Tom Patterson Information

Tom Patterson is a business advisor in the areas of security, commerce, and governance , and the Author of the upcoming book: Mapping Security-- Corporate Security Sourcebook for Today's Global Economy The book is being published by Addison-Wesley and Symantec Press, and will be on bookshelves on November 3 rd, 2004. Tom just completed a successful tour as International Partner for Deloitte & Touche in Germany, leading the Security Services practice for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), and as part of the firm's global security services leadership team. Based in Frankfurt, Tom led the coordination and delivery of information security solutions to clients in over 30 EMEA countries. In Europe and around the world, Tom led the way toward reasonable application of security products and services, which paves the way for operational efficiencies, greater customer safeguards, and better corporate governance. During his tenure in the EMEA region, Tom led the firm's security productization efforts, established and led the firm's relationships with IBM and Symantec, and developed and rolled out a 'franchise' business for smaller EMEA countries which included packaged hiring, training, methodologies, routes to market, and regional support for proposals and delivery. He also created and led the firm's press activities for security, which resulted in over 300 million positive media impressions for the firm. Tom was also part of Deloitte's global leadership team for Enterprise Risk, assisting other regions (Americas and Asia Pacific) to leverage his results. Tom came to Deloitte in 2002 with 20 years in the information security and electronic commerce business. He has a wealth of real world experience in large-scale electronic commerce systems, risk management, and information security. He has owned P&L responsibility at both large and small companies, been a key strategist at IBM, and has a track record of success in product and service development, routes to market, marketing, and international business. While ...