Chad Mead is the Vice President and Technology Governance, Risk and Controls (TGRC) global leader for Cargill, Incorporated, and is responsible for providing executive leadership in developing, planning, and supervising all technology and information risk and control operations. He is responsible for establishing enterprise-wide risk and control strategy, policies, metrics, change management, and decision rights related to information technology security.

Chad came to Cargill from JPMorgan Chase & Co. where he served as the global head of infrastructure security.  Chad was responsible for operations, engineering, support, regulatory and business functions—including responsibility for mainframe, large mid-range, distributed, network, client and data protection. He managed staff and facilities in England, India, China, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Germany and Africa.  Due to the success of his team, Network World Magazine named him one of the 50 most powerful people in networking in 2006, along with Bill Gates and Larry Ellison. 

Prior to the merger between Bank One and JPMorgan Chase & Co., Chad was responsible for the creation and leadership of Bank One's key incident-response organization called Priority One Management. He has also held multiple, senior technology risk and controls positions at TEKsystems and CompuServe.

Chad attended Connecticut College and Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He is frequently requested by industry analysts, publications, and forums to share his expertise in organizational development in operations, information technology, cutting-edge concepts and market leading technologies.

He is board member for multiple for-profit and nonprofit companies and is involved with many philanthropic organizations, such as Leaderspark.  Chad lives in Carver, Minnesota (west of Minneapolis) with his wife Robin and three daughters Suzanne, Kennedy and Cassidy. He is an avid golfer, a private pilot, and he enjoys traveling and spending time with his family.