Women in Leadership – Practical Advice – Stacy Mill – CSP #71

Stacy Mill is the VP of IT and CISO at Nashville Electric Service with accountability for all IT strategy and execution across corporate systems and cybersecurity. NES is the 11th largest Public Power Utility in the US. Prior to NES, Stacy served as the Chief Technology Officer for the State of Kansas, with accountability of core operations and overall strategy. As CISO and VP, Enterprise Risk and Global Compliance, for Spirit AeroSystems, Stacy lead global compliance and cybersecurity strategy. Collaborating with her business partners, Stacy ensured enterprise risk and compliance was understood, mitigated, and controlled to business acceptable levels through building trust and awareness at all levels of the organization. Stacy has developed many global teams across several industries. At KAR Global, an auction corporation which operates a complete auction solution throughout North America and UK, she built the business continuity, disaster recovery, security architecture, security operations, information risk and compliance strategy and teams. At Yum, Stacy built a dynamic international team to address all aspects of information security across Yum Brands, Inc. spanning 120 countries. Under her strategic leadership, Yum Brands achieved global PCI/SOX/HIPAA/Safe Harbor compliance, built out underlying security infrastructures and kept ahead of the myriad of US and international data and privacy laws. Stacy started in security as Humana Military’s Chief Security Officer working closely with the Department of Defense as a member of the Information Assurance Work Group (IAWG) in support of the Tricare Management Agency and DITSCAP/DIACAP initiatives. Lastly, Stacy serves as vice chair of the Utility Technology Council’s Technology Division, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Utility Technology Association.