Founded in 2013, the (ISC)² Toronto Chapter is an official chapter of (ISC)². Based in Toronto, our purpose is to provide educational opportunities for management, operational and technical aspects of the information security field, and to support the mission of (ISC)².
Raphael Adeyemo (President)
Raphael Adeyemo is an IT business partner with extensive experience across multiple industries, including banking, insurance, energy, and technology, specializing in service delivery, cyber resilience and investigations, and risk management. Raphael serves as the President & Chair of the Board of Directors for (ISC)2 Toronto Chapter – a leading cyber security community in the GTA. He provides strategic direction and operational oversight for the nonprofit to inspire a safe and secure cyber world in the GTA. He is currently an Executive MBA candidate at the MBA Americas of Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, and Johnson School of Management, Cornell University. You can find him at the beach, playing tennis, or enjoying a good meal with family and friends when he’s not busy working or studying.
Camille Kloppenburg (Vice President)
Camille help organisations build secure products from the start while ensuring they can innovate fast and stay ahead of the competition. Her 20+ years journey has taken her from aerospace engineering to software development, and from entrepreneur to practice leader.
Camille is an officer of The Board of Director in the capacity of the Vice President.
Rizwan Kalim (Director, Membership Affairs)
Rizwan holds Masters degree in Computer Science and he’s an Information Security and IT Risk Management professional currently working for one of the ‘Big 5’ banks in Canada. He provides mentoring services through TRIEC (Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council) to internationally-qualified new immigrants to Canada and he is intending to reinforce the bridge between academia and the industry while promoting the profession. Rizwan would continue serving the chapter as an officer of the Board in the capacity of Director, Membership Affairs
Jon Rohrich (Secretary)
Jon Rohrich is a security expert and experienced leader with 10+ years’ experience and a military background.
As the Security Lead for Central Canada at Avanade, Jon works with major enterprises, leading technical and project teams in the delivery of Information Security solutions to enable organizations to keep their assets safe and secure, along with proactively reducing risks that come with the ever-evolving cyber-threat landscape.
Jon is a seasoned public speaker and teacher, Jon has been featured at events and conferences such as Microsoft Ignite tour, Microsoft Ready, Cyber Tech & Risk, iTech, GoSec, ISC2 Chapter meetings and B-Sides. Jon has also led several technical training days for security practitioners across Canada.
Furthermore, Jon enjoys dedicating his time to mentoring and coaching other security professionals. Prior to joining Avanade, Jon held technical sales and consulting roles at Microsoft and New Signature respectively and served 5 years in the Canadian Armed Forces. Jon holds a Network Engineering Honours diploma from Trios College in addition to 25+ technical and Security certifications including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert.
Esra Al-Shawafi (Treasurer)
Mandip Singh (Director, Audit & Compliance)
Mandip is an IT Risk Professional, with over a decade of experience in multiple domains of Cyber Security, IT Risk and Compliance. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Information Technology. An avid traveller, who loves to explore new places and meet new people from different cultures. Mandip would serve the chapter in the capacity of Director, Audit & Compliance
Abimbola Adegbite (Director, Professional Development)
With over a decade spent working in various domains, Abi is passionate about enterprise architecture security and prides himself as a voice of quality that champions solutions to problems. He enjoys working with development teams to implement and drive DevSecOps approaches to ensure that key security controls are hard-wired into the software delivery pipelines. Abi would serve as the director of professional development.
Faiza Aziz (Director, Communications)
Faiza is an Information Security Risk Consultant with one of the ‘Big 5’ banks in Canada, She shares an ideology of a servant leadership and always ready to make impacts where she could share her knowledge with a broader audience. As a diversity and inclusion advocate, she currently leads a team of volunteers whose focus is on career development initiatives for a network of individuals to help connect them with leaders from all areas of the organization. Faiza would help in promoting the chapter, relating with partners and with event planning as Director, Communications.
Kola Aina (Director, Academic Partnerships)
Kola is a trusted advisor who specializes in helping organizations reduce information technology risk. He has over ten years of experience in the Technology and Financial Services sectors and has led several strategic initiatives in Cyber Security, Information Systems Audit, Cloud, and Big Data. Kola currently works for IBM Canada as a Customer Success Manager — Security Architect; responsible for driving business value and technology outcomes to support hybrid cloud platform strategy, value adoption and realization of IBM security growth offerings to customers.
Outside of work, Kola spends time volunteering on youth and community development; a recipient of the Government of Ontario Community Service Award (2016) and MPP Mike Colle Community Volunteer & Leadership Award. Kola enjoys building relationships with people and exploring human-technology interaction, playing soccer, exploring remote places, and listening to all genres of music.”
Deji Dayspring (Director of Events)
“A dynamic IT Professional with over 10 years experience in IT service management and information security. Currently working in the area of Governance, Risk and Compliance with emphasis on the implementation and management of best practices in information security and privacy. Hobbies include singing and watching movies.”
Carolyn LE QUÉRÉ (Director, Strategic Partnerships)