Shamoun Siddiqui is VP and CISO of The Neiman Marcus Group, Inc. He possesses a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a doctorate in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. After a successful career in aerospace engineering, he switched to Information Technology and Information Security and has been a leader in this space for more than 15 years, having served as the Director of IT at Hitachi Printing Solutions, Manager for Information Security for CVS/Caremark, and Director of Information Security at Sabre. He has several engineering and information security publications to his name.