10 Northwestern Mutual security leaders
Chief Information Security Officer, Vice President, Enterprise Cybersecurity and Senior Director - Identity and Access Management are titles currently held by members of this group of ten Northwestern Mutual security leaders, all in security roles at the company today. A reader can learn how security leaders work at Northwestern Mutual from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Andrew Krenzien
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, IT Governance, Risk & Compliance · Northwestern Mutual
Andrew Krenzien has been Senior Director, IT Governance, Risk & Compliance at Northwestern Mutual since April 2025, after serving as Assistant Director, Governance, Risk & Compliance there from 2023 to 2025. Andrew Krenzien was a Risk Management Consultant at Northwestern Mutual from 2022 to 2023 and a Business Risk Officer for core and digital banking at FIS from 2021 to 2022.
Angeliki Zavou
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Security Automation · Northwestern Mutual
Angeliki Zavou has been Senior Director, Security Automation at Northwestern Mutual since June 2022. Angeliki Zavou was Security Automation Team Lead at S&P Global from 2020 to 2022 and an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Hofstra University from 2015 to 2020, after graduate research and teaching at Columbia University.
Brian Thompson
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director - Identity and Access Management · Northwestern Mutual
Brian Thompson has been Senior Director - Identity and Access Management at Northwestern Mutual since February 2026, after serving as Assistant Director of IAM Engineering there from 2023 to 2026. Brian Thompson was a Lead IAM Engineer at Northwestern Mutual from 2021 to 2023, a Senior IAM Engineer from 2019 to 2021 and an Engineer there from 2014 to 2019.
Christopher King
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Enterprise Cybersecurity · Northwestern Mutual
Christopher King has been Vice President, Enterprise Cybersecurity at Northwestern Mutual since November 2025, responsible for cyber defense for the company, after serving as Senior Director, Cyber Threat Operations there from 2022 to 2025. Christopher King was Director, DevSecOps at Rockwell Automation from 2020 to 2021 and has been an adjunct professor at Norwich University since 2013.
Dan Jackson Jr.
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Threat Detection, Incident Response, and Automation · Northwestern Mutual
Dan Jackson Jr. has been Senior Director, Threat Detection, Incident Response, and Automation at Northwestern Mutual since April 2022. Dan Jackson Jr. was Assistant Director, Cyber Threat Detection & Response there from 2020 to 2022, Assistant Director, Detection Engineering from 2019 to 2020, and Manager, Cyber Threat Operations from 2018 to 2019, and holds CISSP and CISM certifications.
Igor Zabara
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Security Officer · Northwestern Mutual
Igor Zabara has been Chief Information Security Officer at Northwestern Mutual since January 2025 and was VP Enterprise Cyber Security & Identity Access Management there from 2021 to 2025. Igor Zabara was Senior Director and Global Head of Cyber Defense at S&P Global from 2019 to 2021 and worked in cyber defence at Moody's Corporation from 2013 to 2018.
Jill Gunnufson
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director - IT Risk Management · Northwestern Mutual
Jill Gunnufson has been Senior Director - IT Risk Management at Northwestern Mutual since January 2025, after serving as Senior Director - IT Governance, Risk and Compliance there from 2021 to 2025. Jill Gunnufson was Assistant Director - Information Risk Management at Northwestern Mutual in 2021 and a Senior Information System Security Officer at WPS from 2019 to 2021.
Jon Toldt
LinkedInExperience: Deputy Chief Information Security Officer & Vice President Product Security · Northwestern Mutual
Jon Toldt has been Deputy Chief Information Security Officer & Vice President Product Security at Northwestern Mutual since November 2025 and has also held the Chief Information Security Officer role for Mason Street Advisors since June 2026. Jon Toldt was Vice President Product Security from 2023 to 2025 and held Senior Director Cybersecurity - DevSecOps (2022 to 2023) and Assistant Director Cybersecurity - DevSecOps (2019 to 2022) roles at Northwestern Mutual.
Nicole Schultz
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director - DevSecOps · Northwestern Mutual
Nicole Schultz has been Senior Director - DevSecOps at Northwestern Mutual since October 2024, after serving as Assistant Director for app, cloud and data security there during 2024. Nicole Schultz was an Assistant Director of Engineering at Northwestern Mutual from 2020 to 2024 and a Cloud & DevOps Engineer there from 2016 to 2020.
Robert Gunning
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director - Enterprise GRC · Northwestern Mutual
Robert Gunning has been Senior Director - Enterprise GRC at Northwestern Mutual since May 2025. Robert Gunning was a Cyber Security and Risk Partner at Wipro from 2023 to 2025, Regional Director - Information Security - North America at ManpowerGroup from 2020 to 2022, and a Senior IT Audit Specialist at Northwestern Mutual from 2007 to 2012.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01What did you change first after stepping into your current security role, and what did that teach you?
- 02How do you choose which security work to fund when engineering and business teams all want attention?
- 03What measures from your own work have best shown whether a security effort was succeeding?
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