Indiana’s cybersecurity leadership spans financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, education, and the government technology platforms that support public sector security across the state. The CISOs in this feature reflect that range, with backgrounds that cut across defense, consulting, enterprise IT, and decades of program-building in environments where the stakes are operational, regulatory, and reputational all at once.
Noah Brown — Chief Information Security Officer, RAMPxchange
Noah Brown carries an unusually broad set of concurrent responsibilities. In addition to his CISO role at RAMPxchange, he has served as CISO at Knowledge Services since 2021, holds a PMO executive advisor role at GovRAMP, and serves as a cyber warfare technician with the Army National Guard. That combination of private sector security leadership, government technology advisory work, and active military service gives him a cross-sector perspective that is genuinely uncommon. His background spans information security management, cloud security, and the FedRAMP and StateRAMP compliance ecosystems that increasingly define how government agencies evaluate and procure technology.
Leon Ravenna — Chief Information Security Officer, OPENLANE
More than a decade as CISO for publicly traded companies gives Leon Ravenna a track record that most security executives cannot match. At OPENLANE, where he has served as global CISO since 2017, he oversees security, privacy, and compliance across 14 business lines inside a two-billion-dollar public company, reports quarterly to the board, and has led the security aspects of multiple billion-dollar-plus mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and spin-offs. His compliance depth covers PCI Level 1, SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, EU-US Privacy Shield, CCPA, and FISMA. He has delivered $22 million in technology cost savings and recently added an AIGP certification to his CISSP, reflecting a deliberate move into AI governance as a core security discipline. He also mentors emerging CISOs and advises early-stage companies, contributions that extend his influence well beyond his own organization.
Chris Thomas — Chief Information Security Officer, Forest River
Chris Thomas spent four years as VP of information and security at Forest River before stepping into the CISO role in March 2026, giving him detailed knowledge of the environment he now leads from a security perspective. During his VP tenure, he saved $7.5 million annually, grew user satisfaction from 68 to 87 percent, and built a regulatory and compliance strategic model for a manufacturer with 14,000 employees. His earlier role as CIO at Dynamic Campus, where he developed a three-year security strategic plan aligned to NIST standards, added higher education to a career that already spanned manufacturing, operations technology, and enterprise IT transformation. His current work includes agentic AI design and deployment across multiple organizational disciplines, a practical application of emerging technology rather than a theoretical one.
James Yang — Chief Information Security Officer, OneAmerica Financial
James Yang leads enterprise-wide cyber risk management strategy at OneAmerica Financial, aligning security with business objectives and regulatory requirements across a complex insurance and financial services organization. His background spans more than twenty years in IT strategy, security governance, risk, and compliance, and his contributions have been recognized by CSO Magazine, Gartner, ASPIRE, and EWA. His work centers on designing solutions for complex cyber challenges, managing cross-functional stakeholders, and driving continuous improvement across security operations, disaster recovery, and secure software development.
Marc Othersen — Chief Information Security Officer, Bell Techlogix
Marc Othersen brings more than thirty years of information security experience to his role at Bell Techlogix, where he has served as CISO since 2018. Before Bell Techlogix, he held a security operations and threat intelligence role at Eli Lilly. He has served on advisory boards for CrowdStrike ahead of its IPO, Optiv ahead of its merger, and several other security technology companies at pivotal moments in their development, a form of industry engagement that reflects both the depth of his network and his standing as a practitioner whose judgment vendors seek out.
Wade Javorsky — Chief Information Security Officer, Butler University
Wade Javorsky has spent thirteen years at Butler University, moving through systems specialist, team lead, support services manager, assistant director of IT operations, and director of IT operations before stepping into the CISO role in May 2024. That progression from technical support through operations leadership to security executive inside a single institution gives him an operational fluency that external hires rarely bring. His focus areas include governance, portfolio discipline, security-by-design, and responsible AI adoption, and he advises executive leadership on mission-aligned technology investments. A decade of institutional knowledge informs every security decision he makes at Butler.
Trish Ping — Chief Information Security Officer, Vytalize Health
Trish Ping built her career across nearly three decades of healthcare IT and security roles, starting at Conseco in the mid-1990s and moving through information security positions at Wishard Health Services, the Indiana Health Information Exchange, Gibson General Hospital, and Choices before spending nearly seven years as a senior security consultant at Pondurance. She joined Vytalize Health as CISO in April 2024, bringing a depth of healthcare security experience that spans payer, provider, exchange, and consulting environments. Few people in Indiana’s healthcare security community have seen the industry from as many angles.
A Security Bench Shaped by Indiana’s Industries
What stands out across this group is how closely their careers track the industries that define Indiana’s economy: manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, education, and the government technology platforms that support all of them. These are not generalist security leaders who could be dropped into any environment. They are practitioners whose expertise was shaped by the specific demands of the sectors they have spent years working inside, and that specificity shows in how they lead.
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