Ben Blakely

Ben Blakely

Benjamin Blakely, PhD CISSP CISM, is Director of Information Security at Dwolla, the programmable payments platform.

Previously, he has held positions in the private, public, and education sectors, and built an information security program to support growth of a previous cloud software company through its initial public offering and into the thousands of corporate customers. He earned his PhD and BS degrees in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University, with minors in psychology and political science. He holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) certifications, and is the lead inventor on two patents related to encryption key management in cloud infrastructures.

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