Bradley J. Schaufenbuel is currently Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Paychex. Prior to his current role, he held security leadership positions at Paylocity, Midland States Bank, Midwest Bank, Zurich Financial Services, Experian, and Arthur Andersen LLP.
Bradley is the author of multiple books (including two "For Dummies" titles) and has had numerous articles published in professional journals on a wide variety of topics related to information security and governance.
He is licensed to practice law in Illinois and is a member of the United States Supreme Court Bar.
Bradley holds twenty-five professional designations in the areas of information security management, IT compliance, information privacy, fraud examination, IT audit, computer forensics, ethical hacking, business continuity planning, project management, cloud security, corporate governance, and process improvement.
He holds an MBA from DePaul University's Kellstadt Graduate School of Business and a JD and an LLM in information technology and privacy law from the University of Illinois at Chicago's John Marshall Law School.
Bradley has served as a director on several corporate and non-profit boards, is a regular speaker at industry conferences, and has served numerous clients in the legal, financial services, and healthcare industries as a freelance consultant.
He is an advisor to YL Ventures GP, Ltd., Glilot Capital, Cyberstarts, Sheva Ventures, Hetz Ventures, Insight Partners, Menlo Ventures, Great North Ventures, GTM Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Clear Ventures,Lightspeed Ventures, Venture Guides, Night Dragon, Mesh Security,P0 Security, Normalyze, Mammoth Cyber, MLSecured, Tannin,Dune Security, Ghost Security, Torch Security, Polyadmin, Trustle, Waylight, Blink Ops, UpSwot, EventCombo, AttackIQ, Privatise, F8th, Inc., Paladin Cloud, and Impart Security.
Bradley was recognized as the Chicago CISO of the Year in 2018, as one of the Top 100 CISOs by Cyber Defense Magazine in 2023, and as the North America Information Security Leader of the Year by GDS in 2021.
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Paychex
Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer
September 2019 - Present (4 years 10 months)
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Paylocity
Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer
May 2015 - September 2019 (4 years 5 months)
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Midland States Bank
Director of Information Security
August 2011 - May 2015 (3 years 10 months)
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Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc.
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security & Privacy Officer
September 2008 - July 2011 (2 years 11 months)
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Zurich Financial Services
Senior Manager of I.T. Risk & Security
October 2005 - September 2008 (3 years)
