Keri Pearlson
Executive Director of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS): The Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Dr. Pearlson is the executive director of the Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan: The Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (IC)3. Pearlson has held positions in academia and industry, including Babson College, The University of Texas at Austin, Gartner's Research Board, CSC, and AT&T. She founded KP Partners, a CIO advisory services firm and the IT Leaders' Forum, a community of next-generation IT executives. She is the founding director of the Analytics Leadership Consortium at the International Institute of Analytics. She began her career at Hughes Aircraft Company as a systems analyst.
Dr. Pearlson's research spans MIS, business strategy, and organizational design. Her current research studies how organizations build a culture of cybersecurity and how organizations build trust to share mitigations for cyber breaches. Dr. Pearlson holds a doctorate in business administration in MIS from Harvard Business School along with an M.S. in industrial engineering and a B.S. in mathematics from Stanford University. She is the founding president of the Austin Society for Information Management and was named "2014 National SIM Leader of the Year."