John Asante
SVP, Global Information Security
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Asante is a seasoned global cybersecurity executive with 25+ years defending top-tier brands and critical infrastructure, and today serves as SVP of Global Information Security at Bank of America. He has built and scaled world-class security organizations—most recently leading Shopify’s 660+ Trust team and founding Google Cloud’s Security & Trust Center—protecting billions of users and safeguarding trillions in transactions. Known for hands-on incident response, he has investigated and remediated dozens of large-scale intrusions across governments and Fortune 500 companies, turning those lessons into pragmatic defensive programs. His background spans payments, cloud, enterprise software, and national defense, giving him rare visibility into both attacker tradecraft and enterprise risk management. A Geographic Information Science graduate, he brings an analyst’s spatial thinking to threat mapping and defensive strategy, pairing technical depth with board-level advisory experience.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Degree, Geographic Information Science and Cartography, Bachelors Degree, Geographic Information Science and Cartography at University of Washington
Github Skills (9)
telemetry8
sdk7
android7
xamarin7
cpp7
windows6
ios6
macos6
swift1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
okcoders/ok-coders-january-2017-front-end
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:33 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
jnasante/ccew-ios-2016
Jan 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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