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10 McDonald's security leaders
These ten current McDonald's cybersecurity leaders hold CISO, senior director and director roles in security operations, cloud security, identity governance, vulnerability management and cyber strategy at McDonald's. A reader can learn how security leaders work at McDonald's from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
01—10Anthony Santoro
LinkedInExperience: Director, Cloud Security · McDonald's
Director, Cloud Security at McDonald's since August 2026, with a Senior Manager, Cloud Security Engineering row at McDonald's from March 2026 also listed as current. Anthony was Cloud Security Engineer III at McDonald's (2022–2026) and Cyber Security Manager at Plante Moran (2021–2022).
Chris Willis
LinkedInExperience: Director, Global Security Operations Centre · McDonald's
Director, Global Security Operations Centre at McDonald's since August 2026, and former Senior Manager, Global Cyber Detection & Response (2025–2026) and Cyber Security & Data Manager, UK & Ireland (2023–2025) at McDonald's. The profile lists experience in digital forensics and incident response.
Ebony L.
LinkedInExperience: Director, Cybersecurity - Immediate Risk Reduction · McDonald's
Director, Cybersecurity - Immediate Risk Reduction at McDonald's since October 2024, and former Director of Cybersecurity Deployments (2023–2024), Senior Manager - Global Access Management Services (2022) and Service Manager - Authentication Services, Cyber Security (2020–2022) at McDonald's.
Joe B.
LinkedInExperience: Global Director - Vulnerability Threat Management · McDonald's
Global Director - Vulnerability Threat Management at McDonald's since October 2024, and former Global Director - Cybersecurity Service Engineering (2023–2024) and Sr. Cybersecurity Services Manager (2016–2023) at McDonald's. Joe was Technical Architect at Nokia (2006–2016).
Jon H.
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Cloud Infrastructure, Operations, Enablement, and Security · McDonald's
Senior Director of Cloud Infrastructure, Operations, Enablement, and Security at McDonald's since June 2026, and former Global Director of Cloud Security (2022–2026) and Cloud Security Product Manager / Product Owner (2018–2022) at McDonald's. The profile describes over 15 years in the tech industry.
Korrey Anderson
LinkedInExperience: Director Cyber Strategy & Analytics · McDonald's
Director Cyber Strategy & Analytics at McDonald's since April 2025, and former Cyber Security Service Manager at McDonald's (2019–2022). Korrey was Cyber Incident Director (2024–2025), Director of Customer Experience (2024) and Director of Strategic Services (2022–2024) at SentinelOne.
Kyle Knight
LinkedInExperience: Director - Cybersecurity Business Partner · McDonald's
Director - Cybersecurity Business Partner at McDonald's since October 2025, and former Senior Cybersecurity Manager - Technology and Digital Audit (2025) and Red Team Manager - Technology and Digital Audit (2023–2025) at McDonald's. The profile lists CISSP and CRTO credentials.
Mike Gordon
LinkedInExperience: SVP Chief Information Security Officer · McDonald's
SVP Chief Information Security Officer at McDonald's since March 2024. The profile says Mike leads the Global Risk Management organization at McDonald's. The listing also shows a Vice President, CTO-IT row at Lockheed Martin from 2021, and Mike was Vice President, Global CISO at Lockheed Martin (2018–2021).
Nick Lavalle
LinkedInExperience: Director Identity Governance Administration · McDonald's
Director Identity Governance Administration at McDonald's since September 2025. Nick was Senior Manager Cybersecurity Data Encryption Security Data Obfuscation at Discover (2021–2025) and Identity Management Product Engineering Leader at Discover (2015–2021).
Ryan Powers
LinkedInExperience: Director of Cyber Security · McDonald's
Director of Cyber Security at McDonald's since July 2025, with a headline that reads Director, Cybersecurity Operations. Ryan was Identity and Access Management Platform Director at JLL (2017–2025), so the background spans identity and access work and security operations.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How should a global restaurant company split cybersecurity work between a central team and its markets?
- 02What should a security operations center measure and report to executives?
- 03How do identity governance and vulnerability management teams set priorities across many corporate and restaurant systems?
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