appointed for a 3-year term by the 2020 Nominating Committee. Additionally, he was elected Chair of PTI's Board Audit Committee in March 2021.

His background includes time as a Chief Information Security Officer for a Digital Health firm in Washington, D.C., and a Security Consultant in Washington, D.C., and Basel, Switzerland.

Coming from an engineering background, he quickly found his calling working to secure companies operating in the medical and biotech spaces. He has worked extensively with startups based in the US to build security and privacy programs from the ground up. He also has extensive experience working with regulators, including the FDA, IMB, and various European medical authorities, to bring security to the processes and devices that save lives and help prevent suffering worldwide.

Gannon serves on the advisory board of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and specializes in medical device security, industrial control systems security, and high-end manufacturing systems security.

Recently, he has been heavily involved in Internet Governance, focusing on Privacy and Security at ICANN as a member of the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC).

His first face-to-face meetings were the CWG and CCWG meetings in Istanbul, and his first ICANN meeting was ICANN 53 in Buenos Aires.