Adam Ely is the CISO of Heroku at Salesforce where he leads security strategy and was named as one of the top 25 security influencers to follow in 2012 by Tripwire. In addition, Adam serves as an advisor to security technology companies advising on enterprise risk, market opportunities, and security management strategy. Adam is the author of the forthcoming McGraw-Hill book, Information Security Business & Strategy Essentials, routinely speaks at security conferences and executive forums, and is a contributing author to Dark Reading and InformationWeek where he writes about information security management, enterprise risk, industry trends, and security strategy. 

Prior to his role with Salesforce, Adam lead security and compliance for TiVo and held multiple role with The Walt Disney Company where he was responsible for security operations and application security for the Walt Disney Internet Group encompassing all Walt Disney owned web and mobile applications such as Disney.com, ABC.com, and ESPN.com.

Adam is a CISSP, CISA, NSA IAM, MCSE and holds an MBA from Florida State University.