10 CISOs in Aviation
Six airlines, two airline groups and two airports have their current CISO in this group: Southwest, Alaska, Air Canada, Singapore Airlines, AirAsia and LATAM; Air France-KLM and International Airlines Group; Heathrow and ANA - Aeroportos de Portugal. Aviation security teams setting cyber budgets across flight operations, customer systems and airport infrastructure can compare how each side of the industry weighs those risks.
Professionals to explore
Andre Magalhaes
LinkedInExperience: Global Chief Information Security Officer · LATAM Airlines
Andre Magalhaes holds Global Chief Information Security Officer at LATAM Airlines since July 2023, a title also held there from 2018 to 2020, and was Global Chief Information Security Officer at Grupo Falabella (2020-2023). Andre was Chief Security Operations Officer at Santander Chile (2016-2018), a fit for comparing airline security with programs at Grupo Falabella and Santander Chile.
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Brian Talbert
LinkedInExperience: Managing Director, Chief Information Security Officer · Alaska Airlines
Brian Talbert is Managing Director, Chief Information Security Officer at Alaska Airlines since October 2022, describing oversight of both technological safeguards and governance protocols. Brian was Director of Network and Connectivity Solutions at Alaska Airlines (2015-2022) and Manager, Network Deployment at Amazon Web Services (2013-2015), useful for network security questions in airline operations.
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Carrie Mills, CISSP
LinkedInExperience: Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) · Southwest Airlines
Carrie Mills, CISSP has been Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Southwest Airlines since March 2024. Carrie also held Vice President, Cybersecurity (2023-2024), Managing Director, Cybersecurity Defense (2023), Senior Director, Cybersecurity Defense (2022-2023) and Director, Cybersecurity Threats, Risk and Operations (2021-2022), a fit for threat and security operations questions at a carrier.
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Jane Wong
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Security Officer · AirAsia
Jane Wong took the Chief Information Security Officer title at AirAsia in July 2025, described as leading the group's cyber security strategy, governance and risk management, operations and change management. Jane was IT & Data Director Supporting Functions Asia and Oceania at Danone (2021-2025) and Head of Cyber Program Management at PETRONAS (2019-2021).
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João Annes
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Security Officer · ANA - Aeroportos de Portugal, SA
João Annes has been Chief Information Security Officer at ANA - Aeroportos de Portugal, SA since July 2021, after Head of Cybersecurity there (2020-2021). João cites critical-infrastructure and converged cyber-physical security and chairing the ACI EUROPE Cybersecurity Committee, a fit for questions where physical, operational and cyber risk meet at an airport.
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Lip Ping Chew
LinkedInExperience: CISO · Singapore Airlines
Lip Ping Chew became CISO at Singapore Airlines in October 2023, after Director (Cybersecurity) at GovTech Singapore (2016-2023), where Lip Ping was also Principal Consultant (2009-2016). Lip Ping was also Director of Information Security at Thomson Reuters (1997-2008), a fit for questions on bringing security practice from GovTech Singapore into an airline.
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Marc Leymonerie
LinkedInExperience: Group CISO , VP IT Security Solutions - Compliancy - Risk - Quality · Air France-KLM
Marc Leymonerie holds Group CISO, VP IT Security Solutions - Compliancy - Risk - Quality at Air France-KLM since 2014, with a matching KLM Group CISO title and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Air France since 2010. Marc's LinkedIn profile says President of CERT Aviation France and names specialties including ISO 27001, a fit for group-level governance and sector information sharing.
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Marcio Garcia
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Security Officer · International Airlines Group (IAG)
Two current titles at International Airlines Group (IAG) belong to Marcio Garcia: Chief Information Security Officer since November 2024 and Chief Technology Officer since September 2023. Marcio was Head of Data & Cloud Architecture at Vueling Airlines (2020-2023), which suits questions on securing cloud platforms across an airline group.
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Mark Ward, CISM
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Security Officer · Heathrow
Mark Ward, CISM is Chief Information Security Officer at Heathrow since October 2025, and was Chief Information Security Officer at Three UK (2021-2025) and Group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Interserve Group Limited (2020-2021). Mark also chaired the Communications Crime & Strategy Group (2023-2025), useful for airport security questions informed by CISO roles at Three UK and Interserve.
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Wes Chan
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Security Officer · Air Canada
Wes Chan has been Chief Information Security Officer at Air Canada since January 2022, after Director of Cyber Security there (2019-2022). Wes was Security Operations Manager at Enbridge (2013-2019) and a Solution Architect at Bravura Security (2008-2012), which suits questions on building a security operations function at an airline.
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Choose the right perspective
Airport and critical infrastructure questions belong with Mark Ward at Heathrow or João Annes at ANA, who cites converged cyber-physical security. For a group view across several airline brands, Marc Leymonerie and Marcio Garcia hold group titles; for one carrier's security operations, Carrie Mills, Wes Chan or Brian Talbert held director-level security or network roles at their airline first.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How should an airline rank security spending across flight operations, booking and loyalty systems, and corporate IT?
- 02What changes when a CISO covers several airline brands under one group instead of a single carrier?
- 03At an airport, how do physical security, operational technology and cyber teams share incident response?
About this directory
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